Category: News

The Ghana Hajj Board has announced this year’s Hajj Package fee for prospective pilgrims to Mecca in the month of Ramadan. The fee has been pegged at $6,500 which translates to GH₵75,000, the Hajj Board said in a statement. According to the Board, the cedi equivalent of GH₵75,000 will remain in force till March 31,...

A Non-Governmental Organization based in the Northern region, Rise Ghana has kicked against the government’s move to construct hostel facilities for head-porters also known as ‘Kayayei’ in Accra. According to the NGO, the issue of constructing hostels will rather encourage rural urban migration. This comes on the back of the sod cutting ceremony to begin...

The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) says 14 Lassa Fever cases have so far been confirmed in the country. Those affected include some doctors and other health workers exposed in their line of duty. The GMA in a statement issued Wednesday, said while it acknowledges measures being put in place to trace their contacts and contain...

The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Jean Mensa, and the Executive Secretary of the National Identification Authority, Kenneth Attafuah, are expected to appear before Parliament on Tuesday, February 28, 2023, to brief the House on the commission’s proposed Constitutional Instrument (CI). Due to Madam Mensa’s absence from the House, the Minority in Parliament objected...

Representatives of bondholders who did not subscribe to the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP) have raised doubts about the assurances given by the Ministry of Finance to pay coupons on old bonds by Monday, March 13. The Ministry, in a statement on Monday, February 27, assured that administrative steps are being taken to ensure that coupons and...

An elderly woman believed to be 104 years old has been confirmed dead after a building collapsed on her during a rainstorm Saturday evening at Asamankese in the Lower West Akim Municipality of the Eastern region. The deceased Maame Yaa Konsua was returning from her washroom to her room when the structure came down on...

The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Jean Mensa is set to appear in Parliament to answer questions on a new C.I laid before the house. The EC boss will face the legislature alongside the Executive Secretary of the National Identification Authority (NIA), Dr. Ken Attafuah. The EC’s CI is attempting to use the Ghana...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is set to meet the family of the late Ghanaian player Christian Atsu today. The main purpose of the meeting is to finalise the final rites for the former Black Stars player. The Minister of Youth and Sports, Mustapha Yussif told the media that: “We will call on the President...

The management of the Ghana Education Service (GES) says it has come to its attention that some heads of second-cycle institutions are issuing unapproved prospectuses and also selling some of the items on the prospectus to Form One students. It also noted that some heads are selling free items that are supplied by the government...

Agona Swedru District Police Command is fervently pursuing a 32-year-old man who is currently on the run after defiling and impregnating two teenage daughters of his elder sister. The suspect, identified as Kobina Appiah was reportedly living with his, victims, a 16-year-old and her sister, 14 at Agona Abodom in the Agona West District of the Central...