The Member of Parliament for Jaman North, Siaka Stevens in the Brong Ahafo region has charged the Electoral Commission to scrap all ineffective political parties from its database According to him, the Electoral Commission must be blamed for the numerous unqualified political parties in the country. He was speaking on ATV. All the other panelists who were on the show ...

President Akufo-Addo, has stated that donor support to the budgets of the Ministries of Education, Health and Gender, Children and Social Protection, in 2016, is equal to the revenue allegedly diverted by some 19 customs officials who were arrested recently. It will be recalled that three (3) weeks ago, the country’s law enforcement agencies cracked allegedly a syndicate of 19 ...

MTN Ghana as part of its ‘21 days Y’ello Care’ programme has donated over 2,000 books to some seven schools in Accra at the Kwashieman Cluster of Schools. The ‘Y’ello Care’ initiative is an annual staff volunteer programme that involves community services that runs across the MTN Group footprint from June 1 to June 21. It was instituted 10 years ...

Higher educational institutions have a duty to ensure that their products are well-equipped with employable skills, Professor Osei Darkwa, the President of Ghana Telecom University College, has said. He said successive governments have rolled out several models and initiatives aimed at job creation, however, those policies and programmes had yielded little or no impact. Prof. Darkwa said this at the ...

IDU AND DUA DELEGATES The International Democratic Union (IDU) holds its Executive Meeting/Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs in Accra from 19th to 21st June 2017. It is being hosted by the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP). This is the first time an Executive Meeting is being held in Africa, south of the Sahara. What is IDU? The International Democrat Union ...

Gas from the Tweneboah, Enyenra and Ntomme (TEN) field is being flared due to pipeline infrastructure delays that characterised the evacuation of gas from the Jubilee Field. Meanwhile, an estimated $952 million is required this year to purchase light crude oil, natural gas, heavy fuel oil and diesel to run thermal plants based on a projected thermal generation of 9,937.48 ...

Compassion International Ghana, a non-profit making Christian Organisation, has commemorated this year’s Day of the African Child at Akropong in the Eastern Region with a call on Ghanaians to eliminate worst forms of child labour. Compassion International, a child-centered organisation, believes in holistic development of children from poor homes by seeking sponsorship from countries all over the world to cater ...

The outgoing UK High Commissioner to Ghana, Jon Benjamin has dismissed assertions that he spends a considerable amount of time on Twitter rather than working. “Contrary to what some people think, I don’t actually spend nearly as much time as people think on Twitter. It’s a small part of what we do. Public diplomacy is incredibly important,” he said during ...

The rumors regarding Cristiano Ronaldo’s future are going to be inescapable and in many cases insufferable, but there’s little debating the juicy nature of this particular apple. Fueled by anger at more tax evasion talk in Spain, Ronaldo is reportedly trying to engineer an exit from Real Madrid. There are only so many clubs who can handle his contract and ...

The Appointments Committee of Parliament is expected to present its report on the Chief Justice nominee Sophia Akuffo to the House later today[Monday]. This follows its public vetting of the nominee last Friday [June 16]. The over five-hour long vetting process saw Justice Sophia Akuffo answer questions on the challenges within the country’s legal system, the regulations on touting, the ...