GENERAL NEWS

The outgoing chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the President of the Republic of  Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says the regional body will not relent in its efforts to ensure that all member states are governed by democratically elected governments.   In his opening …

A 38-year-old bar operator Kwame Yeboah has been stabbed to death in a suspected chieftaincy dispute.   The incident happened in the early hours of Sunday, July 3 at Adum Afrancho in the Atwima Kwanwoma District of the Ashanti Region.   The town is currently, under heavy police patrol.   …

A group calling itself concerned NPP Youth in the Eastern region has embarked on a protest on the sidelines of a National Constituency Officers Welfare workshop in Koforidua over what it calls unlawful possession of the party’s properties by some constituency chairmen who lost the recent constituency elections.     …

The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has said it is embarking on series of exercises to curb the unlawful sale and use of military-pattern uniforms and accoutrements.   These measures, which will reinforce the existing methods, have become necessary following continuous use of the uniforms and accoutrements by persons and institutions, …

A  cabinet minister and also Minister of  Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto says Ghana will soon praise the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for engaging the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to support its economic programs.   Dr Afriyie Akoto rather wants Ghanaians to be concerned with the conditionalities that …

A political science lecturer at the University of Ghana, Prof Ransford Gyampo, has warned that the country will be ‘ungovernable’ if government accepts any IMF conditionality that freezes wage increment. In a Facebook post on Saturday, he stated that labour unions would be opposed to any policy, that does not …

The 61st Ordinary Session of the Authority of ECOWAS heads of state and government will be held in Accra on 3 July 2022, at the Kempinski Gold Coast Hotel to commemorate the end of Ghana’s President,  Nana Akufo-Addo second year as chair of the bloc.   Akufo-Addo will host his …

A leading member of the governing new Patriotic Party (NPP) Gabby Otchere-Darko has reacted to calls made by Former President John Dramani Mahama that Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta should be sacked. Gabby said even when calls were made to Mr Mahama when he was in office to sack his Finance …

The Vice President of the Republic , Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has cautioned State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) who default to present their audited financial account reports will be sanctioned. Speaking at the maiden edition of the Public Enterprises League Table (PELT) Awards, Dr Bawumia said the move is to help government generate …

The President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo’s Senior Advisor, Mr Yaw Osafo-Maafo, has apologised for saying Asantes were not part of Ghana’s independence struggle, which, he noted, was led by the Akyems. The apology follows the leakage of a tape on which he is heard making the ethnocentric …