Mr Ibrahim Mahama, owner of the construction company, Engineers and Planners and a brother of former President John Mahama has been granted bail after an arrest on Tuesday by the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO). The reasons for Mr Mahama's arrest has not been officially made public but Graphic Online gathers it is in relation to an alleged dud cheque issued to the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) with regards to some goods cleared at the Tema Port.

An indigenous Ghanaian company, Sri Emas which provides integrated offshore solutions for the upstream oil and gas industry has handed over a steel bridge constructed over River Nhwine on the Adubrim-Ngabawei feeder road in the northern part of the Ellembelle District, Western Region.

Police in the US say a man suspected of randomly shooting a grandfather on an Ohio street and posting video of the killing to Facebook has taken his own life.

The Minister for Information, Mr Mustapha Hamid has averred that vigilantism is a human problem that no institution can manage on its own. According to him, vigilantism is a deviant behaviour which is common in every society hence the need for law enforcement agencies to deal with people who fall foul of the law.

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has urged Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia to be cautious not to mix governance with propaganda. At a press conference led by the Deputy Minority Leader in Parliament, James Klutse Avedzi, the NDC said the Vice President should mind his utterances since he is now a Vice President.

The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta has directed that names of 26,589 public sector workers be removed from the payroll commencing April 2017 for failure to register on the new SSNIT biometric system. A statement from the Public Relations Unit of the Ministry of Finance said the affected workers had failed to register despite many opportunities to do so.

The Chairman of the Economic Management Team, Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, and the Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta are leading a government delegation to the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings being held from April 18 – 28. The delegation is made up of officials from the Bank of Ghana, led by the Governor, Dr Ernest Kwamina Yedu Addison; the Chairman of the Finance Committee in Parliament, Dr Mark Assibey Yeboah (MP); and officials from the

An associate pastor of the Blessing Gate Chapel International in Sunyani, Pastor Boniface Boadi, has condemned the use of bible applications among contemporary Christians. According to him, the reason “many so called Christians” opted for software bibles was because they were into sin and worldliness, making them afraid to use the physical bible which contained the Spirit and Power of God.

  Former Youth Olympic gold medallist Martha Bissah has been named Norfolk State University's Female Athlete of the Year at the athletics department's end-of-year awards ceremony on Monday. Martha Bissah is the first freshman to be named one of NSU’s top athletes since bowler Thea Aspiras in 2011.

The case of the eight members of the vigilante group, Delta Force has been adjourned to May 17, 2017 The eight have been accused of aiding the escape from lawful custody of some 13 Delta Force members who were standing trial.

In a spate of three weeks or so, the country witnessed the unpleasant news of alleged high profile ‘successful’ suicides by two university students. These were likely to be among the many others that may not have gained such media prominence. Indeed, these incidents have become topical news items that have dominated the headlines in both social and mainstream media. It is a truism that hardly a week passes without incidents of suicide. Indeed, except for highly placed personalities in

Concerns over the huge foreign dominance in the country’s recent uptake of $2.25 billion in offshore bond transaction have sparked fears of imminent exchange rate shocks when investors withdraw from the market.

The Prisons Administration has asked the public to disregard rumours alleging that the Ghana Prisons Service is currently undertaking a recruitment exercise.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has pledged to hold further meetings with Ghana’s three former heads of state following a foremost meeting at the Flagstaff House Tuesday. The purpose of the meeting was to seek the views of former Presidents Jerry John Rawlings, John Agyekum Kufuor and John Dramani Mahama on some governance-enhancing measures his administration intends to take.

Former Chelsea star Michael Essien has been banned from playing in the Indonesian league until he obtains a work permit. Essien along with his teammate Carlton Cole was hauled before the government-backed Professional Sports Agency after they were found to have made their debuts on Saturday for Persib Bandung despite not possessing work permits.

The parliamentary caucus of the opposition National Democratic Congress has assessed the first 100 days of the Akufo-Addo led government and said it has been full of wasteful expenditure and ‘wahala’. To them, unless there was a divine intervention from God in the affairs of the nation, Ghana would be heading into a ditch under President Akufo-Addo. “We ask the almighty God for divine intervention in the affairs of this station. Awurade begye steer no,” the deputy

A former Minister of Finance, Dr Kwabena Duffuor, said that MM sector was poised for growth because it had become widely accepted by the citizenry, therefore, it was incumbent upon banks and insurance companies to align their operations, systems and strategies to better position themselves to win in that area.

When people think of air travel, they picture planes full of passengers. But air cargo is as vital—perhaps more—to the global economy. Only one per cent of exports by volume go in aircraft but because they tend to be the most expensive goods, they account for 35 per cent of global trade by value. Nearly everyone has used products delivered by aircraft, from vaccinations in poor countries to smart-phones in rich ones.

This feature is a continuation of an earlier publication on the valuation models available to governments and their agencies, managements of corporate bodies, and investors to make meaningful and productive investment decisions. Discussions in the previous write-up ended on some types of bonds and their effect on investment valuation and decisions. Bonds in this category are usually not callable, they are held until maturity by investors. Term bonds

The National Pensions Regulatory Authority (NPRA) has slashed the registration fee for corporate trustees wishing to operate in the informal sector from GH¢5,000 to GH¢1,000, as part of measures aimed at enticing more trustees to rope non-formal workers into the pension scheme. The authority has also reduced the individual trustee informal sector licensing fee from GH¢5,000 to GH¢500.