Presidential hopeful Dr. Ekwow Spio-Gabrah has commended the Akufo-Addo government for its performance on the macroeconomic front since it assumed office in January 2017. According to him, the NPP government is doing better with holding inflation and deficits down than the NDC under former President John Mahama did. “On the law and order issue, they are very low, on trying […]

Some students of Koforidua-based Ghana Senior High School (GHANASS) are receiving treatment following a suspected case of food poisoning. Citifmonline is reporting that more than 50 male and female students of the school complained of stomach aches after eating waakye at school’s canteen on Sunday, and had to be rushed to St. Joseph’s Hospital the next day. “When Citi News […]

The Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, has proposed a new timeline for the passage of the much talked about Right to Information Bill. According to him, Parliament would finish work on the bill by the second meeting of the next session of the house which translates to about July 2018. The Right to Information Bill, which seeks to […]

Minority MPs want President Nana Akufo-Addo to relieve Mr. George Ayisi-Boateng of his duties as Ghana’s High Commissioner to South Africa, following comments condemned widely as divisive. Mr. Ayisi-Boateng had told a gathering of governing NPP youth that he will put their interests ahead of other Ghanaians in the discharge of his duties. “For a country that is famed for […]

The Deputy Minority leader, James Klutse Avedzi has insisted that President Akufo-Addo cannot dismiss under-pressure High Commissioner to South Africa, George Ayisi Boateng over the latter’s recent perceived shameful, irresponsible and divisive comments. According to him, this is because Akufo-Addo has also demonstrated his commitment to prioritizing the needs of loyalists of his New Patriotic Party (NPP). Speaking to Citi […]

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) Professor Mawutor Avokeh and five other officers have been detained by the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) over alleged procurement breaches. The five other officers are Finance Officer Dr. Akorli and his deputy, Frank Owusu Boateng; Internal Auditor, Ms Sena Darkeh; the Procurement officer, Mary Adzime, and Deputy Director of […]

The Network of Communications Reporters (NCR) has called on the National Communications Authority (NCA) to direct telecom companies in the country to fully comply with regulations that enjoin them to register every subscriber identification module (SIM) cards before they are activated for use. According to the NCR, the telecom companies (telcos) had allowed their vendors to break the laws governing […]

COPEC, a petroleum sector watchdog, is demanding that government abrogates the ¢10 billion Energy Bond currently being issued. According to the petroleum sector watchdog, the bond rules out any possibility for the government to scale down on taxes on the commodity “even in the event of shocks on the international markets as happened in recent times from the hurricanes whose […]

President Nana Akufo-Addo has revealed he has held a secret meeting with President Faure Gnassingbe of Togo to resolve the political crisis in the Francophone country. “The Togolese President came to see me in Tamale ten days ago, and we are talking to see how we can bring this crisis to a closure and bring stability back to Togo. It […]

Ghana’s High Commissioner to South Africa, Mr George Ayisi-Boateng, has stated that his topmost priority in South Africa is to help solve the problems of members of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) before any other Ghanaian. Mr Ayisi-Boateng said he had made it clear to Ghanaians living in South Africa that he was appointed by the governing New Patriotic […]