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Salaries and benefits of some Chief Executive Officers of some public organisations could be slashed in the coming days if the Finance Ministry is able to rationalize their pay structure. The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, is concerned that some CEOs are earning thrice more than the President of the Republic. The Ministry is pushing for a scheme to make it ...

Aggrieved registered and bonded Community nurses, of Winneba and Navrongo spent the night at the premises of the Ministry of Health after they pitched camp at the ministry on Monday to demand their posting. The group said the action has become necessary since all efforts to get the attention of the ministry to address their plight of unemployment has proved ...

Security operatives including armed soldiers and personnel from National Security numbering about 20 in all, besieged the house of businessman Alfred Woyome on Tuesday, September 19. One source told ClassFMonline.com that operatives picked intelligence that Mr Woyome, from whom the state is trying to retrieve GHS51.2million, had plans of travelling out of the country thus the invasion of his home. ...

Prof Ken Attafuah has said the office of the National Identification Authority (NIA) was in a big mess before he took over as Executive Secretary following his appointment by President Nana Akufo-Addo in January this year. Prof Attafuah said on Tuesday 19 September in an interview that bad leadership from previous managers of the NIA and lack of funds conspired ...

The Food and Drugs Authority in the Northern region is alarmed at the large quantity of expired drugs that were still kept at the Tamale Teaching Hospital, describing the development as unacceptable. The facility for the first time in 10 years on Friday, September 15, 2017 disposed of nearly GH¢400,000.00 worth of expired drugs since its upgrade in 2009. Dozens ...

General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has described as “a waste of time” President’s Akufo-Addo’s decision to move founder’s day from September 21 to August 4. According to Johnson Asiedu Nketia, the move when implemented will amount to changing Ghana’s history in favour of the Danquah-Busia-Dombo tradition. President Akufo-Addo has come under a barrage of attacks after ...

The implementation of the Free Senior High School (SHS) programme by the Akufo-Addo-led government has not reduced the economic challenges facing Ghanaians, John Jinapor, Member of Parliament for Yapei Kusawgu and former Deputy Minister of Power, has said. According to him, the cost of living in Ghana has gone up with the high cost of fuel prices, a situation that ...

There is a figure head in every struggle for independence, and Dr Kwame Nkrumah is the leader who guided Ghana to independence hence must be celebrated as such, Dr Edward Brenya, a political science lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, has said. “…the truth remains that there was only one President that took Ghana to independence ...

President Akufo-Addo says the African Continent wean itself from foreign aid within the next fifty years if the continent is mindful to implement the AU Agenda 2063. Addressing participants of a World Leader Forum at the 5th Annual International Conference on Sustainable Development held at the Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, President Akufo Addo says African can no longer ...

Senior research fellow at the Institute of African Studies, Dr Kojo Opoku Aiddo, says Ghana’s past achievements and ongoing development cannot be attributed to any singular person or group. He notes that one of the best ways to resolve the ongoing debate about Dr Kwame Nkrumah’s status as the founder of Ghana is to acknowledge that the country’s liberation efforts ...