POLITICS

Four more persons have been granted a combined bail of GHc800,000 by the Criminal Division of the Accra High Court presided over by Justice Comfort K Tasiame in the Western Togoland Restoration Front trial. The accused persons are part of some 38 persons who have been charged with 12 counts including being members of a prohibited organization. They have all ...

Minority leader Haruna Iddrisu has described as malicious and baseless a report by the Herald Newspaper suggesting that he has been compromised in the controversial GNPC/Aker oil block deal being considered by government. The opposition-biased newspaper had claimed in its Friday, August 3 edition that the Minority leader is part of efforts to bribe Civil Society Groups from speaking against ...

Professor Christopher Ameyaw-Akumfi has been appointed by the President Akufo-Addo as the board chairman for the Public Procurement Authority (PPA). The former Education Minister in the John Kufuor administration takes over from Professor Douglas Boateng. Prof Boateng chaired the nine-member PPA Board during President Akufo-Addo’s first term term. Prof Ameyaw-Akumfi’s appointement was announced on Friday Sepotember 3. Profile of Prof ...

Energy Minister Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh has told the newly-constituted board of the Bui Power Authority (BPA) that there is a thought that in the future assets of the authority and those of the Volta River Authority (VRA) should be combined since the two institutions are of the same water body. He said this during the inauguration of the board ...

There is no justification for President Akufo-Addo to hire a presidential jet for $14,000 per hour for his trip to Germany, a former Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs under the Mahama administration, Emmanuel Bombande, has said. The former Executive Director for the West Africa Network for Peace Building (WANEP) said any justification for this decision will only pollute the minds ...

President Akufo-Addo has charged the newly constituted twenty-five (25) member Lands Commission Board to do everything possible to change the current negative course of land administration in Ghana. Addressing members of the Board after swearing them into office at the Banquet Hall of the Jubilee House, President Akufo-Addo noted that the country’s land administration challenges have persisted far too long ...

Farouk Aliu Mahama, son of late former Vice President, Alhaji Aliu Mahama and Member of Parliament (MP) for Yendi, has been sworn in as Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Ghana Integrated Iron and Steel Development Corporation (GIISDEC). He is joined by eight other technocrats drawn from other government institutions and agencies to constitute the new GIISDEC Board. ...

The 1st Deputy Speaker of Parliament Joe Osei Wusu says Ghanaians must first fix their character if they want to see things changed in the country. According to him, the average Ghanaian will lie about everything and has no interest of the nation at heart. “I’ll rather say we should fix our character. We cheat freely with the everyday thing ...

The Ministry of Health, (MOH) has opened the application for the recruitment of Medical Doctors and Dentists into the country’s health service. The applicants are supposed to have completed their house job and have been verified by the Medical and Dental Council under the 23rd list. A statement released by the Ministry and signed by the Acting Chief Director, Kwabena ...

Scores of residents of Elubo and other communities in the Western Region have staged a demonstration on Thursday September 2, asking President Akufo Addo to open the Elubo border. They said the persistent closure of the border is having negative effect on their living conditions as economic activities are gradually grinding to a halt. Ghana’s land borders together with the ...