Minority in Parliament is demanding a detailed breakdown of the over 3 million jobs government claimed it has created under the Akufo-Addo administration in its first term in office. Their demands follow a disclosure made by the Minister-designate for Employment and Labour Relations, Ignatius Baffour-Awuah that government as of September …

Chief Executive of the Ghana Railway Development Authority (GRDA), Richard Dombo has died. Sources say he succumbed to Covid-19 complications on Wednesday, February 17, 2021. Mr Dombo has reportedly had a brief stint with health issues since he contracted the novel coronavirus in January 2021. He has not returned to …

The Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga, is advocating for the extension of the compulsory retirement age for public servants and judicial officers from 60 to 65 years. Mr. Ayariga announced that he is sponsoring a private member’s bill to amend the constitution to achieve this objective.   …

The General Secretary for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu says he intends to retire from party work after his third term as General Secretary. Grapevine information suggested that John Boadu was lacing his boots to contest in the party’s national elections for the chairmanship position. But speaking in an interview with Accra-based Asempa FM, John …

The minister-designate for Employment and Labour Relations, Ignatius Baffour-Awuah, has wondered what the term ‘protocol’ is within the employment sector of the country. He said that it comes to him as a surprise that there is any such thing in the processes involved in employments into particularly public institutions in the …

The minister-designate for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Sarah Adwoa Safo, has indicated her plans to bring some ‘rebranding’ to witches camps around the country.   She said that while there have been several attempts at abolishing such camps and disallowing such practices across the country, all attempts in the …

Tamale North Member of Parliament, Alhassan Sayibu Suhuyini, had cause to tell a fellow lawmaker that she (Ursula Owusu-Ekuful) had to deal with him, whether she liked him or not. He passed the remark today at Parliament’s Appointments Committee sitting during the vetting of Employment and Labour relations Minister-designate Ignatius …

The Bolgatanga Technical Institute in the Upper East Region has on Wednesday, 17 February 2021, been shut down. This follows a clash between two student groups of the school on Tuesday night. The situation which got out of hand by Wednesday morning, led to the destruction of school property. Some …

Former Deputy General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Koku Anyidoho has called the bluff of the party following its decision to suspend him indefinitely. The NDC in a letter signed by the General Secretary of the party, Johnson Asiedu Nketia addressed to Mr. Anyidoho, dated 8 February …

The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) says it will not permit the testing of waters now by party bigwigs who have ambitions of leading the party as flagbgearer in the 2024 Presidential election. Internal jolting in the quest to seek a replacement for Akufo-Addo whose tenure as President expires in …