More than 10,000 public sector employees will lose their salaries and wages. According to the Auditor-General’s Department, they have either no justification or sufficient information to continue drawing salaries from the public purse. In a statement, Deputy Auditor-General of the Central Government Audit Department, Mr George Swanzy Winful, advised the affected employees to make themselves […]
US President Donald Trump has formally signed a new trade pact with Mexico and Canada, bringing his campaign promise to replace the three countries’ existing deal closer to fruition. The US Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA) is set to replace the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta). Mr. Trump has described Nafta as America’s “worst” […]
Three Nigerians have become the latest suspects to be arrested by the Tema Port Authorities in the year 2020 after they failed in their attempt to stowaway to Europe. The three stowaways who have since been placed in police custody had boarded the vessel from Nigeria in hope of going to Spain in seek of […]
The Registrar of the Ghana Scholarship Secretariat, Kingsley Agyeman, has cautioned persons who forge documents to show scholarships from the Scholarship Secretariat to desist from the act or risk facing the laws. His statement comes in the wake of four Ghanaian students who were deported and banned for ten years by the United Kingdom over […]
Government has consolidated the country’s emergency response numbers into a single hotline -112 for all emergencies in the country. The new number will now handle cases that require the services of Ghana Police Service, Ghana National Fire Service and the National Ambulance Service across all mobile networks. This means the 191, 192 and 193 which […]
Veteran highlife musician, Lucky Mensah, has stated that members of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) have been more supportive of him than those of the biggest opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), to which he formerly belonged. Lucky Mensah said he will still campaign and vote for the NPP in the upcoming December […]
The death toll from the new coronavirus now stands at 106, with the number of infections almost doubling in a day. The number of total cases confirmed by China rose to 4,515 as of 27 January, up from 2,835 a day earlier. Japan is sending a plane to Wuhan to evacuate its citizens, as efforts […]
Information reaching BestNewsGH.com indicates that there is yet another fire outbreak at Accra Academy campus, just a few days after a similar incident. The fire which is said to have razed through the school’s Alema Hall, according to BestNewsGH.com sources, started at around 8:30 pm, On Tuesday, January 28, 2020. The first fire incident which […]
The Ghana Football Association, (GFA) is initiating steps that will enable it migrate from manual to electronic ticketing. To this end, the Association, BestNewsGH.com can confirm, is studying various proposals submitted to it and will take a final decision soon. BestNewsGH.com reports GFA President Kurt Okraku as saying his outfit is studying five proposals on […]
President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria has directed the country’s military to carry out air strikes against bandits, kidnappers and cattle rustlers in the Niger state. Gunmen on Saturday January 25, 2020, killed some 11 people and kidnapped four women during what has been described as door-to-door attacks. Sahara Reporters and The Daily Sun which first […]
Former National Security Advisor to former President John Atta-Mills Brigadier General Joseph Nunoo-Mensah has alleged that former President John Dramani Mahama failed as President, and was eventually voted out because he surrounded himself with kids “without brains” as opposed to President Atta-Mills who had the best of people in his government. In an interview with […]
Neoplan Ghana Limited, one of the country’s surviving coach manufacturing businesses in the 1970s, has announced a total shutdown on Friday, January 31, 2020 because it is no longer viable. A memo to all staff of the company in Accra and Kumasi announcing the closure of the company, which was established on December 12, 1974, […]
