The chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Finance, Dr. Mark Assibey Yeboah has said his committee would work on key proposals from stakeholders that will help the current administration to address revenue leakages in order to meet the 2017 target. He reiterated the Committee’s commitment to work with GCNet on key proposals made to Government to address unnecessary complications ...

Superintendent Cephas Arthur, Director of Public Affairs of the Ghana Police Service, has said that some of the dismissed 206 police recruits who were undergoing training at the Pwalugu Police Training School in the Upper East Region will face criminal prosecution for forging documents used in their application. The police administration on Friday, 3 February sacked the recruits for falling ...

Ghana’s premier brewery, Accra Brewery Limited (ABL), has launched a new brand campaign for its non-alcoholic malt beverage, Beta Malt, dubbed “The Only Way is UP” whilst outdooring its new look label across multiple channels. The purpose of “The Only Way is UP” campaign is to celebrate the mass of assertive and enterprising Ghanaians, at the heart of Africa’s growth, ...

Dancehall artiste, Shatta Wale has no time to bother about not receiving a nomination in the 2017 edition of Black Entertainment Television (BET) Awards. He wonders why he should be troubled about missing out on a BET nomination, if he is not bothered about the whereabouts of his Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) certificate. Shatta Wale’s arch-rival, Stonebwoy received his second ...

Caterers under the School Feeding Programme have rejected a month deadline for the payment of their allowances. Scores of caterers on Monday, May 15 besieged the Ministry of Gender and Social Protection to demand payment of their arrears for over four months. The Secretariat has asked the caterers to resume work whilst it pays their allowances at the end of ...

A private legal practitioner Yaw Oppong has advocated for a change in the process of selecting Chief Justices that removes the ethnic and political undertones. The lecturer with the Central University College wants the post rotated among the Supreme Court judges over a five-year tenure as it pertains in US state of Georgia. A rotation system could deepen the independence ...

Only students who pass their examination will have the opportunity to enjoy the government’s Free SHS policy in September, the Education Minister has revealed. According to Mathew Opoku Prempeh, students who fail at the basic education level will not benefit from the policy as government readies to roll it out. The Free SHS policy was a major campaign promise of ...

The Ghana Football Association has announced 13-member team for the 2017 WAFU Nations Cup Local Organizing Committee. FA Vice President George Afriyie will co-chair the LOC with Francis Asenso, whose deputy chief of staff at the presidency. They will be deputized by the immediate past Vice President of the GFA Mr. Fred Crentsil with PLB Chairman Ashford Tetteh Oku and ...

Having been patting himself on the shoulder for ending the successive reign of the “Johns” in Ghanaian politics, President Akufo-Addo is priding himself as setting the stage for ‘Historians’ to also take over the mantle of leadership of the country. Obviously, mimicking former President John Dramani Mahama’s constants reference to his shrewdness in history, President Akufo-Addo recently stunned his book ...

The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has disclosed that the country’s debt, as a percentage of GDP, has declined from the 73 percent recorded last year to about 62.7 percent as at end of last month. The 2017 budget forecasts that total debt to GDP will close the year at 70.9, which makes the latest figure, less than half way into ...