The Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA), has urged its members in Accra to close down their shops from Wednesday till Monday, October 24, 2022. The move is to protest against rising inflation, depreciation of the Ghana Cedi and high lending rate due to an increase in the policy rate by the Bank of Ghana. […]
The Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa has been relieved of his post. He is to go back to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) from where he was seconded to the GES. A letter from the presidency, dated October 17, 2022, signed by the Secretary to the President, Nana […]
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has withdrawn controversial perks for cabinet ministers and their deputies that saw their homes supplied with free electricity and water. The benefits caused a public outcry as they were considered insensitive at a time South Africans are struggling with daily power cuts and rising cost of living. In a press […]
ONLY six per cent of the GH¢23.7 billion goods imported into the country last year (2021) were properly insured under the Insurance Act, 2006 (Act 724). This means that GH¢22.3 billion representing 94 per cent of the imports were either not insured at all or were insured by foreign firms, a practice which is against […]
The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) is pushing for an amendment of the National Pensions Act, 2008 (Act 766) to compel employers to include the allowances of employees in the computation of their pensions. The move is to enable workers to earn bigger pensions when they retire. The Director-General of SSNIT, Dr John […]
The government says it would refer a broadcast by Onua TV which claimed that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was involved in illegal mining (galamsey) to the National Media Commission (NMC). In a statement signed by the Deputy Minister of Information, Fatimatu Abubakar, the government said the “unethical” publication by broadcaster Godsbrain Smart today (October […]
The Ghana Police Service today (October 17, 2022) arrested two suspects in the shooting of two fire officers at Offinso in the Ashanti Region. The Police in a statement named the suspects as Banda Johnson and William Owusu. The fire officers sustained gunshot wounds and are at the hospital responding to treatment. A Land Rover […]
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has commissioned the 330kV Kumasi-Bolgatanga electricity transmission project at the Anwomaso Substation of the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo). Financed by the French Development Agency (AFD) at a total cost of US$173.9 million, with a grant of €4.8 million from the European Union, the project consists of the construction of approximately […]
The Director-General of the Internal Audit Agency (IAA), Dr Eric Oduro-Osae, has called for a lifestyle audit of senior civil and public servants in the country. He said such an exercise would not only check corrupt practices but also help weed out corruption in the public sector. Dr Oduro-Osae made the call at a public […]
This year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for both school and private candidates will, for the first time, be written simultaneously across the country from today, October 17, 2022. In all, 553,408 candidates will write the examination, which will end on Friday, October 21, 2022, with 533,408 being school candidates and 1,132 being private candidates. […]
The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has urged President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to go out and tell the success story of his administration. He said it was always important for the President to let Ghanaians know what he had been able to achieve, so that the people would appreciate his works. The Asantehene said […]
Some people have registered more than ten (10) SIM cards for personal use in contravention of the SIM card registration directive of 10 SIMs per person, and the database has identified them, the Minister of Communications and Digitalisation, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has said. All those SIM cards are to be cleaned from the database. The […]
