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Government has deferred plans to facilitate Christian pilgrims to Israel and the Vatican City, according to the deputy Minister of Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Paul Essien. The first batch of pilgrims were supposed to embark on the religious trip over the weekend, but it was delayed due to administrative challenges. “The new date for us to depart from Ghana is ...

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta has said he might be presenting the mid-year review of 2017 budget estimates either on July, 25 or 26. These are the dates the finance ministry is proposing to parliament for the review subject to the Houses approval in line with its schedule. Sources say the minister is expected to review some Marco-Economic targets set ...

Fifteen people suspected to have been variously involved in the shooting incident at Lapaz that claimed the life of a policeman and caused injury to another have been arrested by the police. The suspects include a 27-year-old female, Charity Otuboa, a trader; six Nigerians and eight Ghanaians. The names of the suspects are Ken Ikponnwosa, 23; Faith Ogieriakhi, 35; Fem ...

The Public Utility Workers Union (PUWU), the mother body of staff of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), is threatening legal action against government over its intended move to give out the power distributor on a 25-year concession. According to the union, the current concession agreement did not make provision for the payment of severance packages to ECG workers in ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama’s intention of contesting for the flagbearership race of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is no longer shrouded in secrecy as he has kicked-off his campaigns with regional visitations. According to this paper’s sources close to the former President, he has snubbed the recommendations of the Prof Kwesi Botchwey Committee’s report which recommended that the party ...

Hon Mahama Ayariga Moves to Ensure Accountability in Universities Fees Fixing Hon Mahama Ayariga has moved to ensure accountability in the fixing of fees and charges by public universities and senior high schools (SHS) in Ghana by demanding that they should be brought to Parliament for approval pursuant to the Fees and Charges (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2009 (Act 793). The ...

  University of Ghana has over the past few months recorded cases of death of students – Some of which were reported to have been suicides, accidents and health complications. Unfortunately, the University populace would be welcoming a few more deaths in the next few days all because of the negligence. After a careful review of the state of spome ...

“Obviously there are other good strikers in football but the Premier League is a very specific habitat, a difficult habitat, normally players need some time to adapt but Lukaku has played in the Premier League for the last four or five seasons so now he comes to a club with a different responsibility than Everton or West Bromwich Albion. “I think ...

Former Member of Parliament for Dayi Constituency says the Deputy Trades Minister lost the fact that he is now a politician and not a diasporan, as he wanted to be seen by the Diasporan community he addressed. George Loh says Robert Ahomka Lindsay now comes in a political cloak and that is how he is going to be judged. He ...

Security analyst, Kwesi Anning is predicting more bouts of violence in the country if government fails to equip security officials with the needed tools and gadgets to keep them armed against trouble makers. The Inspector General of Police (IGP) has recently revealed that the main reason for the ill-fate on most security officers is due to the fact that they ...