The country has received enough doses of COVID-19 vaccines to fully vaccinate about 17 million people as efforts are made to deliver the herd immunity target of 20 million people, according to data from the Ghana Health Service (GHS). The data show that Ghana had taken delivery of 25,458,290 doses of the five approved COVID-19 […]
Ghana has taken full ownership of the 250-megawatt (MW) power production plant from the African and Middle East Resources Investment Group, otherwise known as AMERI Energy. The 10-unit barge, with capacity to generate 25MW each, totaling 250MW, which is commissioned on natural gas, is set to be moved to Anwomaso in Kumasi in the Ashanti […]
The Greater Accra Regional Minister, Mr Henry Quartey, has charged metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs) to ensure the enforcement of the Operation clean your frontage bye-law, beginning February 1, 2022. He also urged them to intensify sensitisation on the initiative by involving workers, national service persons, market women and other stakeholders to support them […]
Banks have expressed their readiness to comply with a Bank of Ghana (BoG) directive that mandates them to use only the Ghana Card in identifying their customers before transacting business with them. The Ghana Association of Bankers (GAB) said the July 1 deadline was favourable and they would take the necessary steps to enable them […]
A Deputy Minister of Education, Rev. John Ntim Fordjour, has reiterated that the nation’s education sector has seen a massive boost in diverse ways within the past five years. He explained that the massive infrastructural development by the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo-led government had led to easing the pressure on accommodation in Senior High Schools […]
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has announced that all public basic schools will begin the 2022 academic year on January 18, 2022. The first semester from KG to JHS will begin from January 18 until June 9, 2022, with a mid-semester break from April 12 to 18, 2022, while the second semester will begin from […]
Following a successful evaluation of Ghana’s regime against money laundering and the financing of terrorism, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has removed the country from its list of non-compliant jurisdictions. The European Commission on January 7, 2022, removed Ghana from the EU Blacklist by acknowledging that it no longer has strategic deficiencies in its […]
A two-storey building to serve as the headquarters of the Police Professional and Standards Bureau (PPSB) has been inaugurated in Accra. The construction and furnishing of the building, valued at about GH¢3.9 million, was financed by the Executive Chairman of the Tobinco Group of Companies, Mr. Samuel Amo Tobbin. It is located on the compound […]
The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has appealed to the media to help protect and preserve the unity of the country. He said in the face of turmoil in the world, the Ghanaian media stood tall because they could point to their country with pride in its stability and increasing success. “That knowledge should inspire […]
Students in public universities have called on the government to address the concerns of lecturers to enable them to return to the lecture rooms. That, they said, would prevent the academic calendar from being disrupted. They made the call in separate interviews with the Daily Graphic yesterday as the strike declared by the University Teachers […]
The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) have referred the Executive Director of the Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA), Mr Mensah Thompson, to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) for further investigations over an allegation that the presidential aircraft was used by relatives of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for a shopping trip to […]
The mobile telecommunications companies have ramped up technical logistics to improve their services towards the ongoing SIM card registration exercise. As part of the improved logistics, the mobile network operators (MNOs) will, from today, use an updated version of the app being used for the registration, increase the number of smart phones being used for […]
