Citi97.3 · Minister-Designate for Justice and Attorney General Godfred Yeboah Dame – Ministerial Vetting 2021 The post Minister-Designate for Justice and Attorney General Godfred Yeboah Dame – Ministerial Vetting 2021 appeared first on Citinewsroom - Comprehensive News
Citi97.3 · Minister-Designate for Fisheries and Aquaculture Mavis Hawa Koomson – Ministerial Vetting 2021 The post Minister-Designate for Fisheries and Aquaculture Mavis Hawa Koomson – Ministerial Vetting 2021 appeared first on Citinewsroom - Comprehensive News in Ghana
The Information Minister-designate, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah says some government officials will publicly receive doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to boost confidence in the mass vaccination exercise. “Some members of the executive will as part of the demystifying process and the public education publicly take their COVID-19 shots,” he disclosed at the Public Engagement on COVID-19 […] The post Some
The management of Ghana Community Network Services Limited (GCNet) says it is prepared to pay redundancy compensation to its laid-off workers in accordance with legal processes. According to the management, it is challenging the arbitral award by a panel of the National Labour Commission (NLC) not because the company wants to deny the workers compensation […] The post GCNet
Leadership of the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) in Accra has halted a 10 percent potential increase in transport fares by some concerned driver unions. The increment was set to take effect from Monday, February 22, 2021. The Concern Drivers Association had complained that the increment had become necessary due to high import duties […] The post Drivers
The Food and Agriculture Minister-designate, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto says the government has gone into deals with India and Brazil to supply farm machinery to the country. According to him, “the government has taken note of the shortage [of farm machinery] and I’m sure that this year, with the Brazilian and Indian supply of machinery, […] The post Deal
Ghana will be spending at least $10 to get one person vaccinated against the coronavirus, according to estimates from the Ghana Health Service. With the target to vaccinate 20 million persons, this would mean the government could spend up to $200 million in the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines. At a press briefing on Friday, February […] The post COVID-19 vaccine
Former Agriculture Minister, Dr. Owusu Akoto Afriyie has touted his first term achievements saying Ghana recorded significant food supply under his tenure. “The comparison we are making is about what things are like now and what they were like 10 years ago or five years ago. I’m very confident that the supply of food in […] The post Supply of
Education think tank, Africa Education Watch (Eduwatch) is asking health authorities in the country to begin enforcing COVID-19 isolation in schools to curb spread among students. The group’s call comes on the back of a recent testing of some students in a school it solely facilitated, where two pupils tested positive. But nine days after […] The post COVID-19:
Fifteen prisoners who have been serving prison terms ranging from 8 months to 2 years at the Sekondi Central Prisons for defaulting their court fines have been released after Zeal Environmental Technologies settled their fines worth GHS27,000. The Chief Executive Officer of Zeal, Kweku Ennin, speaking at a short ceremony before their release from the […] The post Sekondi:
The National Blood Service of Ghana in collaboration with the Kwaaba Foundation has launched a Blood Donation Tracker app to track all blood donations in Ghana. The initiative seeks to address the challenge of the lack of real-time and consolidated data of stock at blood banks. The app has accessible features that will enable the […] The post Blood Service launches app to
The New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) parliamentary candidate for the Sawla-Kalba constituency in the 2020 elections, Banasco Seidu Nuhu has donated items to some selected students in the constituency. Mr. Banasco Seidu Nuhu presented uniforms, textbooks, exercise books, pens, pencils, erasers among others to some pupils of the Sawla DA and the Nahari primary schools. Mr. […] The post Sawla-Kalba:
The Minister for Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation-designate, Dr. Kwaku Afriyie, has targetted the regulation of excavators as a measure to tackle illegal mining. Speaking during his vetting, Dr. Afriyie cited the introduction of heavy earth moving equipment to small scale mining in 1989 as the day “Ghana’s environmental problems begun.” He thus said Ghana […] The post We
Dr. Vladimir Antwi-Danso, Dean, Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College (GAFSC), has welcomed the appointment of Nigeria’s Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as World Trade Organization’s (WTO) new boss. He noted that Dr. Okonjo-Iweala’s appointment was a plus for both Nigeria and Africa. In a chat with the Ghana News Agency in Accra, Dr. Antwi-Danso said […] The post Appointment
A total of fifteen pupils and students from ten basic, Junior, Senior and Tertiary institutions in the Tarkwa-Nsuaem municipality of the Western Region have tested positive for COVID-19 since the resumption of school in January 2021. The cases were not recorded in school but in the respective homes of the infected pupils and students. They […] The post 15 students in Tarkwa
The President’s ministerial nominee for Environmental, Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr. Kwaku Afriyie says he will spearhead collaborative efforts to tackling the proliferation of children used for labour at electronic waste dumpsites across the country. He says, the practice is increasingly posing serious health risks to the children and must therefore be addressed going forward. […] The post Government
The Wa Airport which serves the travel needs and connects people to the Upper West Region has been fumigated against viruses, bedbugs, mice among other disease-causing organisms. The Airport which currently receives military aircrafts, chartered flights among others was receiving commercial domestic flight until the outbreak of COVID-19 which halted its commercial operation. The Assistant […] The post Zoomlion
The family of late former President Jerry John Rawlings Thursday expressed gratitude to the Governnent and people of Ghana for the befitting state funeral and burial accorded their kisman. Mr Rawlings, who was Ghana’s longest serving leader, died at the age of 73 on November 12, 2020 at the Korle Bu Teaching hospital where he […] The post Rawlings family thanks government,
The National Lottery Authority (NLA) has shut down the short code *896# operated by Alpha Lotto Limited. It carried the exercise in collaboration with the National Communications Authority (NCA). Alpha Lotto Limited was duly licensed by NLA under Act 844 to operate lotto via Point of Sale Terminals regulated by Act 722. However, according to […] The post NLA shuts down short
The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has rejected claims that Kojo Oppong Nkrumah and Henry Nana Boakye are inciting Justices of the Supreme Court against lawyers of the Petitioner in the ongoing Election Petition case. The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) had accused the aforementioned persons of seeking to get Dominci Ayine, a legal practitioner […] The post Oppong
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