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The latest Auditor General’s report has revealed that management of the Ghana Aiport Company failed to transfer over seven million cedis of welfare deductions they made from staff to the various fund managers and SSNIT. “We noted that the Company had not transferred a total of GH¢7,553,997.10 as welfare and other insurance deducted on behalf of staff to the various ...

The Chief of the Chiraa Traditional Area in the Sunyani West District of the Bono Region, Nana Afari Mintah, has told Ghanaians that Ghana can only be “fixed” if all the citizens come together to play their respective roles. Nana Afari Mintah expressed these sentiments on Wednesday, 11 August 2021, when President Akufo-Addo called on him at his palace, as ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has appointed former Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs Minister Samuel Kofi Dzamesi as the acting Chief Executive Officer of the Bui Power Authority (BPA). A letter communicating the appointment was signed by Chief of Staff Akosua Frema Osei-Opare dated 30 July 2021. “Pursuant to Section 9 (2) of the Bui Power Authority Act, 2007 (Act 740), I am ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appointed a former Acting Editor of the Daily Graphic, Ms Elizabeth Akua Ohene, as Chairman of the Board of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT). The 13-member SSNIT Board was inaugurated in Accra on Tuesday, 10 August 2021, by the Minister of Finance, Mr Ken Ofori-Atta. Mr Ofori-Atta charged the board to ...

The National Insurance Commission (NIC) in a joint operation with the Ghana Police Service has arrested a Lebanese, Gabriel Medawar for operating an unlicensed Insurance broking firm contrary to section 109 of the Insurance Act 2021 (Act 1061). The illegal company operating under the business name, Harmonia Insurance Group, carried out its operations in a private building near the West ...

It has emerged that the African University College of Communication Limited (AUCC) failed to make payment on the agreed amount of GHS4.7million as a buyout of Activity Venture Capital Trust Fund’s (AVFC) 30 per cent stake in AUCC, denying the Trust Fund its share of GHS1,410,000.00 (40%) per the agreement on the distribution of returns among the shareholders of Activity ...

The University of Cape Coast (UCC) has GHS9, 123, 532.57 locked up with First Banc and Gold Coast Fund Management. The licences of the two companies were revoked by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 2019. The locked-up amount was revealed in the Auditor-General’s report on the public accounts of Ghana, public boards, corporations and other statutory institutions for ...

The Ghana School of Survey and Mapping (GSSM) has been operating with an expired accreditation since 2015. The school, presently, is running its programmes without accreditation. This disclosure was contained in the Auditor-General’s report on the public accounts of Ghana, public boards, corporations and other statutory institutions for the period ended 31 December 2020. “We noted that Survey and Mapping ...

The numerous strikes in the education sector can be put down to leadership failure, former deputy education minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has said. The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTA), Senior Staff Association Universities of Ghana (SSA-UoG) and the Federation of Universities Senior Staff Association (FUSSAG) declared simultaneous strike actions last week over their conditions of service. SSA-UoG and FUSSAG, ...

The Eastern Regional Secretariat of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has stopped a group led by the former Eastern Regional Minister Antwi Bosiako Sekyere from embarking on a tour in the region. A statement issued by the Regional Secretary Kudjo Adukpo stated that the regional executives have “become aware of a supposed tour of the region by a group ...