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A former Moderator of the Global Evangelical Church, Very Rev. Dr Emmanuel K. Gbordzoe, has advised pastors who want to go far with their calling to keep their zips closed. “As for the young girls, if you hide and do something with them, one day somebody will come and preach a hot sermon and they will go and confess that this is what this or that pastor did.” “This will retard the progress of your ministry, marriage and business and even cut your journey short. You may even be dismissed from the ministry. That is the end of your ministry; one sexual act takes away all the ministry work God has given you,” he said at the ordination ceremony of 25 pastors in Accra. According to the church’s doctrine, a pastor qualifies for ordination after graduating from the Global Theological Seminary (GTS) and serving and ‘pastoring’ a congregation for two years. The ordination ceremony at the packed auditorium of the Trinity Parish at Kotobabi was characterised by praises, worship...

The Cote d’Ivoire Ambassador to Ghana, Mr Bernard Ehui-Koutoua, has expressed appreciation to Ghana for its hospitality to the numerous Ivorians who fled that country’s recent political crisis to live in Ghana. According to the Cote d’Ivoire Embassy figures, out of the nearly 300,000 people who went into exile, over 250,000 have returned home. Out of the 16,000 Ivorian exiles registered in 2011,  those resident in Ghana were 9,631  according to last month’s statistics. The ambassador, who was speaking at the 54th independence anniversary celebrations of his country in Accra, reiterated calls for all Ivoirians living in exile to return home and contribute their quota to national development. “There is nothing justifying their exile. Conditions for their safe return, as well as their economic reintegration, are guaranteed,” he added. In the speech that also centred on economic growth, security, latest political developments and relations between the two c...

A man who allegedly posed as a drug addict in need of rehabilitation at the Pantang Hospital in Accra has been arrested for possessing a drug suspected to be cocaine. It took the vigilance of the nurses at Ward 5 of the hospital, where the suspect, Robert Frimpong, was admitted to, to detect the fishy scheme when Frimpong, who had been on admission for three days, asked for permission to go home and come back the next day. The permission was granted and Frimpong returned on July 17, 2014, as promised.   A source at the hospital, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said as a convention in the hospital, when new patients were received, a small party was held in their honour. It said it was during the party that two young men who claimed they were Frimpong’s relatives but who acted suspiciously came to the ward to visit him. It said because of the party, the two visitors were asked to wait. “After the party, the two visitors met Frimpong and handed over detergents a...

The Executive Secretary of the Divestiture Implementation Committee has appealed to the Attorney General to institute criminal action against one Kofi Adabor for fraudulent misrepresentation that enabled him and his family to sell the assets of a divested timber company. “ We stand on very firm grounds in making this allegation of fraud. It is amazing that the fraud passed through CHRAJ, the Attorney General’s Department, the National Reconciliation Commission and even the Presidency,” Mr Asakuaa Agambila said at the sitting of the Judgement Debt Commission yesterday. According to him, certain parties were taking advantage of the  weaknesses and failures of the country’s  poor record keeping and poor memory both on paper and institutionally to dupe the state. He said Adabor and one Coffie Ohene made claims to the effect that a company—Subin Timbers  Limited— confiscated by the state in 1982, and merged with another company in the 1980s, belonged to them....