The Management of PassionAir has announced it will commence domestic flight operations at the Sunyani Airport from Friday, September 9 this year to airlift passengers from Sunyani to Accra four times in a week. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo inaugurated the first phase of the rehabilitation and expansion of the airport on Wednesday, August 3 … The post PassionAir

US investment banking giant, Goldman Sachs has raised concerns about what it describes as “No sense of urgency” by government in closing a programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). According to the Economic Research wing of the bank, the issue came up during their recent visit to Ghana to engage with authorities on status … The post We’re concerned

Some 13 start-ups under the University of Professional Studies, Accra Enterprise and Innovative Centre (UEIC) have pitched their business ideas to get financing.? The 13 start-ups, including four females and nine males as founders, took turns to convince a six-panel judges of the viability and prospects of their respective businesses to get the needed investment … The post 13

Ghanaians need to rethink how to start governing natural resources as opposed to exploiting them, Professor Raymond Atuguba has said. The Dean of the University of Ghana, School of Law, said it was unfortunate that the theory of exploitation of natural resource, which Ghana inherited as a colonial legacy had remained till date. He said … The post Shift from resource

Presidential candidate Raila Odinga has formally filed a petition challenging the election results in Kenya's Supreme Court on Monday, according to one of Odinga's lawyers, Daniel Maanzo.

The Chief of the Yameriga community in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region, Nab Kougbira-Maantihiig, has observed that the most reliable intervention to restore land degradation in the five regions of the north is through the Farmer Managed and Natural Regeneration (FMNR) concept. The chief stressed that the land reclamation project was more … The post Yameriga Chief

A level 100 student of the Ashesi University, Mr Godwin Abugbilla, has begun a mentorship project in the Bawku West District of the Upper East Region to help curb the spate of school dropouts in the area. The move dubbed, “Students Activeness and Motivational Award Project (SAM AP)” with a grant from the Ashesi University … The post Mentorship to curb school

Raila Odinga led his Azimio la Umoja principals in submitting the petition at Milimani Law Courts

The Colleges of Education Teachers Association of Ghana (CETAG) has served notice that if government fails to grant them members’ demands concerning their “full” conditions of service and compensate them for all-year-round academic work by Wednesday, August 31, they will advise themselves. The Association expressed disappointment that government has not handled matters to do with […]

Raila Odinga, narrowly defeated in the presidential election, has filed a challenge, his lawyers say.

A-ten day business resilience and continuity programme for some selected companies has been held in Accra. The programme which was organised by the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) in collaboration with the Ministries of Health and Trade and Industry forms part of business continuity and crisis management programme. It was under the Japan funded … The post Business

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will starts his tour of the Upper West and Savannah today, Monday August 22. “I will be touring the Upper West Region on Monday and Tuesday. Follow my regional working tours on all my social media handles,” Mr Akufo-Addo tweeted. He will, on this tour, commission completed projects, inspect ongoing […]

The Deputy Minister of Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development, Mr Augustine Collins Ntim has undertaken a tour of over 20 Municipal and District Assemblies in the Ashanti Region to assess their performance on mainly the government’s flagship programmes. It forms part of the Ministry’s comprehensive plan to constantly assess the performance of the Metropolitan, … The post Deputy

The Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, Ignatius Baffour Awuah, has called for a new cooperative law that will instill modern business principles in the cooperative system. He said such a law must be able to do away with the welfare mindset that governed the activities of cooperatives and focus on being seen as full-fledged … The post New Coorporative

The people of Abofu, near Achimota, marked their Homowo festival with sprinkling of Kpokpoi at heritage sites around the town. By traditional norms and practices of the Gas, after the major festival at Ga Mashi, the “villages” under the jurisdiction of Ga Traditional Council Chiefs are then permitted to mark theirs. Thus, the Abofu town, … The post Chiefs, people of Abofu observe

The Executive Director of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO), Commissioner of Police (COP) Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, has called on the public to support victims of abuse. This, she said, would help provide for them and ensure their recovery, rehabilitation and reintegration into society. COP Danquah made the appeal when she and other … The post EOCO boss, 4 others

Redevelopment works on the reconstruction of the 100-year-old Takoradi Market Circle project is almost completed, officials have said. Director of the Takoradi Sub Metro of the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly Nana Asempaneye Yeboah II made the revelation during the maiden edition of Connect FM’s The People’s Parliament. Hundreds of traders in Sekondi-Takoradi participated in the programme […]

Peter Boamah Otokunor Deputy General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Peter Boamah Otokunor has made his intention known to lead the NDC as General Secretary. Former Deputy Read More... The post Otokunor,

The Executive Director of the Perfector of Sentiments Foundation (POS), Mr Jonathan Osei Owusu, has appealed to the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to grant amnesty to non-violent drug users who have been convicted to be rehabilitated and returned home to their families. According to him, such persons have problems with addictions, adding that the … The post Pardon

A member of the Education Committee in Parliament, Dr Clement Apaak has called for dispassionate investigations into the causes of the violence on some of the university campuses especially the University of Ghana (UG) and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and technology (KNUST). It is only through a thorough investigation that the real brains […]