The First Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) Mr. Milison Narh has retired. A statement from the central bank stated that Mr. Millison Narh paid a courtesy call on the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo this afternoon – 31st July, 2017 to announce his retirement. Present at that meeting were the Vice ...
White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci is out of the job after less than 10 days in the post. The former financier, who took the job last Friday, had drawn criticism after calling a reporter to give a profanity-laced tirade against his colleagues. Mr Trump’s chief of staff Reince Priebus and spokesman Sean Spicer both ...
A former Deputy Minister of Finance, Casiel Ato Forson has ridiculed the government’s mid year budget review, saying it failed to live up to expectation. Speaking a few minutes after Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta’s presentation in Parliament, Mr. Forson said government has failed to achieve its revenue targets. “Government has failed to achieve its ...
The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta on Monday delivered in Parliament the 2017 mid-year review budget. He touched on the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Ghana’s overall revenue performance over the period, debt stock and how government’s strategy to reduce the debt stock. According to the Minister, government’s medium term debt management strategy seeks to help ...
Government will soon purchase 800 new buses for the Metro Mass Transit and Inter-City State Transport Corporation (ISCT). The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori Atta who revealed this in Parliament on Monday said in all 200 of the buses will operate on compress natural gas while the 600 others will operate on diesel. “…As part ...
Engineers in the country have criticized comments by the Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo Maafo that they are to blame for the shoddy infrastructural projects n the country. According to them, it was unfair to blame all engineers for the lapses in the country’s infrastructure especially when there are other external factors that affect the quality ...
Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has announced marginal revision of the government’s fiscal deficit target from 6.5 percent of GDP to 6.3 percent. Government has in the past spent more than has been budgeted for leading to huge deficits which puts financial burden on the economy. Presenting the Budget Review in parliament, Mr. Ofori-Atta stated that ...
Russia has banned VPNs and other technology that allows users to gain anonymous access to websites. The new law (link via Google Translate), signed today by President Vladimir Putin, goes into effect on Nov. 1 and represents another major blow to an open Internet. This weekend, news broke that Apple has removed most major VPN apps from the ...
The re-constituted University of Education, Winneba (UEW) Governing Council, has duly ratified all, Certificates, Diplomas and Degrees, which requires ratification from September 1, 2013 to June 28, 2017. Professor Emmanuel N. Abakah, UEW Governing Council Chairman made this known at a conferment ceremony organised for its students in the southern sector at Winneba. He said ...
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) government’s maiden budget statement has brought relief to Ghanaians, by stabilizing and putting the economy on the track for development. This was revealed by the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta who said the government’s maiden budget statement has brought Ghanaians hope. The 2017 Budget, which was the first of the ...
The Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori Atta has given assurances that government will do whatever it takes to protect its socio-economic development programs from collapse. He said the programs including the flagship Free SHS program, National Health Insurance Scheme, Planting for Food and Jobs among others, will be provided with the needed financial resources to ...
The Local Government Service has denied claims that it has sacked and replaced some coordinating directors. According to the Service, the report of such development is ‘misleading’ and does not reflect the true situation. According to the Local Government Service (LGS), it is currently reshuffling Coordinating Directors of all the 10 regional Coordinating Councils and ...
The Atta Mills Care in partnership with the Ghana Hockey Association, Saturday organised a hockey tournament in remembrance of late President John Evans Atta Mills. The tourney held at the Theodosia Okoh Hockey Stadium in Accra was also to commemorate the 5th anniversary of the passing of president Mills. The competition saw some hockey clubs competing in the Youth, ...
An Accra High Court has quashed a decision by the Interior Minister Ambrose Derry who deported an Indian National Ashok Kumar Sivaramout of Ghana. According to court by presided over by Justice Kwaku Ackah Boafo, the Interior Minister exceeded his jurisdiction by determining fraud against the plaintiff without recourse to the court. He further indicated ...
An Accra High Court has quashed a decision by the Interior Minister Ambrose Derry who deported an Indian National Ashok Kumar Sivaramout from Ghana. According to court by presided over by Justice Kwaku Ackah Boafo, the Interior Minister exceeded his jurisdiction by determining fraud against the plaintiff without recourse to the court. He further indicated ...
Mahesh Shah, the General Manager for De United Foods Industries Ltd (DUFIL), producers of Indomie instant noodles has renewed his company’s commitment to support the promotion of Mathematics Education in Ghana. Mr. Shah said he wants to help spread awareness among the children about the importance of mathematics. He believes that mathematics will help create ...
A group of unemployed nurses picketing the Ministry of Health to demand immediate posting clashed with some security personnel at the Ministry who tried to stop them from entering the Ministry’s compound earlier this morning. The personnel had locked the main gate to the Ministry’s compound but the agitated nurses forced their way onto the ...
More than 40 men have been arrested in Nigeria over the weekend for performing homosexual acts, police say. They are due to appear in court later. Nigerian newspaper Punch reports that the police raided a hotel in Lagos State on Saturday afternoon and says the hotel was cordoned off while the investigation was carried out. Homosexual acts ...
A key Kenyan electoral commission employee has been found dead just days before the 8 August elections. Chris Musando, an ICT manager with the IEBC, had gone missing on Friday. Kenyan newspaper The Star reports that Mr Musando’s body was found with one arm missing. Tension is high in Kenya as the presidential election is expected to ...
Days after the Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto told Parliament that the fall armyworms infestation has been defeated, farmers in the Nanumba North District are disputing the claims. According to the farmers, there are still traces of armyworms on various farms in the district. The frustrated farmers who spoke to Citi News said ...
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