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Deputy Majority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has said the decision of the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin not to declare the Assin North seat vacant is a step in the right direction. According to the Efutu lawmaker, the speaker should not even have been written to, to declare the seat vacant. Mr Bagbin had declined to declare the Assin North seat ...

Deputy Minister of Defence, Kofi Amankwa-Manu, is challenging Media General, operators of TV3, Onua Fm and Onua TV to make themselves available for a site visit to the Afari Military Hospital in the Ashanti for a factfinding mission. According to him, the Accra-based media outlets have misrepresented the facts concerning the state of the military hospital project and equipment at ...

The government has commenced the distribution of laptop computers to all teachers in the country in fulfilment of its promise of the One Teacher, One Laptop programme. Under the “One-Teacher-One Laptop” programme, each teacher at every level of education from Kindergarten to Senior High School will receive a laptop, a novelty in the country’s educational service delivery system. The government ...

An initiative that will avail digital tools and training resources to small-scale farmers and agriculture-linked small businesses in Africa has been launched. The programme is a partnership between Microsoft’s 4Afrika initiative and IFC and aims to support digital transformation in Africa’s agribusiness sector, modernize supply chains and boost farmers’ productivity and incomes. To start with, a mobile platform will be ...

A nine-year-old boy Philip Ametepey has escaped from his alleged kidnappers who placed him in a sack at Kasoa Transformer in the Awutu Senya East District of the Central Region. According to the boy, the kidnappers forced him into a sack, but he managed to escape. Explaining his ordeal, the little boy said his mother sent him to buy a ...

Recent statistics of road accidents and fatalities resulting from them are very worrying. The social and economic impact of these accidents on families and the nation at large cannot be overemphasised. One of the least heard among the list of those who bear the brunt of these accidents are the insurance companies. The fact is that for almost every one ...

Four more persons have been granted a combined bail of GHc800,000 by the Criminal Division of the Accra High Court presided over by Justice Comfort K Tasiame in the Western Togoland Restoration Front trial. The accused persons are part of some 38 persons who have been charged with 12 counts including being members of a prohibited organization. They have all ...

Minority leader Haruna Iddrisu has described as malicious and baseless a report by the Herald Newspaper suggesting that he has been compromised in the controversial GNPC/Aker oil block deal being considered by government. The opposition-biased newspaper had claimed in its Friday, August 3 edition that the Minority leader is part of efforts to bribe Civil Society Groups from speaking against ...

Professor Christopher Ameyaw-Akumfi has been appointed by the President Akufo-Addo as the board chairman for the Public Procurement Authority (PPA). The former Education Minister in the John Kufuor administration takes over from Professor Douglas Boateng. Prof Boateng chaired the nine-member PPA Board during President Akufo-Addo’s first term term. Prof Ameyaw-Akumfi’s appointement was announced on Friday Sepotember 3. Profile of Prof ...

Energy Minister Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh has told the newly-constituted board of the Bui Power Authority (BPA) that there is a thought that in the future assets of the authority and those of the Volta River Authority (VRA) should be combined since the two institutions are of the same water body. He said this during the inauguration of the board ...