Source:brightwebtv.com/Martin awuku Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) has written to the Power Distribution Service (PDS) to request for load shedding from 8.00hrs to 18.00hrs each day on affected PDS MV/LV lines. The request for load shedding on PDS MV/LV lines was necessary due to the diversion of 330KV Aboadze-Volta …

By:brightwebtv.com/ Martin awuku   Ghanaians will have to endure the recent power outages for five more days. This is according to the Minister of Energy, Peter Amewu who blamed the recent outages on technical challenges and the construction of an interchange at Pokuase in Accra.       Many parts …

  By:brightwebtv.com/ Martin awuku The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has licensed five LPG marketing Companies to undertake the Cylinder Recirculation Model. The policy is expected to be rolled out before the end of the year.   The marketing companies under the Cylinder Recirculation Model will be responsible for the distribution …

  By:brightwebtv.com/Martin awuku   Aggrieved customers of collapsed gold dealership firm Menzgold have expressed anger over what they say is President Akufo-Addo’s attempt to ridicule them over their lost investment.   It comes after the President mentioned the Menzgold Chief Executive Nana Appiah Mensah in a speech while acknowledging outstanding …

    By:brightwebtv.com/Martin awuku   Parliament has passed into law an amendment of the Ghana Civil Aviation Act to further improve safety and strengthen security in the aviation industry.     The amendment is to ensure that Ghana is ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) compliant. According to Joseph Kofi Adda, the Aviation …

  by:brightwebtv.com/Martin awuku The Head Office of Menzgold Ghana Limited in Dzorwulu, Accra, has been burgled.   Sources said the thieves entered the office through the back wall and broke the window of the gold-trading firm. The burglars made away with all computers in the trading hall, TV sets, photocopy machines, air …

  By:brightwebtv.com /Martin awuku Prices of Petrol and Diesel have gone up beyond GHc 5 at some fuel stations in the country.     Checks at two of the major Oil Marketing Companies, Total and Shell showed a 24 pesewa increase in the prices of both Diesel and Petrol. Both …

  By:brightwebtv.com/Martin awuku   Seven Associations including the Vehicle and Asset Dealers Association on Thursday embarked on a demonstration to protest the luxury vehicle levy.   Members of the associations presented a petition to the Ministry of Finance. The levy was introduced during the 2018 midyear budget review, and it …

    By:brightwebtv.com/Martin awuku Aggrieved customers of Gold Coast Fund Management say they are losing patience with the way fund managers continue to treat them over their investments.     The customers complain that they have not been able to access their investment sinceSeptember 2018. According to them, officials of the …

    By:brightwebtv.com/bright awuku The Registrar-General, the Official Liquidator for defunct Diamond Microfinance Limited, DKM, has asked depositors to collect their payments from selected GCB Bank branches by May 31, 2019 or forfeit their monies.   In a public notice, the Liquidator said depositors who filed cases in court against …

    By:brightwebtv.com/Martin awuku Customers of the collapse First allied savings and loans limited has given management and bank of Ghana a ten day ultimatum to return all their locked up deposits.     The infuriated customers are poised to take over the properties or the 27 nationwide branches of …

  By:brightwebtv.com/Martin Awuku The Coalition of aggrieved customers of Gold Coast Fund Management (GCFM) in the Ashanti region have given the government of Ghana a 5 day ultimatum , threatened demonstration over their locked up investment .   Addressing a press conference today Moday 18th February 2019 at the Kumasi …

  By:brightwebtv.com/bright Agyapong A week after KMA opens all the roads surrounding Kumasi Kejetia project to ease traffic congestion in the Kumasi business center ,traders who were operating around the project were forced to vacate to other satlite makerts in the metropolise, but it seems the traders are playing hide …

    By:brightwebtv.com/Martin Awuku GCB Bank has terminated the contracts of 56 ex-staff of defunct UT and Capital Banks for not possessing the minimum qualification required to work with the bank.     The termination of their contracts was done after an audit of employees of the defunct banks exposed …

  By:brightwebtv.com/Martin Awuku. A total of 233 communities in the Ashanti Region will benefit from a grid expansion project being undertaken by the Electricity Company Ghana (ECG).   The expansion scheme, which is expected to enhance distribution of electric power in settlements which has seen an increase in population growth, …

