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"As a human being, I would naturally be upset ." That is perhaps the most striking admission made by the lady selected as first prosecution witness in the case of causing financial loss against four employees of the National Communications Authority in connection with a 4 million dollars contract signed with Israeli firm IDL. The four are immediate past Board Chairman of the NCA Eugene Baffoe-Bonnie, it's immediate past Director General William Tevie and two former Board members. Also standing trial is a private individual George Derek Oppong who is a Director of IDL . Abena Kwarkoa Asafu-Adjei is the Director, Legal Administration and Special duty at the NCA and has already testified for two days. Also included in Mrs. Asafu-Adjei's portfolio at the NCA is oversight of Procurement and Board Secretary. Until the 2017 change in government, Mrs Asafu-Adjei had been reassigned from her role as Head of Legal. The decision to reassign he...

Two sisters Sandy Ayivor and Gibeleen Amponsah Ninpong are hoping to change the face of sickle cell care in the country within five years. This they hope to do through their GNS (Gibeleen & Sandy) Foundation. Ghana’s foremost sickle cell clinic is a one block facility comparable to the ones used as clinics in villages. The most worrying aspect is that the same facility is supposed to be the Ghana Institute of Clinical Genetics. The Institute is supposed to be the leading center for diagnosis and care for persons suffering from genetic conditions or ones inherited. Even though the Institute has some of the best brains in clinical genetics running and working in the facility, they have been reduced to providing only sickle cell care. A former Director of the Institute Dr. Edeghonghon Olayemi says the GNS Foundation first contacted the clinic and demanded to know the challenges of the company. He revealed that a list of the challenges confronting the ...

Lawyers for the Second deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana Dr. Johnson P. Asiamah have revealed what they say is a grand ploy to force their client out office. In a statement to confirm his resignation from the Central Bank after two decades of service, the lawyers say the ploy was evident in the rush to publish his resignation in the media at the time when he was still in office. The statement signed by Victor Kwadzoga Adawudu of Lord & Lords and copied to Gold News said the decision of Dr. Asiamah to "disengage" from the Bank was taken after reflections and consultation with family members and well wishers and his decision has been communicated to the Bank. The resignation of the second deputy Governor of the Central  Bank ends weeks of speculation and publications regarding his future with the Bank. Dr. Asiamah's lawyers led by Victor Kwadzoga Adawudu were earlier forced to dismiss publications claiming the deputy Governor had resign...