The Executive Director of the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) and one of Ghana’s finest legal luminaries, Professor Henry Kwasi Prempeh, has expressed concern over the number of judges that have been appointed to the Supreme Court. According to him, Kenya, which is bigger in size and with larger population has just seven Supreme Court judges, but here in Ghana, he has lost count of the number of judges appointed to the apex court. Professor Prempeh argued that despite Kenya’s
A former Minister for Power and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Pru East, Dr Kwabena Donkor, has flown off the handle over The Chronicle publication that he and some colleague MPs visited the Jubilee House, seat of government, to thank President Akufo-Addo for the massive projects that have sprung up in their respective constituencies. In a rejoinder sent the Spear of the Nation, the former minister admitted that he and colleague National Democratic Congress (NDC) MPs were at the Jubilee House
Q. Have a look at Exhibit B. Sir, the Government of Ghana, as you have indicated, was required to establish Letters of Credit for the purchase of the ambulances under clause 4 of the contract. Is that not so? A. That is so. Q. And under clause 4:2 bullet point 1, the Letters of Credit was to be established upon the signing of the contract. Is that not so? A. That is so. Q. Can you confirm when Exhibit B was executed? A. My Lady, if I may read, the contracts which states that the Letters of Credit
The 2021 Auditor-General’s (AG) report has revealed that a total of 673 academic programs offered by two major tertiary institutions in the country, the University of Ghana (UG) and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) are not accredited. Three hundred and seventy-four (374) out of the total number are the courses that the UG is said to be running without accreditation, whilst KNUST had 299 unaccredited programmes. The Chronicle is appalled at this news, considering the
A Director of Hulede Foundation, a US-based Ghanaian Non-Profit Organisation, has conferred with over 102 beneficiaries of its Hulede Scholarship project at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi. The Hulede Foundation was set up last January by the Hulede Family in honour of their father, Mr. Hulede, the first Manager of the KNUST Printing Press. Mr. Patrick Hulede, addressing the student awardees of the project on behalf of the President of the Foundation, explained
The Artisans Association of Ghana (AAG), as part of activities to mark its 10th Anniversary, has cleaned the Baba Yara Stadium and its environs. Mr. Emmanuel Adjei, Vice Chairman of the Association, explained that the exercise was aimed at intensifying the membership drive and improve the skills of members ahead of the launch of its 10th Anniversary in November this year. He disclosed that over 200 members had acquired certified Energy Commission license, while over 200 had undergone skills enhancement
The Private Newspaper Publishers Association of Ghana (PRINPAG) has sworn in its new executives from the just ended elections. They were sworn in by Chairman of the National Media Commission, Mr. Yaw Boadu Ayeboafoh, at the International press centre in Accra, on Tuesday. The new executives are Mr Andrew Edwin Arthur, President; Mr Michael Antwi-Agyei, Vice-President; Mr Emmanuel Opare-Djan, National Organiser; Mr Jeorge Wilson Kingson, Public Affairs Officer. Mr. Yaw Boadu Ayeboafoh urged the newly
Three cases of Monkey Pox were recorded in Kumasi, but had zero mortality, the Metropolitan Director of Ghana Health Services, Dr. Mrs. Akosua Gyimah Omari-Sasu has announced. She, however, explained that the said cases had no contact with signs and symptoms. The Health Director, who was briefing the deputy Local Government minister, Mr. Collins Augustine Ntim, on the implementation of health interventions last Monday, in Kumasi, also said 83 students were diagnosed of influenza. She disclosed that
The Bank of Ghana organised a workshop for the Committee for Co-Operation between the Law Enforcement Agencies and the Banking Community (COLAB) to help in the fight against financial crimes. Addressing the gathering in Accra on Tuesday, this week, the second deputy governor of BoG, Mrs. Elsie Addo Awadzi, stated that the formation of COCLAB in Ghana was spearheaded by the Bank of Ghana, building on INTERPOL’s 1988 Resolution, to help curb economic crime around the world. She noted that the Bank
Residents of Akyem Otwereso, a town in the Ofoase Ayirebi constituency, are now beneficiaries of a steel bridge over the Asikusie River to facilitate the movement of persons. Member of Parliament (MP) for the area, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, who did the opening at a brief ceremony last Friday, said the bridge comes as a great relief to constituents who previously had to use longer and winding alternative route through Ayirebi to reach their various destinations. The Asikusie Bridge, constructed decades
