The government earlier this week announced the removal of the Value Added Tax (VAT) on pharmaceutical ingredients in Ghana. Similarly, the VAT on selected finished pharmaceutical products have also been removed. This is to ensure that the cost of medicines in Ghana is reduced, the government said. “Government removes VAT …

Management of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has authorised Takoradi-based rapper, Kofi Kinaata‘s Things Fall Apart song to be studied in the school. Effective the first semester of the 2021/2022 academic year, level 200 students of the English department will take it up. This was announced on the Twitter page of Voice …

Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia says the Government will continue to motivate teachers and expand school infrastructure to achieve the best outcomes in the education sector. He said interventions like the School Feeding Programme, the Free Senior High School (SHS), the focus on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and Technical, Vocational and …

Majority of the basic schools in the Yilo Krobo Municipality in the Eastern Region are contending with an acute shortage of furniture in their respective institutions, the Municipal Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Education Service (GES) has said. Mr. Solomon Sakitey in an interview said the situation continues to …

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has been challenged to answer the 137 questions he once posed to his predecessor Paa Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur regarding the handling of the Ghanaian economy. Godsbrain Captain Smart, the host of Onua FM’s breakfast show, is demanding answers from Dr Bawumia as he believes the answers could …

Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Atta Mills Institute, Koku Anyidoho, has hinted at plans to vie for the chairmanship of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). His decision is premised on reports that the current NDC General Secretary Asiedu Nketia (General Mosquito) will be contesting for the same position. Asiedu Nketia has yet to publicly confirm …

Falling on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a bailout means that we cannot manage our own economy and that they should come to our rescue, Michael Okyere Baafi, Member of Parliament for New Juaben South has asserted. Making a case for Ghanaians and the Minority in Parliament to accept …

Action Alliance Party believes women are the bedrock of every society just as the youth are the engine of the same society and nation. Its high time we developed the youth and gave equal if not more opportunities for women to develop their talents and determine what their future should …

Co-chairman of the Joint Stirring Committee of the Akpafu and Lolobi Traditional Areas has stated it is wrong for Attorney General to call for re-election in Buem is wrong. According to Dr Joe Addae, the people of the Santrokofi, Akpafu, Lipke and Lolobi (SALL) had a firm indication from the …

Former Presidential Spokesperson Samuel Koku Anyidoho has called for the sacking of Johnson Asiedu Nketia from the Parliamentary Service Board (PSB) as well as the National Democratic Congress (NDC). He said Mr Asiedu Nketia has demonstrated gross anti-party behaviour and also brought the name of Parliament into disrepute. This comes in the wake of …

The New Patriotic Party’s Chairman for the Bono Region, Kwame Baffoe has taken a jab at former President John Dramani Mahama, for his comment over the Supreme Court ruling that a Deputy Speaker can engage in vote casting while presiding over Parliamentary affairs. According to the Chairman who is best known …

Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, Member of Parliament for the South Dayi Constituency, has shared a video of First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joseph Osei-Owusu, affirming that he loses his vote whenever he presides over the House. Dafeamekpor shared the 37-seconds clip which captures Osei-Owusu, alias Joe Wise, as stating thus: “Honourable Members, …

Engineer Kwabena Agyepong has opened up about issues that led to his suspension as a member of the governing New Patriotic Party(NPP). Kwabena Agyepong, Paul Afoko and Sammy Crabbe who were National Executives of the NPP were suspended indefinitely ahead of the 2016 general elections. The reasons given for the …

The Ministry of Health(MoH) has announced that it will commence the recruitment of medical doctors and dentists on Monday, 14 March 2022. The recruitment exercise is for medical doctors and dentists who have completed their House Job and have been verified by the Medical and Dental Council. “Qualified applicants are …

The New Patriotic Party has said it is taking immediate steps to expel persons involved in the recent agitations in the Fomena Constituency and subsequent repainting of the NPP office there with NDC colours. Some party members there staged a protest on Monday accusing its leadership of sidestepping electoral laws …

