From 33.9 percent in August 2022 to 37.2 percent in September 2022, the inflation rate increased. On Wednesday, October 12, 2022, the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) issued the updated number. Based on the new dataset, the CPI for September 2022 was 140.6. The Ghana Statistical Service reported that annual inflation …
Read More »No single case of cholera in the last 5 years – Bawumia touts gov’t achievement in water projects
According to Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the country has not had a single incidence of cholera in the past five years as a result of government investments in the water and sanitation sector. 2014 had the deadliest cholera outbreak in Ghana’s history, affecting eight of the country’s ten regions. …
Read More »NSS releases posting for the 2022/2023 service year
The publication of this year’s National Service postings has been announced by the National Service Scheme (NSS) Management. The positions were made public by the NSS today, October 12, 2022. A total of 115,240 potential national service members signed up to complete their required service for the service year 2022–2023 …
Read More »“Fire our MD and his deputies”- Metro Mass workers to gov’t
Three executives of Metro Mass Transport Limited have been requested to resign, according to the Divisional Senior and Junior Staff Union. The staff union demands the immediate removal of the managing director and his two deputies. In a letter to the General Secretary of the GTPCWU of the Trades Union …
Read More »Galamsey Fight: “No matter who you are, we don’t care” -Deputy Lands Minister
Mr. Benito Owusu-Bio, the Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources in charge of lands and forestry, has issued a strong warning to illegal miners to keep off forest reserves and has emphasized that they will be expelled and punished regardless of who they are. “No matter who you are, …
Read More »OTEC FM’s Captain Koda fires Freddie Blay for defending Aisha Huang’s cronies
The choice by the recently-retired New Patriotic Party (NPP) National Chairman Frederick Worsemao Armah Blay to defend four of Aisha Huang’s conspirators in court, according to well-known Kumasi-based journalist Andrews Korankye Akuoko, affectionately known as Captain Koda, is quite odd. Captain Koda, the host of OTEC FM’s breakfast program known …
Read More »Uncovered abandoned AGA mining pit kills 10
Nana Adyei Amoako Gyampa II, the chief of Okyerekrom in the Akrofuom district of the Ashanti region, has expressed concern over the condition of an abandoned hole that Anglogold Ashanti Obuasi had dug for their mining operations. After the pit collapsed in 2012, posing a threat to residents who had …
Read More »Stop impersonating Bright Akwetey – Yaw Anokye ‘bites’ Dr Abena Pokuaa Ackah
Dr. Abena Pokuaa Ackah has received a harsh warning from the Convention Peoples Party’s (CPP) chairman of the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee not to pose as the head of the party’s disciplinary committee. The CPP’S Central Committee designated and swore in attorney Bright Akwetey as the rightful chairman of …
Read More »E/R: Ghana Post is leveraging on technology to advance operations
The Eastern Region Manager for Ghana Post Company Limited, Madam Carolyn Evelyn Pealore Ajago, has disclosed that the Ghana Post’s efficiency and turnaround are owed to its aggressive use of technology, which is now driving the new path. She claims that the company has given technology top priority in all …
Read More »Galamsey Fight: Titus Glover blames governing NPP party faithfuls
Titus Nii Kwartei Glover, a former Member of Parliament (MP) for Tema East, has accused members of the governing New Patriotic Party of failing to stop illicit mining. The former MP claims that while some party members are involved in the galamsey threat, those chosen locally to combat the threat …
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