Here are the various ways Menzgold customers used to retrieve their locked-up funds
The firm began inviting customers to make deposits of money for a fixed period with interest, on the pretext of gold purchasing. The SEC on the other hand ordered the gold dealership firm not to accept new investments from depositors or make any further advertisements. Customers throng Menzgold offices/NAM1's house to demand investmentsShortly after Menzgold was ordered to shut down, customers across the country thronged the premises of the company demanding for their investments. As the case is currently before a Court, Menzgold customers in the central region had earlier vowed to embark on protests at the Jubilee House, the seat of Ghana’s presidency in demand of their locked-up funds. Menzgold customers seek Parliamentary probeMost recently, customers of the embattled gold dealership firm, Menzgold are seeking for a parliamentary probe into the circumstances that led to the closure of the company.
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September 18, 2021 12:45 UTC
Woman killed by water tanker in Central region
Regional News of Saturday, 18 September 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.com• The water tanker driver has reported himself to the police• The deceased was sitting on a motorbike without a helmet• The police have expressed worry over the level of indiscipline on the Obom-Amasaman routeThe driver of a water tanker has reported himself to the police after accidentally hitting a woman on the Obom-Amasaman stretch in the Central Region. The woman, who is reported to have died on the spot, has been identified as 39-year-old Magasuba Mariam. According to the police, she was sitting on a motorbike without a crash helmet when the accident occurred. “They know it is an offense to sit on a motorbike without wearing a helmet. So with this, we are cautioning them that they should wear their crash helmet so that in case of an accident, they will be safe,” ACP Oduro Amaning said.
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September 18, 2021 12:00 UTC
Gladson Awako in shocking Hearts of Oak exit after just one month
A top Hearts of Oak official claimed on Wednesday when Ghanasoccernet.com contacted him insisting that he was unaware of Awako's desire to quit the club. I have not been training because I have been unwell," Awako told Ghanasoccernet.com on Wednesday when Ghana's leading football news outfit contacted him. He is reportedly down with an illness to fuel speculation about his resolve to quit the club. Awako joined the Phobians on a two-year deal after ending his deal with city rivals Accra Great Olympics. Ghanasoccernet.com Headquarters understands that Hearts are only waiting for Olympics to refund the player's transfer fee after reportedly agreeing to let him go.
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September 18, 2021 12:00 UTC
Mozzart Bet offers biggest odds in four Saturday games
Sports News of Saturday, 18 September 2021Source: Mozzart BetWith the weekend again here with us, Mozzart Bet is offering its players the highest odds in four Saturday games including Inter Milan vs Bologna and RB Leipzig vs Klon. Inter Milan win over Bologna, odds 1.43Despite losing Romelu Lukaku to Chelsea, Inter Milan have been free-scoring, netting at least two goals in each of their last eight Serie A matches. Inter Milan have made the San Siro a fortress in recent times winning each of their last 17 Serie A home league games. The Bundesliga runners up from last season will look up to Christopher Nkunku for inspiration after scoring a Champions League hat-trick in the defeat to City. The reigning Turkish champions are now seeking a fourth consecutive league win when they come up against Antalyaspor.
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September 18, 2021 12:00 UTC
Afriwave Telecom provides quality water for the people of Ekye-Amanfrom
Thanks to Afriwave Telecom, the chiefs, and people of Ekye-Amanfrom can now boast of having access to potable water. Mr Francis Poku assured that Afriwave Telecom will continue to invest in the communities it is operating in. Additionally, Afriwave Telecom also provides interconnect clearinghouse services to locally licensed International Wholesale Carriers. The operations of the ICH have brought several benefits to the Ghana telecom sector and Afriwave telecom has future plans of extending its services to other parts of Africa. The Chiefs and Assembly members of Ekye Amanfrom expressed their appreciation to Afriwave Telecom for supporting the community, adding, ‘We thank God and Afriwave for helping us’.
