Thee Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur yesterday warned Ministers and other government appointees against under performance, saying they must live up to expectation. “No excuses can be accepted, and deviations cannot be tolerated,” he said. Addressing the opening session of this year’s Regional Ministers conference at Busua in the Western Region, the Vice President said it was critical to demonstrate to [...]The post Veep Warns Ministers Against Under Performance appeared first

The Ghana Free Zones Board (GFZB) has given one-week ultimatum to encroachers on its Tema Community 21 land to vacate the place immediately to avert any forceful ejection by the board. “We are taking this opportunity to give the encroachers, who have still not vacated the land the final warning to do so by Friday, February 21, 2014, or face [...]The post Free Zone Board Gives Encroachers A Week’s Ultimatum appeared first on The Ghanaian Times.

Ghana has shockingly dropped 13 places in the latest FIFA world rankings to 34th place and are down to 4th in Africa in a shambolic ranking released by the world governing body on Thursday. The ranking released by FIFA also showed the Black Stars losing its long held second position to Algeria and Cape Verde, who were both not in [...]The post Ghana Drops In FIFA Ranking appeared first on The Ghanaian Times.

The Vetting Committee of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) would today release the names certified candidates vying for various national positions as vetting ended peacefully yesterday. In all forty-four aspirants were vetted by the nine-member committee during the two-day exercise held at the party’ head office in Accra. Each candidate would be given a certificate testifying he or she had [...]The post NPP Ends Vetting Of Aspirants appeared first on The Ghanaian Times.

President John Dramani Mahama has written on his Facebook Wall that the depreciation of the Ghana cedi has not been caused by national decisions, but as part of the Global Financial System, saying it is an experience Ghana has to go through. President Mahama highlighted that since the beginning of this year, several countries with stronger economies than Ghana’s have [...]The post President Speaks On The Depreciation Of The Cedi appeared first on The Ghanaian Times.

The Vice Chairman of the Black Maidens Management Committee, Samuel Oduro Nyarko has revealed that though the Ghana FA has no scout monitoring the Maidens FIFA Under-17 Women’s World Cup Group B opponents ahead of the mundial, Coach Evans Adotey has secured six video clips of – North Korea, Germany and Canada and will hold video analysis sessions with the [...]The post Black Maidens Get Set For Costa Rica appeared first on The Ghanaian Times.

Stanbic Bank Ghana has launched a visa card promotion to encourage customers to swipe their cards in payment for goods and services at point of sales and in online transactions. Dubbed: “Visa Swipe to Brazil Campaign”, the promotion, being run in partnership with Visa Worldwide, would give the highest card user and partner a travel package to Brazil to watch [...]The post Stanbic Bank Launches Visa Card Promo appeared first on The Ghanaian Times.

A customer satisfaction survey on the Metro Mass Transit Limited (MMTL) showed that 69 per cent of passengers are satisfied with the fare affordability and the nationwide coverage of the operations of the company. The survey, which was carried out by INGCONSULT, however  noted that MMTL’s performance in the areas of reliability, efficiency and safety still required relentless efforts to bring [...]The post Passengers Satisfied With Metro Mass Fares appeared first on The Ghanaian Times.

Defiant Manchester United boss David Moyes insists all is not yet lost for his team in the quest to finish in the top four of the Barclays Premier League after battling to a goalless draw at title-challengers Arsenal. United are now 11 points behind Liverpool – who secured a dramatic late win at Fulham – after seeing Robin van Persie [...]The post Defiant Moyes Vows To Keep Fighting appeared first on The Ghanaian Times.