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The opposition National Democratic Congress has scored the Akufo-Addo led government an F, saying the administration has only achieved 14 per cent of their 2016 manifesto promises. According to the NDC, claims by the Vice President, Dr Mahammudu Bawumia that the government had achieved 78 per cent of their promises are mere exaggerations. On 11 February 2020, Dr Bawumia declared ...

There are strong indications that former President John Dramani Mahama may in the coming days announce the former Managing Director of the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) and Bulk Oil Supply and Storage (BOST) Kingsley Awuah-Darko, as his Vice Presidential Candidate for the upcoming Presidential elections. Mr. Awuah-Darko is said to have snatched the much-awaited NDC Running Mate slot, at the ...

Parliament, on Thursday, June 04, 2020, passed the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Ghana bill, 2019, after its third reading in the house of Parliament. The passage of this bill is very significant and an important landmark in the history of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Ghana (CIMG). CIMG has been pursuing this bill for the last two decades, starting from ...

Four (4) inmates at Asamankese Police Cells in the Eastern Region have tested positive for Coronavirus. The four(4) were among ten(10) inmates at the cells whose samples were taken to Noguchi Memorial Center for Medical Research for testing by the West Akyem Municipal Health Directorate on request of the Police. The Municipal Health Director, Dr. Samuel Boateng Agyemang Confirmed to ...

National leader of the Coalition of Aggrieved Customers of Menzgold has expressed displeasure in CEO of defunct Menzgold Company Limited, Nana Appiah Mensah, for signing a new artiste on subsidiary company, Zylofon Music, despite owing hundreds of customers of the gold dealership firm. According to Francis Owusu, the signing ceremony which was organised with “grandeur, pump and pageantry” over the ...

Members of the Aggrieved Customers of Menzgold say they have been informed that the $39 million the Chief Executive Officer of now defunct Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah (NAM1), has been expecting from Dubai to pay them their locked-up investments has arrived. According to the group if it is confirmed that the money has indeed arrived and has been received by ...

The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has clarified that the 50 vehicles it received from the office of the President is a loan from the National Security for three months to intensify its campaign against COVID-19 disease. There have been media reports that the NCCE which has been starved off resources in the past had been given vehicles to ...

Dr Elias Sory, former Director-General of the Ghana Health Service has described plans by the National Identification Authority to continue with card registration and collection exercise as well as the upcoming voter’s registration exercise in the wake of COVID-19 as a ‘risky business’. According to him, if the two state agencies in charge of both exercises cannot assure that participants ...

The National Communications Authority (NCA) has failed to file a defence in the privacy right case ( EI 63) before the High Court in Accra. However, all four other respondents Vodafone Ghana Limited, MTN, Kelni GVG and the Attorney General’s department have filed their respective defence to the action initiated by a private legal practitioner Francis Kwarteng Arthur. The case ...

Fear has engulfed nurses and other workers at the Ogbojo Polyclinic at East Legon after some senior staff who have tested positive for COVID-19 at the facility are reportedly still reporting for duty. According to Starrfm.com.gh sources, six senior staff who have contracted the virus have not self-isolated or been directed to do so by the hospital. Multiple sources told ...