The Chair of Ghana’s Electoral Commission, Mrs. Charlotte Osei, has requested President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to furnish her with a copy of the petition seeking her removal from office for alleged breaches of the law. Some unnamed staff of the Commission in July 2017 petitioned Nana Akufo-Addo to remove Mrs. Osei over alleged abuse of office, causing financial loss […]

The Second Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr Johnson Asiama, is in the process of resigning from the Bank. Sources say he has taken his accumulated leave before his final exit from the bank by the close of this month. Dr Asiama’s decision to move on is reported to have been communicated in the first week of December to […]

The Ghana Health Service(GHS) has confirmed the student of Koforidua Secondary Technical School (SECTEC) who passed away Friday died of Bacterial Meningitis. Dennis Yaw Acheampong, form two student died Friday morning after complaining of fever, body weakness and stiff neck. Addressing a section of the media Monday, the Eastern Regional Health Director Dr. Charity Sarpong said fluid collected through lumbar […]

The University of Cape Coast is set to appeal the Cape Coast High Court decision quashing the rustication of 22 students of the Atlantic Hall for their alleged roles in a violence that claimed the life of one person last March. The court presided over by Justice Owusu Boampong upheld claims of the students that not only were they not […]

The Auditor General has surcharged some 62 organisations for receiving payments from the state with no available documentation covering them. The surcharge certificates totalling GHȻ8,886,791.9101742 cover the period between December 31, 2013 and December 31, 2015. The organisations, which are mostly private entities, also include some state institutions as well as staff of some government entities. According to a release from the […]

National Democratic Congress [NDC] Member of Parliament for Ashaiman, Ernest Norgbey, wants Ministers of state and their deputies in the Akufo-Addo administration to contribute at least 10% of their salaries into the Voluntary Education Fund to support the government’s Free SHS  programme. According to him, the contribution will help raise enough money to address some of the pertinent challenges facing […]

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has reiterated the commitment of the Akufo-Addo-led government to the pledges made to Ghanaians in the run-up to the December 2016 general elections which brought the New Patriotic Party to power. He said their commitment, backed by prayers from the people of Ghana, would push them to realize all the campaign promises, which would ensure […]

The Ghana Health Service has dismissed reports that it is overwhelmed by the situation at the Kumasi Academy where some 11 students have died of a yet to be identified ailment since the beginning of the year. Four of the deaths have occurred over the last one week. The Health minister Dr. Kwaku Agyemang Manu is contemplating closing down the […]

Former President John Dramani Mahama’s aide, Joyce Bawah Mogtari, has described as irresponsible and reckless claims by Defence Minister, Dominic Nitiwul, that the land on which the former president’s residence is sited, belongs to the Ghana Armed Forces. In a strongly-worded statement which was released in the wake of the Minister’s comments, Joyce Bawah Mogtari stated emphatically that the former […]

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has charged eight newly sworn-in envoys to safeguard and promote the image and interests of Ghana outside her shores The 8 envoys are Mr. Francis Abakah, High Commissioner to the Republic of Sierra Leone; Mr. Emmanuel Enos, Ambassador to the State of Qatar; Mr. Ernest-Burke Asare Asiedu, Ambassador to the Republic […]