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The Ashanti regional minister, Simon Osei Mensah says Ghana is only good at making laws but lacks the zeal at effectively implementing them . Speaking on Hello FMm in Kumasi on Monday, the minister accused most leaders and law enforcement agencies of not firmly implementing laws of the land that will ensure that the system and structures work. According to ...

The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of Mfantseman, Kenneth Kelly Essuman has ordered the closure of some fuel stations in his municipality. The stations were closed for failing to produce certificates authenticating their operations within the area. Some could not produce, on demand, their fire certificates, certificate to operate and certificates from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The affected stations include ...

The Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture is proposing the setting-up of “Akwaaba Hotels,” through a partnership with the private sector at various tourist sites in the country to boost domestic tourism. Tours Facility Manager of the Ghana Tourist Development Company (GTDC), George Adje Kwei Mensah, who disclosed this said the hotels which would be set-up between two to three ...

After a number of threats, the embattled mining company, Exton Cubic Group Limited, has sued the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources over the Ministry’s revocation of their mining permits. The Minister, John Peter Amewu, revoked the company’s leases and licenses to prospect in the Nyinahini bauxite concession of the Tano Offin Forest Reserve, describing the company’s operations there as ...

To a Ghanaian King, handing someone a holdall stuffed with more than £350,000 to deposit in a bank might seem nothing out of the ordinary. Indeed, when Osei Tutu II, traditional ruler of the Kingdom of Ashanti, summoned Mark Arthur to his multimillion-pound residence in Henley-on-Thames and handed him a bag containing almost £200,000 in sterling as well as $200,000 ...

The Minority in parliament has called on government to treat as urgent a Libyan report which cites some Ghanaians were reported to be members of the terrorist group, Islamic State. To this end, they are making a number of demands including “government must publicly react to this inquiry by the Libyan Attorney General’s Office due to its grave ramifications to ...

President Akufo-Addo has formally launched the restoration of the Nurses and midwives trainee allowance in the Brong Ahafo region. According to President Akufo-Addo, government has allocated an amount of GH? 232 million as payment for the beneficiaries for the 2017/2018 academic year. “For the 2017/2018 academic year, effective September 2017, Fifty-Eight Thousand health trainees comprising nurses and midwives will be ...

Brong Ahafo Regional Youth Organizer of the NPP, Kwame Baffoe popularly known as ‘Abronye DC’ has said that President Akufo-Addo has ‘magical powers’ to put the country on the right path. According to him, the solid economic measures put in place in just nine months is yielding positive results. Citing the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) as an example, Abronye ...

Government has given a strong indication that the restoration of the abolished trainee teachers’ allowances will soon follow after restoring that of nurses. The disclosure comes during the launch of the restoration of the nurses’ trainee allowances by the government Tuesday. The erstwhile administration of ex-president John Mahama in 2014 scrapped the age-old teacher trainee allowance, replacing it with student ...

The autopsy report of the late Major Maxwell Mahama is still unavailable to police investigators, four months after his death. The army officer was promoted posthumously to the rank of Major, after he was slain on May 29, 2017, by some youth of Denkyira Obuasi in the Central Region, on suspicion that he was an armed robber. The incident reportedly ...