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Pressure is mounting on government to halt the sale of assets of the Volta River Authority. The Institute of Energy Security is the latest to oppose the move, accusing government of attempting to bequeath the thermal plants to its cronies. Government’s announcement of the sale of the thermal plants comes months after the president told parliament that VRA and GRIDCO ...

The Member of parliament for Sagnerigu, Hon. A.B.A Fuseini says Peace Council and the Christian Council are gradually losing their credibility. According to him, their long silence on issues in the country is making them spiritually impotent. The member of Parliament who seem excited about the resignation of the embattled Deputy Agric Minister, Hon.William Quaitoo explained that this is the ...

The embattled IT head of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) Dr. Caleb Afaglo has been sacked. The decision to relieve Dr. Afaglo of his post was taken after a board meeting was held on Wednesday, 30 August. Dr. Afaglo will, however, remain on interdiction. Dr. Afaglo was interdicted by the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) after ...

Local manufacturers of cooking oil have decried the unavailability of raw materials in the country. The manufacturers are currently importing about 90 percent of palm fruits used in producing the cooking oil. Demand for palm fruits in the country currently stands at 400,000 tons. However, the local market is only able to meet 150,000 tons of the demand compelling manufacturers ...

Teacher Trainees Association of Ghana (TTAG) has petitioned the Education Ministry to peg yet to be restored teacher trainee allowance at GHC450. Government has revealed an action plan to restore the said allowance from September this year but pegged it at GHC400 per student. But, the trainees say the figure is in a clear breach of the commitment made by ...

The Akufo-Addo administration has put on notice that it will begin prosecuting corrupt former officials who served under the Mahama government in October. “By October when we start moving to court with some of the cases, Ghanaians will know that we are serious and we are ready to fight corruption as a canker in this country and uproot it once ...

Every mother’s dream is to see her son, daughter finish school, get a good paying job and start life, a life to change the world he lives in. For a mother whose son gained scholarship to pursue an MBA course in the Vanderbilt University, Owen Graduate School of Management, her dreams for her son were even higher, the prospects were ...

The dismissed IT head of SSNIT Caleb Afaglo has challenged reports that he was fired from his previous employment for lack of certificates and incompetence. In a reaction to media reports about his competence, Dr. Afaglo said he is amazed that the current managers of SSNIT are challenging his efficiency when his records have been outstanding over the years at ...

Musician and New Patriotic Party sympathizer (NPP), A-Plus, has told Citi News that he is in the process of terminating his contract with Ghana’s Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company (BOST), which allows him to transport oil across the country on behalf of the company. A-Plus, who claimed his contract had existed since May this year [2017] in a Citi ...

Central Regional Chairman for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Bernard Allotey Jacobs has advised politicians across the country to desist from making ethnocentric comments in public. Mr William Quaittoo whom until Tuesday evening was the Deputy Minister for Agriculture resigned following incessant pressure on him to do so. He was accused of insulting people from the north when he called ...