The country has for some days now witnessed a considerable decline in the prices of petrol and diesel. However, the commercial transport operators have turned a blind eye to the development. Transport unions, which advocate for increases in fares whenever fuel prices are increased, are yet to act upon the reduction, which is inconsistent with their agitations, whenever there is an increase. In the last quarter of this year, transport fares have increased astronomically, on the back of a 40% initial
The Executive Director of the National Service Scheme (NSS), Mr Osei Asibey Antwi has made a clarion call to the powers that be, to give the Scheme a mandate to become an Authority, by supporting a draft bill which is currently in the bossom of the President. According to Mr Antwi, obtaining the status of an Authority will enable the Scheme enter into joint ventureship with other companies and engage in commercial activities to generate revenue internally, to augment their activities. He said
The Minister for Trade and Industry and New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential aspirant, Mr Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen, has pleaded with the people of Volta Region, which he considers as a his second home and Ghanaians as a whole, to exercise patience as the government takes steps to solve the current economic meltdown. Speaking at the celebration of this year’s Gbidukor Festival by the chiefs and people in the Gbi traditional area over the weekend, the minister, who received a rousing welcome
Following the presentation of the 2023 budget and financial update by Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori Atta, the minority caucus in parliament has declared that they will not accept the GH¢1.4 billion allocation as a contingency vault, that is included on page 209 of the 2023 Budget statement. Their reason, according to the minority leader, Haruna Iddrisu, is that this allocation is an additional GH¢ 400 million, compared with last year’s allocation of GH¢993million, which cannot be happening
When the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) military government, led by the late Jerry John Rawlings instituted the National Farmers’ Day in 1985 with the first winner taking home a cutlass, Wellington boots and other agriculture items at a rally held at Osino, in the Eastern Region, many people did not see the importance of it. A cutlass and wellington boots as a prize would have been considered an insult today, but the winner was proud of it. The negative comments that followed the
A public forum has been held in Kumasi by local Secretariat of the Holistic Reinforcement for Sustainable Development (HORESD) project to educate residents on an integrated waste management system. The forum, organised on the theme: “Localisation of Sustainable Development Goals – Fostering Community Ownership and Engendering Local Leadership in the Achievement of SDGs indicators,” was meant to localise efforts at sustaining development. The forum follows the inauguration of Territorial
The Deputy Minister for Lands Natural Resources, George Mireku Duker, has charged the first batch of River Wardens to execute their work without fear or favour. Speaking at a day’s orientation exercise held on Thursday, December 1, 2022 for the Wardens on the arduous, yet nationalistic task ahead of them, Mr Mireku Duker enlightened the Wardens that they have the trust and confidence of the entire country to provide adequate security and protection at the various river bodies, where illegal
Mr. Augustus Nana Akwesi Andrews, the Ashanti Regional chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), says his pre-occupation in his second term of office is to work and add to the electoral fortunes of the party in the region. The party chairman stated that the mandate to lead the party for the second time would spur him on to make Ashanti region NDC’s stronghold in NPP’s backyard. He intends to do this by improving upon the votes from 26.1% in 2020to 30% plus in the
The Member of Parliament for Bosomtwe, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has cautioned farmers not to prevent their children from going to school, adding that, there was the need for all children to benefit from education at all costs so they could gain the needed skills and knowledge to help them perform well whatever they find themselves doing after school. He also appealed to all parents to take a keen interest in the education of their children by visiting their schools to interact with the teachers as
The Jospong Group of Companies (JGC) and Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL) on Monday, December 5, 2022 began this year’s (2022) Service of Thanksgiving. The Thanksgiving service is a yearly celebration by JGC and ZGL to commemorate the awesomeness of God throughout the year, despite challenges along the way. Themed “Celebrating The Goodness of The Lord”, the five-day event (Monday, December 5 to Friday, December 9, 2022) which kicked-off at the Adjirigarnor headquarters of Zoomlion
“Better late than never,” Dolly Parton tweeted with a wink Sunday in announcing that she had joined TikTok The 11-time Grammy winner debuted her TikTok profile, @DollyParton, and released “Berry Pie,” a Holiday baking ditty drawing from traditional bluegrass styles, exclusively on TikTok as a sound for fans to use in their own videos. Her first TikTok, backed with her hit “9 to 5,” was captioned, “I have arrived!” Parton is already hugely popular on TikTok, according to the
Elton John will headline the Glastonbury Festival next summer in what will be the final UK show of his farewell tour, the festival announced Friday. John will top the bill on the Pyramid Stage on June 25, the music festival’s final night, Glastonbury organizer Emily Eavis said in a statement posted on the festival’s website. The Glastonbury Festival is held most years in Somerset, southwest England. In 2021, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar and Paul McCartney were the headline artists.
