GENERAL NEWS

The Vice President Alhaji Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia will on Monday 8th June 2020 launch a new single digital payment platform which is expected to enhance government digitization agenda. Minister for Information Kojo Oppong Nkrumah who disclosed this in Accra on Friday said the introduction of the single digital platform dubbed …

“Ghana is my second home. I will forever love Ghana”, those were the final words of Chinese Ambassador to Ghana Shi Ting Wang who on Friday, June 5, 2020, paid a courtesy call on the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional integration Shirley Ayorkor Botchway to bid farewell to the …

An Accra High Court has reduced the bail terms of Dr. Frederick Yao Mac-Palm, the medical doctor at the centre of an alleged plot to overthrow government, and seven others, some of whom are soldiers. The court presided over by Justice Samuel Asiedu, a Court of Appeal judge sitting as …

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has urged the South Africans to expose apartheid collaborators, some of whom parade in their countries as patriots after performing some unconscionable and extremely repulsive acts. He noted that the intelligence machinery of the former apartheid regime of South Africa used to pay treacherous characters …

Inmates of the Ho Central Prisons have appealed to the Government to provide the Prisons with isolation centres in the wake of COVID-19. They also appealed for minor offenders to be freed to make room for social and physical distancing in the cells. The prisoners made the appeal when Mr …

Panel discussions on Peace FM morning show ‘Kokrokoo’ is not only educative and informative, but oftentimes emotional with a bit of friendly heckling now and then. However, during Friday’s edition of the award-winning programme, Kwasi Pratt Jnr felt the interjections were unruly and deliberate. The Managing Editor of the Insight …

The Government on Friday announced that evacuation of Ghanaians stranded in foreign countries following the outbreak of the COVID-19, would be extended to other parts of the world. The Kuwaiti Government last May deported some 230 Ghanaians from gulf nation. Ms Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional …

The National Identification Authority (NIA) says it will issue 3,875,441 Ghana Cards to applicants in 5,635 registration centres in all the regions concurrently, from Monday, June 8 to Tuesday, June 16. The nationwide exercise, it said, would enable 11,062,850 Ghanaians to possess their cards in good time to use them …

As part of efforts to contain the spread of the Covid-19, Zoomlion Ghana Limited on Thursday (June 06) disinfected nine (9) mosques in various parts of Accra. They included the Madina Central Mosque, Shia Mosque Madina, Al-Aziz Central Mosque, Burma Camp, Ahlul-bait Institute Central Mosque, Alhamadiya Mosque and the Military …

The leadership of the Nation Builders Corps (NABCO) has made an appeal to the government to convert their placements in various institutions into permanent engagements at the end of the three-year contract period. In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA), Mr Dennis Opoku Katakyie and Ms Jacklin Okyere …