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The Energy Committee of Parliament has hinted it will soon order the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) to appear before the house to give account of its operations after declining earlier invitations. Ranking Member of the Committee, Adam Mutawakilu, disclosed the committee has not been able to look at TOR’s 2017 financial statements because the company have consistently turned down the committee’s invitations. He said the committee is clothed with the powers of a high court and “soon, we will have to subpoena them to appear before the committee so that we will be able to look at their financials”. He observed TOR is riddled with issues that need to be addressed but would not honour the committee’s invitations. “Upon several invitations for them to appear, 2018, two invitations they had declined to appear, but you will all bear with me that issues in the social media and in the public is not good for TOR”, he said. Some of the issues he mentioned as the move to convert TOR to a tank farm an...

Controversial musician, Kwame A Plus has descended on the Tourism Minister, Madam Catherine Afeku for contributing to the AFRIMA awards recently held in Ghana. According to the musician who doubles as a politician, he thinks it was wrong for Ghana to allegedly use 4.5 million dollars of taxpayers’ money to support a foreign concert when the Creative Industry is in dying need of funds to survive. Speaking on Daybreak Hitz on Hitz FM, A Plus told Andy Dosty that “you spend 4.5 million dollars yet you don’t even have venues to hold concerts. The people who advised the President were wrong because who will advise the president to build a cathedral, why? People like Catherine Afeku don’t have any policy to do anything…” “Who is AFRIMA? I hear it belongs to some Nigerians and some people. Otchere-Darko said he watched ten movies and was depressed. Shirley Frimpong-Manso has done so much to sustain the industry and you have a minister who brings AFRIMA here and they give you award to boost...

Two persons have been arrested by the Weta Divisional Police Command with support from the Dzodze Police in the Volta Region, over an attempt to cast a spell (juju) on the President, Nana Akufo Addo and other top officials of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government over the creation of new regions, specifically the Oti Region. According to the Volta Regional Police Commander, DCOP Ebenezer Francis Doku, the suspects were from Ashaiman in the Greater Accra Region and had visited a shrine on Wednesday, December 5, at Weta in the Ketu North Municipality of the Region, to put the political leaders under the control of black magic. The traditional priest, Festus Kwashie Babanawo, who said he could not destroy leaders of the country, turned round to report the two persons at the Weta Police station after he accommodated the two suspects peacefully into his shrine. The Commander said the suspects, Ebenezer Atsu, 33, and Shepherd Acolatse, 55, were quickly hunted down after the priest lodg...