GENERAL NEWS

The World Bank has said that 25% of Ghanaians who are into wage employment are better off than 69% who are into self-employment. The Bretton Wood institution therefore wants the government to pay attention to that. Speaking at the 6th Ghana Economic Update, Social Protection Specialist at the World Bank, …

The Public Sector Workers Union (PSWU) is pleading with the government to heed to calls for support amid the current economic crisis in Ghana. Speaking on the Probe on JoyNews on Sunday, the General Secretary of PSWU, Bernard Adjei, noted that workers are struggling to cater for themselves, hence, their …

The Ghana Medical Association has joined labour unions demanding payment of Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) to their members.   For weeks, many public sector workers have been on strike over the government’s failure to pay the allowance. Teachers are not in the classroom three weeks to the start of …

The inability of fishermen along the Volta Lake at Akateng in the Upper Manya Krobo District of the Eastern Region to secure premix fuel for fishing has led to an acute shortage of fish in the area. Akateng is a major fishing community which supplies large quantities of fish to …

Rwanda’s leader, who has been in power for two decades, has said he would consider remaining in office for another 20 years. Paul Kagame told a French TV channel he would stand for President again at the next election in 2024. In 2015 he changed the constitution, allowing him to …

The Ghana Immigration Service has announced that about 64 Nigerian terrorist group, Boko Haram who escaped from in Abuja are likely to be hiding in Ghana. The inmates at the Nigeria Prison at Kuje near Abuja were freed by the Islamic extremist rebels and are currently on the run and …

The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has said the ongoing economic crisis sweeping through the world must be a wake-up call to African countries to adopt a technological approach to development, especially as the continent seeks to rebuild and rise.   Addressing a high-level African Union-backed “BOMA” event, the Vice …

Chief of the Adansi Traditional Area, Opagyakotwere Bonsra Afriyie II is demanding accountability for the 55% minerals royalties paid to the government for mining activities in Obuasi. The Overlord of Adansi says he is yet to see the government execute projects with the allocated percentage received from mining giant, AngloGold …

Disenfranchised Tertiary Education Confederacy(TESCON) Presidents for institutions in the Bono East Region have petitioned the Peter Mac Manu-led Elections Committee of the New Patriotic Party(NPP) against the Bono East Regional Youth Organizer and TESCON Coordinator.   According to them, a list purported to be TESCON Presidents in the Bono East …

President of the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA),  Dr Joseph Obeng has said the cancellation of road toll collection by the government was needless. Contributing to a discussion on the decision by the Government of Ghana to go to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), on TV3’s Key Points, Saturday …