GENERAL NEWS

The Initiators of Change Foundation, an organisation focused on governance, poverty reduction, empowerment and human resource has presented a Lifetime in A Portrait Award to the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, after he was adjudged Africa’s Digital Revolutionary Leader of the Decade.   A citation accompanying the award read: “Upon …

In addition to the loan being facilitated by the government for the purchase of cars for Members of Parliament and Council of State members, a tax waiver of 13.3 million dollars has been tabled before Parliament to cover the importation of the cars for this category of public officials.   …

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President Nana Akufo-Addo has apologised to the overlord of the Waala Traditional Area, Naa Fuseini Seidu Pelpuo IV, and the people of Wa for the brutalities meted out to some residents by some soldiers earlier this month. Addressing Naa Fuseini Seidu Pelpuo IV on Tuesday, 13th July 2021, at the …

Caterers of the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) want urgent increment in the feeding grant, insisting that the amount being allocated by the government to prepare daily nutritious meals for pupils is woefully insignificant. According to them, the GH¢1.00 is not enough to purchase food items on the market to …

First Lady Rebecca Akufo-Addo has issued a Consolidated Bank Ghana Limited cheque for GH¢899,097.84 as a refund of all allowances received since 2017. Mrs Akufo-Addo on Monday, July 12 announced that due to the “extremely negative opinions” which have laced conversations on her allowances, she was refunding every pesewa. She …

National Youth Organizer of the ruling New Patriotic Party(NPP), Henry Nana Boakye, has challenged the former First Lady to return all allowances amounting to GHc 3.2 million paid to her by the state from the recommendations of the Prof. Yaa Ntiamoa Baidu emoluments committee. According to him, she has equally benefitted …

The Multimedia Group has filed a formal complaint against the Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong for threatening the life of one of its journalists, Erastus Asare Donkor. In the letter, dated July 13, 2021, addressed to the Deputy Regional Commander, Ashanti Region, the media conglomerate …

Some teachers are demanding the immediate resignation of the leadership of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) for allegedly sleeping on their concerns. The teachers who are concerned about the outcome of the recent teacher promotion examination, picketed at the Ghana Education Service Headquarters before they marched to the …

Madam Sahada Humu, wife of the slain activist at Ejura, has told the Committee probing the Ejura disturbances, that her late husband, Ibrahim Mohammed, aka Kaaka, did not tell her about persons who wanted him dead. Testifying before the three-member Committee Monday, Sahada Humu, revealed that the late Kaaka, rather, …