President Nana Akufo Addo has appointed Mr. Lawrence Agyinsam as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Export Import (EXIM) Bank. His appointment is however pending receipt of the constitutionally required advice of the governing board of the Bank and in consultation with the Public Services Commission. A letter signed by President Akufo Addo ...
Auditing firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers(PwC) has advised government to take advantage of the Tax Administrative Law as it comes into force this year to broaden the tax base. According to the firm, government can use the law to encourage the private sector to fulfill their tax obligation to recover the 5.4 billion cedis that was captured as ...
A member of Parliament’s local government committee, O.B. Amoah, has attributed Accra’s continuous flooding challenges to the failure of the Mahama administration to implement the CONTI project. Speaking to Citi News, the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP), Akuapem South MP, said the current government must take steps to deal with the problem before the onset of ...
A faction calling itself the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Northern Patriotic group has congratulated Iddrisu Musah Superior on his nomination as the Tamale Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE). Ahead of the official announcement, his name had been widely speculated in Tamale Township as the preferred MCE nominee. Shortly after the announcement on Friday, March 10, ...
The Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, has asked the President to quickly release the list of Deputy Ministerial nominees for the various ministries. He said when the list is presented to Parliament on time, it will enable the House carry out the vetting and subsequent approval as early as possible, so that a delay wouldn’t affect ...
Nigeria’s next presidential and parliamentary elections will be held in February 2019, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced. INEC said on Thursday the early release of the election timetable was “to allow for proper planning by the commission, political parties, security agencies, candidates and all stakeholders”. Presidential and national assembly elections will be ...
The Member of Parliament for the Effutu constituency, Mr. Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has urged students to take advantage of the Free Senor High School initiative to further their education in order to secure their future. He said the absence of that would mean that they have no future. “You should concentrate on your education to acquire ...
“Game of Thrones” returns for its season seven premiere on July 16, HBO announced Thursday in an elaborate marketing stunt which elated and bemused fans of the hit fantasy show. In a gimmick described by the New York Times as “memorably misguided,” the US cable network revealed all in a Facebook Live video showing a ...
Website security checks that challenge people to prove they are human are likely to “disappear” in favour of a new system developed by Google. Captcha checks typically ask people to complete a puzzle that a computer would struggle to complete correctly. They are designed to stop automated bots accessing and using websites. Google’s new system ...
Mr. Kofi Annan, Former United Nations (UN) Secretary-General has said agriculture could be a powerful bait in the process of economic development in Africa. He therefore urged private investors and governments to consider agriculture as a business and invest in it to achieve the desired socio-economic development and reduce poverty in Africa. Mr Annan said ...
Pep Guardiola said his first season as Manchester City boss will be considered a failure if he does not win a trophy. Guardiola arrived last summer following success with Barcelona and Bayern Munich, but his current side trail Premier League leaders Chelsea by 10 points with 11 games remaining. City are, however, still in the ...
The Pentagon has pledged a full investigation into a nude photo scandal hitting the American armed forces. Defence Secretary James Mattis said “all appropriate action” was being taken in all branches of the armed forces. The scandal began when nude photos of female Marines were published online by male colleagues. But fewer than 10 female ...
The Women’s Commission of Private University Students Association of Ghana (PUSAG), has donated assorted food items to the Paediatric Unit of Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi. On Monday March 6, 2017, as Ghana marked her 60th Independence anniversary, the women’s commission led by the commissioner, Miss Bridget Akosah-Antwi, fed about 100 kids who ...
National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Bolga Central, Isaac Adongo, has said the NDC will emerge much stronger in 2020, despite its painful defeat in the 2016 general elections. According to him, not even the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) “lies and propaganda” can sustain the electorates’ interest and confidence in the party in ...
Friends of the Nation, a socio-economic advocacy NGO in the Western Region, has started a regional consultative stakeholder engagement seeking to promote the use of new technologies in place of mercury in small-scale mining. The move is in line with the Minamata Convention, which among other things seeks an end to the use of harmful ...
Embattled judges, Justice Paul Uuter Dery and Justice Habib Logoh, have challenged the Chief Justice, Theodora Georgina Wood, for selecting a private legal practitioner to represent her in court instead of the Attorney General. The two, who are fighting the actions of the Chief Justice at the Supreme Court over their role in the judicial corruption ...
The newly appointed Metropolitan Chief Executive for the Accra Metropolitan Assembly, Mohammed Adjei Sowah, has indicated that when approved, his tenure as the AMA boss will not see his outfit resort to the use of ‘crude tactics’ to deal with hawkers. The previous AMA boss, Alfred Oko Vanderpuije, was noted for his forceful approach to dealing ...
NDC Member of Parliament for Keta, Richard Quarshigah, has said the Akufo-Addo government has not put forward any original ideas to create jobs, and also how it intends to implement other initiatives. Speaking to Citi News’ Duke Mensah Opoku, he further suggested that, the New Patriotic Party government copied ideas from the opposition National Democratic ...
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