In what appeared to be a pre-election push for NPP in 2020, Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia spoke to a packed audience reemphasizing his commitment to strengthening Ghana’s economy. “A strong economy expands opportunities and allows individuals to venture into new territories,” said Bawumia at the Ghana Industrial Summit in Accra Tuesday. “We cannot develop a strong economy if we don’t ...

Halls of residence at tertiary institutions are known to be places where students have the absolute freedom to move around at any time, but it seems that is not the case for all. The newly converted Unity Hall of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) seems to have a different philosophy as it has some strict rules ...

Embattled gold trading firm Menzgold has extended the suspension on the payment of dividend and activities regarding its gold vault to September 28,2018. The initial suspension was to expire today, Wednesday September 19. In a statement Menzgold said: “Following our correspondence with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), we regret to advise that the Gold Vault Market product services will ...

Parliamentarians have been recalled from recess and expected to converge on Parliament House beginning Monday, 24 September 2018. Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Aaron Mik Oquaye noted in a press statement that the legislators are expected to debate some important bills. “In exercise of the power conferred on the Speaker by order 42 (3) of the standing orders of the Parliament ...

The Ministry of Youth and Sports have denied reports circulating in the media that players and technical members of the Black Starlets team were paid peanut on their return after failing to qualify for the 2019 Africa Youth Championship. Ghana could not make it to next year’s competition in Tanzania after losing on penalties to perennial rivals Nigeria in the ...

The Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association (GIBA) has warned it will resist attempts by Chinese Broadcasting company StarTimes to takeover the broadcasting space in Ghana through its arrangement with government. The Chinese company has secured a deal with government that will see it extend satellite TV to over 300 villages across the country. The communications ministry believes the move will help ...

The Asuogyaman district assembly has coughed out a hefty amount of GHC72,618.00 to renovate the residence of the district coordinating director of the area. The amount was approved for payment by the District Chief Executive (DCE) for Asuogyaman, Samuel Kwame Agyekum in May this year. The DCE is also reported to have spent a whopping amount of money to renovate ...

Government has been urged to stop giving allowances to both nurses and teacher trainees and invest such funds in Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET). Professor Stephen Adei, Former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), said “it is time to put the required emphasis on TVET because of its critical role in national development. By ...

The grand finale of the 2018 Edition of Miss Ghana Beauty Pageant will take place at the Accra Marriott Hotel on Saturday, 29th September 2018 at exactly 7pm. Tickets can be purchased at Baastona Total, Frankie’s, Jamrock, Citi FM, Buka Restaurant at the cost GHC 100 for Regular and GHC 200 for VIP or directly call the event organizers on ...

A group calling itself the National Concerned Spare Parts Dealers Association at Abossey Okai has revealed that it is scheduled to hold a massive demonstration against the government on Friday, September 21, 2018. According to Chairman of the group, Kwabena Agyei on Accra-based Okay Fm, they can no longer contain the hardship under the current administration following the imposition of ...