The Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has disclosed that the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, is considering reducing the number of his ministers. The Minister revealed this yesterday, during an interview on Accra-based Peace FM, to explain the President’s address to the nation last Sunday. The idea, if executed, would further reduce the number of ministers, which currently stands at 80. This would be similar to what the president did when he transitioned from his first term

The Chief Executive of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Dr. Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, has for the second time emerged as the ‘Public Sector Chief Executive Officer’ for the year 2022 at the Ghana Business Awards held at the plush Kempinski Hotel in Accra. It will be recalled that the NPA Boss was adjudged same award for the year 2021 for his Sterling Leadership, Achievement, Business Excellence and Professionalism at the Ghana CEO Excellence awards held earlier part of this year. The ceremony

Ghana will preside over the United Nations Security Council this month in New York, a historic moment in the country’s two-year tenure at the Security Council. The significance of Ghana presiding over the Council’s affairs for the month of November, stems from the fact that the UN Security Council is the principal organ for the maintenance and furtherance of international peace and security. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration in a media outlined some programmes of activities

Fellow Ghanaians, good evening. Back in 2020, at the outbreak of the Corona virus pandemic, I started a regular conversation with you that came to be popularly known as Fellow Ghanaians. It was a time of great fear of the unknown, and the entire world felt at risk. I came into your homes regularly to tell you what the experts were discovering about the virus, and what we should do. Now that we have seen the worst of the COVID-19, I can tell you that there were moments during those times when I

The Council of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Ghana (CIMG) has released the results of the second CIMG Professional Marketing Qualifications (PMQ) examinations which was organised in June this year. Addressing the media at a news conference, the National President of CIMG, Kasser Tee, stated that for the second CIMG PMQ exams, two centres presented candidates which were the Ghana School of Marketing and the University of Professional Studies, Accra. “Altogether, the two centres enrolled

Mr. Issahaku Chinnia Amidu, Deputy Minister for Water Resources and Sanitation, has announced that approximately 3.8 million people still lack access to safe drinking water and entreated Ghanaians to take water quality issues seriously. He disclosed that 5 in 10-point sources and 8 out of 10 household water is contaminated with E-coll and called for vigorous public education and sensitisation on how to keep water safe from point of fetching to point of usage. The minister made the call at the

On October 17, the Director General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, was relieved of his post. This was contained in a letter written to him by the Secretary to the President, Nana Asante Bediatuo, on behalf of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. The Office of the President subsequently named Dr. Eric Nkansah as the new Director General of the Ghana Education Service. His appointment which is an acting one takes immediate effect pending the advice of the Governing

The Bono Regional Health Directorate has announced that it is laying a foundation with the necessary logistics and human resources leading to the establishment of a standard Breast Cancer Care Unit in the region. Dr. Kwabena Kumi, Deputy Director in-charge of Clinical Care at the Directorate who made the announcement, said the unit would enable easy screening of people for breast cancer and give the necessary intervention at the initial stage of the disease. He said breast cancer remained the

The Kintampo Municipal Assembly has marked this year’s International Girl Child Day with a programme on the theme ‘Our Time is Now, Our Right Our Future”. The day which is marked annually all over the world was celebrated in the municipality with a float on some principal street of the municipality with drumming and dancing. Participants carried placards with inscriptions like; ‘Empowering Girls For a Brighter tomorrow’, ‘If You Educate a Girl, You Educate a Nation’, ‘Empower Girls

The Tema Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE) says preparations were far advanced to roll out a monthly keep fit walk to keep the residents healthy. The initiation of the monthly Tema Metro Health Walk comes at the back of the increasing number of hypertension and diabetic cases among most residents of the Harbour City. Before the monthly workout would commence, Yohane Nii Amarh Ashitey, the Tema MCE, with two different non-governmental organisations (NGOs), had organised separate free health screening

