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An Economist with the University of Ghana Business School, Dr Lord Mensah says Ghana over the years has not had value for money from the various presidential travels. Speaking on the Morning Starr on Thursday, the University of Ghana Lecturer said the huge entourage that accompanies the president on the many foreign trips have come at a huge cost to ...

Parliament has approved a report by Parliament’s Appointments Committee on the President’s list of deputy ministerial nominees. According to the report, one Minister of State at the Ministry of Finance Charles Adu Boahen and 11 deputy ministerial nominees were approved by the fifth report tabled. The 11 nominees approved are, Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Benito Owusu Bio, ...

The Managing Director (MD) of Tema Oil Refinery (TOR), Francis Boateng, has been sacked from his post, together with his deputy, Ato Morrison. The duo, who had been at the helm of the troubled state-owned refinery since May 2020, was reportedly served with their dismissal letters last Friday, June 11, 2021, by the Ministry of Energy. Commenting on the issue, ...

Impact Investing Ghana will on Thursday, June 17, 2021, hold the first-ever public Dialogue Series on Financing for Development. The forum, dubbed “What is the Role of the Development Bank in Ghana’s Economic Transformation?” will also seek to address some niggling questions on the minds of Ghanaians such as; “Will the development bank actually enable Ghanaians to access financing to grow their ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Volta region has called on the government to ensure that internal roads at the University of Health and Allied Sciences are given the needed attention as soon as possible. The call from the NDC which is contained in a press statement issued by the party is in reaction to the poor nature of ...

The Inspector-General of Police has told banks in the country to acquire fortified armoured vehicles to cart cash across the country by June ending or have the police withdraw their escort duties for them. It comes on the back of the killing of a police officer and one other by suspected robbers during bulk cash transfer at James Town in ...

The Head of the Department of Research at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) Professor Emmanuel Kwesi Aning says incidents like the James Town Bullion Van attack will continue to happen across the country. A police officer and a hawker were killed by suspected robbers on Monday during an attack on a Bullion Van. The officer was escorting the ...

The Speaker of Parliament, Alban S. K. Bagbin, has re-affirmed the commitment of the 8th Parliament to prioritize issues of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and ensure that committed Members of Parliament are recruited to champion these goals. According to him, Parliament will soon approve amendments being made to the current standing orders so as to open the standing ...

The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has cautioned Ghanaians against the indiscriminate patronization of foreign telenovelas. According to him such telenovelas being shown on networks in the country are not only corrupting women to the point their husbands no longer recognize them but destroying the country’s culture too. Speaking as a special guest at the launch of a book of ...

Ghana will from today Tuesday 15th June to Saturday 19th June 2021, host the mid-year statutory meetings of the Economic Community of West African State (ECOWAS). Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway who announced this at a press conference in Accra on Monday, June 14, 2021, said the meetings will be held for 5 days continuously. ...