Vice President of GTUC, Professor Isaac Abeku Blankson, says education should equip students to become transformational thinkers. Speaking at the 22nd matriculation ceremony of the university in Accra recently he told the new students, “our continent and country are at a point where we need transformational thinkers and doers. Hopefully, the kind of education you will receive in the next few years […]

The Public Utility Regulatory Commission (PURC) is set to meet key stakeholders today – February 12, 2018, over the proposed reduction in electricity tariffs. The stakeholders expected at today’s meeting include the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI). Today’s meeting is among the numerous negotiations to determine the reduction in tariffs for businesses. This is also in fulfillment of government’s plan […]

President Akufo Addo will today [Monday] assess the performance of his Ministers of State for the one year they have been in office. The President is expected to have face-to-face conversations with each of his appointees in an appraisal. The evaluation sessions will have the Vice President, Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia, and the Chief of Staff Akosua Frema Opare also in […]

A young nurse who dreamt of building a hospital on his own for his deprived region has done it so big everybody is gripped with awe— including friends who, as he kept talking about his ‘impossible’ dream, had concluded he probably needed his head checked for “psychosis”. The rare feat— a medic at age 34 years providing a fully furnished […]

The Ministry of Health has received financial clearance to recruit 4,000 private medical practitioners to work in public health facilities in the country. Public Relations Officer of the Ministry, Robert Cudjoe, said: “…the possibility that these people will be engaged in the next few months I believe is there”. He told TV3’s Daniel Opoku on Monday that the government has within […]

Ghana sold 1.99 billion cedis ($448 million) worth of a fresh five-year domestic bond on Thursday and the major commodity exporter will pay a yield of 16.5 percent, joint transaction arrangers said. Initial guidance for the bond, open to non-resident Ghanaians, was in the range of 15 percent to 16.5 percent. Total bids tendered for the paper were 2.01 billion […]

Deputy Attorney General is accusing some lawyers in the Exton Cubic case of engaging “false propaganda and deliberate misrepresentation. Contrary to the victory jubilations by some of the lawyers on the other side and their supporters, Godfred Dame maintains the court ruling is clear- the company, Exton Cubic, does not have the appropriate mining rights to carry out mining activities in the Nyinahini […]

The President is set to deliver his second State of the Nation Address (SONA) in Parliament this morning, in fulfilment of Article 67 of the 1992 Constitution. This will be Nana Akufo-Addo’s second Address and he is expected to itemise sector by sector the general health of the country and outline policies and programmes to facilitate the country’s socio-economic development […]

Mr Mustapha Hamid, Minister of Information, Wednesday said the fight against illegal mining would continue unabated until all illegalities in the mining sector was regularised and sanity restored in the mining sector of the country. He said the Government was still working out modalities that would ensure that mining activities were done in the right way before considering lifting the […]

Hundreds of commercial drivers and consumers of petroleum products are expected to hit the streets of Accra today [Wednesday], to demonstrate over what they describe as the persistent increases in the prices of petroleum products. The demonstration, which is being organized by the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC) in collaboration with the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU), is to […]