  By:brightwebtv.com/Martin Awuku The Kejetia roads which were reconstructed under the redevelopment project have been opened to the public.     The market is yet to be opened. According to the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), the stakeholders are still discussing the allocation process. Traders have on several occasions called on the …

By:brightwebtv.com/Martin Awuku Residents of Akweteyman in the Okaikoi North Municipality of the Greater Accra Region say their health is at risk because of the persistent release of industrial waste into the atmosphere by a candy producing company, Royal Sweets Limited.   Some residents have vowed to employ any means possible …

  By:brightwebtv.com/Martin Awuku. Managing Director of the Inter-City State Transport Company (ISTC), Nana Akomea, has said plans were advanced to extend his outfit’s operations to Nigeria and other African countries.   He said the bus company was already going to Togo, Benin and Cote d’Ivoire and would be venturing into the Nigeria …

by;brightwebtv.com/martin awuku A 39-year-old employee of Group Nduom (GN) Bank now savings and loan company has been put before an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly misappropriating cash in the sum of GH₵732,000. Eric Holon, who has been charged with stealing and six counts of fraudulent electronic fund transfer, has, however, …

by;brightwebtv.com/bright agyapong Ghanaian Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta said the country could proceed with a sale of Eurobonds even before the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completes a final review of the nation’s extended credit-facility program.     The finance ministry will next week name transaction advisers for a planned issuance of as much as …

  by:brightwebtv.com/bright Agyapong The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (MLGRD) has enrolled 500 persons who were engaged in illegal mining in vocational and technical training institutions. The beneficiaries, who are from mining communities in Kyebi and Aduasa in the Birim South District of the Eastern Region, are pursuing a …

  By:brightwebtv.com/bright Agyapong The Ashanti Regional Strategic Business Unit (SBU) of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has cautioned the public against paying money to any person for the replacement of their postpaid to prepaid meters.   It said replacement of the meters was  free and done by the company …

  By:brightwebtv.com/bright Agyapong A woman who invested GH¢200,000 into gold dealership firm, Menzgold has revealed that her decade-old marriage has come to a sad end following her inability to retrieve the money and the accrued interest, and she is going blind too without medical help; MyNewsGh.com has filed.   According …

by:brightwebtv.com/bright aghyapong Ten customers of embattled gold dealership firm, Menzgold Ghana Limited, have died following the collapse of the company, Kwabena Bonsu, the Ashanti regional secretary to the Coalition of Aggrieved Menzgold Customers, has said.According to him, others have also suffered a stroke and are unable to walk due to …

by/brightwebtv.com/brightwebtv   The Managing Director of the Volta River Authority (VRA) at Berekum in the Brong Ahafo region, Eric Ofori is thanking his stars for being alive. But for the intervention of the police, he would have been lynched by angry residents over the incessant power outages known in local …

  By:brightwebtv.com/bright Agyapong A group calling itself Coalition of Aggrieved Customers of Menzgold Ghana Limited has given the government a three-day ultimatum to furnish it with a detailed plan for the retrieval of monies of its members from the troubled investment company.     The group has given the government …

  Shareholders of the now-defunct bank, uniBank have filed a motion in court seeking to join the Attorney General to an ongoing case in which the Receiver of the Bank, Nii Amanor Dodoo, is pursuing them in court.   The Receiver has dragged the 17 shareholders of the bank to …

  By:brightwebtv.com/bright  agyapong Some validated customers of DKM Microfinance, God is Love Fun Club, Jasta Motors, Care For Humanity, Little Drop among others who have not yet received their locked up investments have threatened to embark on demonstration to express their grievances against the government on 12th February, 2019. The validated …

  A 39-year-old farmer from Welembelle in the Sissala East Municipality of the Upper West Region is counting his loss after his 12-year-old son burnt is over 2,500 tubers of yam he had harvested and stored in a barn while making arrangements to cart to the market centre.   The …

  By:brightwebtv.com/Martin Awuku. Citi Busness News has gathered that the Managing Director of UMB John Awuah has been dismissed by the bank.   It’s unclear what led to his dismissal. Sources close to the matter tell Citi Business News the Chief Operating officer Mr. Benjamin Kwabla Amenumey, is to act in …