The Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations has invited to a meeting teacher unions threatening to embark on a strike if the appointment of the new Director-General for the Ghana Education Service (GES) is not reversed. Three teacher unions had vowed to lay down their tools following the appointment of Dr. Eric Nkansah as the Director-General of the GES. They ...

Programmes Director of the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana, Dr Charles Nyaaba has expressed doubt that food prices will go down in December. This is due to the challenges farmers are going through including high cost of doing business, he said. Dr Nyaaba told TV3’s Roland Walker on the Big Issue, Friday November 4 that “depending on the commodities, food ...

A former Director General of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) Dr Nii Moi Thompson has called for the amendment of the Bank of Ghana Act in order to make economic growth and job creation the main objectives of the monetary policy. In his view, the current approach to monetary policy is anti-growth and anti-jobs therefore, the Act must be ...

Mr Ken Ofori-Atta has assured Ghanaians that they have a Finance Minister who has gone through the aches and pains and nobody can really come and say the team managing the economy does not know what they are doing. Speaking at a meeting with the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) in Accra on Thursday November 3, he assured businesses that ...

Burkina Faso’s new military leader on Wednesday visited Mali for his first foreign trip since taking power, holding what his Malian counterpart hailed as “fruitful” exchanges on peace and security. Captain Ibrahim Traore, who seized power in Burkina Faso in a September 30 coup, flew to the Malian capital Bamako for what Mali’s foreign ministry said would be a roughly ...

outh African police are investigating the discovery of at least 21 bodies suspected of being illegal miners found near an active mine in the town of Krugersdorp, west of Johannesburg. According to police, 19 bodies were discovered on Wednesday afternoon and two more were discovered on Thursday morning. Police said they suspect that the bodies were moved to the location ...

The Institute for Energy Security (IES) has admonished the government to revive the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) to help curb increasing fuel prices. The IES in a statement described the government’s decision to import fuel to address cost-related issues as “reactionary, morally indefensible” and a misplaced priority that will not address the rampant fuel price increases in the long term. ...

Some frustrated drivers in the Greater Accra Region have pledged to review their prices anytime there is fuel increments in the country. According to them, they will not wait on the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) to engage with government on the upward adjustment percentage. Speaking to Accra-based TV3, one driver argued that, Oil Marketing Companies (OMC) don’t give ...

The Ghana Football Association has chosen to remain tight-lipped regarding the Black Stars’ budget for the World Cup. This comes on the back of Sports Minister, Mustapha Ussif’s comment that the budget will be revealed after the tournament in Qatar. The Member of Parliament insisted that the team is likely to receive the same appearance fee of $100,000 and a ...

The Government of Ghana has been told to tell Ghanaians how much has been accrued from higher-than-budgeted oil prices. The government has also been asked to explain why it is not using part of it to subsidise pump prices that threaten the economy and livelihoods. Tus comes at a time the Minority in Parliament has sked the government to cushion ...