The next government of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will absorb apprenticeship fees paid by carpenters, welders, plumbers, electricians, and hairdressers, among others, the 2020 Campaign manager for the party has said. Professor Joshua Alabi said the party’s technical and vocational education and training (TVET) programme would also recognize experiential knowledge for progression to higher levels. Explaining in detail the ...

The Deputy Eastern Regional Minister Samuel Nuertey Ayertey has incurred the wrath of Chiefs in Oborpa and its surrounding communities in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality for allegedly insulting them for kicking against grading of a major road linking the Communities but in deplorable conditions. The Chiefs stopped a grader brought on the road by the Deputy Minister to scrape ...

There has been some heated exchanges at the Public Accounts Committee(PAC) sittings on Tuesday, over the GNPC’s allocations to Okyehene, EOCO, Rebecca Foundation and others. During today’s sitting, Ningo Prampram MP, Sam George asked why board of GNPC had to directly approve over 5 million cedis to be paid to the above mentioned individuals and entities without routing it through ...

The Congress of the Ghana Football Association has approved a GHC12,000 monthly allowance for the President of the Association Kurt Okraku. The amount was among other compensation packages proposed by the ad-hoc committee of the Association. Having approved the recommendations, the FA Vice President, Mark Addo, will also earn GH¢7,000 while the rest of the Executive Council members take home ...

The Auditor Generals Department in its 2017 report on public boards has indicted management of Ghana National Petroleum Corporation for failing to recover an amount of GhC 778,565,761 from government and other state owned enterprises. The amounts owed by the government of Ghana, Finance Ministry, Tema Oil Refinery, Ghana Gas have been outstanding since 2015. Appearing at the Public Accounts ...

The spokesperson of the Coalition of Aggrieved Customers of the 53 Collapsed Fund Management Companies, Mr Charles Nyame and one other person, have been arrested for unlawful picketing. Members of the coalition besieged the premises of the Ministry of Finance on Tuesday, 1 September 2020 to stage a protest in connection with their locked-up funds. Mr Nyame, who was handcuffed ...

Zoom’s (ZM) revenue surged more than 350% in the second quarter, and profits rocketed by nearly 10 times as much, as companies signed up for the video conferencing app to connect staff working from home during the pandemic. The California-based video communication service provider reported net profit of $185.7 million for the quarter through July 31, up nearly 3,300% compared with a year earlier. Revenues ...

President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) Kurt Okraku has called for a unity within the Ghana Football stakeholders to help develop and take the sport to higher heights in the country. The GFA Capo made these comments as he addressed the football fraternity who have assembled at the Ghanaman Soccer Centre of Excellence today for the 26th ordinary congress ...

The Deputy Eastern Regional Minister Samuel Nuertey Ayertey has incurred the wrath of Chiefs in Oborpa and its surrounding communities in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality for allegedly insulting them for kicking against the grading of a major road linking the Communities but in deplorable conditions. The Chiefs stopped a grader brought on the road by the Deputy Minister to ...

The Member of Parliament for Odododiodoo, Nii Lante Vanderpuye claims some personnel of the National Security Secretariat have physically assaulted him. Mr. Vanderpuye said the incident occurred in front of the James Town Police station. According to him, he was at the police station to secure bail for a journalist. He told the media that he had asked the journalist ...