Caretaker Ministers would not take policy decisions-VP Amissah Arthur Accra, Jan 9, GNA- Vice President Paa Kwesi Bekoe Amissah- Arthur on Wednesday explained that the decision of President John Dramani Mahama for Ministers in the last Administration to stay on was to properly superintend Government business until new ministers would be appointed. He said no new policy decisions were expected to be taken until after a Cabinet would be put in place and inaugurated, adding that ?this is to ... Read More

Mr Edward Doe Adjaho, the Speaker of Parliament, suspended sitting for one hour shortly after proceedings began with the swearing in of two members of Parliament, Mr Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, member for Assin Central and Mr Emmanuel Aboagye Didiaye member for Afram Plains. The two members who were absent during the general swearing in ceremony of members of the sixth Parliament on Sunday dawn took the oaths of allegiance and oath of member of Parliament, affirming that they will bear true faith ... Read More

Some banks in Accra say high electricity bills, rent, water bills and salaries of workers are impacting negatively on their businesses and ability to lend more. This was made known to the GNA on Tuesday, when it visited some banks to find out their expectations for the year started. Mr. Joseph Ashong, Business Manager, HFC Bank, noted the cost of doing business in Ghana was still high and wanted Bank of Ghana to introduce better policy rate and government intervention in the energy and oil ... Read More

Mfantsipim Senior High School has for the third time won the Sprite Basketball Championship after defeating Koforidua Secondary Technical School (K.S.T.S), 46-36 in front of a packed crowd at the Aviation Social Centre, Accra. The Coca Cola Ghana Limited sponsored event, which is in the seventh edition, with its brand Sprite and supported by Indomie Noodles saw over 24 senior high schools from six regions competing for the ultimate prize. In a highly charged atmosphere amidst drumming and ... Read More

The Director General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr Ebenezer Appiah-Denkyira, has called for the use of bench marks to determine services delivered at health institutions to raise the standard of health delivery in the country. He said such move could make it possible for health institutions to be classified into groups, depending on the type of services they render. Dr Appiah-Denkyira said these when the US Ambassador to Ghana, Mr Gene Cretz, and Dr Fazle Khan, Country Director of ... Read More

Barely 48 hours after President John Dramani Mahama occupied the woolsack at the Castle, Osu, he has swung into full action with some key appointments. The first assertive appointment by President Mahama was that of a new Chief of Staff, Prosper Douglas Kwaku Bani, axing Henry Martey Newman who served during the last four years of the Prof. Mills and Mr. Mahama presidency. Mr. Bani comes to his position with a worth of experience in public service and was with the United Nations ... Read More

Two projects which are to showcase Vakpo?s potentials as commercial capital of North Danyi District have been commissioned. The two projects which cost a total of GH¢187,365 are a 20 room market stall building and sanitary facilities comprising a 10 seater water closet toilet, a bath house and a urinary. They were commissioned by Mr Francis Ganyablo, the Kpando Municipal Chief executive, assisted by Mr George Loh, MP for North Danyi Constituency and Togbui Asamoah IV, a divisional chief of ... Read More

One of the two soldiers being tried for the murder of Alhaji Issah Mobila, yesterday admitted to having beaten the former Northern Regional Chairman of the Convention People?s Party, but claimed it was on the orders of his superior officer. ?It was not anyone?s intention to beat him to death, we needed to extract information from him,? Corporal Yaw Appiah, told the Accra Fast Track High Court yesterday in his evidence under cross-examination. Cpl. Yaw Appiah had initially in his ... Read More

The Board of AngloGold Ashanti has announced the resignation of Chief Executive Officer Mark Cutifani, who has accepted an offer to become the Chief Executive Officer of Anglo American Plc, effective April 3. Mr. Cutifani will remain in the role of CEO of AngloGold Ashanti until March 31. A statement issued by AngloGold Ashanti in Johannesburg yesterday said the Board of Directors, under Chairman Tito Mboweni, had initiated a formal search for a new Chief Executive Officer of AngloGold ... Read More

A twelve seater bus with registration number Gt 3379, 12 on Saturday afternoon as a result of loose of break control by the driver had an accident at the Asutuare forest reserve area at Shai Hills claiming a life with others heavily injured. The driver who gave his name as Godfred Owusu said they were on their way from Ho in the Volta to Accra before the incident happened. He said he could not have been sure of how the vehicle hit a near by tree and found its way into the bush. A police ... Read More

