The Head of Local Government Service, Engineer Dr. Nana Ato Arthur has charged the various Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies to desist from awarding new contracts once ongoing projects are incomplete. According to him, the government will no longer commit resources into new projects to the neglect of uncompleted projects. He revealed that government’s recent ...
Uber just made a big hire amid months-long turmoil at the company. Bozoma Saint John will leave her role as the head of global consumer marketing at Apple Music and join the ride-hailing company as chief brand officer. “Boz has a long track record of successfully creating emotional connections between people and the products they ...
Uber just made a big hire amid months-long turmoil at the company. Bozoma Saint John will leave her role as the head of global consumer marketing at Apple Music and join the ride-hailing company as chief brand officer. “Boz has a long track record of successfully creating emotional connections between people and the products they ...
Unseeded Latvian Jelena Ostapenko became the first teenager to reach the French Open women’s semi-finals since 2007 with a shock win against former world number one Caroline Wozniacki. The 19-year-old lost the first five games of her first major quarter-final before winning 4-6 6-2 6-2. She will play Swiss 30th seed Timea Bacsinszky, who beat ...
It was a solemn and colourful ceremony at the Holy Trinity Cathedral as a thanksgiving service was observed in honour of Her Ladyship Georgina Theodora Wood, for a successful tenure as Ghana’s first female Chief Justice. The ceremony brought together officials of Ghana’s justice system, the clergy, politicians, family, friends and the general public to ...
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) would commence a food safety enforcement exercise and food vendors who do not comply with the laws and standards of food safety will be imprisoned or fined. Ms. Maria Aba Lovelace-Johnson, the Head of the Food Safety Management Department, FDA said this at a training programme organised by the ...
Madam Sun Baohong, the Chinese Ambassador, on Tuesday, donated items, including desktop computers, printers, UPS and a cheque for GHc10,000 to the office of the Attorney General. The donation comes at a time when China has been heavily criticized for the involvement of its nationals in illegal mining activities in Ghana. Currently, there are several ...
Amal Clooney has given birth to twins – a girl named Ella and a boy named Alexander. They were born in London on Tuesday morning, the publicist of her actor husband George Clooney said. “Ella, Alexander and Amal are all healthy, happy and doing fine,” Stan Rosenfield said before joking: “George is sedated and should ...
Theresa May has said she will change human rights laws if they “get in the way” of tackling terror suspects. The PM said she would make it easier to deport foreign terror suspects and “restrict the freedom and movements” of those that presented a threat. Labour said ministers must stand up for “democratic values” while ...
Uber has fired more than 20 people, and is taking other actions against staff, after a harassment investigation. The taxi-app firm said the sackings related to sexual harassment, bullying and issues about poor company culture. Uber has been under fire over its treatment of women staff since a former employee wrote a scathing blog post ...
A child’s rights activist, Bright Appiah, has called on the West African Examination Council (WAEC) and the Ghana Education Service (GES) to be flexible enough to allow the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates in Bunkpurugu, who were not able to sit for their first two papers, to do so at a more immediate time. The ...
Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta will later today [Wednesday], appear before Parliament to disclose the full details of the controversial $2.25 billion bond issued by the government in April 2017. This follows the passage of a half-hour motion last week by the House, to summon the minister to provide the full complement of documentation related to the ...
Senior Law Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ghana, Legon, Dr. Raymond Atuguba, has described as archaic, the country’s legal guide used to regulate the profession. According to him, most of the rules were made several decades ago and do not reflect current trends in the legal profession, hence many legal ...
The Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Abakwa, believes the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, was being vague on the matter of the possible culpability of pro-New Patriotic Party group, Invisible Forces, in the Kintampo Waterfall disaster. He said on Eyewitness News that, “clearly the minister was evasive on that particular ...
A Senior Law Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ghana, Dr. Raymond Atuguba, has called for an urgent legal revolution to deal with the growing lawlessness in the country. According to him, the delay tactics adopted by the Courts when it comes to justice delivery, makes it difficult for the citizenry ...
The Centre for Agricultural Policy and Analysis (CAPMA) believes farmers are being scared away from enrolling on the Planting for Food and Jobs programme due to the commitment fees they have to pay before being granted inputs. Speaking on Eyewitness News, the Centre’s head, Bright Demordzi, argued that, “we have to scrap the issue of commitment fee because ...
The Government of Ghana will convene a conference for the tech industry, small businesses, data journalists, entrepreneurs, researchers, students, IT solution providers, banks, telcos, insurance companies, NGOs, donor organizations, and local and national governments to connect virtually and in person, to share advances in open data and form new collaborations. This will take place at ...
Total Petroleum Ghana Limited, through its Young Graduates programme, is contributing to capacity building of the Ghanaian workforce by giving new graduates the opportunity for professional and career development. The Human Resource Manager, Mr. Bright Dokosi, explained that the Young Graduate programme is an 18-month working opportunity for recent young Ghanaian Graduates to discover the ...
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