A Former minister for food and agriculture in the erstwhile Mahama administration, Alhaji Mohammed Muniru Limuna, has debunked claims by the NPP government that agriculture today under the Nana Akufo-Addo government is far better than agriculture under President Mills and President Mahama combined. Responding to a newspaper publication on Thursday, 21 July 2022, Alhaji Limuna...
The Defense and Interior Committee of Parliament has recommended that Speaker Alban Bagbin set up a bi-partisan committee to further investigate the chaos that occurred at the Islamic Senior High School in Kumasi. The Committee, which the Speaker tasked to fact-find the issue, has accused the Police of fabricating lies. Speaking to journalists on Thursday,...
A student of Oyoko dispensing optics who’s aged 23 has been shot dead by unknown gunmen in Kumasi, on Tuesday evening. The victim, Kwabena Asumadu met his untimely death shortly after dropping a friend at sofoline around 11pm. His car which was an unregistered Mercedes-Benz. He was shot multiple times through the driver’s seat by...
Approximately 15.7million Ghanaians have received their Ghana cards, the executive secretary of the National Identification Authority, prof Kenneth Agyapong Attafuah has disclosed. Prof. Attafuah said information gathered to him reveals that 16,969,034 persons have registered for the Ghana card, with about 16,535,623 cards printed as of today. Prof. Attafuah further said that about 15,702,719...
Constituents of Kwabre East in the Ashanti Region express hostility and anger against their MP over poor roads. Despite the important contribution of Kwabre East constituency, which is in terms of casting votes for the ruling party NPP, has got the most deplorable roads. Aside the main Kumasi-Mampongten and Kumasi-Kenyase roads, the entire Kwabre East...
The Programmes Director of the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), Mary Awelana Addah, has observed that hospitals and health centers, in general, have become places where bribes exchange hands in Ghana. She said though the Ghana Police Service ranks high among institutions perceived most corrupt, the health sector is also becoming known for the canker. Ms...
Bakers in Nigeria are turning off their ovens at midnight in a row over the rising cost of wheat flour and other products like diesel that are having an impact on their profits. Members of one of the bakers’ unions are demanding government subsidies. Emmanuel Onuarah, the president of the Premium Bread Makers Association, told...
The Executive Director of think tank group, Africa Education Watch, Kofi Asare, has questioned the propriety of spending huge sums of money feeding boarders at the senior high level while many schools across the country still lack basic infrastructure. The Education Minister reported to Parliament on Wednesday that the food crisis across senior high schools...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has tasked the newly elected National Executives of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to work hard to ensure that the party wins the 2024 elections. Nana Akufo-Addo says ‘breaking the eight’ should be the ultimate objective of the new leadership. Speaking at a meeting with the new executives led by...
A latest survey conducted by the Ghana Statistical Service with other stakeholders in the fight against corruption has ranked the Ghana Police Service as the most corrupt institution among 23 other institutions sampled. The aim of the survey is to unearth corrupt institutions and make available data that will guide the formulation of policies that...