The Volta Regional Secretariat of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has warned the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to stop championing tribal agenda in the region, as election 2024 approaches because the people are now awake and will no more be hoodwinked, as it used to be in the past. According to them, the era NDC depended on propaganda to mobilise votes in the Volta Region was over and that the people are now looking at a political party that will bring them development. Addressing a
Former President John Dramani Mahama says the poor economic policies of the government have worsened the living conditions of the poor in the country. In a facebook post, Mr Mahama said his recent trip to the Upper West, Northern and Savannah regions clearly shows that the standard of living has exacerbated and that the development is attributable to poor management of the national economy. According to him, high rate of inflation, which is now 54.1%, up from 50.3% in November, coupled with price
The Maltese Minister of Foreign, European Affairs and Trade, Dr Ian Borg, has assured that his country remains committed to enhancing the partnership it enjoyed with Ghana and the National Lottery Authority (NLA) for the last 60 years. He explained that the collaboration must be expanded to cover other areas of national development for the benefit of the peoples of both countries. Dr Borg stated this when he unveiled the bust of the first Director General of the NLA, Mr Francis William Brennan,
Dr. Kobi Mensah, a Political Marketing Strategist at the University of Ghana Business School, has stated that the current economic difficulties or challenges the country is going through do not make the 2024 election a straight fight for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) as the surest bet unless they work for it. According to him, it would not augur well for the NDC to think that the 2024 election was a done deal for victory, because of the economic hardship, unless they come
On January 28, 2020, the government announced the consolidation the hotlines of all the emergency services – Ghana Police Service (GPS), Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) and National Ambulance Service (NAS). The then hotlines – 191, 192 and 193 – respectively for the service agencies aforementioned were replaced with 112 to provide more efficient, safe and improved service delivery to the citizens. President Akufo-Addo, at the launch of the new hotline, warned Ghanaians against abusing
Alhaji Muhammed Muntaka, Member of Parliament (MP) for Asawasi and Minority Chief Whip, has donated about 1,000 dual desks, about 20,000 exercise books and 4,000 school uniforms to schools from primary to Senior High Schools in the constituency to address furniture challenges in the education sector. The MP also donated startup equipments including industrial, Netting machines, hair driers and hand sewing machines at the cost of GH¢110,000 to apprentices. It was funded by the Ghana Education
A 350 capacity hostel for students at the Tepa Nurses and Midwifery College has been commissioned. It became operational within five months following the assumption of office of the new Principal in August 2022. The Principal, Mr. Albert Opoku, explained that the facility would go to help in solving persistence accommodation challenges and reduce the movement of students from one campus to another on a daily basis. He disclosed that the management of the college had established a five-year development
Twenty-one workers of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi who had served in various capacities between 30 and 40 years have been honoured. Nineteen others, including Ernest Appau Abban, Best Administrative Staff (Senior Category), who excelled in various categories, also received awards. Dr. Augustine Tawiah of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Directorate of KATH emerged the Overall Best Worker for the health facility in 2022, took home GH¢15,000 as his prize. The first and second
A native of Assin Dwaaso in the Assin Central Municipality in the Central Region, Mr Godfred Nti Anewu, has singularly given a complete facelift to the Afutukwaa Primary School located at Afutukwaa in the same municipality. Mr Anewu paid for the re-roofing of portions of the building, which leaked badly, replaced damaged windows and door frames, fixed new doors and windows and mended visible cracks in the building as well as repainting of the old building. It was gathered that the massive renovation
The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) organized an end-of-year get-together for the Association of Retired Immigration Officers (ARIO) on Wednesday in an effort to provide members of the Association a platform to dialogue with the Service’s leadership. Addressing the gathering, Deputy Comptroller General of Immigration in charge of Finance and Administration (DCG/F&A), Mr Isaac Owusu Mensah, who spoke on behalf of the Comptroller-General of Immigration revealed Management’s intention
Dr Bridjan Foster Ansong, the Deputy Director of Operations at the National Ambulance Service (NAS), has stated that NAS responded to over 110,000 cases across the country between 2020 and 2022. He has, however, noted that the remarkable achievement notwithstanding, NAS cannot be said to be everywhere to be able to respond to all emergencies across the country promptly and stressed the need to have First Responders at various communities and strategic locations, who could respond and stabilise
The Education Minister, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, has advised students to remain focused and study hard so that the huge investment being made in the education sector does not go waste. He explained that if all students went to school regularly, attend all classes and study hard, there was no way they would not pass their examinations to make their families proud, move forward in their education process and also position themselves for the field of work after school. Dr. Osei Adutwum gave the advice
A New Patriotic Party (NPP) government under the presidency of Francis Addai-Nimoh would ensure that the basic characteristics of the economy are maintained to address the equation between revenue and expenditure. The flagbearer hopeful of the party said given the mandate to lead, he would cut down some unnecessary expenditure. Giving an assessment of the performance of the government in an interview with The Chronicle, the former lawmaker of Mampong Constituency said the second administration
The Found and former flag bearer of the Ghana Union Movement (GUM), Christian Kwabena Andrew, who is also known as Osofo Kyiri Abosom, says with the current prevailing economic situation in the country, Ghanaian can only make it right if they vote for GUM. According to him, GUM is the only alternative that Ghanaians could fall upon to turn the economic misfortunes of the state around. Addressing the party’s maiden press conference of the year in Accra last Wednesday, he said the two dominant
The Ministry of Education has opened a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Senior High Schools (SHSs) portal for prospective students in the 2023 school placement and selection process. The portal gives access to the list of new STEM SHSs included in the 2023 school placement and selection process. It also provides information on available STEM programmes and their career pathways as well as details on existing schools that will be offering STEM programmes during the 2023 academic
Ghana, from independence, took up established traditional values and forms of discipline, which included the respect for adults and elders. As the saying goes, a child is born of a woman and brought up by the entire community. Everyone becomes responsible for the growth and discipline of that child. A child who misconducted himself in town would get punished by adults and then dragged home, to be punished the more. Three successful military take-overs took place in this country, without any change
The leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele has urged Nigerians to pick a presidential candidate that would put the country together. Primate Ayodele disclosed this in a statement signed by his Media Aide, Oluwatosin Osho, on Sunday. He also urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, not to be intimidated over the issue of BVAS, stressing that the electoral body stand its ground because the election is a serious one. The clergyman noted that BVAS was
The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) has said that its ban on cash withdrawals for all federal and state accounts is to help governors and not to fight them. The NFIU, made this known in a statement on Saturday by its Chief Media Analyst, Ahmed Dikko, hours after the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) faulted the January 5, 2023 announcement by the NFIU, directing banks to stop executing demands for cash from public accounts from March 1, 2023. “The recent NFIU Advisory and Guidelines
The Nigerian consulate in Johannesburg has complained to the South African government after city authorities disconnected the consulate’s electricity supplies over unpaid bills, a government official said Friday. City officials on Wednesday went to the consulate, in an upmarket northern suburb, to cut off supplies over 400,000 rand ($23,300) in outstanding charges, according to a city official. The consulate denied the officials access, describing them in a statement as “an invasion squad”.
The Director of the Civil Society directorate of the Presidential Campaign Council of the APC, Najatu Muhammad, has quit partisan politics. Ms Muhammad announced her decision in a letter dated 19 January and addressed to the National Chairman of the APC, Abdullahi Adamu. She stated that she is resigning from partisan politics due to lack of ideological differences among political parties. Ms Muhammad said recent developments in the political space made it impossible for her to continue partisan
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