A Nigerien national was detained by the Kwabre Kenyasi Police in the Ashanti Region after they discovered him in possession of sacks of fertilizer that they believed to be government-subsidized. Shaibu Adamu was taken into custody on Friday in Abirem-Jamase, close to Kenyasi, together with 556 bags of fertilizer. On …
Read More »Government pays Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) to workers
Workers in the public sector have received a Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) payment from the government in the sum of GHc485,000,000.00 (four hundred and eighty-five million Ghana Cedis). The Controller and Accountant-Department General’s (CAGD) released a statement containing this information on August 29, 2022. According to the press release, …
Read More »Kumasi Traditional Council grants Oyerepa FM permission to resume operations
The administration of Oyerepa FM, situated in Kumasi, has been asked to resume operations after disagreements with the management were resolved by the Kumasi Traditional Council. This came after the Chiefs accused the media outlet of permitting statements against them to be made on its platform. Refuting claims that they …
Read More »President Akufo-Addo fires Customs Boss Col. Damoah
Colonel (Ret.) Kwadwo Damoah has been fired from his position as commissioner of the Ghana Revenue Authority’s(GRA) customs division by President Nana Akufo-Addo. The rule becomes operative on Friday, August 26, 2022. The instruction was stated in a letter from the Presidency that was signed by Nana Bediatuo Asante, the …
Read More »“Dragging the Supreme Court through the mud is a threat to democracy” – Justice Douse tells Mahama
Justice Isaac Douse, a retired Court of Appeal judge, has warned former president John Dramani Mahama not to damage the Supreme Court’s reputation since doing so could endanger the nation’s democracy and have an impact on all Ghanaians. On Sunday, August 28, 2022, Mr. Mahama lamented that the court had …
Read More »Ghana needs new Chief Justice to repair perception of Supreme Court being ‘Unanimous FC’- Mahama
Mahama worries that the perception of the Supreme Court as a “Unanimous FC” poses a threat to democracy. The National Democratic Congress’s (NDC) 2020 presidential candidate and former president John Dramani Mahama has issued a warning against the pervasive idea that the judiciary is politically biased. He contends that the …
Read More »NAM1 doesn’t hold service passport-Foreign Ministry replies critics
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Nana Appiah Mensah, also known as NAM1, of the defunct gold-trading company Menzgold Ghana Limited, has denied holding a service passport, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration. This comes after media reports that the former Menzgold CEO may possess a Service …
Read More »NABCo trainees to picket Jubilee House over unpaid allowances
The deadline set to the government to address its concern, according to the Nation Builders Corps (NaBCo) Trainees Association of Ghana, has passed. As a result, the trainees have declared that they will picket the Jubilee House once more on September 6, 2022, until the government pays the arrears on …
Read More »“Akufo Addo’s investment on TVET unmatched” – Deputy CTVET Director General insist
The Deputy Director General of the Commission for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (CTVET), Engineer Peter Antwi Boasiako, has disclosed that the current New Patriotic Party government has invested almost $8 billion dollars in TVET infrastructure and training alone between 2017 and 2021. According to Mr. Peter Antwi Boasiako, …
Read More »Ghanaians are lucky to have me as President-Nana Akufo-Addo
Despite the current economic difficulties, President Akufo-Addo claims that the nation is fortunate to have him as President. He asserts that his administration is the best thing that have ever happened to Ghanaians, despite the fact that there are currently challenges. During his recently concluded tour of the Upper West …
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