The National Coordinator of the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP), Dr. Mrs. Gertrude Quashigah has hinted that the government has given approval for funds to be released for the payment of arrears for first term of the 2021 academic year to caterers. According to her, the National Secretariat of GSFP had already collated caterers’ data […]
All Form Three students of senior high schools are permitted to go on mid-semester break from tomorrow, Tuesday July 20 to Sunday, July 25, 2021. A letter signed by the Deputy Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES) in charge of Quality and Access, Dr Kwabena Bempah Tandoh, however, said academic work should resume on […]
Nine Members of Parliament (MPs) have laid a Private Member’s motion to have the House pass a law to streamline and mainstream corporate social responsibility (CSR). The aim is to ensure cogent, equitable and sustainable national development. The motion will push for the enactment of a well-defined legal framework which will ensure that corporate bodies […]
Steve Raymond Dapaa-Addo Esq. has been appointed as the Executive Director of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) effective July 9, 2021. Mr Dapaa-Addo practised in Ghana as a State Attorney and in Nigeria, where he worked with the Rivers State Ministry of Justice and rose to the position of Director of Civil Litigation, […]
First Lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo has declined the offer for her to be paid allowances. According to a July 12 statement, she has also “decided to refund all monies paid to her as allowances from the date of the President’s assumption of office, i.e., from January 2017 to date, amounting to GH¢899,097.84.” This comes on the […]
The Chief Justice, Justice Kwasi Anin Yeboah has denied allegations that he demanded a US$5 million bribe to influence a court case. He has consequently petitioned the Director General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, Commissioner of Police (COP), Mr Isaac Ken Yeboah, to launch criminal investigations into the matter. […]
A 15-year-old student of Accra Academy Senior High School at Bubuashie, Accra, has been arrested for allegedly being behind recent fire outbreaks in the school. He is said to have confessed to setting fire to dormitory blocks, including a new dormitory block, which was razed down completely, because he was forced into the school by […]
An enumerator assigned to the Dr Berko Area for the 2021 Population and Housing Census has shared his chilling experience with the Daily Graphic, stating how a landlord threatened to shoot him during the exercise. The enumerator, assigned to the enumeration Area 181 in the Sunyani Municipality, who preferred to be anonymous said during the […]
Ghana’s energy sector has received a major boost following the payment of the country’s $42 million legacy debt owed Nigeria Gas Company (N-Gas). The settlement of the debt to N-Gas among other things, enhances the country’s quest to use clean fuel for its power generation and afford the two countries opportunities for further discussions going […]
All military personnel in Wa barracks who were on duty on July 1, when some of them brutalised residents, with the exception of the Duty Officer, have been punished. This was revealed after a 4-member committee tasked to investigate the assault in the Upper West Regional capital submitted its preliminary findings. Three of them have […]
Parliament has approved a $200 million loan as an additional financing for the country’s coronavirus (COVID-19) emergency preparedness and response project (EPRP). The amount will enable the government to fund the procurement of vaccines to inoculate about 7.6 million people. It will also help Ghana to scale-up interventions towards accelerated socio-economic recovery and revitalisation. The […]
The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) intends to build a new water supply system as a long-term measure to meet the water needs of commercial users in the industrial enclave of Tema, Kpone and its environs. The project forms part of efforts by GWCL to improve system performance to meet the ever-growing customer needs. The Managing […]
