Dean of the Business School at the University of Cape Coast, Professor John Gatsi has called for the establishment of a long term national development plan for the country. In his view, the country lacks such a plan hence the development challenges. Speaking on the New Day show on TV3, Prof Gatsi indicated that the current challenges facing the country ...

Ghana’s Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta is in Washington, DC, to attend the 2022 IMF and World Bank Annual meetings and advance negotiations with the IMF on a Programme that addresses Ghana’s macroeconomic and structural challenges. As part of the Annual Meetings Programme, the Finance Minister, on October 11th, 2022, attended the 108th Meeting of Ministers and Governors of the Group ...

The Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, responsible for Lands and Forestry, Benito Owusu-Bio, has sounded a clear warning to illegal miners to stay off forest reserves as he stressed that regardless of positions, they will be driven out and sanctioned. “No matter who you are, we don’t care, if you enter the forest reserves we will drive you ...

Blay & Associates, the law firm belong to former National Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Freddie Blay, has explained its decision to defend four accomplices of Aisha Huang, who was arrested for her alleged involvement in illegal small-scale mining, in court. Lands For Sale On Tuesday, October 11, it came to light in court that Blay & ...

The Chief Justice, Kwasi Anin-Yeboah has announced the judges residential complex in Kumasi in the Ashanti region is going to be commissioned next week Monday. The Chief Justice said this when he was speaking during a meeting with the leadership of Judicial Service Staff association of Ghana in Accra on Tuesday October 11. Lands For Sale Explaining why he appeared ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama stands tall to lead the National Democratic Congress (NDC) into the next general elections in 2024, an aspiring General Secretary of the NDC, Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah has said. He said interested persons in the flagbearer position of the NDC are welcomed to contest but he strongly believes that John Mahama, who was the NDC’s 2022 presidential ...

The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has fined nine oil marketing companies GHS2,215,000 for engaging in illicit Third-Party trading of petroleum products, and unlawful lifting of petroleum products. The companies are Bello Petroleum, Jas Petroleum, Oval Energy, Kros Energy, Safety Petroleum, Santol Energy. The rest are Riseglobe Energy, Sayon Energy and Cigo Energy. A release issued by the NPA directed that ...

Eritrean authorities have intensified military mobilisation and are hunting down draft dodgers across the country, as the war in neighbouring Ethiopia escalates, multiple Eritrean sources have told the BBC. The latest round-ups are the worst so far as women have not been spared, with many elderly mothers and fathers detained in a bid to force their children, who have gone ...

Elon Musk has denied reports he spoke to Vladimir Putin before posting a Twitter poll with his suggestions for ending Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Ian Bremmer, head of the Eurasia Group political risk consultancy, alleged that Mr Musk had personally told him about the conversation with Mr Putin. But Mr Musk has now refuted this. “I have spoken to Putin ...

In this regard, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan “briefed the Russian President on the Ukrainian side’s position on a number of issues” CAIRO, October 12. /TASS/. UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan reiterated his country’s readiness to mediate contacts between Russia and Ukraine during his talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, the WAM news agency ...