The Bawku West Constituency Executives of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has ordered the District Police Command to arrest of the irate youth who vandalized the party office and some offices of the district assembly yesterday over rumors that Madam Victoria Ayamba was appointed as the District Chief Executive of the area. The irate youth ...
The Committee tasked to investigate the Ameri Power deal, has stated that it visited Dubai to negotiate the terms of Ameri’s contract with the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government, and not to investigate them for any wrongdoing. The leader of the Committee, Philip Addison, is thus of the view that, there’s no way the committee’s ...
The Ministry of Finance has extended the deadline for some 26,000 public workers who were likely to miss their salaries for this month, to May 3, 2017. It follows appeals by the affected workers for an extension of the implementation date to allow them go through the biometric registration by the Social Security and National ...
36 of the 212 persons named by President Akufo-Addo to occupy the vacant positions of Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) across the country are women. This represents only 17% of the total list announced by the Minister for Local Government, Hajia Alima Mahama in Accra today [Wednesday]. The Brong Ahafo Region had the ...
The man who led the committee that investigated the controversial Ameri Power deal, Philip Addison, has disclosed that per diem for their trip to Dubai was paid by government. According to him, Ameri Power upon whose request they traveled to Dubai, only took care of their plane tickets and hotel bills. “Our per diem was ...
The US military’s top commander in the Pacific has said an advanced missile defence system in South Korea aims bring North Korean leader Kim Jong-un “to his senses, not to his knees”. Adm Harry Harris, head of US Pacific Command, told Congress the US would be ready “with the best technology” to defeat any North ...
The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu, has said that government intends to sustain its fight against illegal mining by using an aggressive approach where necessary, to ensure that the culprits do not return to the site when the reclamation program begins. He said the government intends to use this approach for ...
A 71-year-old driver, who splashed acid on his son and his eight-year-old granddaughter at Achimota, has been sentenced to six years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court. The two victims are said to have suffered severe burns after the attack. The son had his neck area badly affected by the acid, while the grand-daughter suffered burns ...
The leader of the committee tasked by government to look into the Ameri deal, Philip Addison, has rejected claims that Ameri’s hospitality extended them influenced their work. The committee had sent a delegation to Dubai on the invite of Ameri, which the New Patriotic Party government has accused of bloating a power agreement contract by about ...
President Nana Addo has called the bluff of illegal miners threatening to vote against his party in the 2020 elections, if he continues with his anti galamsey fight. Speaking at Soabe in the Eastern Region, the President said he is unfazed by these threats. “I haven’t said that I am going to stop mining. Mining ...
Indications from the Foreign Affairs Ministry are that, there are still a number of former Members of Parliament and former government officials illegally in possession of Diplomatic Passports. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, noted that her Ministry was still receiving Diplomatic Passports from former officials and so far, “a good number of ...
The Ghana Statistical Service(GSS) has announced that provisional Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures for 2016 was 3.5 percent. According to the service, the value of the GDP in the period represents of GHS36.0 billion. President Nana Akufo-Addo during the State of the Nation Address announced that Ghana missed almost all the fiscal targets set by ...
The Coalition of Unemployed Bonded Diploma Nurses, has issued a ten-day ultimatum to the Ministry of Health to effect their financial clearance for onward posting. The group, which has over the last two days been picketing at the premises of the Ministry, has subsequently suspended its protest. Addressing a press briefing today [Wednesday], the leader ...
China has launched a new aircraft carrier in the latest sign of its growing military strength. It is the country’s second aircraft carrier, after the Liaoning, and the first to be made domestically. The as-yet unnamed ship was transferred into the water in the north-eastern port of Dalian, state media said. It will reportedly be ...
New Black Stars head coach, Kwesi Appiah held a closed-door meeting with President Nana Akufo-Addo few days before taking up his new post as the head of the senior national team. The former Al Khartoum man has been busy visiting officials of government and Ghana Football Association members ahead of his unveiling. Appiah is expected ...
Tension is mounting in the Mpohor District of the Western Region, as irate NPP supporters issue a stern caution to the leadership of the NPP in the region and President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, not to name any other person as District Chief Executive aside a former Constituency Chairman, George Bernard Eshun. The supporters claim ...
The Abeka District court on Wednesday dismissed an application for a submission of no case filed by lawyers for the manager of Marwako Fast Food Restaurant, the man who allegedly assaulted a Ghanaian female employee. According to the court presided over by Victoria Ghansah, the prosecution has been able to establish a prima facie case ...
Former member of Praye music group, Eugene Baah known in music circles as Choirmaster, has joined a new group called Africa Connection in Australia where he went to perform at the Adelaide Fringe Festival recently. In an exclusive interview with citifmonline.com, Choirmaster disclosed that he met some great artistes while in Australia and decided to ...
The Aburihene and Adontenghene of Akropong Traditional Council, Nana Otuobour Djan Kwasi II, has denied accusing the Okyenhene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panyin and other two paramount chiefs in Kyebi of being involved in illegal mining. The Aburihene explained that, his comments on the matter were misinterpreted in an interview he granted Accra-based UTV when he ...
The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has announced that the Producer Price Inflation (PPI) which measures the average change over time in the prices by domestic producers of goods and services has increased to 6.0 percent for March, 2017. The rate represents a 0.6 percentage point increase in producer inflation relative to the rate recorded in ...
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