Dr Emmanuel Akwetey, IDEG Chief The Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG) has released a statement as part of its Civic Forum Initiative warning that Ghana’s democracy faces five key challenges that threaten “its stability, peace and sustainability.” The statement mentioned the five challenges as “(i) recurring threat of political violence in democratic national elections, (ii) weakening […]

Pressure group, Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG), has threatened street protests over a new Value Added Tax (VAT) Law, which critics claim imposes levies that could cripple the nation’s banking sector. “Under the current turbulent economic mess, led by a failed President; John Mahama, it is unthinkable to further burden Ghanaians with another aggressive and […]

Victims’ families pulled Choi out of his office before assaulting him Relatives of missing victims of the South Korea ferry disaster have forced their way into the office of the coastguard and attacked its Deputy Director, Choi Sang-Hwan. The furious families accused him of overstating the scale of the recovery operation, claiming what they saw […]

2014 is definitely a good year for Ghanaian singer Efya (Real name: Jane Awindor) as she is finally reaching the world stage and getting international recognition. The award winning songstress has been confirmed as one of the performers on the internationally acclaimed World Music Awards (WMA) 2014awards night. “We are incredibly excited and beyond proud. […]

Nana Akufo-Addo and Gloria Akufo The Commission of Enquiry investigating the payments of judgement debts yesterday heard how former Attorney-General Nana Akufo-Addo and his Deputy Gloria Akufo moved heaven and earth to prevent the payment of huge sums of money to Construction Pioneers (CP). David Kwabena Ofosu-Dorte, Senior Partner of General Law Consult, now AB & […]

KILLED! Little Nana Yaw The body of an eight-year-old boy believed to have been murdered in cold blood, was discovered lying in an uncompleted septic tank on the premises of the Dansoman Ebenezer Senior High School, around 4:30pm last Tuesday. The deceased, identified as Nana Yaw Buabeng, aka ‘Caterpillar,’ had his head and the two […]

A KUMASI High Court presided over by Justice P. K. Richardson has sentenced William Koffie, a mason in his 30s, to death by hanging for murdering his colleague, Stephen Dzamesi, over GH¢20.00. He was convicted recently after a seven-member jury unanimously found him guilty of murder, contrary to section 46 of the Criminal Offences Act […]

Jake Obetsebi Lamptey, former chairman, handing over the gavel to Paul Afoko It was an amazing sight to behold when the former executives of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) handed over to the new administration yesterday. The handing over ceremony, which took place at the conference room of the party’s headquarters at Asylum Down, was […]

Dr Kwadwo Afari Gyan, EC Boss The integrity of the Electoral Commission (EC) has never been so shaken as in the aftermath of the last general elections. The subsequent revelations spawned by the Supreme Court hearing and the eventual judgment into the petition lodged by some citizens, robbed the Commission of a sizeable quantity of […]

Emmanuel Armah- Kofi Buah,Minister of Energy and Petroleum  Following some allegations of forgery made by the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum against Miura Petroleum and its Canadian partner, Gondwana Oil over how the South Block offshore West Cape Three Points was awarded, the Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) has called on Government to investigate […]

Ekow Micah The President of the Music Council of Ghana (MCG), Ekow Micah, has declared the Council’s stance to work tirelessly to put in place policies that would protect the music industry and the rights of the Ghanaian musician. He stated that the music industry lacked good structures and the Council had started holding series […]

Dela Botri The 2014 edition of the ‘Accra Jazz Festival’ will on Friday, April 25 kick off with a performance by Franco-Beninois trumpeter, Nicolas Genest, and the Ghanaian keyboard whiz kid, Victor Dey, at the Alliance Française in Accra. On Saturday, April 26, the UK-based Ghanaian writer/poet, Nii Ayikwei Parkes, would feature in a jazz/poetry […]

President John Dramani Mahama President John Dramani Mahama has mentioned on his Facebook wall that he has made available GH¢10 million as seed money for the youth in the country who are ready to set up small and medium-scale enterprises. According to the President, the offer stems from his desire to promote the patronage of […]

Li Xiaohai (third from right) with his team when they visited the Energy Minister recently Sunon Asogli Power Limited, an independent power producer, has appealed to Government to offer it some compensation for the losses it incurred as a result of the damage to the West African Gas pipeline, which supplied gas from Nigeria to […]

Ibrahim Mahama Ibrahim Mahama, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Engineers and Planners, has urged African banks to operate beyond the borders of their countries in order to retain capital inflow. Speaking at the just-ended Afrexim Summit in Dubai, Ibrahim said the inability of local banks to go beyond their operational borders pose a major setback […]

People currently buy food at high prices Ex-factory prices of goods for all industry increased on average by 27.8 percent in March 2014 relative to the price level recorded in March 2013. The year-on-year rate is 0.7 percentage points higher than that for February 2014 while the monthly inflation rate for March 2014 was 3.1 […]

Niila Selormey Merchant Bank Ghana Limited has been re-christened as Universal Merchant Bank (UMB). Niila Selormey, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the bank, commenting on the development noted: “From today, the bank that you used to know as Merchant Bank is no more.  We are now the Universal Merchant Bank. This does not mean that […]

Dr Adjase (left) interacting with Prof Adarkwah A TEAM of planners from the Department of Planning of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has come out with a proposed master plan for the University College of Health And Well-Being, Kintampo. The team, led by former Vice Chancellor of the KNUST, Prof Kwasi Kwafo […]

A teller interacts with a customer Some commercial banks in the country have begun circulating text messages to inform their customers about the new banking services policy introduced by Government. Ecobank Ghana and Barclays Ghana are among some financial institutions that are engaging their customers on the development. But Deputy Minister for Finance, Cassiel Ato […]