UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan chided African leaders for their penchant to clinch to power through fraudulent elections in a paper addressing African leaders. He instead admonished them to invest in their country’s youth and build strong systems to deliver justice and development to their people. Delivering his ‘treatise’ during a lecture on leadership and public service during ...
Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan chided African leaders for their penchant to clinch to power through fraudulent elections in a paper addressing African leaders. He instead admonished them to invest in their country’s youth and build strong systems to deliver justice and development to their people. Delivering his ‘treatise’ during a lecture on leadership and public service ...
The Minister of Energy, Boakye Agyarko, has charged the new board of directors of the electricity company of Ghana (ECG) to embark on a pragmatic process to safeguard jobs ahead of the Private sector participation in the company. According to him, the power distributing company risks a worsening performance if staff issues are not duly ...
The Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems (GhIPSS) has disclosed to Citi Business News it has advanced processes of meeting the November deadline for mobile money interoperability. The CEO of GhIPSS, Archie Hesse says his outfit has already finalized the systems specification awaiting the completion of other requirements by the various mobile money agents. According to Mr. ...
As of the end of 2016, GHc 2,190,718.30 had been deducted from the salaries of appointees at the Mahama Administrations and paid to contractors, according to a former Deputy Minister of Information, Felix Kwakye Ofosu. Mr. Kwakye Ofosu, in a statement on Facebook, noted that these contractors had either completed or were working on the ...
Three Chinese nationals have been busted by officials of the Gaming Commission of Ghana, for engaging in illegal distribution of slot machines and invading payment of the requisite gaming license fees. The three, two men and a woman, were identified as illegal gaming operators who have not been licensed to engage in any game of ...
When former police officer Nimrod Mbithuka Mbai stepped on parliament grounds for the first time in 1998, he had been assigned to guard newly appointed cabinet minister Francis Nyenze. Mr Nyenze had just won the Kitui West parliamentary seat and the then young Administration police constable was picked as one of his security aides. Like ...
Stoke City’s Egyptian winger, Ramadan Sobhi, has signed a new five-year contract with the English Premier League club. The 20-year-old only joined Stoke last summer from Al Ahly in his homeland but he impressed in his 19 appearances during his maiden season and has been rewarded with an improved long-term deal. “There’s no doubting that ...
South Africa’s Deputy Education Minister Mduduzi Manana has appeared in court on a charge of assaulting a woman in a nightclub. He was freed on $375 (£290) bail, pending further investigations. The alleged assault caused outrage in South Africa, with many people demanding Mr Manana’s arrest. He has apologised for what he called a “shameful ...
A 23-year-old independent candidate is the next Igembe South MP after he was declared winner Thursday morning. Mr John Paul Mwirigi, a Bachelor of Education student at Mt Kenya University won after garnering 18, 867 against Jubilee’s Rufus Miriti, who had 15, 411 votes. Other candidates, who were seasoned politicians include Mwenda Mzalendo (7,695), Kubai ...
Mechanics at Alajo in Accra are demanding justice for a colleague, Yaw Boadi, who died from a gunshot wound after he was shot by a client. He was reportedly wounded from a shot by one Charles Nana Frimpong following an argument over a parking space. Yaw Boadi died on Thursday in hospital after a two ...
The Gas Tankers Drivers Association, has welcomed the decision of the government to withdraw the draft national LGP policy. This follows the suspension of a planned demonstration against the government over the decision to allow Puma Energy to become the sole supplier of gas. Bernard Oweredu Donkor, the Public Relations Officer of the gas Tankers ...
The Wa Municipality of the Upper West region has recorded 8 cases of maternal deaths within the first half of this year(2017). The number is a slight increase from the 7 cases that were recorded within the same period last year. Oswald Dachaga, Wa Municipal Health Information officer, disclosed these at a half year health ...
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) today [Thursday] launched its ideological school known as the Ghana Institute of Social Democracy. The school according to the party will inculcate its principles, ideologies, and values to members. Speaking at the launch the General Secretary of NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah said the school will be helpful to the ...
Government has paid off the accumulated debt piled by the previous Hajj Board administration which supervised the 2016 Hajj activities. According to the Vice President, Dr. Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia, 425 fully paid pilgrims could not make it to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia yet their monies were not refunded. He said government had paid for ...
Government has paid off the accumulated debt piled by the previous Hajj Board administration which supervised the 2016 Hajj activities. According to the vice President, Dr. Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia, the four hundred and twenty-five fully paid pilgrims could not make it to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia yet their monies were not refunded. He said ...
Knutsford University College in Accra on Wednesday held a public lecture on the theme, “Katharos Technology: An Innovative Clean Water Filtration Technology.” The lecture delivered by Prof. Steve Opoku-Duah of Ohio Valley University (USA) was to provide an opportunity for stakeholders to discuss new water filtration technologies being tested in the USA and how such ...
The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) on Monday commenced a training workshop for 50 male and 50 female teachers in the Brong-Ahafo Region on effective use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) on their jobs. The five-day residential programme organised under the GNATech-ICT Project and wholly-sponsored by the Association, is an annual affair on regional ...
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