The Stool Father of the Beniana Clan has officially installed Moses Beniana Mensah, a businessman, as the head of the Tei Appiakia Beniana Family. The Tei Appiakia Beninana Family has roots at Osabunya, Old Ningo Blebo Royal Wem and Dodowa Amanfro Fiakonya. At a brief ceremony at the Blebo Royal Palace in Old Ningo to officially install Moses Beniana Mensah, Numo John Tetteh Kojo Lakpleku, Stool Father of the Clan, expressed his immense gratitude to the entire family members for unanimously settling

The Transport Forum (TTF) Ghana, a think tank with expertise in transport and logistics, says the government has to do all it can to restore the Black Star Shipping Line and national airline to boost the country’s economy. Reviving the two defunct transport lines, Jacob Agyemang, President of TTF Ghana, explained that it would first create employment for Ghanaians, and, lastly, rake in dollars to save the constant fragility of the cedi. “We need the Black Star Shipping Line and a national

The Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), Dr. Ernest Addison, has assured the market that the rapid depreciation of the cedi against the US dollar will soon stabilise after a meeting with banks and forex bureaus concluded with workable plans. According to the Governor, the recent sharp depreciation, which has seen the local currency plummet by more than 50 percent against the US dollar since the beginning of the year, is mainly due to speculation. However, he mentioned that with the coming on stream

Houston EB5 and 3INVEST have advised Ghanaian investors to take advantage of the EB5 programme, a government-approved investment opportunity that offers the safest route to US citizenship. The United States Immigration and Investment Programme is known as EB-5 which stands for Employment-Based Fifth Preference. Under the EB-5 Programme, the investors must invest at least $800,000 in a project located in a Target Employment Area (TEA), or $1,050,000 in a project located outside of a TEA. Currently,

American Rapper, Jadakisssays the remaining people in Kanye West’s (now known as Ye) inner circle need to help pick him, dust him off and get him back on his feet and he thinks fans can do their part too. He called on everyone to pray for the embattled ‘College Dropout’ rapper, so that God can sort things out. He feels similarly about Ma$e’s ongoing cold war with Diddy, and firmly believes they’ll eventually hash out their differences. Jadakiss was one of the many Rappers

In delivering his address on the state of the economy, President Akufo-Addo spent some time on the need for all Ghanaians to take steps to protect the Ghana cedi, which has been suffering massive depreciation against the United States dollar. In seeking to buttress his point, Akufo-Addo employed a French proverb about money stating thus: “Fellow Ghanaians, as the French would say, l’argent n’aime pas le bruit, to wit, money does not like noise, sika mp? dede.” “Where there is chaos,

Rapper and songwriter, Black Sherif won the ultimate award as 2022 Artiste of the Year at the just ended Ghana Music Awards UK. After a stiff competition, Black Sherif was adjudged winner after beating eight of the most talented award-winning Ghanaian artistes. He beat Sarkodie, Stonebwoy, King Promise, Diana Hamilton, Celestine Donkor, KiDi, Sarkodie, Stonebwoy, Akwaboah and Kuami Eugene. In addition to the Artiste of the Year award, Black Sherif also earned the bragging right as the Best New

The Socialists have ruled Ghana for 45 years, including28 straight years from 1972 to 2000. The Capitalists have ruled Ghana for only 20 years to date. And so, if Ghana’s economy is what it is today, who is to blame? Rawlings who was anti-West, went to the IMF eight times, six times under PNDC and twice under NDC; and he also crawled to the West and begged Ghana to be signed into a binding trade agreement, where we are compelled to import products that are fare cheaper than the same, we produce

The government has been urged to open an investigation into claims former prime minister Liz Truss’s phone was hacked while she was foreign secretary. The Mail on Sunday reported private messages between Ms Truss and foreign officials, including about the Ukraine war, fell into foreign hands. The hack was discovered during the summer Tory leadership campaign but the news was suppressed, the paper said. The government said it had “robust” cyber-threat protection in place. Levelling

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and French President Emmanuel Macron in their first call since Sunak took office agreed on Friday on greater cooperation to prevent migrants crossing the Channel, the British government said. A UK PM’s office spokesperson said the leaders were “committed to deepening our partnership to deter deadly journeys across the Channel that benefit organised criminals”. Sunak stressed the “importance for both nations to make the Channel route completely