GENERAL NEWS

The National Conference of Principals of Colleges of Education – Ghana (PRINCOF) has directed that teacher trainees start to fund their own feeding from May 8. This directive is in response to the inability of Colleges of Education to make payments for food items supplied to them.   According to …

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President of the National Poultry Farmers Association, Victor Oppong Adjei has bemoaned the hike in the price of soya beans on the market. He lamented that the high price of the commodity is having a negative effect on the poultry industry and may end up collapsing the poultry industry if …

The Deputy Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in charge of Technical Operations at Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Opoku Ahweneeh Danquah, has reportedly been appointed as the corporation’s new head. He will be taking over from Kofi Koduah Sarpong, who is due to step down this week as the chief executive …

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Dome-Kwabenya in Greater Accra, Sarah Adwoa Sarfo, has maintained a deafening silence having been bombarded with series of allegations by her colleagues even before her referral to the Privileges Committee of Parliament. However, her decision not to speak on the numerous issues, appears to …

Minority Leader in Parliament, Haruna Idrissu, and two NDC MPs are urging the Supreme Court to restrain the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) from its planned implementation of the Electronic Transactions Levy on May 1. Together with Mahama Ayariga and Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the MPs have sued the Attorney-General arguing that …

The Russian Embassy in Ghana has taken exception to the attribution of the current economic crisis across the globe to the Vladimir Putin-led invasion of Ukraine in February. “However, the truth is different,” the Embassy said in a tweet on Monday.         “The Embassy wishes to shed …

Ahead of the highly anticipated implementation of the Electronic Transfer Levy (E-Levy) from May 2022, the Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications has called for a review of portions of the law to exclude the 1.5% charge on payment of salaries made via mobile money.     According to the chamber, per …

Ranking Member on Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has cautioned government against any attempt to purchase the Boeing 787 Dreamliner Presidential Jet on sale by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.   In a twitter post, Mr Ablakwa noted that government may be inclined to negotiate the purchase …

The Ashanti regional communication team member for the Opposition national Democratic Congress (NDC), Jerry James Sukah popularly known as PAPA JAY was applauded by residents in Kotei deduako for the unprecedented benevolence granted to them to solve their historic flooding in the area.       According to them, whenever …