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MP for Efutu, Alexander Afenyo-Markin The Member of Parliament for Efutu in the Central Region has denied receiving an under-collateralised ¢30 million loan from the defunct UT Bank. Alexander Afenyo Markin’s response comes after a report on the collapsed UT and Capital Banks said the loan he was supposed to have taken flouted prudential regulations. The report revealed that four subsidiaries of Excel Courier, a company which Mr Afenyo Markin was supposedly the main shareholder received the under-collateralised loan from the bank. The commentary on the transaction also said the MP was “a Politically Exposed Person (PEP),” a term that suggests that it would be risky to give out loans to such persons. In financial regulation, a person described as PEP generally presents a higher risk of default by virtue of their position and the influence that they may hold. The value of the collateral Mr Afenyo Markin’s company presented for the ¢30,839, 319.17 loan was ¢990,000. But the MP says ...

Ministers and their deputies, as well as Members of Parliament following President Akufo-Addo on his Ashanti regional tour, are in buses. This is believed to be designed to reduce the long convoys that usually follow the president on these tours. The convoys have previously been criticised as too long, expensive and needless. Also, accidents also do happen, the most recent one in May when a deputy Chief of Staff Francis Asenso Boakye escaped after an articulated truck ran into the presidential convoy at dawn. In an apparent response to the criticisms, the state-owned Intercity State Transport Corporation (STC) made available two buses for the officials accompanying the president on his tour. Minister for Monitoring and Evaluation and MP for Old Tafo, Dr Akoto Osei, outgoing Minister for Aviation, Cecelia Abena Dapaah, Environment and Innovation Minister, Prof. Kwabena Frimpong Boateng, were among the ministers in the buses. While some social media commentators have lauded th...

The musician David Kobina Afriyie Fly to New York from $1318. Book now to get the best price. A Ghanaian musician with two albums to his credit, David Kobina Afriyie has been arrested for impersonating members of the Ghana Music Rights Organisation’s (GHAMRO) taskforce to extort monies from colleague musicians. Speaking on Daybreak Hitz on Hitz FM, Friday, GHAMRO’s Operations Coordinator, Yaw Osbourne said the suspect used his name and that of members of the GHAMRO licensing department to con, harass and extort monies from fellow musicians. He added that, GHAMRO had earlier issued a stern warning to Mr Afriyie after series of complaints by some musicians but the suspect failed to hasten. Mr Afriyie was also intercepted in an audio urging one policeman to strike a deal with him concerning one of his victims locked up in a police station. “He moves from pubs to clubs and other recreational centres to collect monies in the name of GHAMRO and MUSIGA. He has created his...

Dancehall artiste Shatta Wale’s baby mama, Michy has revealed she monitors and restricts their son, Majesty’s engagement with his father, Shatta Wale, so he does not get influenced. Michy, who was a guest on Joy Prime’s Gee Spot with MzGee, was asked the status of her relationship with Shatta Wale. MzGee: What is happening between you and Shatta, are you separated? Michy: We are co-parenting. MzGee: So Majesty spends a week with you and another with Shatta? Michy: Eeerrmm not a whole week but he has visiting hours, supervised visiting hours. Because you see, men are men, and I’m training my child in a way that I don’t want him to just see this side and go like 'I want to be this, daddy is like this, I want to be this'. He likes it, he is active so he is attracted to it….So I will not let them spend too much time together. MzGee: Is that to say you feel he will be influenced negatively? Michy: I will not say negative. Since he was born, the only thing he has seen and heard i...

Tema-based Ghanaian rapper and early proponent of the ‘Twipop’ Darlington Kwasi Agyekum, popularly known in showbiz as D.Cryme, says he always walks around with condoms. He said he carries condoms around because during crucial times, most guys forget to protect themselves, advising that using condoms protects one from contracting diseases and also prevents unwanted pregnancies. “I always walk around with condoms, condoms are like handkerchiefs. [If] you don’t even get to use them, you lend them out.” The ‘Kill Me Shy’ hit-maker reiterated that he always has condoms in his pockets all day, every day and passes it on to any of his friends in ‘crucial’ times. He made all these known in an interview with Nana Kojo Addo on  Showbiz927  on  3FM. When asked if rumours of him dating sugar mummies is true, he blatantly denied it and went on to say that people just want to sell their stories therefore pick captions that they feel will help sell their stories better...

