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The 2015 Auditor General’s report has revealed that the National Identification Authority (NIA) is heavily indebted to the tune of GH¢4, 132,795.00. The Management of the Authority were therefore admonished to “make efforts to settle the liabilities” and also operate henceforth within “actual income received in future.” The Authority was also cited for illegally using its Internally Generated fund to ...

Deputy Communications Director of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has accused renowned Bible teacher, Pastor Dr Mensah Otabil of ensuring the collapse of Capital Bank through his poor managment of the financial institution of which he served as the Board Chairman. According to Kwaku Boahen, Pastor Mensah Otabil whose church, businesses and family allegedly have a huge stake in ...

Tweet Four persons have reportedly died at the Margret Marquart Catholic Hospital at Kpando in the Volta Region, where they were rushed after eating a fish, suspected to be poisonous. Three of the deaths were recorded two weeks ago after a number of individuals were sent to the facility from one of the Alavanyo communities. The latest death occurred on ...

The 2015 Auditor General’s report has cited the National Identification Authority (NIA) for illegally using its Internally Generated fund to offset a loan facility it acquired from CAL Bank. According to the report, Management of the Authority arranged with CAL Bank to retain funds generated internally by it to defray the loan facility of $1.5million taken from the Bank. “As ...

The Minister of Education, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has bemoaned the poor academic performance in public first and second cycle schools and advised directors of education to provide the kind of leadership and supervision that is conducive for teaching and learning. “That leadership should provide an environment for the teacher to work with dedication, commitment and a sense of responsibility. ...

The Minister for Communications, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has pointed out that the unavailability of the critical competencies to deal with cyber security issues, is a primary cause of increased global challenges in the fight against cyber security. She cited a 2017 Global Information Security Workforce Study – Benchmarking Workforce Capacity and Response to Cyber Risk conducted by Frost & Sullivan early ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings during a public lecture at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) was described as a gentle giant after delivering his speech but the former President immediately interrupted the MC saying he isn’t a gentle giant so shouldn’t be called so. He claimed former President John Agyekum Kufuor should rather be referred to ...

The Coalition of Civil Society Organisations has said Ghanaians are worried over President Akufo-Addo’s inability to act decisively on cases of corruption that hit his government since assuming office. “…There is considerable public frustration,” said Prof Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi, the Executive Director of the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD) Wednesday when the Coalition paid a courtesy call on the president. “I ...

Government has been urged to properly cater for female teachers posted to rural communities in the country to avert the situation where they are compelled to trade sex in exchange for food as the only means of survival. First National Trustee of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) Madam Victoria Affram who revealed this on Accra-based Adom Fm on ...

Former president Jerry John Rawlings has called for the revision of the processes leading to the composition of the membership of the Council of State. “We must ensure that the processes for pre-qualifying, electing and appointing these members are tightened-up,” he said. “In the traditional system, an elder who misbehaved was expected in the past to commit suicide but honorably. ...