Boarding schools in the country are expected to receive a chunk of their food supply before the commencement of the 2019/2020 Academic Year. Chief Executive Officer of National Food Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO), Mr. Hanan Abdul-Wahab who announced this today in Takoradi in the Western Region explained the measure is to ensure an impediment-free semester […]
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Sammi Awuku storms Volta Region: meets transport operators and driver unions-discusses gov’t policies
The National Organiser of the ruling New Patriotic Party, Sammi Awuku has been touring the Volta Region over the last two days on a working visit. The iconic and charismatic young politician has been meeting some driver unions and transport operators in the regional capital, Ho. The visit afforded him and his team, the opportunity […]
President Akufo-Addo presents cash awards to winners of Presidential Pitch Season Two
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo yesterday, Tuesday, August 6 2019, presented cash awards to winners of the Presidential Pitch Season two. The winners took home various sums ranging from GH¢25,000 to GH¢60,000 in grants to expand their businesses. This year, the cash awards have been converted from loans to grants and will not require the […]
Use Festivals as launch pads for dev’t-First Lady as she is enstooled as development Queen of Ada
The Chiefs and Elders of the Ada Traditional Council crowned First Lady of the Republic of Ghana, H.E. Mrs Rebecca Naa Okaikor Akufo-Addo as their Development Queen, with the stool title, “Naana Ode Ope Eoo I” when she joined them to celebrate this year’s annual Asafotufiami festival. The honour was bestowed the First Lady in […]
Increasing consumer-based taxes is wrong – IEA
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) is of the view that the government should have increased taxes on flourishing businesses instead of consumers. According to the IEA’s review of the 2019 Supplementary Budget and Mid-Year Economic Review, flourishing businesses make profits which needed to be taxed, instead of the consumers’ income. The government proposed an […]
British NGO accuse son of Congolese President of embezzling $50m of public funds
The British NGO Global Witness has alleged financial malfeasance against the son of the president of the Republic of Congo, Christel Denis Sassou Nguesso. The group said it had discovered documents pointing to the siphoning of over $50 million in public funds by President Denis Sassou Nguesso’s son. Their report indicates the money received would […]
Ghana’s fiscal path unsustainable – IFS
Ghana’s indebtedness is set to worsen on the back of government’s current spending and borrowing decisions, making the country’s fiscal policy path unsustainable, policy think-tank, the Institute for Fiscal Policy Studies (IFS) has stated. After its assessment of the mid-year review of the 2019 budget statement presented to Parliament recently, the IFS said government must […]
GIS intercepts suspected ‘wee’ at Akanu in Volta Region
The Akanu sector of the Ghana Immigration Service has intercepted a large quantity of dried leaves in loaded bags containing 127 parcels suspected to be marijuana in the Ketu North Municipality Volta Region. The arrest took place on August 1, 2019 at about 11:30pm. The Akanu Sector Commander, C/Supt. Godson Attobrah, on the said date […]
‘Jesus’ back in Kenya preaching amid death rumour
Michael Job, the American actor and preacher that became an internet sensation after being hosted in some churches across Africa due to his uncanny resemblance to Hollywood’s depiction of Jesus, seems to have ‘resurrected’ just after rumours of him dying of pneumonia went viral. ‘Jesus’ was recently spotted preaching in Nakuru county of Kenya and he […]
Veep opens World Business Angels Investment Forum Office in Accra
Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia yesterday opened the World Business Angels Investment Forum (GBAF) office in Accra, to empower and finance start-ups, innovators and small and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs) in the country to scale up. The office, the first to be established in the West African sub-region, will interact and engage with a wide range of […]
Liberty Breakfast: By Luke Barson (Rev)-Commitment: Pt. 3
LUKE 9:62 The greatest problem facing spiritually minded believers today is that, while lip service is given to God, many are not TRULY committed to Him. “These people honour me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me”.( Matthew 15:8) This lack of commitment is seen in a variety of ways. “No growth […]
Ghana invents sanitary pads with banana and plantain fibre-President gifts inventors GH¢40,000 of personal money
A team of two female students from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) – Matilda Asantewaa Sampong and Emilee Otoo Quayson, yesterday emerged the winner of season II of the Presidential Pitch and took home a GH¢60,000 investment package. In addition, they were given GH¢40,000 personal donation by President Nana Addo Dankwa […]