‘Squid Game’ Actor, Oh Young-soo will stand trial on charges of indecent assault after a woman accused him of inappropriately touching her in 2017, a South Korean court said. The district court in Seongnam city said that prosecutors indicted the 78-year-old Emmy nominee last week over the allegations and that his trial will begin in February. Kim Myeong-un, an official at Seongnam’s district prosecutors’ office, said it could not confirm specific details about Oh’s case, which was first
Veteran Gospel Artiste, Mrs Amy Newman is set torelease a new single titled ‘W’ewie,’ (It is finished) on Wednesday December 7. Mrs Amy Newman told The Chronicle that “I used the story of the lost sheep in the Bible to compose the song. Like the good Shepherd, every single sheep matters to Him that is why he can keep the 99 and go in search of the lost one.” She further added that, “I had earlier spoken about my dark days when I was suffering depression. Whilst in search of God, He
2007. I sat beside the Maestro Abedi Pele, the celebrated father of Dede Ayew, on a trip to Namibia representing Ghana. I was part of a three-member delegation put together to market the AFCON trophy ahead of CAN 2008, to be hosted by Ghana. Riks Brobby representing the LOC chairman was with us. I was chair of the Accra Venue Organising Committee. Our interaction over a three-day period got me closer to Abedi, one of Africa’s greatest footballers, who then retired. In truth, however,
The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has resumed operations at the Kaduna-Abuja railway, nine months after nine people were killed and scores of other passengers were abducted by terrorists who attacked the train in a community near Kaduna. The services of the train were abruptly suspended after the 28 March, 2022, attack. On Monday, at exactly 9:45 a.m. the first train, since the attack, left the Kaduna terminal for the country’s capital, Abuja. There were only a handful of passengers on
Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo has terminated a road contract in Aguata Local Government Area, over alleged incompetence and delay in delivery by the contractor. Though the name of the company handling the contract was not mentioned, a video of the governor’s visit to the site has been making the rounds on the internet. In the video, Soludo who paid an unscheduled visit on Sunday to the road construction site referred to the company as useless and lacking the capacity to deliver
Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara has dumped the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Dogara was received into the party during the presidential campaign by the party’s presidential candidate and former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar in the nation’s commercial capital, Lagos State. This comes 48 hours after a group led by Dogara, the Northern Leaders Consultative Forum adopted Atiku as the preferred presidential
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu has said that Nigerians in the diaspora should be entitled to vote but noted that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is yet to assure Nigerians that the electronic transmission of election results is reliable. Tinubu, 70, stated this on Monday during an an appearance at Chatham House in London, the United Kingdom. Asked on his plans for diaspora voting, the former governor of Lagos State said, “If
An EasyJet flight bound for the UK from Poland had to be diverted to the Czech Republic on Sunday due to a report of a “possible bomb” on board. The low-cost British airline’s flight EZY6276 was heading from Krakow to Bristol on Sunday evening but the pilot was forced to make an emergency landing so that law enforcement could sweep the plane for explosives. Prague Airport officials confirmed in a tweet that the plane landed safely in the capital of the Czech Republic at 10:50
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