Some onion sellers at Agbogbloshie in Accra are appealing to the government to give them more time to adequately prepare for their relocation to Adjen Kotoku in the Ga West Municipality. The Greater Accra Regional Minister Henry Quartey on Thursday, May 20, 2021, issued a seven-week ultimatum to onion traders in Accra to relocate from […] The post ‘Give
The Technical University Teachers’ Association of Ghana (TUTAG), has suspended its strike. TUTAG announced this in a statement dated Saturday, June 19, 2021. According to the association, it has decided to put the industrial action on hold following favourable responses it received from the government and the National Labour Commission. TUTAG in a statement said […] The post TUTAG
The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has denied any complicity in the re-scheduling of the question on the cost of President Akufo-Addo’s travels to France, Belgium and South Africa. The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, was scheduled to answer the said question on Thursday after the Defence Minister, Dominic Nitiwul, responded to the first part of […] The post ‘I
Facebook has begun displaying ads in its Oculus virtual reality headsets, despite the founder of the platform saying it would never do so. In what the social network described as an experiment, ads will begin to appear in a game called Balston with other developers rolling out similar ads. It said it would listen to […] The post Facebook tests ads in virtual reality headsets
Hardliner Ebrahim Raisi is set to be Iran’s next president after winning most of the votes counted so far. He beat three other candidates in a poll in which most would-be candidates were barred from standing. Mr Raisi is Iran’s top judge and holds ultra-conservative views. He is under US sanctions and has been linked […] The post Iran election: Hardliner Raisi
Alieu Kosiah has been found guilty of war crimes in a Swiss court, becoming the first Liberian to be convicted over the country’s civil war. He was sentenced to 20 years for crimes including murder and rape. Around 250,000 people were killed in Liberia’s two conflicts between 1989 and 2003, and many thousands more fled. […] The post Liberian, Alieu Kosiah
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) on Friday, June 18, 2021, directed Banks and Specialized Deposit-Taking institutions in the country to stop charging unfair fees and charges. Among other things, the central bank also ordered the financial institutions to stop unlawful practices that do not auger well for the financial sector. “These practices are deemed to […] The post Sanitizing
A Pharmacist and a Fellow with the Centre for Democratic Development Ghana (CDD-Ghana), Dr. Kwame Sarpong Asiedu, believes Ghana has enough grounds to abrogate its contract with the middlemen expected to supply the country with over three million Sputnik-V vaccines from Russia. “It’s clear that these guys [the middlemen vaccine suppliers] are unable to deliver […] The post Ghana
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, ECOWAS Chair, will today, June 19, 2021, open the 59th Ordinary Summit of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government in Accra. The meeting will deliberate on pertinent issues threatening the peace and stability of the West African sub-region and find solutions to them. It will be attended […] The post Akufo-Addo
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