The Parliamentary Select Committee on Communications is questioning how Busy Ghana got a 4G authorization through the back door when other players paid millions of dollars for their 4G licenses. The law makers raised the question at a recent meeting with the leadership of the Broadband Communications Chamber (BBCC), where issues about sanitizing the 4G space and strengthening local content ...

A Tuesday night violence among supporters of the ruling party in Karaga has caused the District Chief Executive and the party youth organizer who is also the Youth Employment Agency director to flee the area. Mr. Alhassan Yabdoo, chairman of the area’s Security Council, and Mohammed Baba Osman all raised security concerns before fleeing to the Regional capital, Tamale to ...

The Ghanaian footballer who confessed to the harrowing murder of his mother and sister in Italy just four months ago has been released from prison in Parma even though he has been declared ‘socially dangerous’. Solomon Nyantakyi was released from prison custody this week on the grounds of ‘mental instability’ after judges considered his medical records. The former of Italian ...

The Central Bank has said untrained staff in the banking sector and the high cost of borrowing are major causes of rising loan default. Non-performing loans in the sector currently stand at 14.2 percent high, above the accepted benchmark of 5 percent. According to statistics from Rural Banks Performance Report as at March this year, 98 out of the 121 ...

It seems the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is not ready to make public the supposed true findings made by the Prof. Kwesi Botchwey committee on why the party was defeated in the 2016 polls. That is the position of the party’s General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, who said its only meant for internal consumption. “We’ve taken a position that ...

Officials of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will tomorrow, October 26, 2017 meet Parliament’s select committee of Finance. Topmost among the issues officials of the Bretton Wood institution will be discussing with the MPs will be government’s decision to issue GhC10m bonds to retire the energy sector debts which is threatening the survival of some local banks. The IMF wants ...

The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) is behind the leaked “fake” Kwesi Botchwey report to divert attention from the current difficulties in the country, General Secretary of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia has said. He said on Tuesday that he doubted any member of the NDC was behind the alleged leakage of the report insisting ...

A former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Betty Mould Iddrisu could be nursing an ambition to became the first female Chairperson of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) if the posters circulating on social media are anything to go by. The NDC last week revealed its time table for the election of new officers staring from branch, constituency, regional ...

lack Stars captain Asamoah Gyan is venturing into the aviation industry having successfully operated in the transport, boxing and detergent sectors. Popularly known as “Baby Jet”, the Ghana striker has obtained the requisite licenses to operate Baby Jet Airways. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo made the disclosure when he opened the first Aerospace and Aviation Exhibition of West Africa, dubbed ...

Constituents in the Assin Central have promised a showdown with detractors of the lawmaker for the area. They alleged that some elements within the party in collusion with National Democratic Congress (NDC) faithful are planning a demonstration against New Patriotic Party (NPP) firebrand Kennedy Agyepong, who is also the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency. But in response to ...