Mona Quartey at the vetting yesterday THE DEPUTY Minister-designate for Finance and Economic Planning, Mona Helen Kabuki Quartey – who a pro-government newspaper said was an American citizen – yesterday told the Appointments Committee of Parliament that she was indeed having a dual citizenship but completely renounced her American citizenship on Thursday, July 10 – […]

Typical Black Stars supporters in Brazil THE GHANA government has asked its Brazilian counterpart to deport 193 Ghanaian soccer fans seeking asylum in that country as soon as their visas expire. Government has begun working the diplomatic channels to get the football fans who have embarrassed the nation by seeking asylum in Brazil, sent home, […]

President John Mahama Ghana’s debt profile reached GH¢58.4 billion, from GH¢52.1 billion at the end of March 2014. Between March and June this year alone, a total of GH¢6.3 billion was borrowed by the Mahama government. The current National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration inherited a GH¢9 billion debt from former President J A Kufuor’s New […]

The armed wing of Hamas has threatened an imminent attack on Israel’s main airport in response to Israeli airstrikes on Gaza that have now reportedly killed 100 Palestinians. The Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades warned they planned to fire rockets at Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion international airport and they urged airlines to divert their flights for the safety […]

The Getfund Contractors Association is threatening to lock all school buildings they have constructed if government fails to pay outstanding arrears owed  for the work done. The Association said the lack of payments to its members is impacting negatively on their families. In an interview with Citi News, a member and contractor of the Getfund Contractors Association, George […]

Kwesi Pratt Jnr “These are due to the difficulties in the country…Government needs to put the right measures in place so that conditions in the country will change. The problem is not the lie they (asylum seekers) told; the problem is; what are the conditions (in the country) that led them to say those things […]

Carlos Sakyi, INSET: K.K. Kabobo The Human Rights Court has ordered the board of the Ghana Music Right Organization (GHAMRO) headed by Carlos Sakyi, to step aside. The ruling follows an action by Nana Kwame Ampadu and the 99 musicians, composers, song writers, music producers and music rights owners accusing Carlos Sakyi, Chairman of GHAMRO, of embezzling funds collected on […]

Prof Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang, Minister of Education Medical students on government scholarships in Cuba have reportedly resorted to selling their personal belongings in order to make a living. According a Joy FM report, the students claimed it was the only option left for them since government had failed to pay them their allowances for […]

Paul Afoko, NPP Chairman  There seems to be an air of uncertainty in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) over modalities to use in the selection of its flagbearer for the 2016 general elections as the contest heads for a special delegates’ congress. By close of nominations Monday July 7, 2014, seven members of the party […]

The acquisition of the Ghanaian passport is by far the easiest, relative to other West African countries. When nationals from neighbouring countries troop to Ghana in search of our passports, it is because they can be assured of securing the travel document with little or no hassle at all, thanks to willing bad Ghanaians, especially […]

Alfred Agbesi Woyome Mathew Amponsah, the State Attorney prosecuting the National Democratic Congress (NDC) financier, Alfred Agbesi Woyome, yesterday prayed the Accra Financial Court to give the State some time to go through the record of proceedings on the trial before going ahead with cross-examining the accused. He told the court that they were yet […]

Clement Kofi Humado The National Democratic Congress (NDC) youth in the Anlo-Keta Municipality of the Volta Region are poised to stage a massive protest against what they term a ‘development deficit’ in the area. The proposed demonstration is premised on the shifting of the Member of Parliament for Anlo, Clement Kofi Humado, from the Ministry […]

Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah Hundreds of National Democratic Congress (NDC) supporters who entered Brazil as tourists to watch the 2014 World Cup games have asked for asylum, police in southern Brazil said on Thursday. Noerci da Silva Melo, who heads the Federal Police office in the city of Caxias do Sul said that over the past week, […]

Dr. Kofi Wampah, Governor of the Bank of Ghana Ghana’s total imports have declined from US$7.3 billion to US$6 billion, representing a 17.8 percent reduction. The decline was attributed to a 19.7 percent year-on-year decline in non-oil imports to US$4.6 billion. Dr. Kofi Wampah, Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), who made this known, […]

Seth Negble a farmer and Chairman of the Ziope Area Vegetable Growers Association. Over six hundred tomato farmers in the Agotime-Ziope District of the Volta Region have lost virtually every pesewa they invested into farming this season. This follows the infestation of over 1,000 hectares of tomato farms in the area by a leaf-curling virus […]

Dignitaries at the launch The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS), in collaboration with World Bank, yesterday launched a $40 million Statistics Development Project dubbed, the Ghana Statistics Development Project (GSDP) in Accra. The GSDP aims to improve the production and output of timely and complex statistics relevant for evidence-based decision and policy-making. Dr. Osei Boeh-Ocansey, Board […]

Morten Gade (Right), handing over cement allocation chit to a beneficiary. Looking on is Dr. George Dawson-Ahmoah GHACEM Limited has donated 8,000 bags of cement to deprived communities in the northern parts of the country The donation, which was made last week Friday in Kumasi, is the last of two distributions, which have been carried […]

Antwi-Boasiako Sekyere, Nii Osah Mills and James Zuuga Tiigah The Appointments Committee of Parliament on Wednesday vetted four ministers appointed by the President in his recent ministerial reshuffle. The ministers who were vetted are Minister-designate for Ministry of Lands and Natural Resource, Nii Osah Mills, who was once the president of the Ghana Bar Association; Minister-designate for […]

Elizabeth Ofosu- Agyare  flanked by some past winners of the tourism awards The Minister for Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, Elizabeth Ofosu-Agyare has said that the ministry is taking steps to restructure the course of the Hotel Catering and Tourism Training Institute (HOTCATT) to meet international standards. The minister said this in her keynote address […]