The Coalition of Newly Recruited Graduate Teachers has threatened to boycott the May Day Celebration, May 1, 2017. The International Labour day is celebrated on May 1 in several countries around the world. It is an important celebration for Worker’s movements, Trade Unions and other leftist organisations. In Ghana, it is referred to as May Day or Worker’s Day. However, […]

The Ashanti Region has recorded a thousand five hundred and twenty five (1,525) cases of crime in the first quarter of the year 2017. This represents a marginal decline in the figures of the same period of the year 2016 which stood at a thousand six-hundred (1600) cases. The Ashanti regional police command disclosed the figures when the Ashanti Regional […]

Engineers and Planners Company Limited owned by Ibrahim Mahama defaulted in the payment of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) contribution for employees due to what it describes as “unexpected delays in our receivables on current contracts being executed”, a letter from the firm addressed to the statutory public Trust stated. Government has filed a suit against the […]

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has urged members of the Council of State not to be sycophants but speak truth to authority. “The constitution mandates the government to select some people to counsel the president. The regions also elect persons to the Council. You are here to speak truth to the president and not to massage the truth” the President […]

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has expressed confidence in the newly appointed Chief Executive of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Dr. Samuel Yaw Annor, to improve the scheme which is in a critical condition. He made this known when Dr. Annor and other functionaries of the NHIA paid a courtesy call on him during the observation of Awukudae […]

Regional Police Commander, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Nana Asomah Hinneh has bemoaned the refusal of residents of Nkonya and Alavanyo in cooperating with the police to arrest perpetrators involved in the renewed clashes. Three people died and others severally injured in a sporadic shootings during an upsurge in violence believed to be linked to an old land dispute between […]

If government is really bent on creating more jobs in the country, it needs to focus its attention on the manufacturing sector. This according to a former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Professor Ernest Aryeetey, is because the sector has the potential of solving the frightening employment rate that has bedeviled the country. The Ghana Labour Force Survey […]

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) says it has asked two companies owned by Mr. Ibrahim Mahama to clear their indebtedness to the Authority earlier than originally planned. Assistant Commissioner for Communication at the GRA, Robert Mensah, told Joy FM’s Super Morning Show the decision was reached after the two companies consistently defaulted. MBG Ltd, a heavy duty equipment dealer, and […]

President Nana Akufo-Addo has appointed Mr Yaw Amoakohene Baafi, a social scientist and communications specialist as the new Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the National Lotteries Authority (NLA). The appointment takes immediate effect. Yaw Amoakohene Baafi was until November 2015 a Director, Co-founder and second majority shareholder of Prestige Capital Limited, a financial service operator. Mr Baafi comes to his […]

Some illegal miners in Tarkwa-Breman in the Prestea Huni-Valley of the Western Region, have vowed to vote against their Member of Parliament (MP), Madam Barbara Oteng Gyasi in the next general election, for waging a war against their activities. The first-time MP, is a Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources. The miners expressed their anger when the Sector Minister, […]