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The Energy Ministry has disputed reports that it suffered a disconnection exercise from its agency, the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) over unpaid electricity bills last Tuesday. The Ministry describes the report as wrong as the facility runs on prepaid meters. The Communications Specialist at the Ministry, Kofi Abrefa Afena, disputed that they have been disconnected from the grid. LEARN ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has told the Minister of Education Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum not to close down nonperforming schools. He says the schools should rather be supported with teaching and learning materials to improve on their performance. Addressing branch executives of NDC earlier on Sunday, March 19, at Adudwama in the Ahafo Ano South East Constituency Mr Mahama ...

Former Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu has filed his nomination forms to contest the National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary primaries in the Tamale South Constituency. Highly tipped to retain the seat, Haruna Iddrisu says his work in the Constituency is not done yet. Accompanied by a mammoth crowd, the 5th time Member of Parliament for Tamale South handed over his nomination ...

President Akufo-Addo has tasked the Police to investigate allegations by the former Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESTI) regarding the seat of government’s involvement in illegal mining. Prof Kwabena Frimpong Boateng accused some top government officials of being engaged in the canker, popularly known as ‘galamsey’. The renowned professor who served under President Akufo-Addo during his first term ...

The First Deputy Speaker of Parliament Joseph Osei Owusu (Joewise) has said Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has enormous support within the rank and file of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to lead the party as leader into the 2024 general elections. He said the number of NPP Members of Parliament and Ministers of States who followed Dr Baswumia to ...

Energy Minister Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh has asked investors and decision-makers gathered at the North Africa and Europe Energy Exhibition and Conference (NAEPEC) to explore several opportunities in Ghana’s energy sector for the mutual benefit of both Ghana and the investors. Speaking as a keynote speaker on the topic: “Ghana’s current Energy Sector initiatives, the global energy transition, and opportunities available in ...

United States Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Accra in Ghana; Dar es Salaam in Tanzania and Lusaka in Zambia from March 25 to April 2. She will be accompanied by her husband Douglas Emhoff. The visit will build on the recent U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit that President Biden hosted in Washington in December 2022. The trip will strengthen the United ...

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has refuted allegations of harassment levelled by Assin Central Member of Parliament (MP) Kennedy Ohene Agyapong. The New Patriotic Party (NPP) MP had claimed in an interview with Kumasi-based Sompa FM that his businesses are facing unprecedented “harassment” and “intimidation” under the Akufo-Addo-led government. He said since he started doing business in the Fourth Republic, ...

“There will be no haircuts, so I urge all of you to ignore the false rumours”. President Akufo on 30th October 2022 in a national televised address, emphatically assured investors not to panic. He added, “I want to assure all Ghanaians, no individual or institutional investor, including pension funds, in Government treasury bills or instruments will lose their money, as a ...

The People’s National Convention (PNC) has heaped praises on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for acknowledging the country’s economic difficulties in his State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Wednesday, March 8. The opposition party maintained that the President’s gesture is a show of good faith to lead the country back to a buoyant economy. “The President’s proposition to address ...