Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies Dr. Said Boakye has charged Government to be more diligent in the consolidation of extra-budgetary expenditure for better representation of Ghana’s macroeconomic data. This comes on the back of the Finance Ministry’s insistence, that data shared with the IMF in accessing the recent Rapid Credit Facility, was not in tangent with ...
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NSS Board to hold crunch meeting over fate of 2020/2021 National Service Personnel
The Deputy Executive Director of the National Service Scheme in Ghana, Gifty Oware-Aboagye says the fate of 2020/2021 National Service Personnel will be decided by the Board of the National Service Scheme at a meeting to be held later this month. The fate of final year Tertiary Students in Ghana hangs in the balance as there has been a ban ...
Read More »Allotey Jacobs resigns from Peace FM’s ‘Kokrokoo’ show
“I decided that today I will not come . . . I am very sorry; I know I will disappoint you (Kwami Sefa Kayi),” Social Commentator, Allotey Jacobs said in an interview with Kwami Sefa Kayi on Peace FM’s ‘Kokrokoo’ programme Wednesday. The former Central Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has decided to stop attending political discussions ...
Read More »10 previous govt appointees jailed for causing financial loss to the state
Corruption in Ghana has been common since independence. There is a growing perception in Ghana that government-related corruption is on the rise. Even though corruption in Ghana is relatively low when compared to other countries in Africa, businesses frequently quote corruption as an obstacle for doing business in the country. Corruption occurs often in locally funded contracts, companies are subject ...
Read More »Police training school reopens despite COVID-19 scare
The Ghana Police Service has reopened its training school in Koforidua in the Eastern region despite the directive against school attendance by President Akufo-Addo. The recruits of the training school who were asked to go home when President Akufo-Addo directed the closure of educational institutions have been recalled. On Sunday, May 12, 2020, the President announced an extension of the ...
Read More »Coronavirus: Immigration Officers promoted after rejecting bribe from illegal migrants
The Ghana Immigration Service has promoted six of its junior officers for their dedication to duty in the country’s fight against the novel Coronavirus. Five of the six officers are said to have rejected bribe from some Burkinabe nationals who tried to enter the country illegally. They are Inspector Lukman Tea Salifu; Immigration Control Officers (ICO) Christian Kobla Kekeli Zilevu; ...
Read More »Eight health workers test positive for COVID-19 in Western region
Eight health workers, including doctors, have tested positive for COVID-19 in the Western Region According to the Western Region Health Directorate, the health officials who tested positive for COVID-19 are mostly from the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis. The daily situational report released on the pandemic on Tuesday said the case counts in the Western Region stood at sixty-one (61), with Sekondi Takoradi ...
Read More »NCA Trial: Why judge gave ‘lenient’ sentences to 3 former appointees – Samson Anyenini
Private Legal Practitioner, Samson Lardy Anyenini has revealed that the sixteen(16) years sentences handed to three (3) out of the five (5) accused persons who have been on trial in the case of “The Republic versus Eugene Baffoe-Bonnie and four others” on the issue of a conspiratorial drill by them to cause financial loss to the state could mean the ...
Read More »Jean Mensah running EC like an NGO – A.B.A Fuseini
The minority spokesperson on Communications and MP for Sagnarigu Constituency A.B.A. Fuseini has likened the leadership of the EC by Jean Mensah to a Non-Governmental Organization. He described the EC boss’ attitude towards the commission as a dictatorship. The Electoral Commission has said no individual or authority can direct or control it as far as carrying out its constitutional mandate ...
Read More »Owusu Ankomah recovers from COVID-19 in UK
Ghana’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Papa Owusu Ankomah has fully recovered from the deadly Coronavirus disease. Mr Owusu Ankomah was in April 2020 diagnosed with the virus which has killed almost 300, 000 people globally. In a statement to announce his recovery, the diplomat said he is now free from the virus. “I am reaching out to you ...
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