The Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) has commissioned one of its three-storey Industrial City Basic Schools (ICBS) at Tema Manhean Anglican Cluster of Schools. The three-storey 15 classroom block has a library, staff common room, IT laboratory and two head teachers’ offices. Commissioning the facility, Mr Isaac Ashai Odamtten, Tema Metropolitan Chief Executive, said the project … Read more
The attitude of some Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) in the Volta Region is likely to affect the fortunes of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), as supporters and sympathisers have started showing signs of apathy towards the party. The Chronicle can state that the arrogance, pride and gross disrespect of these MMDCEs … Read more
He had the nerve to presume to instruct the chief diplomats of the two most influential and significant countries to postcolonial Ghanaian politics and culture. It is also quite obvious from their embarrassingly “innocent” pronouncements that National Democratic Congress’ apparatchiks like Mr. Kwadwo Twum-Boafo know next to nothing about the game-changing role played by President … Read more
play videoBui’s initial cost was pegged at $622m, but a review conduct in 2012 increased the amount by $168m The NDC Government has not been honest with Ghanaians on the amount of power the country is getting from the Bui dam, chief executive of the Tema Oil Refinery has stated. According to Kwame Awuah Darko, … Read more
Medeama are planning to report Aduana Stars to the Ghana FA for ‘tapping-up’ former midfielder Malik Akowuah, GHANAsoccernet.com can exclusively reveal. The Yellow and Mauves have been left shell-shocked after top Aduana Stars revealed holding talks with the player while he was still under contract at the club. The club’s Chief Executive Albert Commey, who … Read more
Government, on Monday November 21, 2016, transferred September Tier-2 pension monthly deductions to the custodian banks of Public Sector Occupational Pension Schemes. Consequently, the 12 labour unions have put on hold their threat to embark on nationwide industrial action. A statement issued yesterday by Isaac Bampoe Addo, Chairman of the Forum For Public Sector Registered … Read more
The management of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KATH) has applauded Vodafone Ghana for its annual Homecoming initiative which pays the bills of financially challenged patients in hospitals across the country. The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) arm of the telecommunications company, Vodafone Ghana Foundation has since 2011, settled the bills of hundreds of patients of … Read more
The University of Ghana has adopted measures towards its aim of becoming the best tertiary institution in Africa. The Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Ebenezer Oduro Owusu, said management had set up teams and assigned responsibilities to them to come up with strategies that would advance the vision. He was addressing the congregation of the … Read more
Former Board Member of Asante Kotoko, Alhaji Abu Lamini has compared the club’s display in the GHALCA G6 against Bechem United to Barcelona and hailed Manhyia for Dr. Kwame Kyei’s appointment as the new chief executive. The appointment of Dr. Kwame Kyei as the club’s new chief executive for the next three years late last … Read more
BHP Billiton is still uncertain when its Samarco joint venture will restart as complex negotiations with all stakeholders continue. “It has to make economic sense, and have a practical set of approvals in place, and we continue to work through these processes,” BHP Billiton Chief Executive Andrew Mackenzie told the company’s annual general meeting in … Read more
The much awaited for the start of commercial production of gas from the country’s largest gas well being operated by ENI Gas Ghana is to receive the Floating, Production, Storage, Offloading (FPSO) vessel in March 2017. The Sankofa Gye Nyame Oil and Gas project, is the largest gas well which will soon produce natural gas … Read more
IT appears government has no money to pay six years accumulated tier-two pension money owed public sector workers. An emergency meeting summoned at Flagstaff House yesterday by President John Dramani Mahama to avert a strike action by 12 labour unions ended inconclusive. Sources familiar with what transpired at the meeting yesterday, told The Finder that … Read more
The Council of Zongo Chiefs in the Konongo-Odumase municipality of the Ashanti Region has accused the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) of totally neglecting the predominantly Muslim community in the area during its eight years in government. The council commended the NDC government for its role in initiating developmental projects in the area since it … Read more
General Motors’ (GM. N) European division Opel is struggling to reach profitability this year because of the effects of Britain’s decision to leave the European Union, Chief Executive Karl-Thomas Neumann said. “The exit from Russia was really painful. Brexit is yet another issue to deal with and that is why the path toward breakeven is … Read more
Only nine candidates out of the 118 contesting the 2016 parliamentary elections in the Volta Region are women. The female aspirants have filed from eight constituencies; Keta, Ketu North, Ho West, North Dayi, Hohoe, Kpando, Afadjato South and Krachie West, out of the 26. The figure represents a 7.6 per cent decline in the number … Read more
Russia’s Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev has been charged with taking a bribe to endorse a state takeover. Investigators said he received a $2m (£1.6m) payment. The minister pleaded not guilty to the charge. Mr Ulyukayev is the highest-ranking Russian official held since the 1991 coup attempt in what was then the USSR. The investigators said … Read more
A former District Chief Executive (DCE) under the President John Evans Atta Mills administration in the Sissala West District Robert Baka Wavei, has defended his decision to support the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for the area. The former DCE, who was dismissed from office in 2012, has thrown his weight behind the NPP … Read more
Reince Priebus (L) said Stephen Bannon was “a force for good” US President-elect Donald Trump’s new chief of staff has defended the choice of right-wing media man Stephen Bannon as chief strategist, calling him a “force for good”. A number of critics have denounced Mr Bannon as supporting white supremacism. But Reince Priebus said this … Read more
AMA bans political activities The Accra Metropolitan Security Committee (METSEC), which gave the directive, said this has become necessary to ensure peace in the country ahead of the December 7 polls. Political parties have been asked to immediately suspend all political activities in the metropolis following recent clashes between the governing National Democratic Congress and … Read more
Apparently, we have heard President Mahama and his NDC strident apparatchiks time and time again accusing Nana Akufo Addo of being divisive and violent. Meanwhile, the real violence is rife in President Mahama’s NDC Party. So, who is President Mahama actually deceiving? Is he a propagandist or an inveterate hypocrite? “The word hypocrite is rooted … Read more