President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has intervened in the case of the eight senior high school students of Chiana who have been dismissed by the Ghana Education Service (GES) for insulting the President. This was after the President’s attention was drawn to it. Consequently, the Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum has directed the […]
US President Joe Biden’s aides have found a fresh batch of classified government records at a second location, in a growing political embarrassment for the White House. The first cache was found at a private office in Washington DC that Mr Biden used after his vice-presidency. The matter is under review by the US Department […]
The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) has interdicted four members of staff who were implicated in JoyNews’ ‘Money over Human Lives’ investigative piece. The investigation was carried out in two regions, the Greater Accra Regional Office located at 37 and the Tamale Regional Office in the Northern Region. The documentary exposed the breaches in […]
The Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) has launched the National AIDS Spending Assessment (NASA) report for 2019, 2020 and 2021, which shows that the country spent $323.7 million in the years under review. The report showed that the total HIV and AIDS-related expenditure for 2019, 2020 and 2021 stood at $88,648,568, $107,280,242 and $127,828,300, respectively. The […]
Some commercial banks in the country have started sending messages to their individual bond holders to subscribe to the government’s Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP) by close of day Thursday (Jan 12, 2023). One of such messages the Graphic Online accessed read; “In pursuant to the Minister of ‘Finance’s directive on the Domestic Debt Exchange […]
A former Presidential staffer, Charles Bissue, has gone to court to stop the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) from investigating him over certain allegations of corruption relating to illegal mining (galamsey). In a writ filed on January 4, this year at the Accra High Court, Mr Bissue is of the contention that the police […]
The head of the Huahi Royal Family of Boadi in the Ashanti Region has filed a suit against the Inspector General of Police (IGP) over his unlawful arrest by officers of the Ghana Police Service. In his application to endorse his fundamental human right at the Human Rights Division of the High Court in Accra, […]
he Mobile Money Agents Association Of Ghana (MMAAG) has expressed the hope that the revised rate of the Electronic Levy (E-Levy) of one per cent, which takes off today, will help revive its business, since operations suffered last year when the levy was introduced. It said with money transfer businesses having suffered with the rate […]
Ghana lost a total of $1.1 billion through unaccounted gold exports between 2019 and 2021, investigations by the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) have revealed. The Head of Organised Crime and member of the Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) Unit at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning¸ Abdulai Bashiru Dapilah, said the defaulting companies […]
The Deputy Minister of Information, Fatimatu Abubakar says American rapper Meek Mill did not use the presidential lectern for his now-deleted music video that generated controversy last Monday. According to Ms Abubakar, the lectern which was used in Meek’s video is used by visitors when they address the President. According to her, in the past, […]
The Accra Circuit Court has fined artiste manager, Lawrence Nana Asiamah Hanson, aka Bulldog, Ghc48,000 for saying on tv that President Akufo-Addo will not finish his second term if he does not pay customers of Menzgold. Failure to pay the fine will land Bulldog 40 days in prison. Bulldog had pleaded not guilty to offensive […]
The Minister of Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto has planned to exit office in the next two weeks, Graphic Online has gathered. He has initiated the processes to hand over and plans to submit his resignation letter to the presidency soon. Graphic Online’s sources have hinted that, that part of the resignation process of submitting […]
