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The Minority in parliament has served notice to the government that “we shall, in the coming weeks, trigger the appropriate rules and processes for a full-scale parliamentary inquiry” into the “broad daylight thievery and embarrassing spectacle” at the Tema Oil Refinery, which has resulted in financial loss to the company. Read the Minority’s full statement below: MINORITY CAUCUS TO LAUNCH ...

The Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) has said that an amount of GH¢129.26 million, representing five (5) percent of the budgeted Annual Budget Funding Amount (ABFA), was allocated to the District Assembly Common Fund (DACF). This according to PIAC follows the decision of the Supreme Court of Ghana in the case of Kpodo and Another versus Attorney-General. PIAC said ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has indicated that the Aburi Gardens will soon be redeveloped, as part of the government’s plan to boost the country’s tourism potential. President Akufo-Addo made this known on Wednesday, 6 October 2021, when he paid a courtesy call on Nana Otuobour Djan Kwasi II, the Chief of Aburi, at the commencement of day 2 of ...

Teachers of various senior high schools in the Saboba District of the Northern region have declared strike over the failure of their Education Director to secure their laptops under the ongoing “one teacher one laptop project”. Teachers from the schools comprising St Joseph Technical senior high, EP senior High school, and Wapuli Day Senior High School have since Friday, October ...

Former Member of Parliament for Ledzokuku, Dr Bernard Okoe-Boye has commended the Interim Management Committee for commissioning internal investigations in the operations of the refinery which uncovered the rot. He has asked the Police, The Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) and the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) to take up the matter and further investigate it. His comments come after ...

A meeting has been scheduled between the government and leadership of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) on Wednesday, October 6 over the recent notice by the latter to resume members’ strike action. The Association had complained that the one-month moratorium placed on its suspended strike elapsed last month without any significant progress. “Unfortunately, within the one-month moratorium, the ...

Everyone who has been a student before has been urged to pick a phone and call his or her teacher to express gratitude to their teachers. This, according to some teachers, would give them satisfaction since there is a saying that a teacher’s reward is in heaven. October 5th every year has been set aside to celebrate teachers across the ...

Access Bank has in collaboration with Coronation Insurance launched an innovative product called Business Protection Insurance for Business Success which translates ‘W’adwuma Bambo Nti’ at the National Theater in Accra. The launch was attended by various stakeholders including representatives of Traders Advocacy Group Ghana (TAGG) and heads of Access Bank and Coronation Insurance. Following the wave in fire outbreaks, flood ...

The National Secretariat of the Ghana National Council of Private Schools, (GNACOPS) has said it has received an alert of some people claiming to conduct research work in private schools. According to GNACOPS, these people come under the pretense that, the Ghana National Council of Private Schools has given them approval to conduct said Research Work. “The alert disclosed that, ...

The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) has served notice it will resume its industrial action by Friday if government fails to shift its position in finding solutions to their concerns. The university lecturers first declared strike in August this year over the refusal of government to respect the terms of their conditions of service agreed upon in 2012. The ...