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The Dean of Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College Vladmir Antwi-Danso has dismissed fears of a possible replication of the Arab Spring in Ghana over increasing spate of unemployment. More than 1.2 million persons from 15 years and older are estimated to be unemployed, representing the total unemployment rate of 11.9%, according to a 2015 Ghana Labour Force Survey ...

The Ministry of Energy has entered into a rental agreement with Trojan Power Limited (TPL), a local independent power producer, to use parts of government’s diesel generator units to generate power for off-take by the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) for further distribution to customers. This was contained in the Finance Committee report on the request for waiver of import ...

The Vice President of policy think tank, IMANI, Kofi Bentil, has said President Akufo-Addo did not specifically deal with nagging issues in the Ghana-US military co-operation agreement in his Thursday night address. “I agree that honestly the President is within his rights to do these things. My initial problems still remains,” Mr Bentil said in a radio interview with Joy ...

The Minister of Information, Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, says the government has paid more than GH¢40 million of the arrears it owes members of the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT). The government currently owes NAGRAT members more than GH?50 million in salary arrears, vehicle maintenance allowances, transfer grants and transport and travel allowances since 2013. Confirming the payment to the ...

The Eastern regional Directorate of Ghana Education Service (GES) has begun investigations into the gun attack involving a third-year Junior High School student of Ellen White School at Koforidua in the Eastern region. Philip Asare, and an accomplice pulled a gun and knife and threatened to kill the headmaster of Ellen White for seizing his mobile phone. During mock exams ...

The General Secretary of the main opposition National Democratic Congress(NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia says his party is appalled by the insulting response by President Akufo-Addo on the controversial US-Ghana military pact Thursday night. For him, the President was intolerant with his reaction on the deal, as he sought to discredit the “genuine concerns” Ghanaians had with the agreement. President Akufo-Addo ...

University of Ghana lecturer Professor Ransford Gyampo has commended President Akufo-Addo over his Thursday night address on the controversial military deal between Ghana and the United States. According to the outspoken lecturer, the President deserves a 70% mark for the speech which largely threw shots at the opposition National Democratic congress. “Mr President, I am happy you have spoken on ...

President Akufo-Addo has affirmed in no uncertain terms, that Ghana has “not offered a military base, and will not offer a military base to the United States of America.” He was emphatic that, “the U.S. has not made any request for such consideration and, consistent with our established foreign policy, we will not consider any such request.” In an address ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated that he will never compromise or sell the sovereignty of Ghana under any circumstance. Speaking on the US-Ghana military agreement for the first time, the President slammed the opposition NDC describing them as “hypocrites” and “cynics” for twisting the facts in the US military agreement. He added that he is outraged by comments ...

North Tongu Member of Parliament, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has described as insulting, President Akufo-Addo’s address to the nation on the controversial Ghana-US military deal. The president who expressed his outrage at the opposition NDC’s recent outburst on the deal described it as a kind of “cynical manipulation by reckless self-seekers”, who will be exposed and condemned by Ghanaians within the ...