Tech Nova GH, Ghana’s most popular technology news platform, has announced the debut of its new podcast series What’s Your Story with editor Joseph-Albert Kuuire as its host. Premiering on 21st November on podcast platforms, the new series will feature Ghanaian and African creatives, business persons, and entrepreneurs narrating their personal stories about how they built […] The post Tech
After several hours of engagements with senior party members, regional executives, aspirants, and the Electoral Commission of Ghana, the National Elections Task Force of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has begun procedures to commence the Eastern Regional elections despite a court injunction. The decision to move ahead with the elections was arrived at following a […] The post NDC
The Mobile Money Agents Association of Ghana is calling for a reduction in the 1.5 percent electronic transfer levy rate to 0.1 percent in the upcoming 2023 budget presentation. The 1.5 percent levy which was introduced in the 2022 budget forms part of the Government’s efforts at raising revenues locally. But Momo transactions have recorded […] The post Reduce E-levy
President of policy think tank, IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe says the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta was given a fair hearing to respond to allegations leveled against him by the Minority. This comes on the back of a motion of censure filed by the Minority in Parliament to sack the Mr. Ofori-Atta for what they describe […] The post Ofori-Atta acquitted
The student leadership of the Takoradi Technical University says the just declared indefinite strike by the Technical University Teachers Association of Ghana, TUTAG, is a worrisome destruction to the recently begun academic calendar. The leadership of TUTAG on Friday, November 18th, 2022 declared a nationwide indefinite strike action over the government’s failure to act on […] The post TTU
The 1972-year group of the Accra High School has donated two polytanks at the cost of GH¢70,000 to its alma mater, to provide constant flow of water to the student body as well as the pantry. The donation forms part of the school’s 2022 homecoming organised by the 1972, 1982, 1997 and 2002 year groups, […] The post Accra High School 1972 year group donates
One person has been confirmed dead with four others injured in an accident involving a DAF truck and five other vehicles at Bogoso in the Western Region on 19th November 2022. Police investigation has disclosed that the driver of the DAF truck, carrying logs from the Prestea end of the road, upon reaching Bogoso lost […] The post One person confirmed dead in Bogoso accident
The Member of Parliament for the Tamale North Constituency, Alhassan Suhuyini, has alleged that Ghana made well over $1.3 billion from climate change negotiations in the last six years. As one of Ghana’s delegates to the Conference of Parties (COP27) negotiations in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, he lauded the preparations and organization of the Ghana Negotiation […] The post COP27:
Leading member of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko has paid a glowing tribute to the late Finance Minister, Professor Kwesi Botchwey. The NPP stalwart in a tweet said the former Finance Minister’s leadership and commitment to the structural changes to the country’s economy in the late 80s were “critical, and the […] The post Impact
The Allied Health Professions Council has expressed worrying concerns over the influx of unqualified and quack health personnel in the health sector and warned of looming danger if the issue is not urgently attended to. Speaking at the 9th Induction and Oath Swearing Ceremony in Kumasi, Deputy Registrar of the Allied Health Professions Council, Daniel […] The post Allied
Following the news about the death of Former Finance Minister, Professor Kwesi Botchwey, a number of people have taken to social media to pay tribute to him. The former Finance Minister died today, November 19, 2022, at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, where he was seeking medical care. Professor Botchwey is said to have been receiving […] The post Tributes pour in for late Kwesi Botchwey
Regional executives of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Eastern Region are currently in a crunch meeting in an attempt to make a last-minute resolution to allow the process to elect regional executives for the party in the region to commence. Elections were scheduled to happen today, November 19, but a late court injunction […] The post Eastern
Born on the 3 September 1944, Dr. Kwesi Botchwey was 78 at the time of his death. Professor Botchwey is the longest-serving Finance Minister. He served in office alongside Ghana’s longest-serving head of state, the late former President, Jerry John Rawlings. He served in the military era of the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) (1982 […] The post Profile of late Professor
The Majority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Mensah-Bonsu has expressed satisfaction with the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta’s responses to allegations levelled against him by the Minority in Parliament. The Finance Minister appeared before an 8-member ad-hoc committee of Parliament on Friday, November 18, 2022, to react to claims of unconstitutional withdrawals from the consolidated fund […] The post Ofori-Atta’s
The Ghana Statistical Service has revealed that about 1.1 million males 15 years and older who were employed in the first quarter of 2022, subsequently became either unemployed (429,607) or out of the labour force (716,030) in the second quarter. A statement from GSS indicated that in percentage terms, 9.4% of employed males in the […] The post 1.1m
Findings from the 2021 Population and Housing Census General Report on Water and Sanitation indicate that 1,477,747 households in Ghana do not have access to a toilet facility (either in their household or a public toilet) which is synonymous with the practice of open defecation. This figure represents 17.7% of the household population, with the […] The post About
Former Finance Minister, Dr Kwesi Botchwey, has passed on. Sources close to the family confirmed this development to Citi News. He reportedly passed on today, November 19, 2022, at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, where he was seeking medical care. Dr. Botchwey is said to have been receiving medical attention at the hospital in the last […] The post Former Finance Minister
The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has expressed fear that the cedi will continue to be under pressure if Ghanaians’ taste for imported goods is not ceased. Mr. Ofori-Atta advised Ghanaians to as a matter of urgency change their voracious appetite for imported goods. It is estimated that majority of the country’s products are imported from […] The post Cedi
The Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources in charge of Mines, George Mireku Duker has made a passionate appeal to the youth of Kenyasi and the management as well as staff of Newmont Mining Limited to bury the hatchet and allow peace to prevail. Mireku Duker said both the mining company and community owe […] The post Let peace prevail – Mireku Duker
The National Theatre came alive on November 18, 2022 as Apiorkor held the third edition of her poetry event, ‘The Matriarch’s Verse’. This year’s event organised in partnership with the KGL FOUNDATION and the National Theatre of Ghana, was themed ‘Ghana at 65 – The State of the Nation’. It had in attendance poetry lovers, […] The post Apiorkor
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