Residents in some farming communities in the Fanteakwa North District of the Eastern region have threatened to boycott the upcoming MMDCE’s referendum and subsequently the Presidential and Parliamentary elections if deplorable roads linking their communities are not rehabilitated. The farmers say their general living conditions continue to worsen due to …
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Ghana signs $2.3bn concession for SkyTrain Project, first station to open in nine months
Government has signed the Concession Agreement for the construction of the Accra SkyTrain Project. The deal was signed on the sidelines of the ongoing African Investment Forum, on Monday. The signing of the SkyTrain agreement means feasibility studies to determine the bankability of the project will commence soon. Investors have …
Read More »Sex for Grades: 10 lecturers sacked, 7 suspended
The Kenule Beeson Polytechnic, Bori formerly known as Bori Polytechnic, has sacked 10 lecturers in connection with sex for grades Rector of the Institution, Onengiye Goergewill disclosed this when the Rivers State House of Assembly Committee on Education visited the school on oversight function. Georgewill said apart from the sacked …
Read More »Phase 2 of Sinohydro deal to take off
The second tranche of the $2 billion Sinohydro deal has been approved and set to be disbursed early next year. It follows an approval given by Sinosure, the Chinese Export and Credit Insurance Corporation. Vice-President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia who dropped the hint yesterday could not hide his excitement, saying “I’m …
Read More »KNUST beats UG, ‘Ibadan’ to claim top spot in West Africa
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has been adjudged the best University in Ghana and West Africa. The Ashanti Region-based university also came 14th on the African continent and 706th out of selected 1,500 best universities worldwide. It displaced two of West Africa’s prestigious tertiary institutions, the University …
Read More »No more tax increment, focus on domestic revenue mobilization – Economist to govt
An economist and research fellow with the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), Dr. Adu Owusu Sarkodie is admonishing government to focus more on domestic revenue mobilisation as it prepares to present the 2019 Budget Statement and Fiscal Policy to Ghanaians on 13th November 2019. According to him, revenue generation is …
Read More »Economy among fastest growing in the world – Akufo-Addo
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says his government has succeeded in turning around the fundamentals of Ghana’s economy, which he inherited from the Mahama administration, ensuring that, currently, all the fundamentals are pointing in the right direction. According to President Akufo-Addo, “we inherited a situation with a large fiscal deficit, …
Read More »Accra to have first sky train station in August
The concession agreement for the construction of the Accra Sky Train Project has been signed on the sidelines of the ongoing African Investment Forum in Johannesburg, South Africa. The signing of the agreement means feasibility studies, spanning a period of nine months to determine the bankability of the project will …
Read More »Go to CBG for validation and payment – SEC to customers of Gold Coast, others
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has asked customers of the collapsed fund management firms to visit CBG branches from Tuesday to validate their documents in order to receive payments. According to the Deputy Director-General for SEC Paul Ababio, customers will receive text messages showing them the processes to receive …
Read More »‘Akufo-Addo’s ambulances’ to be distributed in 2020
Government has decided to distribute all 275 ambulances in January 2020, Minister for Special Development Initiative, Mavis Hawa Koomson has said. The reason, she explained, is to ensure a fair distribution of the ambulances across all 275 constituencies in the country. The first 48 ambulances, which arrived months ago are …
Read More »Distraught customer shares frustration after SEC’s closure of investment companies
Listen to the Audio below A distraught customer of First Banc Financial Services at the Airport residential area in Accra has shared his frustrations after the closure of 53 struggling fund management companies by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The aggrieved customer of the now-defunct financial firm told Joy News’ …
Read More »Ghana now imports flowers from South Africa – Senior Minister laments
Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Marfo is worried about the alarming rate of the country’s importation of goods. He said the country currently importing flowers thrice in a week from South Africa is an absurd situation which is unacceptable. Speaking at a gathering on behalf of President Akufo-Addo at the opening of …
Read More »GMA reveals health crisis in Ghana prisons
The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has raised the alarm over the health crisis in Ghana’s prisons and called for urgent and comprehensive healthcare for inmates in various prisons across the country. It has identified overcrowding, drug abuse, poor diet and hygiene, infections and substandard healthcare as the cause of the …
Read More »My ‘highly qualified’ sons topped SSNIT, NCA interviews – Osafo Maafo justifies his sons’ jobs
Senior Minister Mr Yaw Osafo Maafo has come to the defense of his two sons, Kofi Bosompem Osafo Maafo and Kwadwo Gyamfi Osafo Maafo for taking over positions in government agencies at a time their father said the system was choked. He argues that the two ‘qualified boys’ aced the …
Read More »Sports Minister and GFA President Promise To Reward Sunset Sports BSC
The new Champions of the prestigious Copa Lagos Beach Soccer Club Tournament have been promised “special packages” by the Ghana Football Association (GFA) and Ministry of Youth & Sports. The assurances were given to Sunset Sports Club when officials and players of the team presented their laurels to the Ghana …