A Director at the Wildlife Division of the Forestry Commission, Nana Kofi Adu Nsiah says the ban on hunting activities would help protect the Ghana’s wildlife resources, watering down concerns it will create joblessness. Speaking on TV3 Midday News, he mentioned that the period of the ban is a statutory closed season, hence, any one or group of persons who hunt or capture a game between August 1 and December 1, 2018, breaks the wildlife convention regulations, and is liable on immediate conviction to a fine. He cautioned hunters to observe the ban, or risk facing the law. According to the Nana Kofi Adu Nsiah , the four month closed season is in line with the Wildlife Convention Regulations, LI, 685 of 1971, and if anyone goes against the rules the person will be dealt with. “If you go contrary to the law, what it states is that you will be prosecuted, be fined or imprisoned or both.” He noted that the closed season is the time of the year during which hunting any animal ...

Energy Minister - Boakye Agyarko President Nana Akufo-Addo has relieved the Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko of his duties Monday, August 6. In his place, Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu, will act temporarily as the energy minister, a statement under the signature of director of communications at the presidency Eugene Arhin, said. Mr. Boakye has come under the spotlight for his involvement in the controversial renegotiated Ameri deal which seeks to alter the original $510 million deal procured by the erstwhile NDC government. However, the proposed renegotiated deal presented to parliament as analysed by civil society groups including IMANI Ghana, Africa Center for Energy Policy(ACEP), Institute of Energy Security (IES) among others has been described as worse than the original deal. In the ensuing controversy, reports  emerged suggesting the President, Nana Akufo-Addo, was “misled” into giving an executive approval to the deal for which reaso...

Dancehall artiste, Shatta Wale has dismissed rumors circulating that he, together with Zylophone boss, Nana Appiah Mensah are members of the freemason society. According to him, he is not a member of any such society, but he does not have anything against them. Rumor circulating has it that certain entertainment personalities are pledging allegiance to Freemasonry and Illuminati, with others claiming Shatta Wale’s success and rise to fame in his music career is because of his alliance with these societies, but the dancehall artiste denied any such alliance. “People think we are Freemason…we want to even change it to like free carpenters. People see us and they feel that this guy is dealing with occult, but you see, anybody that does not believe in God is …,” he said in an interview on Joy FM. Shatta Wale known in private life as Charles Nii Armah Mensah Jnr said he believes that his movement, “Shatta Movement” is his Freemason and they only look up to God. Nana Ap...

Married woman A 24-year-old woman has been put before the court for allegedly defiling a 15-year-old boy multiple times under the guise both are into an amorous relationship. The suspect who made her first appearance before a court, admitted to defiling a minor during a steamy love affair with the JHS student to the shock of many. Mrs Judith Wandera amazed the packed court by claiming that she thought she had finally found ‘love’ during the four-month affair. Dressed in a white laced sleeveless blouse and a red skirt, her partially red eyes revealed the mixture of sadness and remorse-fullness stirring in her heart. She narrated to Principal Magistrate Joan Wambilyanga how she met her dreadlocked lover in April 2016 at a pub and couldn’t tell, from his physique, that he was still in primary school. ABUSING DRUGS The boy had told her that he is a boda boda operator. He was also fond of abusing drugs, she said. “We met in April 2017 on one evening at a drinking joint in...

A U.S based Pastor based has reportedly committed suicide in Massachusetts after engagement photographs of the girlfriend he left only a month ago in Uganda, went viral. His lifeless body was found at the state cemetery on Monday afternoon and the police in Watertown, a suburb of Boston City, the capital of Massachusetts State, are investigating possible suicide. Abel Ayinza was an adopted son of Pastor Samuel Mutyaba of New Life Christian International Church in Watertown, Massachusetts. His girlfriend was identified only as Juliet. Photographs showed her wearing a red gomesi while the man wore a kanzu and jacket. "He was so depressed when the photographs went viral and it became quite difficult for him to bear", Simple Nsereko, a Ugandan living in Boston, said. Further sources alleged that Juliet is also a U.S citizen, but left the country, recently, on grounds of checking on her family in Uganda, only to resurface in an engagement with another lover.