The inhabitants of Atwima Techiman, in the Atwima Kwanwoma District of the Ashanti Region, perhaps went to bed last night with terrible images on their minds following the gruesome murder of a 55- year old woman whose throat was slit. Madam Akua Frimpomaa was said to be in her room with her boyfriend, Kwaku Ofori, when a securityman at the Kessben Group Micro Finance office, allegedly armed with a long dagger, stormed there and slit the throat of the woman killing her on the spot. It was at ... Read More

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ambition Boxing Promotion, Alhaji Toffic has asked boxing stakeholders to be wary of the choice they make as the Ghana Boxing Authority (GBA) readies to hold its congress to democratically elect executives to lead the association. The scene at the corridors of the GBA has been tumultuous in recent times as active participants of the sport demand the immediate resignation of the present executive led by the chairman, Mr. Samir Captan. Following their ... Read More

The Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC) has called for effective implementation of the $75 million Global Partnership Education fund, to bridge the huge teacher-pupil ratio. The policy is intended to offer training programmes, especially for people form deprived communities, to fill the vacant classrooms. According to Lesley Tettey, the National Coordinator of GNECC, the appeal is informed by reports of an acute shortage of trained teachers in the West Mamprusi District ... Read More

A 30 year- old carpenter, Togbui Kponyo was on Tuesday remanded into police custody for allegedly defiling a 14 year- old pupil by an Accra circuit court. The accused who pleaded not guilty would appear again on January 22, 2013. Prosecuting, Police Inspector, Kofi Atimbure told the court Presided over by Mr. Ebenezer Osei Darko that the complainant Mr. Seth Prosper Kpogo is an uncle to the victim who stayed with the mother atAbor in the Volta Region while the accused stayed at ... Read More

The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana, Rt. Rev. Francis Amenu says the quest for sustainable leadership can only be attained in an atmosphere of peace and of team work among all key players in the society. That, he explained, Christian leadership is challenging and difficult task that requires vision and mission to succeed. The Rt. Rev. Amenu, gave the advice in his sermon at Ho, during a special service to induct the newly elected Presbyter ... Read More

President John Mahama yesterday, spent his first day in office by receiving a high-powered Iranian delegation, to discuss areas of cooperation and other bilateral matters. The delegation, led by the Iranian Foreign Minister, Dr. Ali Akbar Salehi, was in the country to attend the inauguration of President Mahama and decided to pay a courtesy call on the President before leaving for home. Dr. Salehi, who set the tone for the discussions, commended President Mahama for ascending the high ... Read More

Former President Kufuor has said that despite the pain that has hit the New Patriotic Party (NPP) as a result of the alleged fraudulent electoral results that was announced by the Electoral Commission, he saw no reason why in his capacity as a statesman, he should have boycotted Monday?s state event that elevated John Mahama to the status of President of Ghana. He advised aggrieved NPP sympathisers not to consider the move as ditching them and throwing his weight behind the National ... Read More

PORCUPINE Warriors ? Kumasi Asante Kotoko, may have mounted a stranglehold on Liberty Professionals in the Glo Premiership, but the latter hold out the latest bragging rights as the two head into a potential thriller at the Accra Sports Stadium on Sunday. When everything seemed like ending in a drawn game with the match in additional time, Michael Helegbe came from nowhere to connect home an in-swinger from Latif Salifu to seal the doom of Kotoko and to send the stadium into dead ... Read More

A 54-year old cassanova pastor is in the grips of the police for allegedly trying to do awy with the husband of a woman he was having an amorous affair with in his church. The suspect gave a substance to the woman to lace the food of her husband in order to snatch her. The police said Pastor Philip Azumah of Zoe Power Ministry, situated at Madina, near Accra hatched the plan with the woman after they had been in a relationship for over six years. The Pastor is already married with ... Read More

The Electoral Commission (EC) has denied claims that the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the December 2012 elections, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo- Addo, won the elections. In its defence to a petition challenging the declaration of John Dramani Mahama as the winner of the December 2012 presidential election, the EC maintained that "the petition is without merit" and, accordingly, prayed the Supreme Court to "dismiss it". The EC also denied any irregularities and ... Read More