The Head of the Local Government Service, Dr Nana Ato Arthur, has disclosed that the Service will soon undertake an exercise to lay off Administrative officers from the Local Government Service because the sector is bloated. According to him, the increased number of Administrative officers in the various Assemblies is responsible for what he calls ‘poor quality service delivery’ within the administrative sector in the Local Government Service in the country. Making a case for such redundancy

The World Bank Country Director for Ghana, Pierre Laporte, last Friday disclosed that the World bank has disbursed over US$10.2 billion to Ghana since the last six decades to aid in the reduction of poverty.  The Bretton Wood Institution has also on annual basis been giving the country $500m to support its development, though it did not state when the annual support started. “The World Bank has since 1957 approved more than 216 projects and disbursed over US$10.2 billion and we believe

The vice president, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia on Friday hosted some cured lepers from the Weija Leprosarium to commemorate his 59th birthday. The vice president has supported them over the years with food items and facilitated the construction of a multi-purpose hostel for them. Addressing the gathering in a brief remark, he expressed his gratitude to God, saying “I’m overwhelmed by your presence and the love shown me…a year older, a year wiser.” He also exhorted the populace not to be scared

The Commissioner-General of Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Rev. Dr. Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah, has revealed that tax compliance would soon be the yardstick for land and vehicle registration in the country. He explained that the ability of individuals to register their property with the Land Commission and Diver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) would be dependent on their tax compliance. According to him, a proposal had been tabled and waiting approval from the Finance Ministry and Parliament.

The Oti Regional Minister, Mr. Joshua G. Makubu, has beckoned steel companies to consider setting up their plants in the region, because large quantities of iron ore deposits had been discovered there. According to Mr. Makubu, iron ore was the key to an industrialised Ghana, hence, the need for companies to take advantage of the discovery and set up their plants in the region. “I want to advice people in Accra to start looking for land in the Oti Region, because what is going to take Ghana from

The first phase of the Green Streets Project kicked off over the weekend with the planting of ornamental seedlings in the medians of some road in Accra. The Director for the Department of Parks and Gardens, Rev. Charles Okine, together with the Technical Director, Forestry, at the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, Mr. Joseph Osiakwan, led the planting exercise with members of the Planning Committee, Forestry Commission, and some selected workers of Youth in Afforestation to plant Tabebuiapallida

The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources over the weekend commenced what it has christened the “Green Streets Project” with the planting of ornamental seedlings along some road medians of the capital, Accra. The exercise, which had support from the Forestry Commission and some selected workers of the Youth in Afforestation, planted Tabebuia pallida (Trumpet Tree) from Spanner junction, Tetteh Quarshie, through the Shiashi-Okponglo stretch to Legon. The team irrigated the seedlings,

The Kwadaso Municipality Assembly, in collaboration with the Department of Social Welfare, has presented items and cash amounting to GH¢86,500 to Persons Living With Disabilities (PWDs) in the area. The items included 33 wheelchairs, 11 refrigerators, two knitting machine, and one shoemaking machine. The rest are a cold store business set up, charcoal start-up equipment, a fufu pounding machine, and roofing of containers. Presenting the items, the Kwadaso Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Richmond

The Transformation-108 Foundation International, a charity organisation with its headquarters in Kumasi, has visited three orphanages in the Metropolis to donate relief items running into thousands of Ghana Cedis to the inmates of the Institutions. The homes are King Jesus Charity Home at Boadi in the Oforikrom Municipality; Children’s Home at Airport roundabout, and Nana Deborah Safe Heaven Children’s Home at Ahwiaa-Overseas. Items donated included bags of rice, school mattresses,

Madam Cecilia Abena Dapaah, Minister for Water and Sanitation, has described those doing illegal mining activities along river bodies as being evil and a threat to lives. She advised the perpetrators to stop the practice to safeguard our water bodies and environment before the law catches them. The Minister, who, together with Mr. Clifford Braimah, Managing Director of Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL), toured some water bodies in mining communities in the Atwima Mponua District of the Ashanti

