POLITICS

The Minority has accused Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman Manu of deceiving Ghanaians about the progress of work on the reconstruction of La General Hospital, after the group first raised issues with the slow pace of work on the project. A visit by the Minority caucus of the Health Committee of Parliament to the project site led by the Ranking member, ...

The National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) has called on government to increase the feeding grant for school feeding caterers to supply nutritious meals to pupils who are beneficiaries of the intervention. According to NUGS, it will take a magician to feed someone with less than GHS1 as one pupil is fed with 0.97p. NUGS President, Dennis Appiah Larbi-Ampofo made ...

Co-founder of the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) Professor Baffour Agyeman-Duah says the bad perception about the country’s judiciary cannot be blamed on the current Chief Justice, Kwasi Anin-Yeboah. He insists that the problem is institutional and can only be tackled from the bottom of the judicial ladder upward. Prof Agyeman-Duah made these remarks in an interview on TV3‘s ...

Former United Nations Senior Governance Advisor Professor Baffour Agyeman-Duah says recent same-way thinking by justices of the Supreme Court presents a major challenge to the judicial system of Ghana. “I do not believe that these justices should think the same way and should agree on the same thing all the time. That in itself will be a serious problem,” he ...

President of the Coalition of Concerned Teachers, King Ali, has reacted to the payment of the Cost of Living Allowance (CoLA) by the Controller and Accountant General’s Department (CAGD). He told Alfred Ocansey on the Sunrise show on 3FM, Tuesday August 30 that the current rate of inflation is not the same when the labour unions agreed on the 15 per ...

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has expressed concerns over the increasing rate of negligence and other unprofessional conducts by some healthcare workers in the country. He said this after recognizing the essential service health workers are providing, while addressing members of the Medical and Dental Council in Accra on Monday August 29 on the occasion of the Council’s 50th Anniversary Celebration and 2022 ...

Former New Patriotic Party (NPP) lawmaker for Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa, Paul Collins Appiah Ofori has said investigations into dealings at Customs should continue despite the exit of the Commissioner-General, Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Col Kwadwo Damoah. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo directed Col Damoah to hand over following the expiration of his contract of service. Lands For Sale In Acres ...

The 2021 Auditor-General’s report has unearthed irregularities amo.unting to GH¢1,080,913,824. It comprises tax irregularities, cash irregularities, indebtedness/loans/advances, payroll irregularities, stores/procurement irregularities, rent irregularities and contract irregularities. The A-G detected payroll irregularities amounting to GH¢5,583,498.00. Included in the total payroll irregularities was unearned salaries totalling GH¢1,501,740.00 paid to 146 officers of 47 institutions under the Ministry of Health. Lands For Sale ...

The 2021 Auditor-General’s report has revealed that some 146 staff in various institutions under the ministry of health squandered some ¢1.5 million of “unearned salaries”. This was part of the total GH¢1,080,913,824 irregularities detected by the Auditor-General which comprises tax irregularities, cash irregularities, indebtedness/loans/advances, payroll irregularities, stores/procurement irregularities, rent irregularities and contract irregularities. Lands For Sale In Acres at Aburi ...

Member of Parliament for Dome-Kwabenya Constituency Sarah Adwoa Safo has indicated that she will now have more time to concentrate on her parliamentary duties now that she has handed over her ministerial responsibilities. Until Thursday, July 28, Ms Safo was the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection though proceeding on leave for over one year and her office temporarily managed by ...