The National Tripartite Committee (NTC) on Thursday, June 3 concluded negotiations on the national daily minimum wage for the next couple of years. Constituted by representatives of government, the Ghana Employers Association and the Trades Union Congress (TUC), the Committee increased the 2021 minimum wage by 6 percent and increased …

President Akufo-Addo has acknowledged the unflinching support of the late former General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwadwo Owusu-Afriyie, when he sought to secure the presidential seat. Calling the late politician, an “Akufo-Addo loyalist”, the President recounted the moment when Sir John, as he is popularly called, expressed …

Edward Akufo-Addo, businessman and Managing Director of Amaadi Cold Stores Limited, who is a biological brother to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has sued Radio host of Accra FM, Kwabena Bobbie Ansah, the Class Media Group, and two others for defamation. The defendants are said to have claimed that the …

    A Young boy believed to be 9 years old has this morning met his untimely death after a tipper truck on a top speed knocked him down at Awutu Beraku in the Awutu Senya West District of the Central Region. Source indicates that, the deceased was on his …

Sakora Wonoo in the Kwabre East District of the Ashanti Region has been thrown into a state of mourning, as the former Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Commission, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, Sir John, is laid in state. The former General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party died at the …

Perhaps, it was a tad optimistic in hindsight, for supporters of the Free Senior High School policy to expect that the critics of the policy would be silenced by its successful implementation. When the policy took off in September 2017, many of us thought the whole nation would unite to …

It has emerged that the Chief Justice, Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah has referred to the General Legal Council for investigation comments made by former deputy Attorney General and Member of Parliament for Bolgatanga East, Dr. Dominic Ayine. Dr. Ayine reportedly questioned the independence of Ghana’s judiciary in a CDD-Ghana Roundtable Discussion …

The District chief executive of Bosome Freho District of the Ashanti region Hon Yaw Danso has been exposed in the attempt by government to end illegal mining. According to report the DCE is highly involved in illigal mining even after strong warnings from the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo_Addo that …

Ghana Aids Commission has revealed that about 1.7 percent of the adult population in Ghana are living with the Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) a chronic, potentially life-threatening condition caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The commission has also indicated that about 340,000 people are currently living with the Aids virus. Out of …

GOVERNMENT HAS been able to recoup only GH¢1.7 billionout of a total of GH¢25 billion assets belonging to banks which collapsed in 2017  under the financial sector clean-up exercise embarked upon by the Central Bank. Dr. Ernest Addison, Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), who disclosed this to journalists …