The Minority Leader in Parliament and Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamale South, Haruna Iddrisu, has asked government to allow Heads of Senior High Schools to share their opinions on matters concerning the free Senior High School Program. He was speaking at the third Speech and Prize Giving day of Tamale Girls Senior High School in Tamale. According to the […]

Government has disclosed that it saved $300,000 after renegotiating a $9.1million deal to purchase bulletproof vehicles for the Presidency. Making the disclosure at a press conference on Tuesday, February 6 in Accra, the Information Minister Mustapha Hamid said the government was bounded by the agreement the John Mahama-led NDC administration signed with the providers of the vehicles, Amalgamated Securities Limited. […]

Deputy Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has stated that the upcoming State of the Nation’s Address (SONA) scheduled for Thursday February 8 2018 will highlight the economic achievements of the government so far. Speaking on GHOne, State of Affairs hosted by Nana Aba Anamoah, Mr Nkrumah indicated that irrespective of the fact that some projects have become challenges for the […]

Importers and freight forwarders have dismissed claims of engaging in malpractices at the ports leading to the gradual collapse of local manufacturing industries. They maintain that such allegations could not be possible as they go through strict scrutiny in the clearing process. The comments come on the back of concerns raised by the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) over the collapse […]

Teachers in rural Ghana deserve better conditions of service and other incentive packages as a morale booster to give of their best, Mr Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ellembelle, has stated. To this end, the MP has put measures in place to reward the efforts of teachers in the Northern part of the District, popularly called […]

It costs aspiring Ghanaian Members of Parliament about GHC390,000 on average to carry out successful campaigns at the party and constituency level. This is according to a research conducted by the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) and the Center for Democratic Development (CDD). The report found that multiparty democracy and its highly competitive elections had resulted in the rising cost […]

The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) management was summoned by the Parliament over the water shortage which has hit the state over two weeks now. The Communications Director of the GWCL, Stanley Martey while explaining to the house stated that they are putting together a schedule to aid in distribution and tapping of water for use. The company had further […]

A member of the communications team of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi is at a loss as to why President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo failed to strike his suspension gavel when more serious issues emerged in the country involving some of the appointees only to do that when lesser ones came up. He observed that the suspension of […]

The Minority in Parliament has been challenged to trigger a parliamentary procedure that could lead to the sacking of the Finance minister accused of conflict of interest in the $2.5bn bond issuance. Throwing the challenge is New Patriotic Party MP for Bantama, Daniel Okyem Aboagye, who predicts the move is bound to fail. In an unprecedented threat, the Minority caucus […]

The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has issued an alert on a fraudulent recruitment scam involving the ongoing 2017/2018 recruitment exercise and has admonished all to ignore calls offering to put applicants names on a ‘protocol list’ at a fee. A statement signed by Supt. Michael Amoako-Attah, Head of Public Affairs at the GIS, on Wednesday said the attention of the […]