The government is not footing the travel bills of the 350 delegates attending the 27th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27) in Egypt. Mrs Cynthia Asare Bediako, the Chief Director of the Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology (MESTI), told the Ghana News Agency that majority of the delegation, consisting […]
The three teacher unions and the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations is meeting today to conclude their meeting over the industrial action embarked upon as a result of the government’s failure to terminate the appointment of Dr Eric Nkansah as the acting Director General of the Ghana Education Service (GES). This is after they […]
The Greater Accra Regional Minister, Henry Quartey has tasked home owners at the Sakumono Ramsar site to halt all developments while the key stakeholders hold discussions on the regularisation of the over 4,000 homes that have been developed at the site by encroachers. Failure to halt constructions over the next three weeks, he said, might […]
The chiefs and the people of Anlo climaxed their month-long Hogbetsotso Festival with a grand durbar that attracted traditional authorities from three kingdoms, who were accompanied by large retinues of sub-chiefs and courtiers, all amidst a beautiful display of art and culture. Various Ewe cultural troupes from Benin, Nigeria and the Diaspora put up performances to illustrate the migration of the Anlos from Notsie in Togo to their present location, to the […]
Former President John Dramani Mahama has advised the government to rally the citizens in efforts to surmount the economic challenges facing the country. He noted that in circumstances such as the current economic crisis, the support of everyone was important, stressing that the government had to let the people know what sacrifices they needed to […]
The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor, has directed all owners, operators and users of excavators in the country to register their equipment with the metropolitan, municipal or district assembly (MMDA) within their jurisdiction latest by November 2, this year. The directive is part of a raft of measures the government is […]
The Director General of the National Lottery Authority (NLA), Mr. Sammi Awuku is cautioning the generality of the Ghanaian people to be wary of the activities of a company by name ‘Swift Business Loans’ which is using his image to perpetrate fraudulent deals on social media in the guise of running a loans scheme. According […]
The Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa has been relieved of his post. He is to go back to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) from where he was seconded to the GES. A letter from the presidency, dated October 17, 2022, signed by the Secretary to the President, Nana […]
The government says it would refer a broadcast by Onua TV which claimed that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was involved in illegal mining (galamsey) to the National Media Commission (NMC). In a statement signed by the Deputy Minister of Information, Fatimatu Abubakar, the government said the “unethical” publication by broadcaster Godsbrain Smart today (October […]
The Ghana Police Service today (October 17, 2022) arrested two suspects in the shooting of two fire officers at Offinso in the Ashanti Region. The Police in a statement named the suspects as Banda Johnson and William Owusu. The fire officers sustained gunshot wounds and are at the hospital responding to treatment. A Land Rover […]
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has commissioned the 330kV Kumasi-Bolgatanga electricity transmission project at the Anwomaso Substation of the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo). Financed by the French Development Agency (AFD) at a total cost of US$173.9 million, with a grant of €4.8 million from the European Union, the project consists of the construction of approximately […]
The Director-General of the Internal Audit Agency (IAA), Dr Eric Oduro-Osae, has called for a lifestyle audit of senior civil and public servants in the country. He said such an exercise would not only check corrupt practices but also help weed out corruption in the public sector. Dr Oduro-Osae made the call at a public […]