Read More »Ghana Medical Association threaten to withdraw services next week
The Ghana Medical Association (GMA), mother body of doctors in Ghana, has indicated that it will soon withdraw its services in the various government hospitals over the failure of government to address issues relating to conditions of service of its members. The health professionals gave the indication in a communiqué …
Read More »St. Mary’s Boys SHS students injured after cutlass attack by assailant
Two students of St. Mary’s Boys Senior High School at Apowa in the Western Region have sustained serious cutlass wounds after they were attacked by an unknown assailant. The two whose identities have been withheld, are currently on admission at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital. Reports indicate that they were …
Read More »SEC’s statement on Blackshield misleading – Groupe Nduom
Groupe Nduom Limited has reacted to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s revocation of licenses of 53 fund management companies, which includes Blackshield Capital Management (formerly Gold Coast Fund Management). According to Groupe Nduom, the entity representing the interests of the majority shareholders and founders of Blackshield, the SEC’s assertion that …
Read More »SEC revokes licenses of Unisecurities, 52 other Fund Management companies
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has revoked the licenses of 53 Fund Management Companies. SEC, in a statement explained that the revocation follows the companies’ failure to “return client funds which remain locked up and in a number of cases, have even folded up their operations.” “Essentially, they have …
Read More »Court orders Menzgold to refund GH¢2.6m owed to 58 soldiers
The Accra High Court has ordered Menzgold Ghana Limited, a gold dealership firm to refund GH¢2,664,000 owed to some 58 soldiers. The court, presided over by Justice Angelina Mensah-Homiah J. in a November 4, 2019 ruling, however, refused to enforce the contractual interest at the rate contained in the respective …
Read More »Watch: How Bawumia’s home was burgled
The Ghana Police Service has arrested four persons suspected to be part of a gang that robbed the private residence of the Vice President, Dr Bawumia in Walewale in the North East region of Ghana. The burglars in an incident which took place over the weekend attacked five other houses …
Read More »Nyantakyi case: We won’t rush to court without solid evidence – Kpemka
Deputy Attorney General, Joseph Kpemka has said that the office of the Attorney General will not rush in prosecuting the case involving the former president of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kwesi Nyantakyi. He said the office will diligently gather its facts and evidence in the case before proceeding to …
Read More »Deal with high interest rates – Akufo-Addo to BoG Governor
President Nana Akufo-Addo has tasked the Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr Ernest Addison, to deal with the issue of high interest rates in the country. Addressing the CEOs Executive Forum in Accra on Wednesday, 6 November 2019, the President said: “I have requested the Governor of the Bank …
Read More »Baffour Awuah is new Ghana Health Service boss
The Medical Director of Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Dr. Baffour Awuah, has been appointed Director-General of the Ghana Health Service. According to a letter dated November 5, 2019, and signed by Executive Secretary to the President, Nana Bedietuo Asante, Dr. Awuah will head the GHS in an acting capacity “…pending …
Read More »COCOBOD loan: School kids to enjoy cocoa drink everyday – Fiifi Boafo
COCOBOD says every schoolchild in Ghana will now receive a cocoa drink a day following the passage of the $600-million loan agreement for the Cocoa Productivity Enhancement Project. According to Fiifi Boafo, the executive secretary at the office of the COCOBOD CEO, the move is to develop taste of Cocoa …
Read More »Electing MMDCEs on partisan basis won’t divide Ghana – Ato Arthur
The Head of Local Government Service, Nana Ato Arthur has debunked claims that electing Metropolitan Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) will divide the country. He said such a move will rather strengthen local governance and hasten development in the country. Nana Ato Arthur who was speaking in a Citi …
Read More »We’ve not approved any SHS book containing same-sex family lessons – GES
The Ghana Educational Service (GES) has rejected claims that it has approved a new syllabus for Senior High Schools in the country. Images of a purported Social Studies text book have gone viral on social media following inscriptions on it which suggests that it was from a new SHS syllabus …
Read More »GHS boss Nsiah Asare reassigned to Presidency
The Director General of the Ghana Health Service Dr Nsiah Asare has been reassigned to the Presidency as advisor on health matters to the president. His reassignment took effect on November 1,2019. He is to be replaced by the deputy director general of the Ghana Health Service Dr. Anthony Ofosu, …
Read More »CALBANK Nominates Mr. Philip Owiredu As New CEO
The Board of Directors of CalBank have nominated Mr. Philip Owiredu as the new Chief Executive Officer of the Bank, subject to Bank of Ghana’s approval. Mr. Owiredu has been the Bank’s Executive Director/Chief Financial Officer (CFO) since 2011. Upon approval, Mr. Owiredu will assume the Chief Executive Officer position …
Read More »An Open Letter To The Candidate With No Alternative Solution
Dear Mr Reviewer General, For the past three years, you have been singing dirges about hardships having scourged the Ghanaian people due to what you describe as the Akufo-Addo administration’s failure to provide a better leadership for the country. You go about labelling yourself as the Messiah to save the …
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