The Head of Consumer Services at the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Eunice Budu Nyarko, has appealed to the public to purchase fuel only from filling stations with certification. She said stations with green Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) stickers were always the go-to places for petroleum products, since those stations were regularly monitored by the NPA […]
The management of Kumasi Asante Kotoko are faced with looking for a new head coach following the resignation on Wednesday of their head coach, Prosper Narteh Ogum, after a meeting with the club’s management and the Technical Committee of the Board of Directors in Kumasi. Ogum’s surprise resignation came just five weeks after he led […]
Nearly GH¢5 billion was paid in cash as bribes to public officials last year, a new survey that gauges the actual payment or actions that constitute bribes has revealed. The 2021 maiden Ghana Integrity of Public Services Survey (GIPSS) report, which was launched in Accra yesterday, is the first survey on the actual payment of […]
Parliament has approved a $750 million loan agreement to finance capital and growth-related expenditures in the 2022 budget. The facility forms part of the government’s international capital market programme (ICMP) aimed at raising funds to finance critical infrastructure projects in sectors such as roads, energy, railways and health, as captured in the 2022 budget. Proceeds […]
ALL excavators in mining concessions will be tracked electronically as part of major measures to clamp down on illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor, has disclosed. Already, he said, the Minerals Commission had set up a control room for the effective rollout of the initiative […]
Work has commenced on the rehabilitation and modernisation of the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park in Accra. Expected to be completed in nine months, the $3-million project entails the building of a new Presidential Library, a training centre, a new restaurant and a VVIP lounge. Others are an artistic freedom wall and a music and light […]
Only Ghanaian candidates are left to write the West African Senior High School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), scheduled from August 1 to September 27, 2022. This is because the other four-member countries of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) — Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone and The Gambia — have returned to the May/June calendar and had […]
The daughter of Ghana’s first President, Samia Nkrumah, has commended the government for the moves to upgrade the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum to a standard that befits the stature of her father, Dr Kwame Nkrumah. “I appreciate the fact that it is happening under a government that is considered not really enthusiastic about Kwame Nkrumah and […]
The National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) has initiated a process to roll out a new policy for the removal of disabled vehicles from the road. The policy provides three options for funding the removal of breakdown vehicles to safety. The policy gives the Ghana Police Service the mandate to compulsorily tow vehicles that have broken […]
Vice-President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has responded to critics who recently attacked him for saying that he will choose the Ghana card over infrastructural projects if he has to. Dr. Bawumia said he is unfazed by the criticism because they smack of an ‘impossible mindset’. Speaking at the launch of the E-pharmacy platform on Monday, he […]
An epidemiologist and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Health and Allied Sciences, Professor Fred Newton Binka, has advocated the training of more people in the testing for and treatment of malaria. He said he was of the belief that if at least two million people were trained to test and treat malaria, it would […]
The National Service Scheme (NSS) has held the first-ever National Service Visitation Day across the country. It was designed to find out at first-hand how the activities of service personnel were impacting their personal development, user agencies and the nation. In the current service year, the NSS has deployed 110,324 graduates who are undertaking their […]
