As Ghana struggles with rising infections of COVID-19, the country’s year-on-year inflation rate for the month of June is 11.2 per cent, just down 0.1 per cent from the rate in May. Economists around the world have made grim projections of the impact of the viral pandemic on the economies of countries around the world. … The post As Ghana
Parliament on Tuesday approved the programme of activities for the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) for 2020, with a call on the state agency to better position itself to be more financially prudent. The Emmanuel Akwasi Gyamfi chaired the Committee on Energy and Mines, whose report on the 2020 schedule of the GNPC was approved … The post Parliament
Dr Hafiz Bin Salih, the Upper West Regional Minister has appealed to political parties to respect the Vigilantism and Related Offences Act 2019 (Act 999) whilst planning their campaign activities towards election 2020. He said the enactment of Act 999 was born out of the realization that vigilantism could no longer be tolerated in the … The post Political
The GCB Bank Limited is to hold its first virtual Annual General Meeting (AGM), on Thursday, July 30, at the Bank’s Head Office, in Accra. The AGM is highly anticipated by shareholders and industry players due to the ravaging effects of Covid-19 on the economy and the Bank’s status as Ghana’s largest indigenous bank. The … The post GCB Bank to hold first
The Minister for Interior has by Executive Instrument renewed curfew hours imposed on Bunkpurugu Township and its environs in the North East Region from 2000 hours to 0600 hours effective Tuesday, July 14, 2020. A press release made available to the Ghana News Agency urged Chiefs, Opinion leaders, youth and people of the area to … The post Ministry of Interior
Ghana’s annual petroleum revenue dropped in 2019, though production of crude oil in the country’s three major fields witnessed sharp increment. The 386,460,893 barrels of crude oil produced from the three oil fields – Jubilee, TEN and SGN in 2019 fetched the nation $925 million as against $977 million of 62,135,435 barrels produced in 2018. … The post Ghana’s
Ghana has recorded a cumulative of 25,252 positive cases of COVID-19 since March 2020, with 21,397 recoveries indicating a percentage recovery rate of 34.7 percent, with an active case count of 3,716. The death toll, remains 139 persons, with 25 others currently in severe conditions, eight in critical states, and four on ventilators. Dr Badu … The post Ghana COVID-19
The Ghana Education Service (GES) Tuesday, restated its resolve to go ahead with this year’s West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) and the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). The Service also said adequate safety measures were in place in all schools to contain the spread of COVID-19 and that there was no reason to … The post GES
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration says it has arranged with Emirates to evacuate more stranded Ghanaians back to Ghana. The flight will depart from Dubai at 0930 hours on Friday, July 17, 2020, and arrive in Accra at 13:35 hours. A statement issued in Accra by Ghana’s High Commission in London said, … The post Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) has called on the Ghana National Petroleum Commission (GNPC) to make determinations to decommission the Saltpond Oil Field (SOF) in the Mfantseman Municipality of the Central Region. The Committee believes the move will reduce huge cost of skeletal staff maintaining the rig that had become an economic drain … The post PIAC
Professor Goski Alabi, the President of Laweh Open University College has called on the government to collaborate with service providers to make the internet affordable, available, and accessible for online education. Mrs Alabi noted that the internet was too expensive for digital education and until the government intervened, it would be difficult for a lot … The post Ghana
The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP) has observed that human trafficking and irregular migration activities remained widespread in the country despite closure of borders to contain the spread of COVID:19. The Ministry said traffickers had devised new methods of luring victims, through force or deceit for the purpose of sexual exploitation, child … The post Human
The latest report on the progress towards the Start Free, Stay Free, AIDS Free targets has shown that despite great progress made since the early days of the epidemic, the HIV response for children has fallen behind. Year after year, the bold target of eliminating new HIV infections among children is being missed and children are dying needlessly from AIDS-related … The post HIV
Some of the health infrastructure projects currently under construction in the Ashanti region, would have COVID-19 treatment centres, as confirmed cases in the region surge. Mr Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, the Minister of Health who made this known, said the move was part of the government’s plans to have additional emergency and treatment centres in a region, … The post New
District Public Health Emergency Committees in the Ashanti Region have been charged to ensure strict compliance to COVID-19 safety protocols to curb the rising confirmed cases in the region. They should also take steps to address the disregard for the protocols and step up public education to prevent community spread of the virus. The lack … The post Public
The Western Regional Branch of the Ghana Journalists Association (Western-GJA) has condemned the assault of the Western Regional cameraman of Metro TV Alhaji Mustapha Ashley. The journalist was assaulted by the bodyguard of the Member of Parliament for Evalue-Jomoro Gwira Constituency and Minister of State at the Presidency. The Western-GJA is also unhappy with the deletion … The post Western
The Enchi District Magistrate court presided over by Mr Eric Baah Boateng has convicted a Ghanaian and two Guineans to a total of 54 months imprisonment in hard labour for illegally prospecting for gold in the Tano-Anwia Forest Reserve. Kwame Banyanta, Mohammed Kabal and Mohammed Kamara would serve 18 months each. The three who were … The post Court jails three illegal miners
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