NEWS

Two years after the $217 million University of Ghana Medical Centre was commissioned by the erstwhile John Mahama administration, the facility remains shut. A feud between the University of Ghana and current Health Minister, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, over management of the hospital has been the contentious reason the facility remains shut, according to persons close to the deal. Former Deputy Health ...

The Wa Polytechnic Governing Council has ordered the institution’s suspended Rector, Professor Emmanuel Marfo-Owusu, to park his five hundred thousand Ghana Cedis Mercedes Benz, that is at the centre of protests by lecturers of the school. Last Monday, some angry lecturers at the Wa Polytechnic prevented Prof. Emmanuel Marfo-Owusu prevented from accessing the campus and subsequently his office. Among other ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is in London for the 25th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) on the theme “Towards a Common Future”. The 25th CHOGM, which will take place from today, April 16 to Friday, 20th April, 2018, will afford Heads of Government in the Commonwealth the opportunity to “address the shared global challenges we face, and agree ...

Deputy Local Government Minister, O.B Amoah has questioned why minority members are quick to tag every effort of government to investigate seemingly shady deals that have to do with officials from their party as witch-hunting efforts targeted at marring their reputation. He wonders how such lawmakers and high public officials will be able to fight the same cause for justice ...

The National Coordinator of the Spio Fan Club has served notice that it will file a complaint against the former President John Dramani Mahama for secretly using the party’s unity walk platform to project himself and to campaign for his second presidential slot on the ticket of the main opposition National Democratic Congress(NDC). According to Kofi Ahema, the group will ...

A former MASLOC boss, Sedina Tamakloe Attionu, under the NDC government has denied allegation of misappropriation against her by the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO). An audit report making rounds in the media claims Mrs Tamakloe withdrew ¢500,000 of MASLOC cash invested with Obaatampa Microfinance but failed to pay the amount back into the accounts of MASLOC among other ...

The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has said that it has not suspended any investigations into allegation of double salaries received by some National Democratic Congress (NDC) former ministers who were also MPs. That response followed a claim by the minority MPs that the CID boss had embarrassed them by inviting them over the issue. A ...

Ghana’s cocoa regulator, COCOBOD, wants to use the bulk of $600 million in finance that it’s planning to raise for the sector on projects to increase local processing and to replant diseased trees. The world’s second-biggest cocoa producer also wants to spend funds on the rehabilitation of neglected farms, a project to pollinate trees by hand and to expand warehouse ...

The Council of State has advised local banks to consider merging in order to meet the new capital requirement by the Central Bank. It comes after the banks petitioned the Presidency and the Council of State over the amount and timelines to achieve the new capital requirement. The central bank last year raised the minimum capital requirement to GH¢400 million, ...

Imagine yourself with no upper body weight, having to lift heavy mahogany desks to and fro for about three times a day in the name academic activity. Or imagine having to pack up and run home from school any time it rains. Would you be sitting in that beautiful, well-furnished air-conditioned mansion you call an office? Or worse, imagine someone ...