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Kennedy Ohene Agyepong, New Patriotic Party (NPP) firebrand has emphatically stated three heads of public institutions will soon be hauled before courts and thrown into jail for engaging in alleged underhand dealings while in office. He singled out the former Director of Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) Mr Ernest Thompson as the first considering what is alleged to ...

General Overseer of the Action Chapel International, Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams has said he did not persuade the American authorities to allow him lead the Inauguration Day Prayer Service ahead of the inauguration ceremony for the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. The godfather of the Christian charismatic movement in Ghana gave the Opening Prayer on 20th Jan ...

Former Trade and Industry Minister, Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, appears to have made a u-turn about the issue of flagbearership of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC). He stated categorically last May that if former President John Mahama contests as NDC flag bearer for the 2020 presidential election, he (Spio-Garbrah) was not going to join the race. Now that it is becoming ...

Authorities at SSNIT could face the law on causing financial loss to the state in a $66m contract to set up ICT infrastructure aimed at improving operations of the pension scheme. A legal practitioner Martin Kpebu has pointed out, the deal, whose contract has shot up from $34m to $72m ‘definitely seems like a case of causing financial loss to ...

About five thousand delegates of the New Patriotic Party are expected to converge in Cape Coast in the Central region for their annual Delegates Conference. This follows the organization of conferences in constituencies nationwide in fulfillment of the party’s constitution. This follows the organization of conferences in constituencies nationwide in fulfillment of the party’s constitution. The National Delegates conference will ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has called on churches to focus more on the young ones for a better future instead of channeling resources in the tertiary sector. With religious groups now concentrating on the tertiary sector in the provision of education, President Akufo-Addo has made a heartfelt appeal to the Presbyterian Church to take a look back to the ...

The constituency chairman of the NPP, Sulemana Zakaria, revealed that government had allotted 26 slots for in the school feeding programme for the area. He, however, revealed that as the DCE grabbed 12 of those slots to be given to deserving party faithfuls, minister for Gender and Women’s Affairs Otiko Afisah Djaba took 8 and the remainder was kept to ...

President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, returned to Ghana yesterday after his 3-day official visit to Equatorial Guinea, with the visit serving as an opportunity for the two countries to strengthen existing bilateral cooperation. The meetings between President Akufo-Addo and President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo were held in a friendly and cordial atmosphere, as the two leaders examined ...

The chairperson of the Electoral Commission Charlotte Osei needs help, and not vile criticisms from Ghanaians, the founder of the Action Chapel International has said. According to Archbishop Nicholas Duncan Williams, the EC chair is knowledgeable and has a good heart and head. Mrs. Osei has come under severe public backlash following accusations of managerial ineptitude by some staff of ...

The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) spent $66 million on the acquisition of a faulty software, nearly two times the price it had earlier on budgeted for. Documents intercepted by Joy News revealed SSNIT had budgeted $34,011,914.21 in 2012 for the procurement of Operational Business Suite, a technology that would automate its processes. The contract awarded to Perfect ...