Ebo Barton-Odro First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Ebo Barton-Odro, has further thrown spanner in the efforts at retrieving the GH¢51.2 million paid to National Democratic Congress (NDC) financier, Afred Agbesi Woyome, insisting that the government does not have a good case against the embattled businessman. Mr. Barton-Odro, who took part in the alleged fraudulent payment […]

Engineers and Planners excavator loading tipper trucks at the project site. Ibrahim Mahama, brother of President John Dramani Mahama and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Engineers and Planners Construction Limited, has been awarded the contract to complete the rehabilitation of some roads in the Ashaiman Municipality. The Ashaiman Municipal Assembly (ASHMA) recently abrogated the contract […]

All seven aspirants contesting for the flagbearer position of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) yesterday balloted for their positions on the ballot sheet for the upcoming Special Delegates Congress slated for Sunday August 31, 2014. Two of the seven contenders, namely two-time standard bearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and former Member of Parliament (MP) […]

Joseph Bediako wearing a ‘Konadu for 2016′ T-shirt Former First Lady and Founder of the National Democratic Party (NDP), Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, in reaction to speculations that she intends  going back to join the ruling the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has claimed that she has no intention of going back to the party. Close aide […]

EC official registering a voter There was low turnout at most registration centres in Cape Coast, the Central Regional capital on Monday during the limited registration of new and eligible voters by the Electoral Commission (EC). Most of the electoral areas in the metropolis, which includes Presbyterian Basic and Junior High School, had not registered […]

Julius Debrah (first right), the Vice President (second right) and Dr Kwaku Agyemang-Mensah (second left) monitoring the clean-up exercise The recent killer cholera outbreak within the Accra metropolis which was attributed to poor sanitation has awaken government and city authorities from their shell to embark on a massive clean-up exercise within the metropolis. The Vice […]

Justice Yaw Apau The Commission of Enquiry investigating the payment of judgement debts yesterday heard how a certain Daniel Kofi Adobor attempted to get back once vibrant Subin Timers Limited, which was confiscated by the government in the heat of the ‘revolution’ in 1982. His bid to get back the company, even though it did […]

Dr Prosper Ayisa, Sunyani Area Manager A Goaso Circuit Court, presided over by Osei Kwame Gyamfi, has issued bench warrant for the arrest of directors of four companies at Goaso who have defaulted in the payment of social security contributions of their employees to the tune of GH¢21,505.73. The four companies were dragged to the […]

Asare Adjei, President of AGI The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) says the current crisis confronting the country calls for immediate action by government to avert further deterioration of the country’s economy. AGI made the call at a meeting held recently in Accra subsequent to the review of the 2nd quarter report of the AGI […]

“Do not stand at my grave and weep. I am not there. I do not sleep. I am the diamond gaunt on snow.  I am the sunlight on ripened grain. I am the gentle autumn rain. I am the dew of dawn, soaking the early dawn traveller. Do not weep for me.  My soul is […]

Panji Anoff Pidgen Music, CEO Panji Anoff last week made a shocking revelation on his Facebook that he is a gay. “I wish to announce today that I am gay, so that all the people who don’t want a gay friend on facebook, can unfriend me now. I will miss you all, but I think […]

Ghana’s Black Princesses dampened the mood in Canada after they defeated the host nation by a lone goal to set off their FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup campaign to a flying start. The scene of the ‘David’ and ‘Goliath’ match was at Toronto’s National Soccer Stadium last Tuesday night as a lone strike from the […]

Justice Samuel Agyei Deputy Brong-Ahafo Regional Minister, Justice Samuel Agyei, on Monday caused a big stir at a registration centre at Odumase in the Sunyani West Constituency when he ordered registration officials to register his three children. The registration bid of the minister’s three kids: Agyei Emmanuel Derrick, 20; Amanda Agyei Fosua, 18 and Sherry […]

Sylvester Mensah, NHIS Boss Chamber of Pharmacy – the umbrella body of key pharmaceutical manufacturing, importing, distributing, wholesale and retailing companies – has withdrawn its services to hospitals covered by the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). The chamber in a release singed by the Lead Advocate, Ernest Owusu Aboagye, said the withdrawal of its credit facility to Health Insurance Service Providers was due […]

Kirk Koffi – Chief Executive, VRA More than 700 workers of the Volta River Authority (VRA) are expected to be laid off in October, this year. The affected staff work in the non-core business departments of the VRA which have been re-structured. The non-core business departments of VRA are Real Estate or Town Management, Akosombo […]

Louis Amenyoh Adanuty (middle) in a group photograph with his business lieutenants Teksol Limited, a software development company that provides an all-in-one ICT solution for businesses, recently introduced FundPlus, a financial system designed in consultation with portfolio management industry executives and experts with enviable track record to solve challenges faced by institutions in their operations. […]

Anthony Bennin (3rd from left) and Gideon Quarcoo(middle) flanked by exporters at the Summit Fidelity Bank Ghana Limited, in collaboration with the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA), has organized an export seminar for exporters in the Ashanti and Brong Ahafo regions to sensitize them on their rights and responsibilities. The Export Summit was a follow […]

Dignitaries pose with the graduates The Member of Parliament (MP) for Ayawaso West Wuogon, Emmanuel Kyeremanten Agyarko, has called on parents to take advantage of the immense benefits available to the highly educated and invest in the education of their children. The MP said this at the first graduation ceremony of ESPO BestChild School and […]

IGP Mohammed Alhassan The Ghana Police Service has begun shortlisting the backlog of candidates who applied for enlistment since 2012. According to a statement signed by the Director-General/Public Affairs, DCOP Rev David N. Ampah-Bennin, the exercise which includes aptitude test, medical examination and vetting, is on-going and the last batch are to go through the […]

The MP at the bedside of child victim at the hospital The outbreak of cholera in the Greater Accra Region is gradually becoming an epidemic, as official figures indicate that about 2,000 people have contracted the disease within one week. Approximately 20 people have been reported killed by the acute oral diarrhoeal illness within the […]