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President Akufo-Addo has named Joe Ghartey, a former minister of railways, to lead the reorganized board of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA). Elsie Addo Awadzi, the second deputy governor of the Bank of Ghana, Julie Essiam, the commissioner general of the GRA, and tax and fiscal policy enthusiast Dr. Alex …

Stephen Ayesu Ntim, national chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party, has been named board chairman of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA). Joe Addo-Yobo, who held the position since 2017, has been replaced. Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, Minister of Energy, administered Ntim’s oath of office as board chair on Tuesday, …

The government has made progress in addressing the economic difficulties that arose during the COVID-19 epidemic, according to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. But he advised against becoming complacent. He urged chief executives and governing boards of all state agencies to embrace digitization, saying, “Even though we have turned the …

In accordance with section 18 of the Right to Information Act, 2019 (Act 989) (RTI Act), the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, received a request on April 24, 2024, from the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), for a copy of the KPMG report on the contracts …

The Ghana Police Service’s Greater Accra Regional Command filed an application with the Accra High Court for an injunction to stop the organizers of the “#DumsorMustStop” the demonstration from holding their event. The Accra Region Police Command encouraged the demonstration organizers to think about moving the intended protest location, and …

An Accra High court convicted 32-year-old Nigerian national Pascal Okafor Ezugwu guilty of trying to smuggle 90 thumb-sized cocaine pellets weighing 1.54 kg. Ezugwu was given a 10-year jail sentence. “On Friday, May 3, 2024, Mr. Okafor Ezugwu was found guilty and sentenced to a minimum of ten years in …

Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the Vice President and NPP Flagbearer, has opened an ultra-modern hostel and an institution in Accra for head porters, or Kayayei, to get empowerment and skill development. The multipurpose facilities, which are situated in the Greater Accra Region’s Madina and Ashaiman, are the result of a 2019 …

The use of fictitious Ghana Card numbers during voter registration at the Pusiga District Registration Center on May 13, 2024, has been discovered by the Ghanaian Electoral Commission (EC). It was discovered that seventeen people had enrolled using fictitious Ghana Card numbers. The EC said in a statement that the …

Allegations that the government was involved in the unlawful recruitment of New Patriotic Party (NPP) members into different security services have been refuted by the Majority Caucus in Parliament. Prior to this, the Minority in Parliament claimed that thirty of the slots had been allotted to NPP legislative candidates for …

Twenty-four new ministers and deputy ministers have been sworn in by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. President Akufo-Addo encouraged the newly appointed ministers to assist him in carrying out his mandate to guarantee that all people have access to chances for progress and prosperity at a short ceremony held at …