About 2.3 million women are said to have been diagnosed of breast cancer in 2020 while 685 deaths are recorded annually, according to a report, which also indicated that about 7.8 million women have been diagnosed with breast cancer in the last five years. Nana Agyakomah Dufie II, the Queen mother of Asante Mampong disclosed this during the Annual Breast Cancer Awareness Walk organised by the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), with the support of Global Access to Cancer Foundation, an American-based

The Chairman of the Community Mining Committee at Asaman Tamfoe in the Atiwa East district of the Eastern Region, Nana Boakye Darkwa has indicated that they are not illegal miners, as is being speculated. According to the Community Mining Committee chairman, who is also the Benkumhene of Asaman Tamfoe, it is unfortunate that their legitimate mining activities could be described as illegal. It would be recalled that pandemonium broke out on Thursday September 30, 2022, between an anti-galamsey

A youth organisation striving towards resolving climatic situations for our planet here in Ghana has been doing beach cleaning exercises in Cape Coast for over two years. Fridays For Future Ghana, in partnership with Soy Africa and Get Connected, has been doing its part in keeping the coastlines of Ghana clean. “When I’m around water, I instantly go into a meditative state; I feel this boost of creativity, that is why I find it very important that the beaches and the ocean are clean,” said

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) in Cape Coast has launched this year’s Customer Service Week to celebrate all its cherished customers. The weeklong celebration, which is under the theme: “Customer Delight”, is meant to express the appreciation of the authority to all its valued customers. Briefing the media at the launch on Monday, the Central Regional Manager of the Authority, Mr. Lawrence Adom, indicated that the survival of the Authority depended largely on its customers.

Dear Your Excellency my Vice President, About a week or so ago, it came out that during your visit to the Northern regions of Ghana, where you hail from, and met with some party gurus and other dignitaries, and you were alleged to have made an ethnic and religious based statement during that unofficial campaign trail. My Vice President, I am not at all concerned about you campaigning because it seems General Secretary J.F. Koduais now incapable of cracking the whip, like he promised to do. My

The Secretary of the Chief of Defence Staff seven-man negotiating committee, Professor Usman Yusuf, has faulted the claim of the Abuja-Kaduna victims’ negotiator, and publisher of Desert Herald, Tukur Mamu, who once said that the terrorists’ leader wanted to marry the 21-year-old Azurfa Lois John, one of the just freed Abuja-Kaduna victims.   Mamu had on August 20, 2022, alerted Nigerians in a statement that a top commander of bandits who abducted passengers from the Kaduna-Abuja train

The Lagos State Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja has convicted and sentenced an Italian woman, Floriana De Stefani, to three years imprisonment for laying claim to a property belonging to her landlord, Waterside Properties Limited Justice Mojisola Dada jailed the foreigner after she found her guilty of one of the six counts brought against her by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The judge, in her judgment, held that the convict used forged documents to claim the property

Ex-Plateau State Governor, Senator Joshua Dariye, has said his conviction on corruption charges filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was politically motivated. He stated this during an interview on Channels Television’s Newsnight, a pre-recorded show which airs every Monday. “My issue was political in the sense that the same charge was taken to Kaduna High Court, Justice Liman dismissed that case,” he said. “They were not happy, they carried the same document to

Following the ruling by the Appeal Court, ordering the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to suspend its 8-month-old strike with immediate effect, the union would be meeting on Sunday (today). Recall that the Appeal Court on Friday ordered the striking lecturers to obey the earlier judgement by the National Industrial Court which ruled that the union must suspend its prolonged industrial action while negotiations continue. DAILY POST recalls that ASUU on February 14, this year, shut

Ghanaian musician Kuami Eugene was honoured at the 2022 BMI London Awards alongside his Nigerian counterparts; CKay and JoeBoy. The songwriters, including Kuami Eugene and publishers of the global hit song ‘Love Nwantiti’ were awarded at the ceremony held at London’s Savoy Hotel on October 3, 2022. The ceremony was hosted by BMI president, chief executive Mike O’Neill, and BMI Europe vice president of creative Shirin Foroutan. ‘Love Nwantiti’ was among the songs that were awarded under