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A Ugandan tycoon known as  Jack Pemba  has been accused of releasing a sex tape with his ex-lover and popular socialite,  Honey Suleman , which has gone viral online. Honey, a city businesswoman in Uganda has since reacted to the sex tape. In a long Facebook post, seen on Edge.UG, she claimed that her ex-has been threatening her and her family members with the sex tape. She said Pemba had told them to pay $5,000 to withhold the video clip. She wrote: ‘I know about the video and my whole family is aware of it. If Jack Pemba felt like it was okay to share our intimate moment when we were both in love, I have nothing to do about it. He is an old and mature man and am sure he had his own intentions leaking it. So please stop calling me and telling me about it…’ ‘Like I said before I am not paying anyone any amount of money for your blackmails. You can release the second video as well am not paying anyone 5000usd for videos we made out of love. My family is not paying...

The IMF is likely to release an amount of two hundred andthirty-six million dollars ($236,000,000) to Ghana under the agreement with the Fund, by the first week of May thisyear. This comes on the heels of the IMF mission’s review of Ghana’s performance, last month (March). The facility will be the 5th and 6th disbursements under the economic support program. Officials say, this forms part of the highlights at this year’s spring meetings of the IMF/World Bank in Washington, DC. Under the programme, Ghana had to shove down its throat some bitter pills so as to maintain tight fiscal discipline, without sacrificing growth. The bail out programme has been extended to April 2019 ,from an initial deadline of April 2018, after the NPP government agreed to an extension of the program. The fund is giving the country over $918 million to support its current account which is necessary for stabilising the local currency and control the shocks in theeconomy. The post IMF Releases $236m To Gha...

President and Chairman of Groupe Nduom (GN), Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, has given GHC80,000 as seed capital to the first eight (8) students of the Nduom School of Business and Technology (NBS&T) to start and manage anew company to be formed by them. Interacting with the students at the Groupe Nduom Management meeting held at the Nduom School of Business and Technology, Elmina last week, Dr Nduom said the money “is to give the pioneering students a superior unique experience over their peers in other universities.” “Now this money will give you a good start in entrepreneurship. In line with the courses that you are studying here at the university, we would train you so one can be Manager of the enterprise, one the Accountant, someone can be the Auditor, and another can do the marketing. Groupe Nduom will set you up and ensure that you turn that GHC 80,000 capital into a profitable venture,” he disclosed. In addition to that, Dr Nduom promised to open a GN Bankbranch at the campus so t...

Traditional leaders in the Bia District of the Western Region have threatened to order their youth to beat up politicians who will come to the area to campaign for votes in any upcoming elections. The traditional leaders have issued the threat because they believe government have failed in addressing their challenges. According to the leaders, they have not had their fair share of the national cake and so no politician should mount any campaign platform when the time approaches for the 2020 elections. The chiefs are also saying the district is one of the poorest in terms of developmental projects in the country. They claim that their major challenge is electricity and poor road network.They could have power interruption popularly known as dumsor for more than 20 times in a day without any prior notice and government has promised to solve the challenge but nothing has been done yet. The poor road network is also damaging vehicles and killing passengers through accident, they compla...

Maverick Politician and Member of Parliament for Assin South, Ken Agyapong has said he would have shot to death the Security Coordinator of Metro Mass Transit (MMT) Company if he were to be the Managing Director, Bennet Aboagye. According to the financier of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), he would have made the Security Coordinatorpay dearly with his life, if he were to be the one whose privacy was invaded. The Security Coordinator, Fusseini Lawal Laah has confessed to bugging the office of the MMT Boss, Bennet Aboagye by secretly installing a recording device. Mr Lawal had alleged that he had an audio recording of a conversation in which the managing director and others colluded to dupe the company through the procurement of300 buses. Among a series of allegations, Mr Lawal threatened to leak the damming audio conversation if Mr Aboagye did not pay him $1 million.The matter is currently under investigations while the MD has been asked to step aside. Commenting on the is...