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The Central Bank Governor, Dr Abdul Nashiru Issahaku has resigned.

By AlatiphA - March 30, 2017

Citi Business News has gathered his resignation takes effect from the 1st of April, 2017 . It’s unclear what led to his resignation but the Governor is reported to have cited personal reasons for the move. Dr Issahaku was appointed Governor of the Bank of Ghana by former President, John Mahama in April, 2016 after his predecessor Dr. Henry Wampah resigned. He was the 14th person to have been appointed Governor of the BoG. Prior to his appointment as Governor, he was the the Second Deputy Governor of the BoG. His stay at the post had been questioned, following the coming into power of the Nana Akufo-Addo government. At the time, some industry players defended his occupancy of the position, stating that the BoG Law protected governors from being dismissed. He had recently come under fire for approving a 4.6 billion cedis contract to allow the company, Sibton Switch System to execute mobile money inetroperability. Upon his appointment, he had battled to s...

Fire guts St. Charles SHS dormitory in Tamale

By AlatiphA - March 22, 2017

Five hundred and three (503) students of the St Charles Senior High School in Tamale have lost their entire property in a fire that gutted their two-storey dormitory block on Tuesday night. The fire started at 21:20 hours when all the students were attending preps but due to the extensive nature of the fire, none of them could retrieve anything from their dormitories. Mr. Polycarp Kuusokub Beyelle, the Headmaster of the school told the media that the damage was beyond the school’s management and appealed for immediate help to ensure smooth academic work. He said the entire roof and ceiling of the block including the ground floor had been totally burnt while, property comprising books, food and clothing of the students was also destroyed in the fire. “This needs the intervention of the public to help restore hope in the affected students.” Alhaji Mohammed Haroun Cambodia, the Northern Regional Director of Education bemoaned the rate of fire outbreaks and advised schools...