The latest Auditor General’s report has revealed that management of the Ghana Aiport Company failed to transfer over seven million cedis of welfare deductions they made from staff to the various fund managers and SSNIT. “We noted that the Company had not transferred a total of GH¢7,553,997.10 as welfare and other insurance deducted on behalf of staff to the various ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo’s attitude toward corruption can best be described as “bipolar”, the Executive Director of the Africa Centre for Health Policy and Research Analysis, Dr Thomas Anaba has said in connection with the controversial and botched Sputnik V vaccine procurement saga. Speaking to Accra100.5FM’s mid-day news on Thursday, 12 August 2021, Dr Anaba told Ohenewaa Kesse Boahene (Gargantuan Lady) ...

The Chief of the Chiraa Traditional Area in the Sunyani West District of the Bono Region, Nana Afari Mintah, has told Ghanaians that Ghana can only be “fixed” if all the citizens come together to play their respective roles. Nana Afari Mintah expressed these sentiments on Wednesday, 11 August 2021, when President Akufo-Addo called on him at his palace, as ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has appointed former Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs Minister Samuel Kofi Dzamesi as the acting Chief Executive Officer of the Bui Power Authority (BPA). A letter communicating the appointment was signed by Chief of Staff Akosua Frema Osei-Opare dated 30 July 2021. “Pursuant to Section 9 (2) of the Bui Power Authority Act, 2007 (Act 740), I am ...

Stonebwoy’s charity foundation, the Livingstone Foundation, has donated items worth thousands of Ghana Cedis to the Orthopedic Training Centre and medical facility in Accra. This gesture is part of the foundation’s list of charity events that seeks to extend its benevolence to individuals and other institutions handicapped in Ghana. The items donated included personal protective equipment (PPE), hand sanitisers, nose ...

The Federal Government on Tuesday summoned Usra Harahap, the Indonesian ambassador to Nigeria, over the alleged assault on a Nigerian diplomatic agent in Jarkarta, Indonesia. The minister of foreign affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, who revealed this in a statement said the incident is against international law and the Vienna Conventions governing diplomatic and consular relations between states. Onyeama said “The Ministry ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appointed a former Acting Editor of the Daily Graphic, Ms Elizabeth Akua Ohene, as Chairman of the Board of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT). The 13-member SSNIT Board was inaugurated in Accra on Tuesday, 10 August 2021, by the Minister of Finance, Mr Ken Ofori-Atta. Mr Ofori-Atta charged the board to ...

The National Insurance Commission (NIC) in a joint operation with the Ghana Police Service has arrested a Lebanese, Gabriel Medawar for operating an unlicensed Insurance broking firm contrary to section 109 of the Insurance Act 2021 (Act 1061). The illegal company operating under the business name, Harmonia Insurance Group, carried out its operations in a private building near the West ...

It has emerged that the African University College of Communication Limited (AUCC) failed to make payment on the agreed amount of GHS4.7million as a buyout of Activity Venture Capital Trust Fund’s (AVFC) 30 per cent stake in AUCC, denying the Trust Fund its share of GHS1,410,000.00 (40%) per the agreement on the distribution of returns among the shareholders of Activity ...

The University of Cape Coast (UCC) has GHS9, 123, 532.57 locked up with First Banc and Gold Coast Fund Management. The licences of the two companies were revoked by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 2019. The locked-up amount was revealed in the Auditor-General’s report on the public accounts of Ghana, public boards, corporations and other statutory institutions for ...