The Auditor-General has submitted to Parliament a total number of 13 reports on public accounts for the year ended December 31, 2015. A statement signed by Joseph K. Ghunney, the Director of Public Relations of the Audit Service and copied to the Ghana News Agency on Tuesday, said ‘the Auditor-General wishes to inform all stakeholders ...

Members of the Minority on Parliament’s Appointment Committee say they were forced to boycott today’s vetting over the Majority’s decision to “surprise” them by holding the vetting in spite of an agreement to go on break today [Wednesday], ahead of Easter. The Member of Parliament for the North Tongu Constituency, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, who spoke ...

The Minority members on the Appointments Committee  of Parliament have boycotted sitting following concerns that they are being overstretched. Parliament is expected to go on recess by Friday, April 7, however the Appointments Committee will continue vetting the remaining 50 deputy ministerial nominees named by the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. While reading Parliament’s business ...

The Bank of Ghana (BOG) is on a nationwide outreach program to educate Ghanaians about the security features on the new commemorative GHc 5 bank note in circulation. The program, dubbed, “Information Security Awareness Program” is spearheaded by the Head of Currency Management Department, Edward Musey. Edward Musey at a media encounter in Tamale, said ...

A Media Coalition against illegal mining comprising major media organisations in the country was on Tuesday launched to wage a crusade against the menace. The Coalition would collect one million signatures from Ghanaians and individuals interested in joining the fight against illegal mining, otherwise known as “galamsey”, and forward it to the presidency for radical ...

The cause of the “mysterious” deaths of four students at the Kumasi Academy Senior High School at Asokore Mampong in the Ashanti Region has been found to be Meningitis. This was revealed after autopsies of three of the deceased were conducted by three health facilities; St. Patrick’s Hospital, St. Michael’s Hospital and the School of Medical ...

A policeman has been arrested in the Upper West Regional Capital, Wa, for allegedly shooting a 23-year-old civilian who was riding an unregistered motorbike. Addressing the media today, the Deputy Regional Police Commander, ACP Edward Oduro Kwarteng said the officer involved is currently in the grips of the regional police command and assisting with investigations. ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has defended his decision to name two Ministers of State at the Education and Agricultural Ministries. Speaking as he swore in four Ministers of State at the Flagstaff House, President Akufo-Addo said such critical sectors needed additional “additional talents” to ensure their success. The President Akufo-Addo was heavily criticised when his final ...

At a time government is considering plans to cede part of management of the Electricity Company of Ghana, some players in the industry have renewed appeals against the move. They argue that the plan if approved will have minimal impact in turning around ECG’s inefficiencies. About 350 million dollars out of the total 500 million ...

The First Lady, Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo, has encouraged young women undergoing training in electronics, to develop industry-demand skills that will help them participate meaningfully in the labor market. Speaking at a graduation ceremony at the Pentecost Vocational Training Institute (PVTI) under the theme “Female Professionals in Electronics”, the First Lady asked the female graduates not ...

According to an updated fact of the World Health Organisation (WHO, March 2017), one of the key facts of depression is: “at worst depression leads to suicide”. In the month of February and March, 2017, suicide made headlines in Ghana. Coincidentally this year, the World Health Day theme is “Depression: Let’s talk”. April 7 is ...

Local airline company, City Link, has initiated processes for a comeback at least within the short to medium term. This is the indication from the Director General of the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority, Simon Allotey. According to him, the airline company in February 2017 renewed its air carrier license after five years of inactivity. “City ...

Over one hundred young female vocational and technical students have graduated from a 1.08 million Euro programme designed to boost the number of girls and young women in the male-dominated electronics sector. Dubbed “Female Professionals in Electronics”, the initiative which was inaugurated in 2016 is a partnership between electronic manufacturing giant Samsung West Africa, German ...

UNICEF, in collaboration with the Ghana Education Service (GES), has introduced a Mobile School Report Card (MSRC) scheme aimed at improving data collection and performance of teachers in more than 700 basic schools. The home-grown technology, developed with the backing of USAID, is to help education officials monitor the work of teachers which previously was ...

Apple has acknowledged that the design of its standalone desktop computer, the Mac Pro, restricted its ability to update the model. The firm has announced a limited refresh of the machine, the first time it has upgraded its innards since 2013. But it said it would not be able to release a “new model” until ...

The UN Security Council is to hold emergency talks after an alleged chemical attack in Syria left dozens of civilians dead and wounded. The release of chemicals in a rebel-held town in Idlib province brought furious international reaction. Officials in Damascus deny opposition and Western claims that they used chemical weapons. Russia’s defence ministry said ...

Chelsea manager Antonio Conte “may be the best”, says Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola who has “learned a lot” from teams managed by the Italian. Guardiola and Conte are both in their debut season in English football and face each other again on Wednesday. The latter has fared better, with his Chelsea side leading the ...

The cancer of illegal mining, also known as galamsey, that has gone unchecked in Ghana could escalate already existing tensions with neighbouring Cote d’Ivoire a security analyst, Dr. Kwesi Aning, has warned. The analyst noted that a number of our rivers polluted by galamsey run into Cote d’Ivoire threatening the livelihood of its nationals. Dr. Aning’s comments ...

“Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” This is one of my favourites quotes from Martin Luther King Jnr. Every human being lives in a community whose activities directly or indirectly affect their lives. In keeping with this, it is prudent that either individually or collectively, we embark on social responsibility programmes when the need ...