The Deputy Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Collins Augustine Ntim, has expressed satisfaction with the implementation of government policies and programmes by the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA). The Minister had scrutinised the operations of the KMA in the areas of agriculture, education and health during a monitoring and evaluation visit on Monday. He was briefed by the Metro Director of Agriculture, the Metro Director of Education, and the Metro Director of the Ghana Health
The National AIDS/STI Control Programme says Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) Kits will soon be made available in pharmacies as part of efforts to control national HIV infections. Dr Stephen Ayisi Addo, the Programme Manager, said ready access to the self-testing kits would ultimately lead to early diagnosis and effective treatment to reduce the infection rate. He said the National AIDS/STI Control Programme had started piloting the initiative and people who test positive would be advised to report to
Mikhail Gorbachev was the most significant political leader globally of the second half of the 20th century and one of the greatest reformers in Russian history. By the time he resigned as president of the USSR during its final throes, he had played the decisive role in making Russia a freer country than it had ever been. The new tolerance and liberties at home, together with the transformation of Soviet foreign policy, emboldened the peoples of eastern and central Europe to send their communist
Mrs Elsie Addo Awadzi, the Second Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana, has called on law enforcement agencies to collaborate with the Bank in efforts to sanitise the forex bureau sector. This, she said, they could help the Central Bank do by strictly enforcing existing rules for the fair and transparent conduct of business by licensed forex bureaux and by clamping down on illegal forex operations (the so-called black market). Mrs. Awadzi made the call during a workshop for the Committee for Co-operation
The launch of AfCFTA Hub in Ghana will connect 1.3 billion people across 55 countries and address the validation and cybercrime on a unified platform, the Minister of Communication and Digitalisation, Mrs. Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has said Mrs. Ekuful explained that it would bring together the AfCFTA Secretariat and strategic partners like Afro Champions to create a network for accelerating the kinds of regional integration that would drive trade that could deliver economic transformation. In her welcome
Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN), has criticised the Federal Government for permitting “non-state actors to bear heavy assault weapons while denying the same privilege to the states and federating units” with joint security outfits like the Amotekun Corps. Akeredolu stated this is a statement he signed on Wednesday and made available to Channels Television by his Chief Press Secretary, Richard Olatunde. The chairman of the South-West Governors’ Forum and the Southern
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has outlined fresh conditions the Nigerian government must take to end its six-month-long academic strike. Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today, ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, said the government must exhibit transparency to end the ongoing strike. “Government should tell us and Nigerians – the money that has been alleged to have been approved for revitalisation – how much is it and where is it lodged? When
President Muhammadu Buhari has described the last leader of the former Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, as “a courageous reformer, who will be remembered for years to come because of his immeasurable contributions to world peace and openness in his own once rigidly closed society.” Reacting to the death of Mr Gorbachev at 91 on Tuesday, President Buhari said “the late Gorbachev was a remarkable gentleman whose reformist agenda had fundamentally changed the Soviet society through his policy
Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate in 2023 polls, has met with former President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja. The meeting is in continuation of Mr Tinubu’s nationwide consultation with critical stakeholders ahead of the 2023 elections. Mr Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State and one of APC’s national leaders met with Mr Jonathan on Tuesday night at the latter’s residence and was accompanied by his running mate, Kashim Shettima and five APC governors,
Camidoh is lashing out at critics who claim he is deliberately sounding like a Nigerian to penetrate the Nigerian music industry. The ‘Sugarcane’ singer was speaking in an interview with Joy Prime’s Noella Kharyne Yalley who asked,” a lot of people say you sound so Nigerian what are your thoughts about it?” and Camidoh replied that “it’s their opinion, for which they’re entitled to“. “With time, people will get to understand that we were never meant
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