Tag Archives: GOVT

The Government of Ghana has provided a temporary resettlement for members of the Kantamanto Traders Association.   Following the recent fire outbreak at the Kantamanto market in Accra, the Government has in consultation with the Ministry of Railways Development, has agreed to allow the traders use the car park of …

Some aggrieved customers of defunct gold dealership firm, Menzgold, have dragged four state agencies to court over their locked up funds. The customers, numbering about 30, have accused the agencies of negligence in their duty of care concerning the operations of the firm and Brew Marketing Consult. They include the Securities and …

Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has called for CNN to be sanctioned for what he describes as reinforcement of “the disinformation that is going around” following CNN’s investigations which claimed that Nigerian protesters were shot at by security forces in Lagos in October. Speaking to reporters on …

The government has launched a GH¢2 billion guarantee scheme to support universal banks in the country to offer financial support to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) for them to recover from the COVID-19 shocks. The Ghana Care Guarantee Scheme (GCGS), to be administered by the Ghana Incentive-based Risk-sharing System for …

More than 4,000 public sector workers in the country risk losing their salaries for the month of October 2020. The affected staff totaling 4,714 are employees who are on wrong management units. A letter from the Controller and Accountant General’s Department(CAGD) to Heads of MDAs and MMDAs and sighted by GhanaXtra.Com says …

The Caucus for Democratic Governance, Ghana, CDG-GH has ridiculed the mid year budget read by the finance minister on Thursday, describing it as “voodoo budget of desperate Government”. The Minister of Finance, Mr Ken Ofori-Atta on Thursday disclosed that dry food packs and hot cooked meals distributed by the government to mitigate …

The government is set to extend its free water and electricity relief packages for the next three months. Ghanaians enjoyed free water and electricity supply between the months of April, May and June. The move was the government’s own way of reducing the economic impact of the Coronavirus pandemic on Ghanaians. The …

  The Chief Executive Officer of Literacy Ambassadors Ghana, Mr Mathias Tulasi, has called on the government to keep to its promises made prior to the reopening of SHS across the country.    Mr Mathias Tulasi reacting to reports he gathered from some SHS that students and teachers were only …

  The disinfecting of basic schools in the Savannah Region would help assuage fears in both the pupils and the teachers in the region as a result of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19).   The Deputy Director, Supervision of Education, West-Gonja District in the Savannah Region, Katribi Dramani, made the observation …

  Mr Kofi Oppong, the Manager of Cosby 1 Fashion College at Madina in Accra, has called on the government to streamline existing policy measures to support the informal sector. That, he said, would provide the private sector the needed assistance to grow and contribute to the national Gross Domestic …