Government after several negotiations with Organised Labour has increased base pay for the 2023 financial year by 30%. The increment takes effect from January 1, 2023. This follows a meeting with Organised Labour on Thursday, January 12 after ten unsuccessful negotiations between both parties. “The base pay has been increased by 30% for the 2023 financial year…As I said this ...

Individual bondholders in Ghana have petitioned the Minister of Finance, Kenneth Ofori-Atta, to exclude them from government’s Domestic Debt Exchange Programme. According to them, their inclusion in the Programme since the notice was served on Saturday, December 24, 2022 has been “extremely unsettling and catastrophic for our membership and all others affected”. They are, therefore, urging Mr Ofori-Atta to grant ...

National Chairman of opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Johnson Asiedu Nketia says concerns of misunderstandings that are leading to division among party members are being resolved in a harmonious manner. Leadership of the party including national and regional executives, and also Council of Elders have been meeting in Kumasi to reconcile feuding factions in the party. This, according to Asiedu ...

Alhaji Karim Grunsah, a member of Black the management committee members also deserved the $100,000 appearance fee received at the 2022 World Cup. The King Faisal president in an interview confirmed the Black Stars management committee members each received $100,000 as appearance fees at the tournament. Speaking in an interview on Kumasi-based station Akoma FM, the veteran football administrator justified ...

The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has revoked the licenses of 30 Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) for breaching the regulations of the industry. Some of the OMCs are said to owe the government over ¢400 million cedis in the form of unpaid taxes by the end 0f 2022. A list of the companies published by the NPA said the licenses of ...

President Akufo-Addo has intervened in the dismissal of the eight female students of China Senior High School. A statement from the Education Ministry on Friday revealed that the President made the move after his attention was drawn to it. Accordingly, the Minister for Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum has directed Ghana Education Service (GES) to revise its decision, the statement ...

A Political Scientist at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Dr Richard Amokao Baah has said persons seeking to contest in the internal elections of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) and other political parties ought to have the wherewithal to push their agenda through. Anyone seeking to contest in the polls but does not have enough ...

The Metropolitan Archbishop of the Anglican Church in charge of the province of West Africa has criticised persons who are against the success of President Akufo-Addo and the country. Most Rev. Dr Cyril Ben Smith at a New Year service at the Jubilee House on Tuesday urged Ghanaians to support the President in prayers in difficult and good times. He ...

The implementation of the revised Electronic Transfer levy (E-Levy) rate of 1% kicks off today, Wednesday, January 11. The Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications has announced its preparedness to implement the new rate. The service providers are Airtel Mobile Commerce (Ghana) Limited, GCB G-Money, Mobile Money Limited, Vodafone Mobile Financial Services Limited and Zeepay Ghana Limited. In a press release issued ...

Chelsea has signed Atletico Madrid striker Joao Felix on loan for the remainder of the season. Arsenal and Manchester United were both interested in signing the 23-year-old, but he preferred a move to Chelsea. Felix has also agreed to a one-year contract extension with Atletico until the summer of 2027. “Chelsea is one of the great teams in the world ...