The Tamale Police Command has deployed personnel to protect all government offices within the metropolis, following reported cases of forced evictions by some perceived New Patriotic Party (NPP) supporters. The supporters besieged the offices of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), threatening to assault workers if they do not vacate the premises. They subsequently closed … Read more
The New Patriotic Party Constituency Secretary for the Ashaiman constituency, Chapman Takyi Kordam has called for the speedy appointment of Chief Executives for the various Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies(MMDAs) to avert the continuous seizure of public facilities by irate party activists. There are pockets of worrying situation across the country as NPP party activists … Read more
The Tamale Police Command has deployed personnel to protect all government offices within the metropolis, following reported cases of forced evictions by some perceived New Patriotic Party (NPP) supporters. The supporters besieged the offices of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), threatening to assault workers if they do not vacate the premises. They subsequently closed … Read more
The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has appealed to its youth who are on rampage taking over state institutions to desist from acts that create disaffection for the government. NPP National Youth Organiser Sammy Awuku says government would create more than “enough space for jobs” to accommodate the teeming unemployed youth in the country. Speaking … Read more
Access to e-zwich services continuesµ to improve significantly following a new initiative by the Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems (GhIPSS), to allow interested enterprises to also offer the biometric payment service. According to the Management of GhIPSS, it has trained more than 325 agents who are currently offering a variety of e-zwich services including … Read more
Honest labour is a long uncertain road often appropriately described as serpentine. It is winding with acute corners that are treacherous, least accommodating, and highly uncomfortable, in many instances. However, in the case of Zoomlion, the road was short with two laps to the finishing line. Since the CEO began with this initative, he manoeuvered … Read more
The Northern Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Bugri Naabu has indicated he will not condone any violent attack by party supporters on members of the National Democratic Congress in the region. He has therefore warned that any member who engages in violent attacks will have him to contend with. Daniel Bugri Naabu expressed … Read more
One does not need any critical assessment of President John Mahama’s promises to conclude that his last minute job creation ‘overtures’ are mere cosmetic aimed at winning votes. Mahama forgot his role in the joblessness of scores of Ghanaians Prior to the implementation of some policies to address the unemployment situation two years ago, the … Read more
I read your very interesting piece weeks ago which u titled “Any idiot can borrow and build projects” and I was very much amazed. Many readers who are alien to your writings will feel worried about your diction but it didn’t come to me as a surprise at all. It is an indisputable fact that … Read more
The Youth Employment Agency (YEA) has recruited a total of 6,501 youths into the various modules across the region as part of measures by the government to reduce the high rate of unemployment in the country. The recruitment comprises 3,072 males, and 3, 429 females including 22 Persons Living With Disability were engaged in modules … Read more
Six thousand, five hundred Arabic teachers have been offered employment under the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) to teach Arabic Studies in Islamic schools across the country. Their engagement is expected to address the human resource deficit facing most Islamic schools that operate under the Ghana Education Service (GES). Programme Launching the Arabic Teachers Programme, an … Read more
President John Dramani Mahama’s first term in office has been buffeted by several scandals that have cost Ghana huge sums of money in lost revenue and, in some cases, embarrassed the country. Here are eight of such scandals: 1. Bus branding scandal: Last year, investigations into the branding of 116 Metro Mass Transit Buses involving … Read more
President John Dramani Mahama’s first term in office has been buffeted by several scandals that have cost Ghana huge sums of money in lost revenue and, in some cases, embarrassed the country. Here are eight of such scandals: 1. Bus branding scandal: Last year, investigations into the branding of 116 Metro Mass Transit Buses involving … Read more
Government has indicated that it is looking at employing five thousand more youth in the Ashanti region, into the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) in the coming months. The youth employment vehicle is targeting to engage a hundred thousand young unemployed people across the country in a variety of models including youth in community health; youth … Read more
One constituency which will be keenly contested by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidates in the December 7, 2016 general election in the Eastern Region is Asene-Manso-Akroso. Since the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency, Mr Yaw Owusu-Boateng, bowed out the NDC parliamentary candidate, Mr Richard … Read more
The People’s National Convention (PNC) will on Monday petition the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO), to investigate the alleged unlawful payments government made to waste management Company, Zoomlion Ghana. According to the PNC, they have stumbled on some documents which confirms that government had a GHc450 million contract with Zoomlion claiming that about GHc62 … Read more
Our attention has been drawn to a publication on Ghanaweb and other news platforms titled “RLG, Mahama exposed” on Friday, 18 November 2016 and attributed to the Policy Advisor to the NPP Campaign Team, Boakye Agyarko to the effect that an amount of GHC949,661,017 has been paid to Rlg Communications Ghana Limited through the Youth … Read more
New Patriotic Party (NPP) has disclosed that the Mahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration has allegedly paid about GH¢949,661,017 through Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Agency (GYEEDA), now Youth Employment Agency to Rlg Communications Ghana Limited for no work done. The information and communications technology (ICT) company owned by a Ghanaian entrepreneur, Mr. Roland Agambire, … Read more
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) yesterday alleged a dubious deal between the government of Ghana and waste management company, Zoomlion Ghana Limited. At a press conference in Accra, Policy Advisor to the party, Boakye Agyarko, made shocking revelations of how the government and for that matter, President John Mahama, has committed to pay a whopping … Read more
The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has lashed out at the John Dramani Mahama administration for paying GHS500 million to a company without any contractual agreement with the state. In sanctioning what it described as the illegal payment made, the opposition NPP said the state gave the go ahead for the use of the 10% … Read more