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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said his administration has so far used GHC455.9 million of oil revenue for the Free Senior High School policy as part of his government’s efforts to create assets, and not waste oil money on consumption and the accumulation of debt. According to President Akufo-Addo, “We are investing revenues from oil in one of the ...

An opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential hopeful has taken on the Mahama administration over corruption scandals that hit it. Augustus Goosie Tanoh said the scandals including the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) corruption case caused Ghanaians to lose confidence in the party. Addressing party faithful in the Volta region, he charged them to stand up against corrupt politicians in ...

A former Member of Parliament (MP) for Ablekuma South, Fritz Baffour, has said there is no wrong with his decision to choose to work for the Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Hon. Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin who has declared his intention to contest for the flagbearer position of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). According to Mr. Baffour, he had the ...

The Institute of Energy Security (IES) is predicting a marginal increase in fuel prices in its review of this month’s first pricing window, spanning October 1-15, 2018. The Institute attributed the expected increase to a rise in the average Brent crude price by 5.7 per cent with a corresponding increment in the prices of Gasoline and Gasoil on the international ...

President Akufo-Addo has said Ghana is “ready for business”, urging the UK business community to partner with the West African country and be part of the new, exciting and profitable phase of its quest to transform the economy into an industrialized one. Speaking at the turn of the 2018 UK- Ghana Investment Summit in Accra with a focus on building ...

Some workers of the National Identification Authority (NIA), have deserted their posts over the non-payment of salaries. The workers, who have been engaged since May 2018 to work on the implementation of the Ghana Card, say they have not been paid for the past two months. Some of the contract workers who spoke to Citi News say the situation is ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has described the 2020 general elections as a final match between him and familiar political rival, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. Referring to the 2012 polls as “a title fight” and the 2016 elections as “a rematch”, Mahama called the 2020 polls “a decider” and predicted the tiebreaker would return him to the helm of ...

The Minister of Transport, Hon. Kwaku Ofori Asiamah, has said the introduction of the Double-Track System in some selected Senior High Schools (SHS) has done a great service to nearly 200,000 Junior High School (JHS) leavers who otherwise would have been left in the house as a result of lack of space to accommodate them. The initiative introduced by the ...

The Supreme Court has ordered the Receiver of defunct U.T Bank, Eric Nana Nipah, to mount the witness box to be cross-examined by the Attorney General. This follows the Receiver’s claim of ownership of some properties belonging to businessman Alfred Woyome which the state intends to sell to satisfy a GH?51.2 million debt Mr Woyome owes the state. The Attorney ...

Police officers have fired tear gas to disperse protesting drivers and residents at Manhean, a suburb of Ablekuma in the Greater Accra region. The drivers and the residents are demonstrating over the poor nature of their roads. The irate residents set fire to portions of the road cutting off the community with heavy police presence as well as fire service ...