President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has expressed pride in the Ghana Stock Exchange, touting it as the best performing exchange in the world for January, 2018. Delivering his 2nd State of the Nation Address in Parliament on Thursday, the President noted that the Ghana Stock Exchange composite index has gained 19 per cent since the … Read more
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has shot down calls by the minority in Parliament for the dismissal of the Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta. The President addressing Parliament during the State of the Nation stated that the positive economic outlook in the last one year is a clear indication that Mr. Ofori Atta is gradually … Read more
Residents of 52 communities in the Brong Ahafo and Western regions are to be empowered and supported with knowledge and financing to adopt and practice sustainable land use as part of measures being made by Ghana to halt land degradation to reduce the effects of climate change. Through the Ghana Dedicated Grant Mechanism (Ghana-DGM), the … Read more
The Minister for Gender, Children & Social Protection, Otiko Afisah Djaba, has served notice to proponents of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) will be prosecuted since the practice is against the laws of Ghana. As the world marks the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation on Tuesday, February 6, 2018, Ms Djaba is appealing … Read more
Ghana’s Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, Catherine Ablema Afeku, visited the site at Gomoa Ojobi to inspect the ‘miracle’ and said the ministry would deploy technical experts to examine the formation of the granite stone for further study and action. See Also: Ghanaian Builds Water Bicycle: This Is Exactly How You Can Ride on Water … Read more
Government has announced it will from next year pursue a ‘Toilet for All’ agenda in a bid to end open defecation in the country. Consequent to that, it will provide 200,000 household toilets and 20,000 institutional latrines to selected communities, Finance Minister Ken Ofor-Atta announced in the 2018 Budget statement presented to Parliament Wednesday. The … Read more
World Bank has recently published an academic paper written by the Vice President, Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia on Ghana’s oil discovery and management. The paper which is titled ‘Oil Discovery and Macroeconomic Management: The Recent Ghanaian Experience’, was precisely published by The World Bank and the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WiDER) … Read more
Women in Ghanaian politics -Do you also agree with Oye Lithur that more women should venture into politics? Former Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Nana Oye Lithur has called for more involvement of women in Ghanaian politics -a move she says will help curb the prevalent corruption rate in the country. See Also: Women … Read more
The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has left Accra for Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to attend the 2017 edition of the Africa Global Business Forum. Bawumia has recently been on a series of business tours on behalf of Ghana. His trip to the UAEcomes on the heels of his return from Vienna, … Read more
A World Bank report has revealed that 19,000 lives are lost in Ghana annually through the effects of open defecation and its related poor sanitation diseases. This is because of the high rate of the menace as only one-fifth of the Ghanaian population has access to improved toilet facilities. The World Bank’s report also said … Read more
A 30-year-old Ghanaian social advocate has received a UN award on steps to fight Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in the Social Venture for Sustainable Development (SVSD). Vida Offei Addo and four other African nationals, who formed the FemPower West Africa team, were awarded out of 120 participants of 20 teams. The four other members of … Read more
Government has completed the necessary work on the Accra Digital Centre, paving the way for its operations to begin. It has consequently begun accepting applications from technology and Business Processing Outsourcing (BPO) companies, with the view of hosting them at the Centre, established by the government of Ghana with support from the World Bank and … Read more
Tutors at second cycle institutions say the success of otherwise of government’s Free Senior High School education hinges squarely on how much money is made available. Vice-President of the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), Angel Gabriel Kabornu said, they are ready to support the policy once there is an assurance that funding will not … Read more
Nobel peace prize winner Muhammad Yunus Thursday cancelled an international conference of social business entrepreneurs outside the Bangladeshi capital after it failed to get police security. Yunus, 77, has been at odds with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina since 2007 when he made a brief foray into the country´s highly polarised politics. In 2011, he … Read more
Six months ago, businessman and political novice Adama Barrow took power in Africa’s smallest mainland country after delivering a stunning defeat against ex-leader Yahya Jammeh, who had ruled brutally for 22 years. When Barrow finally took power in The Gambia in late January after a prolonged political crisis, the euphoria soon turned to grim recognition … Read more
The National Coordinator with the Labour-Intensive Public Works (LIPW) under Ghana Social Opportunities Project (GSOP), Robert Austin, has highlighted government’s failings in building the capacity of Ghanaians to benefit from infrastructure projects. Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show, Mr. Austin said the government could kill two birds with one stone by incorporating capacity building into … Read more
One of the accused persons in the ongoing Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Development Agency, (GYEEDA) trial, Philip Assibit, has told the court he never received any payment before the regularization of a contract to provide for consultancy services to the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP). According to Mr. Assibit, who was testifying in the case … Read more
France is hosting a rare meeting on Tuesday between Libya’s UN-backed Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj and military strongman Khalifa Haftar who backs a rival administration in the east. The French government hopes the meeting will help clinch a political agreement to end years of chaos that has gripped Libya since a 2011 uprising toppled and … Read more
Acting General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party, John Boadu, has urged government appointees and the members of the party to collaborate effectively to ensure mutual benefits. To achieve this, he said, there ought to be regular interface between government appointees and the party at the various levels. He underscored the need for government appointees … Read more
President Nana Akuffo-Addo has stated that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme that Ghana is currently undergoing is not going to be extended. There were earlier media reports suggesting the likely extension of the programme from April 2018 to December 2018. President Akuffo-Addo was speaking at the media encounter to mark the NPP government’s sixth … Read more