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South African Airways (SAA) has relaunched flight services on the Johannesburg – Accra – Johannesburg route on Tuesday, September 28, 2021. A brief ceremony was organized at Kotoka International Airport to welcome the airline back to Accra. In March last year, SAA announced the suspension of the flights to to some African countries. Flights to African cities including Accra in Ghana, Lusaka ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo’s nominee for the Obuasi Municipal Assembly, Elijah Adansi-Bonah, has been confirmed as Municipal Chief Executive by Assembly members. Mr Adansi-Bonah polled 28 votes out of the 28 ballots cast on the day, representing 100 percent at the elections supervised by the Municipal Electoral Officer,Thomas Biyimba. In his victory speech, Elijah Adansi-Bonah, who could not hide his joy, ...

Rotational nurses have given the government a two-day ultimatum to pay their allowances else they strike. Addressing a press conference today, Wednesday, 29 September 2021, the Vice-president of the Ghana Nurse-Midwife Trainees’ Association, Mr Madugu Kwame Richard, said the nurses have not been paid their allowances for the past eight months since they started the mandatory service. He said since ...

The confirmation of Municipal and District Chief Executive nominees for the Savannah Region is set to begin today, Thursday, September 30. The Region has seven administrative MDAs, comprising five Districts and two Municipal Assemblies. Bole, Sawla-Tuna-Kalba, North Gonja, North East Gonja and Central Gonja Districts and East Gonja and Central Gonja Municipality. In all, a total of 218 elected and ...

The Right To Information (RTI) Coalition has noted that for effective and efficient implementation of the RTI Act, there are pertinent fundamentals that should accompany it. Sadly, the Coalition said, two major limitations have hindered the effective implementation of Act 989 in Ghana. First is the delay of government to pass a fees regime that would guide the appropriate cost ...

Effective immediately, all official 2021 Population and Housing Census (PHC) paraphernalia for field officers used during the data collection exercise are no longer valid for official use, the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has announced. The paraphernalia includes the blue census T-shirts, blue census reflective jackets, white census caps and ID cards. The GSS has, thus, cautioned the public not to ...

The Member of Parliament for Ejura Sekyeredumase Bawah Braimah says the findings and recommendations by the ministerial Committee that probed the chaos at Ejura do not bring closure to residents of the town. “The residents of Ejura are not satisfied, the residents want the soldiers who shot and killed their relatives to be also sanctioned. That is what they want”. ...

Civil society group Alliance for Social Equity & Public Accountability (ASEPA) has petitioned parliament to compel the Electoral Commission to give an account of the 2020 general elections to the people of Ghana. In its petition, ASEPA said: “The elections, right from the preparations to declaration, recorded a number of fundamental breaches, violations and discrepancies, which, eventually, led to the ...

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has kept the policy rate at 13.5 per cent. Speaking at the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC0 press conference in Accra on Monday September 27, Governor of the BoG Dr Ernest Addison said inflation has risen sharply over the last two readings, driven mainly by sustained food price increases. He added although food inflation has pushed ...

A former Deputy Minister of Information, Felix Kwakye Ofosu has criticized a move by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to purchase a new presidential jet. According to him, purchasing a new jet will amount to wasting resources at a time most Ghanaians are saddled with economic difficulties. The government has announced plans to purchase a new presidential jet for the president’s foreign travels. ...