Regardless of the stiff opposition mounted by the minority Members of Parliament (MPs), their colleagues on the other side of the aisle managed to pass all three revenue bills last Friday. Passing these billswas critical to the government’s application for a $3 billion credit facility from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It was a numbers […] The post Minority
Damages in cedi equivalent of US$2,600,000 with interest dating back to 2010, has been awarded against the former Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Dr Samuel Yaw Annor. Dr Annor and his Company, Annor & Associates, are to pay the damages for breach of contract with the Veteran Administration of Ghana (VAG). […] The post Courts orders Yaw
A section of the youth of the Divine Healer’s Church Also Known as Brother Lawson has appealed to the Board of Trustees of the church to engage the pastors who have sent some leaders of the church to court to withdraw the case and settle the matter at home. According to the youth calling themselves […] The post Youth of Divine Healer’s Church pray for out of court
A total of 86 candidates have filed their nominations to contest for 35 parliamentary seats on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Ashanti Region. A statement issued by Dr. Frank Amoakohene, Ashanti Regional Secretary of the party, said the vetting of the aspirants who had filed their nomination forms would be […] The post 86 aspire for 36 NDC parliamentary
The Member of Parliament for Asutifi South, Alhaji Collins Dauda, has submitted his nomination forms to run as an unopposed candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC). The former Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, who is seeking re-election in 2024 for the eighth time, has represented Asutifi South constituency since 1992. He […] The post Collins Dauda goes unopposed
Parliament has, by consensus, rejected the Electoral Commissions’ (EC) proposal of making the Ghana Card the only means of identification of citizenship for the purposes of voter registration in an impending Constitutional Instrument (CI) the latter intended to lay. The rejection was contained in a report by the Committee of the Whole presented to the […] The post Parliament shoots down
A Chief State Attorney, Evelyn Keelson, has prayed Justice Kwasi Anokye Gyimah, who has been appointed to preside over the trial Dr. Stephen Kwabena Opuni and others, to adopt an almost six years proceedings as recorded by retired Supreme Court Justice, Clemence Honyenuga. According to her, the new judge should consider the number of years […] The post Opuni pushes for Trial De Novo appeared first
After back and forth arguments, both inside and outside Parliament, the Legislative House has, by a majority decision, passed the three critical revenue bills into law. They are the Excise Duty Amendment Bill 2022, the Growth and Sustainability Levy Bill, 2022, the Ghana Revenue Authority Bill 2022 and the Income Tax Amendment Bill 2022. When […] The post Editorial:
The Chief Justice (CJ), Justice Anin Yeboah, has commissioned a court house at Amansie Central (Odotobiri) with an assurance that the government was doing its best to bring justice closer to the people. Justice Anin Yeboah disclosed that with the support of the government, the Judiciary would make the deplorable state of the existing physical […] The post Chief Justice inaugurates
Ghana’s state-owned maritime enterprise, the Black Star Line, was one of many economic ventures that instilled pride in Ghanaians. Yet, like other state-owned enterprises that sprung up after independence, it succumbed to corruption and incompetence and has collapsed as a result. Decades after being out of business, many within the maritime sector believe the Government […] The post Pundits
Mr Emmanuel Akone, the District Chief Executive for Banda, in the Bono Region, has presented Apprenticeship Kits and admission fees to selected youth in the area to improve their livelihoods. The gesture was an initiative through the National Youth Authority (NYA), in collaboration with the Banda District Assembly, to ensure the reduction of youth unemployment […] The post Banda
The head of Public Affairs Unit at the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) – C/Supt. Michael Amoako-Atta has been recognised among the top 25 Ghana Public Sector PR Leaders for his outstanding performance. The GIS is one of the toughest government agencies in Ghana, but he has continuously stood tall in managing the reputation of the Service, hence […] The post GIS PRO ranked
Agence Francaise Development (AFD) is providing technical support to the Expanded Kumasi Metropolitan Area for the preparation of a Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) under the Mobilize Your City (MYC) partnership. The plan or document spells out the direction for the development of Mobility issues within the coverage area. Engineer Dr. Williams Ackaah, Head of […] The post Sustainable
The Melcom mall has outdoored a new franchise to help promote and drive international tourism traffic into the country at Spintex. The new Franchise is a Lebanese restaurant, called “Hallab Gourmet 1881”, with the focus on hand crafted high quality sweets and food in a modern setting and at competitive prices. The Melcom Group of […] The post Melcom Mall outdoors new Lebanese Restaurant
Being the president’s No. 2 can be stifling—an afterthought at best and a liability at worst. Those constraints were on display during Vice President Harris’s tour of Africa, where she avoided the big news stories and issued a steady supply of lower-priority announcements, showing the greater effort required for her to bend the federal bureaucracy, with less […] The post Kamala
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been berated for allegedly issuing Certificate of Return to a wrong candidate in Ogun State. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State said INEC was wrong to have presented the Certificate of Return in Ikenne State Constituency to somebody who has withdrawn from the race before the […] The post INEC
The Lagos State Government on Saturday decried the growing rate of child abuse, announcing its readiness to prosecute the perpetrators. Titilola Vivour-Adeniyi, Executive Secretary, Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency spoke at the Parents Association Conference on Safeguarding and Child Protection at Awori Ajeromi Grammar School in Agboju, NAN reports. Represented by the Head, Psychology Department […] The post Lagos
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has condemned the arrest of three lawyers who were working on a petition for the All Progressives Congress in the Rivers state Governorship election. In a statement issued by the association’s National Publicity Secretary, Akorede Habeeb, the NBA President, Yakubu Maikyau, described the incident as unfortunate and disturbing. The Association […] The post NBA
A former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, says those protesting and kicking against the inauguration of the president-elect, Bola Tinubu, on 29 May, should not turn the country into a “banana republic”. Mr Obanikoro, a former ambassador of Nigeria to Ghana, made the remark while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) […] The post Don’t
The United Nations Environment Programme has said Nigeria will save about $1.3 billion yearly if it stops using air conditioners and refrigerators with energy efficiency ratios below globally acceptable Minimum Energy Performance Standards. It disclosed this in its latest report titled, “Project Overview of Scaling-Up Energy-Efficient and Climate-Friendly Cooling in Nigeria’s Nationally Determined Contribution Revision.” […] The post Nigeria
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