POLITICS

According to Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, the leader of the Majority in Parliament, either the Minority Caucus in Parliament is exaggerating the problems with the Bank of Ghana (BoG) or it lacks the time to investigate the details of the Central Bank. The Minority in Parliament charged that the Bank’s printing of …

The second semester exams for around 600 Kumasi Technical University students could not be written. Due to missing the registration deadline, almost 600 Kumasi Technical University students were unable to take their second semester exam. Although the university has given them a delay opportunity, these students are currently stranded and …

Hon. John Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen, the front-runner in the race for the NPP flagbearership, has reaffirmed his candidacy for the position with assertions that he has more experience, more vision, and has contributed more to the party since 1992 than any of the other nine candidates. He said that he …

Mr. Alexander Lionel Martey, a presidential staffer who is also the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) candidate for the Ningo Prampram Constituency in the Greater Region in the 2020 elections, has urged the public to disregard rumors circulating in the media that he defrauded a woman named Hajia Diana of 35,000 …

The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has started returning 100 tricycles to their owners after seizing them on August 7, 2023. This comes after the KMA’s transport reorganization exercise, which from Monday, July 24, 2023, banned tricycle operation within the center of the Central Business District (CBD). In a statement released …

According to Virginia Palmer, the US ambassador to Ghana, discriminating against members of the LGBTQI community will only make Ghana less appealing to other American businesses as well as investors and exporters from the LGBTQI community and other transgender and gender nonconforming (LGBTQI) communities. The remarks were made by the …

The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has announced that it will stop building cocoa roads once current projects are finished. In order to address transportation issues for delivering agro-inputs to cocoa growers and to allow cocoa bean evacuation, COCOBOD established the Cocoa Road Programme. At the 50th Anniversary Celebration symposium of …

The Bank of Ghana’s response to its published annual report and financial accounts for 2022 has received a response from the Minority group in Parliament. The Bank of Ghana’s statement, in the opinion of the Minority, ignores the most important problem, which is the printing of money by the BoG …

The Chief of Bekwai-Abodom, Nana Saforo Koto, has been destooled by Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the Asantehene. The destoolment occurred as a result of Nana Saforo Koto’s failure to refute approximately 20 allegations made by concerned members of his community. The main accusations against him center on the purportedly unlimited …

The government has received praise from the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) for including some of its members in the Pokuase housing program. On August 1, President Akufo-Addo turned the first sod for the start of a project to build 8,000 homes on a 203-acre site in Pokuase, Greater …