President Nana Akufo-Addo has commenced a 3-day working tour of the Volta and Oti regions. The tour started on Sunday February 16, 2020 and will end on Tuesday, February, 2020. This will be the second time this year that he is touring the two regions in recent times after an earlier one in November 2019. […] The post Akufo-Addo begins 3-day tour of Oti, Volta Regions appeared
The National Identification Authority (NIA) has extended the Ghana card registration exercise in the Central, Western and Western North Regions by four more days. The exercise which was scheduled to end in the above regions on Tuesday, February 18, 2020, will now be completed on Saturday, February 22, 2020. A statement from NIA and signed […] The post Ghana
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has called for more regulation of harmful online content, saying it was not for companies like his to decide what counts as legitimate free speech. Citing China, Mr Zuckerberg also warned excessive control risked stifling individual expression. He was speaking at the Munich Security Conference in Germany. Social media giants like […] The post Mark
An actress who starred in the Queen of Katwe, a Disney film about a chess prodigy from a Ugandan slum, has died aged 15, Ugandan media report. Nikita Pearl Waligwa had been diagnosed with a brain tumour. The 2016 film was based on the true story of Phiona Mutesi, who took up chess aged nine […] The post Uganda’s Queen of Katwe star Nikita Pearl Waligwa dies
China has tightened restrictions on movement in Hubei province as it continues to battle the coronavirus. Sixty-million people have been told to stay at home unless there is an emergency, and the use of private cars has been banned indefinitely. Hubei and the city of Wuhan have been hit hardest by the outbreak, which has […] The post China restricts movement to fight coronavirus
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) Dr. Afua Asabea Asare says, government remains committed to supporting local industries to achieve the Ghana Beyond Aid agenda. According to her, there is a significant revolution in the value addition process of raw materials by local industries to meet the demands of […] The post Local
The last time I had to comment on TV licence, it was to express consternation about the call by the Chairman of the National Media Commission (NMC), that government bails out Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) from its crippling debt (“NMC asks govt to bail out GBC – owes GHC 25m electricity bill”, Graphic.com.gh, 2019). Equally […] The post Akuffo Anoff-Ntow
The National Democratic Congress has asked the government to account for all excavators and ammunition seized during the Stop Galamsey Campaign. According to the Communications Director of the NDC, Sammy Gyamfi government had seized 900 excavators during the campaign. He cited figures in the 2020 budget presented in Parliament to support his claim. Addressing a […] The post Gov’t
An Economist, Dr. Adu Owusu Sarkodie has advised the government to take precautionary measures aimed at managing the country’s economic gains and debt stock. He says a disregard of Ghana’s debt stock which can be best described as ‘alarming’ may plunge the country into no other situation other than a debt-distressed one. Advancing his argument […] The post Rising
The opposition National Democratic Congress says it will in the coming day petition the UN General-Secretary, António Guterres, to remove President Nana Akufo-Addo from his position as co-chair of the United Nations Eminent Group of Sustainable Development Goals Advocates. The NDC argues that President Akufo-Addo has failed the country in his promise to protect the […] The post Akufo-Addo
A Deputy Health Minister, Alex Abban has defended government’s decision not to evacuate Ghanaians students from China in the wake of the outbreak of the novel Coronavirus in that country. According to him, there could be an outbreak of the Coronavirus in Ghana if students in China are brought to Ghana. The Deputy Minister said […] The post Ghana
A professional accountant and native of Najong No.1 in the North East Region, Francis Tingoti Kombong has filed his nomination forms to contest in the New Patriotic Party’s upcoming parliamentary primary in the Bunkpurugu constituency. Francis Kombong is seeking to defeat the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) for Bunkpurugu and North East Regional Minister, Solomon […] The post NPP
The EP College of Education in Bimbilla in the Nanumba North municipality of the Northern Region held it’s forth congregation for the 2019 year group. At a ceremony at the EP college, the principal of the college, Ibrahim James Gurundow urged the graduands to be good ambassadors of the college by being disciplined, patriotic and modest. […] The post Bimbilla EP
An aspirant making a third attempt to contest as a parliamentary candidate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Manhyia North Constituency is confident of victory in the party’s upcoming primaries in April. Akwasi Konadu, who contested in the 2012 and 2016 parliamentary primaries of the NPP is making another attempt. He is confident […] The post NPP
A Ghanaian based Canadian Health and Safety professionals, Samuel Duckworth-Essilfie has charged journalists to begin naming and shaming abusers of health and safety measures in a bid to cut down on the numerous unreported workplace accidents especially in the extractive sector. Duckworth-Essilfie who is also the President of Sophies Management Systems Incorporated was addressing journalists […] The post Name,
Despite government’s fight against illegal small scale mining also known as galamsey, such activity is progressing unabated within the Atwima Mponua District of the Ashanti Region. The menace has left River Offin and three other rivers heavily polluted. During a visit to some of the sites, illegal miners including women and children were seen engaging […] The post Atwima
Member of Parliament (MP) for the Asokwa Constituency, Patricia Appiagyei has said she is not banking her hopes on the New Patriotic Party’s decision to protect female sitting Members of Parliament in the party’s upcoming parliamentary primaries since she is not afraid of competition. She, however, indicated that she supports the move since women should […] The post NPP
A Florida based Ghanaian doctor, has been accused of defrauding health insurers to the tune of US$ 26 million without performing surgeries on them as scheduled. The accused, Moses deGraft-Johnson is alleged to have falsely billed the insurers to bag the said amount to fund his ambitions of becoming the president of Ghana. Federal prosecutors […] The post Ghanaian
The Institute of Energy Security (IES) has corroborated the Minority’s claims that the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST) does not have strategic reserves of petroleum. The Minority made this claim at a press conference in Accra last Wednesday. The Minority had argued that Ghana’s energy sector is in crisis, a position the […] The post BOST
The Minority Chief Whip, Muntaka Mubarak and his deputy, Ahmed Ibrahim have been discharged from the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, following a near-fatal accident on Saturday morning at Kubease near Konongo in the Ashanti Region. A statement from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Deputy Communications Officer for the Bono Region, Eric Adjei said the two […] The post Muntaka,
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