Policy think tank IMANI Ghana has punched holes into the State of the Nation Address delivered by President John Dramani Mahama last Wednesday. “The President’s speech sounded more like ideas and less like a strategy in the process of transitioning the country from lower middle income to middle income status,” IMANI’s communication directorate released on […]

Egypt’s armed forces chief, Field Marshal Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, has said he cannot ignore calls by the majority for him to run for president. He was quoted by the state news agency Mena as revealing that “official procedures” regarding his candidacy were expected in the coming days. It is the clearest indication yet that he […]

President Mahama showing off his Horseman brand of shoes during the State of the Nation Address. President Mahama showing off his Horseman brand of shoes during the State of the Nation Address. Until February 25, this year, Horseman Shoes Limited, a burgeoning indigenous shoe manufacturing company (and its line of footwear), was only known to […]

Players of Ghana Black Stars led by Captain Asamoah Gyan are reported to have kicked against receiving their bonuses in cedis and have demanded that all their allowances are paid in dollars. Ghana President, John Mahama recently gave the directive that Ghana’s players should be paid in cedis and not in dollars but the players […]

There has never been a dull moment for the free SHS mantra since it was mooted and thrown up as a manifesto stuff of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). It meant different things to the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and their archrivals, NPP. Whereas the largest opposition party held it to their chest as […]

Nii Laryea Afotey Agbo aka Lion, Helen Adjoa Ntoso and Samuel Sarpong For the second time in a year, President John Dramani Mahama has reshuffled his Regional Ministers, moving them back to their original regions where they were first assigned. In his first appointment after the Supreme Court ruling on the 2012 presidential election petition […]

President John Mahama cutting the sod. INSET: The propose SHS building President John Mahama yesterday declared a zero tolerance for absenteeism by teachers, asking that lazy teachers be denied salaries. He was speaking during the sod-cutting ceremony at Nyanoa, in the Upper West Akyem District of the Eastern Region, for the construction of the first […]

Policy think tank IMANI Ghana has punched holes into the State of the Nation Address delivered by President John Dramani Mahama last Wednesday. “The President’s speech sounded more like ideas and less like a strategy in the process of transitioning the country from lower middle income to middle income status,” IMANI’s communication directorate released on […]

Elder Christopher Yaw Asamoah  and Emmanuella Gyamfuaah CHRISTOPHER YAW Asamoah, an elder of the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) at Chiraa, near Sunyani in the Brong-Ahafo Region, is reported to have bolted away with over GH¢4,000 meant for a 4-year-old hole-in-heart patient. Elder Yaw Asamoah vanished into thin air after taking the unspecified amount which he […]

The four suspects The defence counsel for the four security operatives facing trial for possessing narcotic substances have accused the prosecution of abuse court of proceedings. Counsel Augustine Obuor told an Accra Circuit Court presided over by Francis Obiri that the substances for which the accused was arrested had not been tested to determine what […]

Mother of a 13-year-old defiled victim, Eunice Otoo has appealed to the public and the to hierarchy of the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) to come to the aid of her daughter who was allegedly defiled several times by her 55 year old father. The thirteen year old victim after the ordeal cannot […]

Bernard Anaba, Policy Analyst, ISODEC  Ghana lost about $70 million over the past two years in the oil and gas sector due to her inability to apply the Capital Gains Tax provided in the Internal Revenue Act, 2000 (Act 592). The loss emanated from the sale of EO Group’s 3.5 percentage stake in Kosmos Energy […]

Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, Energy Minister The Minister for Energy and Petroleum, Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah has called on utilities to intensify public education on energy conservation. According to him, Ghanaians need to ingrain energy conservation attitudes into their daily activities and help to sustain the supply of adequate power. “We have had a situation in the […]

From  Left, Dr. Ahmed Yakubu Alhassan, Yair Shamir and Sharon Bali at the seminar The Minister of Food and Agriculture, Clement Humado says the large-scale importation of food into the country is a major concern for government. According to him, the massive importation of food was depleting Ghana’s scarce foreign reserves, thereby widening its trade […]

Prof. Mathew Tsamenyi addressing the press in Accra The China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) Ghana and Global Media Alliance (GMA) have launched an Advanced Leadership Programme (ALP) in media and entertainment in Ghana. ALP is aimed at equipping media personnel with transformational skills to help them lead media and entertainment organizations in order to […]

Amethis Finance and Edmond de Rothschild Europportunities Management II (ERES) will acquire a minority stake in Fidelity Bank Ghana Limited for $35 million. South African Kagiso Tiso Holdings (KTH) will invest a similar amount alongside Amethis and ERES, which represents the most significant fund raising in the Ghanaian banking sector and in West Africa outside […]

Pupils of Ahabaso Primary School in the Upper Manya District of the Eastern Region were last week given a rare treat by staff of Millicom Ghana Limited, operators of mobile telecom giant Tigo. The event, which forms part of the ‘Tigo Spirit’ Day, a monthly employee engagement initiative by Tigo staff, saw the pupils receiving […]

Group Director of ‘All Office’, Alan Holzman shaking hands with local agent, Francis Assenso-Boakye whiles Bradley Lynn and Eric looks on A leading South African manufacturer of office furniture, All Office has finally decided to establish a branch in Ghana. Business Development Consultant of the company, Bradley Lynn said “our decision to come to Ghana […]

Nana Owusu-Ansah Kokroko, Wenchi Krontihene The Sunyani Fast Track High Court has convicted Nana Atoaa Sraman Gyeduaa II, Queenmother of Wenchi Traditional Area and three others for contempt of court. The other convicts are Nana Krabiri Kwakorakwa Yentumi II, Acting President of the Wenchi Traditional Council; Professor Albert Owusu Sarpong, purported Omanhene of Wenchi Traditional […]