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September 18, 2021 11:37 UTC
I was shocked to know my illness was caused by ‘Juju’ – Frank Gharbin
Entertainment of Saturday, 18 September 2021Source: etvghana.comPopular Ghanaian moviemaker, Frank Fiifi Gharbin has expressed shock at the revelation he has received concerning his current predicament. In an earlier video making rounds on social media, Frank Gharbin who seemingly cannot move his legs was seen in the company of two men who carried him into a waiting vehicle. This was after reports that Mr. Gharbin's predicament was caused by a spiritual attack. Speaking on Happy FM’s Ayekoo After Drive Show with host, Doctar Cann, the film director expressed that he was very shocked to hear from the herbalist that his condition is spiritual and not just a normal leg illness. Also, since the initiation of the Kumawood awards, I have received awards twice in a row and no one has been able to do that,” he added.
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September 18, 2021 11:15 UTC
Ghana generated over US$6.5 billion in oil revenue in 10 years - PIAC report
Business News of Saturday, 18 September 2021Source: GNAThe Public Interest and Accountability Committee’s (PIAC) Report on Oil Revenue shows that Ghana has bagged over US$6.5 billion over the last ten years of mining the “black gold”. Out of the US$6.550 billion received from 2011 to 2020, the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation received $2,012.16 billion, representing about 30.72 percent, Annual Budget Funding Amount (ABFA) had $2,557.12 billion (39.04 percent), the Ghana Heritage Fund had $0.587 billion (8.97 percent), while the Ghana Stabilisation Fund received $1,393.18 billion (21.27 percent). Professor Kwame Adom-Frimpong, the Chairman of PIAC, disclosed this at a forum in Takoradi for stakeholders in the Western and Central regions. Prof Adom-Frimpong said as a citizen-led group, the PIAC would continue to engage the people to have collective views on the usage of revenue from the resource. He urged the PIAC to create more visibility and employ lots of languages for effective communication among the populace.
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September 18, 2021 10:41 UTC
England and Chelsea star Husdon-Odoi close to switching nationality to play for Ghana
The Chelsea forward refused an invitation to play for England Under 21 team in the European Championship qualifiers against Romania and Kosovo earlier in the month. The 20-year-old's reluctance to play for the European country's youth side has sparked concerns by the England boss Southgate that the Blues youngster is on verge of switching nationality to play for Ghana. “It’s something that I already had in my mind, set on already playing for England. England came and I said 'Yeah, let me go and play for my country. You’ll never know, so.”Considering that timing, he would secure his nationality switch papers from FIFA in time to play for the Black Stars for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
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September 18, 2021 08:48 UTC
Ugandan school girl gives birth twice in lockdown
The girl, whose name has been withheld because she is a minor, was at a special needs school in Jinja District. The school supports children with visual and hearing impairments and mental illness. The minor’s 50-year-old mother on Wednesday said her daughter was sexually abused twice; first in 2020 and again early this year, and conceived on both occasions. She said following the second incident, her daughter is now undergoing family planning for three years to avoid being sexually abused again. He said when the little girls are in school, there are fewer chances of them being sexually abused.
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September 18, 2021 07:07 UTC
Hawa Koomson recounts how a night of prayer led her from Islam to Christianity
Fisheries Minister, Mavis Hawa Koomson has recounted how a night of prayer with her Christian husband changed her religious leaning from being a staunch Muslim to a Christian. She shared her journey to Christianity when she appeared on the September 16 edition of Metro TV’s Good Evening Ghana programme. “Marrying a Christian wasn’t a problem because the conclusion was that I was going to remain as a Muslim woman and he will remain in his Christianity, but when I gave birth to my firstborn, I had a terrible dream,” she recounted. When she woke up, she called her husband and they had a Christian prayer and the problem was later solved so she joined him for that Sunday’s service and ever since then has held on to her faith. She disclosed that her husband who is a civil servant was a Methodist, “so I joined the Methodist and since then, I have been a Methodist.”
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September 18, 2021 06:33 UTC
IGP Dampare ‘fighting’ Owusu Bempah because of T.B. Joshua – Bempah’s aide alleges
The aide whiles recounting the treatment meted to Owusu Bempah at the Police Hospital in Accra earlier this week said, “the IGP made up his mind to settle personal scores that he has with Owusu Bempah, so he will deal with him. That he is using Owusu Bempah to set an example in the country,” Charles Owusu alleged. That at the hospital, a policeman arrived and handcuffed the bedridden Owusu Bempah stating that his instruction was because of orders from above. Viral videos showed Owusu Bempah in a car with some aides bearing guns in front of the residence of Agradaa. What Owusu Bempah said days after Joshua T.B's deathSpeaking on Neat FM, Owusu Bempah confessed to having encountered TB Joshua once on phone.
