Communications Minister, Mrs. Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has rebuffed reports gaining grounds, especially on social media, that she described Muslims as intolerable “That report is palpable falsehood and well-calculated by miscreants to create disaffection” for the Minister, a statement from Communications Ministry on Tuesday said. “The minister has not uttered and will never subscribe to the views … Read more
Communications Minister, Mrs. Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has rebuffed reports gaining grounds, especially on social media, that she described Muslims as intolerable “That report is palpable falsehood and well-calculated by miscreants to create disaffection” for the Minister, a statement from Communications Ministry on Tuesday said. “The minister has not uttered and will never subscribe to the views … Read more
The government remains committed to the fight against cybercrime, the Minister of Communications, Ursula Owusu-Ekufful, has said. She said the Communications Ministry had been tasked with the responsibility to champion cyber security initiatives in the country, which according to her, could be executed successfully. She said government intended to scale up the digitisation of the … Read more
Indonesia has blocked web-based access to a popular messaging service and threatened a full ban on the app due to its “terrorism” content, the government said. The communications ministry said in a statement that “so many channels in the (Telegram) service contain radicalism and terrorism… encouragement and tips to assemble bombs or launch attacks” that … Read more
Founder of E-Crime Bureau, Mr. Albert Antwi Boasiako, has been appointed Cyber Security Advisor to the Communications Ministry. According to a statement from the communication ministry, Mr. Antwi-Boasiako is to support the ministry to implement the National Cyber Security Policy and Strategy (NCSPS) by building a comprehensive cyber security management architecture that will coordinate cybersecurity services whilst … Read more
Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) compounds and other primary health facilities across the nation are to be digitized to facilitate the deployment of e-health services to enhance the quality of care. Dr. Anthony Nsiah Asare, Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), said under the initiative, consultants and specialists through mobile health and … Read more
Government is to convert all post offices across the country into electronic service centres to deepen digital financial inclusion and internet access in the hinterlands, Communications Minister, Ursula Owusu Ekuful, has said. “We are going to turn all our post offices and community information centres into e-services centres where you can go for all your … Read more
The Majority leader and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has revealed he will actively participate in cabinet meetings in spite of his exclusion from the cabinet list by the President. The 19-member list communicated to Parliament Tuesday May 30, 2017, by President Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo excluded some portfolios which hitherto had been part … Read more
play videoGeorge Andah, MP for Awutu Senya before the Appointments Committee Member of Parliament for Awutu Senya West, George Nenyi Andah takes his turn before Parliament’s Appointments Committee to be vetted. Mr. Andah has been nominated for the positon of Deputy Minister for the Communications Ministry. Until his stint into politics, the Deputy-Minister designate was … Read more
An Innovation and Digital Entrepreneurship Expert at the Communications Ministry has stressed Government’s commitment to explore and utilise innovations in solving Ghana’s problems. According to Clara Pinkrah-Sam government has begun to put in the necessary efforts and measures to ensure that this becomes reality. She added that government seeks to achieve this plan by focusing … Read more
An Innovation and Digital Entrepreneurship Expert at the Communications Ministry has stressed Government’s commitment to explore and utilise innovations in solving Ghana’s problems. According to Clara Pinkrah-Sam government has begun to put in the necessary efforts and measures to ensure that this becomes reality. She added that governments seeks to achieve this plan by focusing … Read more
Mrs Ursula Owusu Ekuful, the Minister of Communications, has hailed her predecessor, Dr Edward Omane Boamah, and his team for laying a good foundation for the Ministry. She said governance was a continuous process – the present, the past and the future; “and if we don’t know where we’ve come from, we won’t have a … Read more
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration will begin issuing multi-purpose National Identification cards from June this year, the Minister for Communications, Mrs. Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has hinted. There has been so much talk about the issue of national ID cards but very little effective action or results have been achieved even though reports indicate about $50 … Read more
Yesterday, I listened to the Minister of Information, Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, on Joy FM’s Top Story with Evans Mensah. He was trying to defend the president’s decision to shoot the number of ministers and deputy ministers to a record 110 since this nation was born. After listening to his submission and the tape from his earlier … Read more
The Democratic Republic of Congo announced Saturday that it had detained the spiritual leader of the Bundu dia Kongo (BDK) movement, an outlawed group that has called for an insurrection against the government. A policeman and three BDK fighters were killed when the police advanced on the compound in Kinshasa that housed Ne Muanda Nsemi … Read more
Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu is calling for a more effective collaboration between the Communications Ministry and the Aviation Ministry to enable meteorological service stations to provide accurate information. He was very critical of the poorly resourced meteorological service stations across the country especially in areas where accurate information is needed for aviation. During the vetting … Read more
I was not expecting to be impressed by the ministerial nominee for Gender, Children and Social Protection. I was still annoyed with her for refusing to condemn Kennedy Agyapong when he accused the Electoral Commissioner, Charlotte Osei of trading sex for her position. Sexist, misogynistic and distasteful comments, and the Women’s Organiser of the NPP, … Read more
I was not expecting to be impressed by the ministerial nominee for Gender, Children and Social Protection. I was still annoyed with her for refusing to condemn Kennedy Agyapong when he accused the Electoral Commissioner, Charlotte Osei of trading sex for her position. Sexist, misogynistic and distasteful comments, and the Women’s Organiser of the NPP, … Read more
President Nana Akufo-Addo is expected to name his deputy ministers and regional ministers in the coming days as he rounds up the selection of top talent to help him achieve his vision of a greater, more prosperous Ghana. The list is expected to feature names such as ENERGY DEPUTY DR SAMIU NUAMAH TRADE AND INDUSTRY … Read more
Even before President-elect Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo makes public the list of people to serve in his government, DAILY GUIDE has picked information about some of those likely to be considered for various ministerial positions. So far, the only name he has made public as his Minister of Trade and Industry is that of Alan … Read more