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The Police administration through the Welfare Department is embarking on sensitization workshops to address retirement challenges police officers encounter after exiting the service. Many police officers retire poorly due to improper pension plans resulting in depression, drunkenness, and in some cases suicide. To address these challenges, the Police administration through …

TWI NEWS The government has presented its 2022 budget statement New levies have been placed on electronic transactions The government has been on a digitalization drive in the last few years The Minister of Communication and Digitalization, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has offered a defense on why the government is justified to have …

  • Government of Ghana for years has been paying GH¢1.80 as feeding for each inmate • The prisoners rejected the food served them over the weekend • They chanted war songs in their prison yard The Sekondi Central Prisoners have protested against the low quality of food served them. …

  President of the Sports Callers Association of Ghana and supporter of Kumasi Asante Kotoko, Nko Joseph has slammed Asamoah Gyan for attacking them. He advised the Legon Cities player to be circumspect in his commentary and respect his brand. Asamoah has described as unnecessary booing by Kotoko fans. The former …

A lecturer at the University of Environment and Sustainable Development, Dr Michael Ayertey Nanor has advised the Kwahu Traditional Authority and the entire populace not to resort to demonstration in this era of the covid-19 pandemic over the poor state of road networks in the area. According to him, the …

Joseph Osei-Owusu, the chairman of the Appointment Committee of Parliament has lumped together Ghanaian health professionals and slammed them for having poor ethics. Joe Wise as he is popularly called is unhappy with the conduct of Ghanaian health professionals and want the issue to be addressed immediately. Speaking during the vetting of …

Residents of Whindo in the Kwesimintim constituency in the Western region Monday morning blocked roads to prevent officials of the Electoral Commission from assessing polling stations as they protested over the poor nature of their roads. An eyewitness Emmanuel Afful who reported from the constituency stated that the residents in …

JoyNews investigations have uncovered how some Licensed Buying Companies and farmer society groups illegally rent their certification licenses to businessmen to enable them to export regular cocoa as certified ones. It came to the fore that a certification license could be rented out for as high as a million cedis …

Global extreme poverty is expected to rise in 2020 for the first time in over 20 years as the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic compounds the forces of conflict and climate change, which were already slowing poverty reduction progress, the World Bank has said. The COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to …

The Federal Government has said almost half of Nigeria’s population, about 90 million people, live in extreme poverty. Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Mrs Sadiya Farouq, declared this in Abuja on Monday when she appeared before the House Committee on Women Affairs and Social Development to …