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September 18, 2021 06:11 UTC
Kidnappers of pregnant woman in Takoradi demand ransom
Josephine, 28, went missing on Thursday, September 16, 2021, when she went out for her usual morning walk. Simons, according to Asaase report, told the police that, the alleged kidnappers of his wife established contact with the family and demanded a ransom. “They called and gave the phone to her to talk to her mother to make some demands. “We wanted to know what they want, but we’ve lost contact since then. DSP Adeku, however, stated that, the police will follow the leads which could help them discover the whereabouts of the pregnant woman.
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September 18, 2021 06:00 UTC
‘I was cheated as the main character in Taxi Driver series’ – TT
Entertainment of Saturday, 18 September 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.com• Psalm Adjeteyfio says he was paid GH¢10.00 during the production of the Taxi Driver series• He said he was cheated• He made this revelation to Metro TVPsalm Adjeteyfio, known popularly as TT in the ‘Taxi Driver’ series has indicated that he was cheated as the lead character in the production. TT told Metro TV in an interview monitored by GhanaWeb that, during the production of the ‘Taxi Driver’ series, he was paid one hundred thousand old cedis – which is today’s ten Ghana cedis. He indicated that, one John Kay of blessed memory told him that, if the series ‘Taxi Driver’ will go places, it depends on him [TT], therefore he instructed that he should be paid three hundred thousand cedis – which is today’s thirty Ghana cedis – per episode. If ‘Taxi Driver’ is going to do well, if ‘Taxi Driver’ is going to go places it’s you,” Psalm Adjeteyfio recalls his conversation with the late John Kay. “So, you could imagine, if we did thirteen episodes, somebody was richer by 2.6 as against my 1.3; that was what happened in ‘Taxi Driver’.
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September 18, 2021 06:00 UTC
'I don’t speak big English, my kind of ‘brofo’ is what I speak' – Hawa Koomson
General News of Saturday, 18 September 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.com• Hawa Koomson has spoken about her modest use of English words• She is proud of her past two-decade long teaching experience• She is happy and content with her kind of basic EnglishMinister for Fisheries and Aquaculture, Mavis Hawa Koomson has explained her difficulty in expressing herself using 'big' vocabulary. For some people, English speaking and articulation was not a measure of competence whiles others argued that as a representative of the president there was the need for a minimum level of fluency to better discharge her duties. But I taught in the public school and I also taught the small ones. “With the GES, we believe that you need to communicate and communicate well to the child’s understanding and so we don’t use big words and that is why I don’t use big words. “But sentences that I can also use to defend myself as we are doing (I am speaking English even though once in a while I use Twi)… but then I don’t know why the people keep saying… Yes, I don’t speak big English, my kind of ‘brofo’ is what I speak,” she told show host Paul Adom-Otchere.
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September 18, 2021 05:48 UTC
Why Guineans celebrated Akufo-Addo, slammed Ouattara in Conakry
General News of Saturday, 18 September 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.com• Akufo-Addo was in Guinea as Chair of ECOWAS to meet the military junta• He was met in Conakry by Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara• Guineans celebrated 'democrat' Akufo-Addo and protested against Ouattara, who they called a 'copy of Conde'President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo along with his Ivorian counterpart, Alassane Ouattara were in the Guinean capital, Conakry, on Friday, September 17, 2021. The duo met with deposed Guinean president Alpha Conde and also with the military junta that ousted Conde led by Lieutenant Colonel Mamady Doumbouya. According to reports from the Guinean capital, citizens hailed the presence of Akufo-Addo whiles they expressed open opposition to that of the Ivorian leader. “Particularly President Ouattara from Ivory Coast, Cote d'Ivoire, people are asking what advice he will give to Doumbouya, he really adds nothing to a real democratic Africa,” Diallo stressed. He said Ouattara arrived in Conakry as a persona non grata because of what he did back home.
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September 18, 2021 05:48 UTC