There has been growing concerns decrying the journalism standards in the country lately seeing the rate at which “mushroom” journalism institutions are sprouting in the cities. Veteran ace broadcaster, Mike Eghan Snr recently added his voice to the call for improved journalism standards within the Ghanaian media landscape when he was interviewed on Eezy FM’s breakfast show – “The Morning Edition”.

Four officers of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) will represent the party in a Congress of the African Liberal Network (ALN) in Nairobi, Kenya. They are Ms Belinda Bulley, the 2nd Vice Chairperson, Richard Nii Amarh Nkunim, the Executive Secretary, Emmanuel Osei, the Coordinator of the PPP Volunteer Group, and Faruk, Azaah, an officer at the PPP headquarters.

The Vice President, Alhaji Dr Mahamadu Bawumia paid a surprise visit to the Public Procurement Authority on Thursday to familiarise himself with the Authority’s operations. Dr. Bawumia explained that, the visit was borne out of government’s desire to chart a new course and tackle challenges facing the Authority. “If you look at corruption in the sector, I say  probably 95 per cent plus of it is from procurement, and so we are trying to give the public procurement authority

Some foot soldiers of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Eastern Region, on Thursday prevented their regional party executives from engaging in a scheduled meeting at the Koforidua Eredec Hotel. The irate foot soldiers blocked the entrance of the hotel with logs, stones and motorcycles, which caused some regional party executives to flee the scene. But for the timely intervention of the chairman of the committee, Dr. Kwesi Botchway, and some police personnel who were called

Nii Ayikoi Otoo, the man who chaired the Executive Assets sub-committee of the Transition Team has confirmed that some 234 vehicles out of the list of over 700 vehicles presented to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) are missing. When the issues regarding the missing state vehicles popped up early on, Mr Ayikoi Otoo refused to comment and said the questions regarding the  missing vehicles should be directed at the “appointing

The Center for Democratic Development (CDD) Ghana, has asked the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to downsize his government. In a statement issued on Thursday, the CDD said President Akufo-Addo’s 110 ministers and deputies was ‘unprecedented’ and ‘obscene’ and likely to have a negative impact on the public purse. The CDD expressed shock that the president was not guided by the examples of “Presidents Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya and John Magafuli of Tanzania

THE final batch of deputy regional ministers-designate for the Upper East and Upper West Regions appeared before the Appointments Committee of Parliament Thursday where they each expressed their resolve to support the substantive regional ministers in the execution of their duties.

The Ghana Armed Forces says it intends to reopen its 2017 recruitment exercise to enable additional candidates apply for enlistment.

The wife of Ghanaian football star Michael Essien, Mrs Akosua Puni has bought Italian third division Lega Pro side Calcio Como. Mrs Puni Essien, a British citizen of Ghanaian origin bought the club for €237,000 at a bankruptcy auction held by FC Como Limited. The figure was €10,000 more than the starting price.

Donor partners have hinted of stopping support for electoral activities in the country. They said Ghana had been classified as a middle income country which has matured in its democracy in Africa and would not need that kind of funds. The donor partners are the Department for International Development (DFID), Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) and the European Union (EU).

Guinness Ghana Limited has pledged to support government’s “Planting for Food and Jobs” programme, stating that would help boost the use of local raw materials by manufacturing companies, and at the same time help to create jobs for thousands of Ghanaians. According to Mr. Francis Agbonlahor, Managing Director of Guinness Ghana, the company made a key decision some five years ago to use local raw materials for the production of its beverages, and that within a four-year period,

A former Minister of Information under the erstwhile Mahama administration, Fritz Baffuor, has jumped into the defence of the President Akufo-Addo’s ministerial appointments. Speaking on Citi News on Thursday, the versatile actor and former Member of Parliament for Ablekuma South stated that, there was nothing wrong with the President naming over 100 Ministers of State.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has promised to ensure an effective collaboration with the private sector to ensure that sports is well developed in the country. The President, who said this during a visit by the organisers of the Ghana’s Fastest Human and past athletics, lauded the partnership of some private organisations for supporting the programme over the years.

THE President of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), Mr Roland Affail Monney, has expressed indignation at the reluctance of the police to release the report of the presidential press accident that killed a Ghanaian Times reporter and injured 12 others on August 20, 2015. "The police are dilly-dallying. I don't know what they are trying to hide," he said. According to him, what the police claim the evidence they were looking for could not be found.

A CANDIDATE for the Director-General’s position of the UNESCO, Dr Hamad Bin Abdulaziz Al-Kawari is fired up for the position as he has embarked on a globetrotting to convey his message of revitalising the world body to member states. He has so far visited 40 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and the USA. He said UNESCO was facing financial crisis and when given the nod, “I have such ideas as to how to turn the organisation around.”

The Communications Director of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akomea, has described concerns about the number of ministerial appointments in President Akufo-Addo’s government as legitimate and in order. That, notwithstanding, Mr Akomea believes that the President should be given the benefit of doubt in his appointments since “Akufo-Addo’s vision is the boldest and revolutionary of any president in the fourth republic.”

The Abeka District Court has granted bail to Jihad Chabaan, the supervisor of the Mawarko restaurant who allegedly dipped the face of a female worker in pepper. Chabaan was granted bail in the sum of GH¢20, 000 with two sureties.

Madagascar Football Association chief Ahmad Ahmad has been elected Confederation of African Football president, ending Issa Hayatou's 29-year reign. Ahmad won 34 of the 54 votes in the election, which was held in Addis Ababa on Thursday.

The Deputy Central Regional Minister designate, Mr Thomas Adjei-Baffoe, has proposed a stakeholders’ meeting of recognised sons and daughters of the region to brainstorm on bringing to end the negative tag on the region as the fourth poorest in the country. He said there was no reason for the region to be poor, given the calibre of wealthy people who hailed from there, and named Mr Sam Jonah, a business magnate, and the Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Mr Ken Agyepong, as

The Minister of Roads and Highways, Mr Kwasi Amoako-Atta, has tasked the contractor undertaking the slope repairs and protection works on the Ayi Mensah-Peduase Lodge-Aburi road to endeavour to complete the project on schedule, so that the road could be opened to the travelling public.  Work on the project began on January 15, 2016 and was expected to be completed by January 2017.