Better Ghana Management Services (BGMS), a subsidiary of Jospong Group, has reportedly defied the Ghana Labour Commission and Labour Court rulings, directing it to pay GH¢464,905 – being five months’ salary arrears to 179 workers, contracted to work for the company between 2013 and 2015. The GH¢464,905 also constitutes accrued interest, leave commuted into cash and other cost of the workers. According to the workers, they have resorted to the media because not even orders from the
The Black Stars of Ghana secured vital three points, following an emphatic victory over South Korean in their second Group H game at the Education Stadium yesterday. The Stars fought hard to record an impressive 3-2 win, which has positioned Ghana well to gain qualification from the group to the round of 16 stage of the competition, with a game to spare. Centre back for Southampton, Mohammed Salisu, was on target for the Stars on the 24th minute mark when he benefited from a goalmouth melee, following
A group of seven young men, between the ages of 19 and 29 years, have been arrested and charged before an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly preparing to commit a crime at the Kawukudi traffic light in the capital, Accra. They are Daniel Kofi Asamoah, 29 and unemployed, Isaac Larbi, 20 and a driver, Abdul Latif Gyimah, 20 and a trader, Eric Obuobis, 19 and a car wind screen wiper seller, and Mohammad Ali,19 and a labourer. The accused persons, who stood in the courtroom making gestures including
The Gulf of Guinea Northern Region Social Cohesion project is set to receive $150m, out of $450m from the World Bank, to help address challenges like security, climate change and others in the northern regions of Ghana. Countries bordering the Sahel regions, which are also beneficiaries of the project, will share the remaining $300m. They are Benin, La Cote d’Ivoire and Togo. Addressing participants during the unveiling of the project in Bolgatanga on Friday, Dr.Bawumia lavished praises
The District Chief Executive (DCE) for the Upper Manya Krobo Assembly, Joe Sam, has reiterated the government’s quest in investing heavily and rolling out various programmes to ensure the agric sector remained the backbone of the Ghanaian economy. He said the government would continue to create the enabling environment and put in place the necessary interventions for the rapid growth of the sector. The Chief Executive was speaking at the 38th National Farmers’ Day celebration at Dawa
The Eastern Regional Director for the National Commission for Civic Education (NCC), Madam Ophelia Ankrah, has charged youth in the country to take good advantage of social media as it serves as a valuable communication tool to share, create, and spread information locally and internationally. To her, students need to use social media as an opportunity to research into areas that would help them to improve and strengthen their level of education, and by extension contribute to their scope of knowledge.
Five people, who claimed to be movie actors, producers and a make-up artiste, have been arraigned before an Accra Circuit Court for possession of arm and ammunition, as well as possession of security accoutrements without lawful authority. They are Felix Carl Hagoe, movie actor, Francis Torsu, producer, Adegor Sagin Simonet, producer, Maxwell Akwasi Amuni, actor, and Ismail Adanse, make-up artiste. The accused persons were arrested at Oyibi in the Greater Accra Region by a police patrol team,
In 2022 the government introduced the 1.5% Electronic Transaction Levy (E-Levy), a tax applied on transactions made on electronic or digital platforms. At the time of its introduction, government said it had noticed the growing nature of digital payments, which was affecting its revenue mobilisation. The government’s unit in charge of revenue collection, the Ghana Revenue Authority, said that between 2017 and 2021, mobile money transactions in Ghana increased from one hundred and fifty-five
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Tarkwa Nsuaem constituency, George Mireku Duker, last Saturday joined the teachers and students of Tarkwa Senior High School, popularly known as ‘TARSCO’ to mark its 60th Anniversary. The theme for the anniversary “Achieving Academic Excellence Through Discipline For National Development” brought together dignitaries from the academia and old students of the school. Addressing the occasion, MP Duker, who is also the Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural
A separate three-unit classroom block and another five-unit block has been commissioned separately for Enimilkrom and Subri respectively, two host communities of Aboso Gold Fields Ghana Limited (AGL) at the weekend. The two separate classroom blocks, furnished with tables and chairs including ceiling fans is estimated at a cost of $156,977,73, were sponsored by Gold Fields Ghana Foundation (GGF). The GGF is established by the mine company to promote and facilitate sustainable socio-economic development
The Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Ernest Addison, has disclosed that the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank had increased its policy rate by 250 basis points to 27%. “…To continue to anchor inflation expectations, the Committee, therefore, decided to increase the policy rate by 250 basis points to 27.0 percent,” he said. This comes from the 109th Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) regular meetings to review economic developments, which took place last week from Tuesday, November
A 29-paged National Apprenticeship Policy, which aims to deliver a well-coordinated inter-sectoral national apprenticeship system to enable all categories of learners to acquire relevant skills for employment, livelihood empowerment and socio-economic development has been launched. The policy provides a robust regulatory framework for meaningful partnerships, social dialogue, institutional arrangements among the key stakeholders and strong labour market relevance. Launching the Policy during the
Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun, on Monday, issued six executive orders reversing appointments made by former governor Gboyega Oyetola, including the appointment of workers and installation of traditional rulers. This is contained in a statement by his Spokesperson, Malam Olawale Rasheed. The governor signed the executive orders on Monday, including an order freezing all the State Government accounts in all banks and other financial institutions. “The six executive orders take immediate effect.
The management of the Federal University Dutse (FUD), Jigawa State, has confirmed the arrest of one of its students, Aminu Adamu, following a Twitter comment against the wife of the Nigerian President, Aisha Buhari. On 9 June 2022, the student, Aminu Ádámù, tweeted a photo of Mrs Buhari with a caption in Hausa which translates to: “Mama is feeding fat on poor people’s money.” The university’s spokesperson, Abdullahi Bello, said the university was not in session when the incident happened,
Despite rising food prices in the country, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Mohammad Abubakar, said on Monday that the country has enough food to feed all Nigerians. Speaking in Abuja while presenting the ministry’s scorecard for 2015-2023, the minister however blamed the rising cost of basic food stuffs in the country on inflation and the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic that forced many countries including Nigeria to shut down key economic activities for many months.
A “super-cartel” that controlled one-third of the cocaine trade in Europe has been taken down in six countries, police have said. The EU police agency, Europol, announced that 49 suspects were arrested during the investigation, after raids in Europe and the United Arab Emirates targeting the cartel’s “command and control centre” and logistics network. One of the suspects is a British national, who is thought to have led the cartel. The British suspect is described as having links
A landslide in Cameroon’s capital Yaounde on Sunday killed at least 14 people who were attending a funeral, the region’s governor said. “We are carrying the corpses to the mortuary of the central hospital, while the search for other people, or corpses, is still ongoing,” Naseri Paul Bea, governor of Cameroon’s Centre region, told media at the scene. Dozens of people were attending a funeral on a soccer pitch at the base of a 20-metre-high soil embankment, which collapsed on top of them,
The world’s largest active volcano, Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, is erupting for the first time in almost 40 years. An ashfall advisory is in effect for the surrounding area and emergency crews have been placed on alert. “Lava flows are contained within the summit area and are not threatening downslope communities,” officials said early on Monday. But the notification from the US Geological Service (USGS) warned the situation could change rapidly. The volcano’s alert level
Police in Ecuador have arrested seven gunmen who stormed a hospital in an attempt to kill a teen being treated there. Gang members took nurses hostage and exchanged fire with police before they were detained. All hostages were freed and no one was injured, officials said. The 17-year-old target of the attack, known as “Dirty Face”, is thought to be a rival gang member who is in intensive care recovering from bullet wounds. The gunmen held five staff members hostage for more than an
Somali forces have ended a more than 20-hour battle to regain control of a hotel seized by militants in Mogadishu on Sunday evening. At least 15 people were killed, including eight civilians, during the siege, police say. Militants from the al-Shabab group, which said it was behind the attack, had been holed up in one of the rooms in the Villa Rays hotel. Witnesses told the BBC they heard explosions and gunshots at the hotel. Somali police have said that 60 people were rescued from the hotel,
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