Businessman, Alfred Agbesi Kofi Woyome, has taken a swipe at the National Democratic Congress (NDC) following the Supreme Court’s ruling in favour of the Majority Caucus of Parliament on March 9, 2022. The Supreme Court in effect of the ruling, struck out Parliament’s standing order 109 (3), declaring it unconstitutional because it …

Adansi Asokwa MP KT Hammond has lambasted the opposition NDC for criticising the Supreme Court ruling allowing Deputy Speakers of Parliament to vote while presiding over precedings in the House. Watch video below:

Former Deputy Minister of Communication, Felix Kwakye Ofosu has mocked Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia for the national digitization drive he is spearheading. In a post on his social media handle, Mr. Kwakye Ofosu said the Veep was only pretending to be an IT expert having abandoned his ‘economic messiah’ status. “Talk economy in …

In the runup to the 2016 elections, then Vice-Presidential candidate, Mahamudu Bawumia labelled then President John Dramani Mahama as an ‘incompetent’ leader. His wife, Samira Bawumia, will join in the jibe whenever she mounted the campaign platform calling Mahama a failure who needed to be shown the exit. The New Patriotic Party, NPP< led by …

The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has released provisional results of 52,974 candidates who sat for the 2021 West African Senior School Certificate Examination(WASSCE) for private candidates. The results of 696 candidates alleged to be involved in various examination malpractice have been withheld pending the conclusion of investigations. “These malpractices …

The Minority Leader in Parliament, Haruna Idrissu, has described the Supreme Court’s ruling that allows a Deputy Speaker of Parliament presiding over proceedings in Parliament to be counted in decision making as disappointing. According to him, the ruling by the court amounts to judicial interference in time-tested Parliamentary practice and established conventions. Speaking to the media …

The General Secretary of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has said he has not authorised anyone to campaign or project him as a candidate for any of the national executive slots or the flagbearer position within the party.  Also, he said he has not …

The Municipal Director of GES in Bawku, Azeriya Ayeriga, has indicated that his office has granted releases to over 100 basic school teachers. According to Ayeriga, the teachers sort to leave Bawku because of the current insecurity caused by the constant fight between factions in the municipality, graphic online.com reports. …

A former Member of Parliament for Berekum Constituency in the Bono Region, Captain Nkrabea Effah Dartey, has singled out the main opposition National Democratic Congress as the party that comes to destroy all the gains the New Patriotic Party has made in terms of the management of the economy. According to him, after eight years of …

A leading member of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Obiri Boahen, has expressed worry regarding the agitations that have characterized the internal elections of the party. According to him, these agitations, if left unresolved, will lead the party into opposition just as what transpired in the 2008 elections. The polling …

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Ahanta West Constituency, Ebenezer Kojo Kum, is not dead, a family member insists. “It is true my brother was critically sick,” the family member said, “and we are still praying for him after being discharged from hospital and being treated home but he is not dead.” …

Some residents of the Commonwealth Hall at the University of Ghana, on Tuesday, March 8, 2022, amassed in front of the Legon Police Station after the authorities arrested a member from the hall for his involvement in the clash between residents Mensah Sarbah Hall Commonwealth Hall on Saturday, March 5, …

A by-election is looming in the Ahanta West Constituency of the Western Region following the death of Minister for Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs and Member of Parliament for the area, Ebenezer Kojo Kum. A GhanaWeb source confirmed that the MP who had been sick for a while now and was …

Minister for Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs and Member of Parliament for Ahanta West Constituency in the Western Region, Ebenezer Kojo Kum has died according to a GhanaWeb source. Our source said the MP who had been sick for a while now and was receiving treatment died in the morning of …

Some aggrieved members of the ruling New Patriotic Party in the Subin Constituency of the Ashanti Region have locked up the party’s office with padlocks and a chain. In a video of the incident sighted by GhanaWeb, the aggrieved party supporters attributed their action to what they say is a machination plot …