GENERAL NEWS

The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta is set to announce a temporary financial relief programme for persons who lost their jobs as a result of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). To be known as the National Unemployment Insurance Scheme, the initiative is to be a temporary income and will be paid to …

Utility consumers are to enjoy free water and electricity supplies for the next three months. It follows plans by the government to extend the free electricity and water relief packages that ended in May for three more months. The new measure is to be announced in the mid-year budget review …

The Country Director of Amnesty International, Robert Akoto Amoafo, has urged government to deal with human trafficking issues as one of its priorities. His call follows several harrowing experiences by some Ghanaian and Africa migrants who survived or died from ‘modern-day slavery’ in Libya and some Arab states like Saudi …

Police at Ejura in the Ashanti Region have nabbed a 35-year-old woman alleged to have killed her two children at Yeboah-Akosua near Sekyedumase. According to police, the bodies of the suspect’s one-month-old baby and a two-year-old child were found at separate locations when police followed up after the father of …

The Government of Ghana has urged its citizens to brace themselves for difficult years due to the negative impact of COVID-19 on Ghana’s economy. The Finance Minister made the comments Thursday when he presented the mid-year budget review to Parliament. “COVID-19 pandemic is far more than a crisis and Ghana’s …

The Director-General in charge of Welfare of the Ghana Police Service (GPS), COP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, has lamented what she calls the seeming increase of sexism and harassment faced by women in leadership positions in the country. According to her, female bosses continue to suffer gender discrimination, claiming there is still …

The Minority in Parliament has accused the Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta of rewriting the Mid-year Budget statement after over a 2-hour delay. The government had advertised Thursday, July 23 at 10 am for Mr. Ofori-Atta to present the statement to Members of Parliament. However, as at 1 pm, the Finance Minister …

The United States Government has lifted the visa sanctions imposed on some category of Ghanaians in 2019. The sanctions were over claims that Ghana was unreasonably delaying the return of its nationals ordered to be removed from the US. The lifting of the visa restrictions followed an agreement reached between …

The second phase of the Disinfection of Markets,as part of the measures to fight the COVID 19 pandemic began in the Ahafo region.   Hon. Yaw Osei-Boahen, Municipal chief Executive officer for Asunafo North Municipal in the Ahafo Region has applauded the government and Zoomlion Ghana Limited for this gesture. …

The Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu has been called on to temper justice with mercy by pardoning Bantamahene Baffour Owusu Amankwaatia IV of some ‘sins’ he allegedly committed. The Bantamahene has been captured in a video with some elders kneeling before Otumfuo as they seek to escape punishment from him. As …