A Labour Expert Austin Gamey has said that salary increments should be linked to productivity to ensure that the country grows its Gross Domestic Product (GDP). He says salaries cannot be paid just for the sake of it. He was commenting on the 23 per cent salary increment that has been granted by the government to public sector workers. Justifying the increment, the Minister of Labour and Employment Ignatius Baffuor ...
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Accra Hearts of Oak mutually part ways with Coach Kooplan
Accra Hearts of Oak SC, as part of restructuring its technical team, has parted ways with its Head Coach, Martinus Koopman. According to the club, Coach Abdul Rahim Bashiru has been mandated to take charge as acting head coach until further notice. LEARN AND TRADE FOREX WITH GOLIGFX WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW: In a statement issued on Tuesday, 14 November ...
Read More »Organised Labour, government settle on 23% base pay increment for 2024
Organised Labour has secured a 23% increment in the base pay for the Year 2024, after a two-day negotiation with the government. This is expected to take effect from January 1, 2024 to June 2024. The raise is however, to be readjusted upwards with an additional 2% from July 2024 to December 2024, bringing the total increase for the year ...
Read More »Tupac Shakur could win his first Grammy almost 30 years after his death
Tupac Shakur may be on the path to winning a Grammy Award posthumously. The rapper, who died after being shot in Las Vegas in 1996, was one of three late artists who were nominated last week in best music film category. Shakur received the nod for the FX five-part docuseries “Dear Mama,” which takes its name from his 1995 single ...
Read More »Michael Jackson jacket from 1984 Pepsi ad fetches £250,000 at auction
A leather jacket worn by the late pop star Michael Jackson in an advert for Pepsi has sold for £250,000. The jacket, worn by Jackson in the 1984 commercial, fetched the whopping six-figure sum at an auction in London on Friday. It had been estimated to sell for between £200,000 and £400,000. It went under the hammer alongside memorabilia from several other ...
Read More »2024 budget: It is practically impossible for Akufo-Addo to redeem himself – Haruna Iddrisu
Later this morning, Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, will be delivering the 2024 budget and economic plan. This will be the last budget reading under the Akufo-Addo-led administration. Commenting on what to expect from the budget reading, Member of Parliament for Tamale South, Haruna Iddrisu, said it is too late for President Akufo-Addo to salvage the economy. According to him, the ...
Read More »CSOs meet Alan Kyerematen over his Great Transformational Plan (GTP)
Founder and CEO for IMANI Ghana Franklin Kudjo has confirmed the credibility of Alan Kyerematen at a stakeholder meeting of CSOs with the former Trade and Industry Minister. The founder of Imani Ghana, eulogised Mr Kyerematen at a round table discussion between Civil Society Organisations and the presidential aspirant. Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in the country met with the independent ...
Read More »Scrap teacher training, nursing training allowances – Suhuyini
The Member of Parliament for Tamale North Constituency, Alhassan Suhuyini, says the government must cancel trainee allowances for nurses and teachers. According to him, the money should be invested into the Student Loan Trust Fund to support financially pressed students across the country. He said nursing and teacher trainees should be encouraged to apply for student loans rather than receiving ...
Read More »Call for reparations not a plea for alms – Akufo-Addo
President Akufo-Addo says, the call by Africans and Africans in the diaspora for the payment of reparations by European nations who carried out the transatlantic slave trade some 400 years ago is not a plea for alms, but a demand for justice. The President demanded that reparatory justice must go hand in hand with restitution, adding it should be executed ...
Read More »La General Hospital project: Minority MPs call out Health Minister for not providing commencement date
The Minister of Health has come under intense criticism over comments that work on the stalled La General Hospital will begin soon. Without mincing words, MPs from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) criticised the Minister on the floor of Parliament on Tuesday November 14, 2024 as he failed to once again, give time lines on when exactly the project will ...
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