The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, rode in his 88-year-old Rolls Royce from the Manhyia Palace to the St. Peter’s Basilica in Kumasi on Sunday, November 19, 2023 to attend the Thanksgiving Service for the late former First Lady, Theresa Aba Kufuor. He attended the service with his wife, Lady Julia. The antique Rolls Royce […]
Two former banking executives, Alhassan Andani and Frank Adu Jnr, have labelled the country as a nation in crisis due to what they described as systematic leadership failures and structural deficiencies over the years. For Mr Adu Jnr, a former Managing Director of CAL Bank, the country had always had a leadership problem, which, he […]
The first ever Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) has indicated that bauxite deposits in the Nyinahin Block-B hills in the Ashanti Region are twice more than historically estimated. While previous studies showed 250 million tonnes of bauxite deposits in the three hills – hills four, five and six – the latest and first ever scientific appraisal […]
Four soldiers, an immigration officer, and a private security man arrested for their alleged involvement in a robbery at Akyem Akanteng in the Lower West Akim Municipality of the Eastern Region have been remanded in police custody by the Koforidua Circuit Court B. While two of the soldiers are reportedly stationed at the Jubilee House […]
The base pay on the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS) has been increased by 23 percent beginning January 2024. The 23 percent will apply across board from January 2024 to June 2024 after which it will go up to 25 percent from July 2024 to December 2024. It follows the completion of negotiations for the […]
Families are paying more in recent times for space to bury their dead. Visits by The Mirror to some cemeteries showed that over the past five years, prices for graves had increased at different rates. At the Osu Cemetery in Accra, a worker who only gave his name as Sammy said the office charged GH¢4,900 […]
The first-ever harmonised prospectus for senior high and technical schools in the country has been introduced by the Ghana Education Service (GES). The innovation, code-named: ‘National Prospectus’, is designed for all prospective first-year students to eliminate any ambiguity regarding the requirements of fresh students. Under the new arrangement, all schools are expected to adhere to […]
The President of the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference, Rev. Matthew Kwasi Gyamfi says massive uncontrolled corruption is suffocating Ghana. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the 2023 plenary assembly in the Sunyani Diocese on Monday [November 13, 2023], Rev. Gyamfi expressed concern over the country’s persistent impoverishment despite its status as an oil producer. He […]
The National Media Commission (NMC) has issued a final warning to Onua Radio/TV and Captain Smart over inciteful broadcast. In a press statement dated Tuesday (November 14, 2023), signed and issued by the Executive Secretary, George Sarpong, the NMC said “last week, your station carried an inciteful broadcast in which Captain Smart directly insulted the […]
The Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) has shut down the operations of three cement manufacturing companies due to the use of inferior materials in their cement production. The companies are Xin An Safe Cement Ghana Ltd, located at Ejisu, Kumasi Cement Ghana Ltd, located at Offinso, and Uniceme Cement Ghana Ltd, located at Bekwai, all in […]
The Minerals Commission has clarified that no mineral rights has been given to any company to mine in the Kakum National Park in the Central Region. The commission in a press statement explained that an application submitted by High Street Ghana Limited for a license to mine in the park was rejected. The press statement was signed […]
A professor of Coastal Ecology at the University of Cape Coast (UCC), Prof. Denis Aheto, has called for a Blue Economy Authority to effectively coordinate activities relating to the blue economy to maximise its benefits to the country and the continent. He noted that the multifaceted sectors of the emerging blue economy and its associated […]
