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Concerned national service personnel have rejected plans by the management of the National Service Scheme (NSS) to introduce insurance packages of NSS personnel in the country. A statement signed by Emmanuel Asenso Adusei, Accra Metro, said: “The National Service Scheme has launched a mandatory insurance policy to deduct money every month from the non-taxable allowance it pays to service personnel ...

Former president John Mahama has described as palpable falsehood allegation by the CEO of COCOBOD that he ordered the construction of a guest house in his hometown Bole for his personal benefit. Joseph Boahen Aidoo accused Mahama of influencing the construction of an “unnecessary guest house” using funds belonging to COCOBOD. “The penchant to siphon funds through inflated contracts was ...

The Rwandan government has offered its experience and expertise to support the reforms being undertaken by the Nana Akufo-Addo government in Ghana. President Paul Kagame made the offer on Wednesday October 1, 2017 when he met with Ghana’s Vice President, Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, on the side lines of the ongoing Global Business Forum on Africa in Dubai, United Arab ...

Vice president Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has assured the investor community of excellent opportunities in the health care sector of Ghana. Ghana, Dr Bawumia maintains, is open for business, and this is reflected in the various reforms being undertaken by the Nana Akufo-Addo government including the abolition of 15 ‘nuisance taxes’ in the 2017 budget statement, as well as the introduction ...

The retraction and apology of Ghana’s High Commissioner to South Africa, George Ayisi-Boateng, over his widely condemned statement that he will always put the interest of members of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) first above all other Ghanaians, “should put the matter to rest”, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has said. Mr Ayisi-Boateng in an interaction with ...

At least seven New Patriotic Party (NPP) activists in the Sissala West District of the Upper West Region have been remanded in prison custody for a week. They face charges of conspiracy to riot and rioting with weapons. The seven were part of a marauding crowd who besieged the offices of the District Chief Executive of the area, chased him ...

The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana COCOBOD, Joseph Boahene Aidoo, has revealed that a whopping $400 million cedis out of the $1.8 billon cocoa syndicated loan secured for the 2016/2017 crop season, was withdrawn by the opposition National Democratic Congress after the party lost the 2016 presidential election. According to Mr. Boahene Aidoo, the money was withdrawn between December ...

Former Trade Minister, Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, may soon emerge as the National Democratic Congress (NDC)’s flagbearer for the next general election if he is successful in the party’s primaries next year. The experienced politician and former diplomat said he is ready to lead the party to reclaim power from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2020 Presidential election. “In 2006 ...

New Patriotic Party (NPP) firebrand, Kennedy Agyapong says he feels threatened following attempts by some senior police officers in collusion with land guards in the country to take his life. The Assin Central lawmaker who has been a veritable pain on the neck of land guards since the Director General of Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service, COP ...

NDC Communicator, Chief Biney has hit hard at the Akufo-Addo administration for what he considers to be the pampering of New Patriotic Party (NPP) members linked with vigilante groups. According to Chief Biney, recent attacks by some angry youth of the NPP at Karaga in the Northern Region have rendered the President a “local refugee” in his own administration. This, ...