It all started with the appointment letter. He told me, “This is your appointment letter. You only have to sign it and you are officially an employee of this company.” He showed me the sum of my annual salary. I immediately did a mental calculation to know how much I would earn in a month. … Read more
Reverend Nana A. Perbi has brought down the curtains on his glittering MTN career after 12 years and 3 months of diligent and unrivalled commitment to service. The success story of MTN Ghana, the biggest telecommunications network giant in Ghana, cannot be written without such a towering gentleman. Starting off from the Warehouse & Logistics Department, … Read more
Reverend Nana A. Perbi has brought down the curtains on his glittering MTN career after 12 years and 3 months of diligent and unrivalled commitment to service. The success story of MTN Ghana, the biggest telecommunications network giant in Ghana, cannot be written without such a towering gentleman. Starting off from the Warehouse & Logistics Department, … Read more
US pharmacy chain Walgreens announced a new deal on Thursday to buy half of competitor Rite Aid’s stores for nearly $5.2 billion after canceling a two previous merger attempts. The Walgreens Boots Alliance announced merger plans with Rite Aid Corporation in October 2015 and revised the deal in January with a plan for Rite Aid … Read more
Ghana’s Parliament under the Fourth Republican Constitution (1992) is a hybrid system of government, parliamentary and presidential system, in which the Executive President has majority of his ministers appointed from Parliament. Ministers appointed from outside Parliament may participate in debates in the House but cannot vote. The House works with two main documents, thus the … Read more
The Chief Justice nominee Justice Sophia Akuffo will face an expanded Appointments Committee of Parliament during her vetting on June 19, 2017. The 26-member Committee has extended invitations to other select committee chairpersons overseeing constitutional or legal matters to beef up the team. President Akufo-Addo appointed Justice Akuffo to replace chief justice Georgina Theodora Wood … Read more
Chief Justice nominee Sophia Akuffo is expected to be vetted by the Appointments Committee of Parliament on Monday June 19. Justice Akuffo was nominated as Chief Justice following the retirement of her predecessor Theodora Georgina Wood. Minority Chief Whip Muntaka Mubarak Mohammed told Citi News: “We are changing our modalities a little bit, but we … Read more
The Appointments Committee of Parliament has set next Monday, the 19th of June 2017, to vet the President’s nominee for the position of Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo. The President named Justice Sophia Akuffo last month, following the retirement of former Chief Justice, Georgina Wood. Currently, Justice William Atuguba is the acting Chief Justice. The approval process of … Read more
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) legislator for the Wa Central Constituency, Rashid Pelpuo, has described as disappointing the Finance Minister’s response to the Minority’s request for disclosure of details on the controversial $2.25 billion bond. The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, had taken a swipe at the Minority in Parliament over the issuance of the … Read more
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) legislator for the Wa Central Constituency, Rashid Pelpuo, has described as disappointing the Finance Minister’s response to the Minority’s request for disclosure of details on the controversial $2.25 billion bond. The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, had taken a swipe at the Minority in Parliament over the issuance of the $2.25 … Read more
Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta yesterday defused the controversy surrounding the issuance of the $2.25 billion bond. He indicated in parliament that the domestic bonds were issued in a competitive and transparent bidding process managed by Joint Book Runners namely, Barclays, Stanbic and Strategic African Securities (SAS). The book runners, he maintained, were engaged by the … Read more
Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has corrected National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentarians who are under the impression that global investment firm Franklin Templeton, is a person. The correction came on the floor of parliament Wednesday, where he explained the raising of $2.5bn on the international market last April. The Finance Minister said, contrary to accusations by … Read more
Overdose deaths are now the leading cause of death among young Americans – killing more in a year than were ever killed annually by HIV, gun violence or car crashes. Preliminary CDC data published by the New York Times shows US drug overdose deaths surged 19 percent to at least 59,000 in 2016. That means … Read more
The One-District-One Factory initiative was instituted by President Nana Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to address the challenge of slow economic growth at the district level. The initiative aims to achieve this through a massive private sector led nationwide industrialization drive, which will equip and empower communities to utilise their local resources in manufacturing products that are in … Read more
So what is it like to float out into the vacuum of space? “Ginormous fondue pot, bubbling over with piping hot awesomesauce,” said American astronaut Jack Fischer as he embarked on his first-ever spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Friday. The comments by Fischer, 43, were carried live on NASA television as he and … Read more
So what is it like to float out into the vacuum of space? ‘Ginormous fondue pot, bubbling over with piping hot awesomesauce,’ said American astronaut Jack Fischer, as he embarked on his first-ever spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Friday. The comments by Fischer, 43, were carried live on NASA television as he and … Read more
Members of the Yendi Municipal Assembly in the Northern Region on Tuesday confirmed Alhaji Ahmed Abubakari Yussif as the Municipal Chief Executive. He polled 31 out of 43 votes cast, and was subsequently inducted into office by the Northern Regional Minister, Salifu Saeed. The assembly members in a second round voting elected Ibrahim Zolge as … Read more
An International New York Times opinion piece criticising the powerful Pakistani army was censored by its local publisher Friday, replaced by a blank space in a country where it can be dangerous to speak out against the military establishment. The online version of the piece by Mohammed Hanif, a high-profile satirist and novelist whose critiques … Read more
Many US communities are facing an epidemic of opioid and heroin abuse that is straining resources from police, to jails, to emergency medical personnel and treatment centers. West Virginia, a mountainous state of less than two million people, is among the hardest hit, given the economic hardship in an area once dominated by coal mining, … Read more
Surfing the Internet, I stumbled upon an article written by one gentleman, expressing his chagrin about the District Chief executive DCE appointed for his area. In the ad hominem article titled: ‘Ada East DCE: Nana Ado, Why Sarah?’ published on Classfmonline, the author launches a diatribe against the appointment of Hon. Sarah Dugbakie Pobee – … Read more