As the Ghanaian economy strives to rebound to pre-pandemic levels, the Government is urging the private sector to come up with innovative products and services to satisfy the needs of their markets. The remarks come at a time when businesses are complaining of high cost of production in the country which is affecting the competitiveness of Ghanaian businesses. Data from the Bank of Ghana shows that confidence within Ghana’s business community is trending downwards. Speaking at the commissioning of a new Infant Cereal Plant of Nestle Ghana in Tema, President Akufo-Addo stated that the ability of the economy to rebound...
VEEP Bawumia launches No Guarantor Student Loan Policy for tertiary education
Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia on Wednesday, 8 June 2022, launched the No Guarantor Student Loan policy at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi. The policy was a promise made by the Akufo-Addo government prior to the 2020 elections. The aim is to make tertiary education accessible to Ghanaian youth, especially graduates from the highly subscribed Free Senior High School programme. Dr Bawumia stated that with the No Guarantor Student Loan, “the cumbersome and restrictive scheme of students providing SSNIT contributors as guarantors before they could access student loan for tertiary education, has been abolished.”...
NSS IS NOT OWING 3 MONTH ALLOWANCE – DEPUTY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Deputy Executive Director at the National Service Scheme (NSS), Gifty Oware-Mensah has debunked claims by some national service personnel that their three months allowance is in arrears. According to her the Service has paid 67,000 personnel as of April, 2022, adding that only personnel who have not submitted their monthly evaluation forms are yet to be paid. “National service is not owing our national service personnel any three months. We have paid April and then we are in the month of May on our national service calendar and this month of May is supposed to end on the 15th of...
“I WILL DEAL WITH CSIR ENCROACHERS “- HENRY QUARTEY.
The Greater Accra Regional Minister, Henry Quartey has lamented over the taking over of lands belonging to the Animal Research Institute for Scientific and Industrial Research. The institute has over the period express worry about the increasing level of encroachments of their lands by the land guard. They have called on the government to intervene because their efforts to eliminate the land guards have proven futile. Meanwhile, Mr. Quartey has assured them of government efforts to demolish buildings on such lands. “I have received complaints by some government officials that government lands are being encroached. An example is what we...
Vice President Bawumia commissions facilities, vehicles worth over $131m to boost TVET education
The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has commissioned facilities and vehicles amounting to over $131m to further boost Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET). The facilities included a state-of-the-art TVET Service headquarters as well as the Applied Technology Institute, which contains classroom blocks, ICT centres, administration blocks, workshops, male and female dormitories, and installation of workshop equipment. The Vice President also distributed to the TVET Service 37 buses, 21 double cabin pickups, 2 tractors, 3 Toyota Fortuners and 1 Toyota V8 Landcruiser, in addition to 26 Computer Based Trainining occupational standards developed in the various trade areas. Speaking at the...
4 arrested over mining attack in Fenaso Ketewa
On Tuesday, June 2, 2022, police detained four robbery suspects who assaulted a mining site in Fenaso Ketewa, near Obuasi. The bandits, who were reportedly armed with pump-action pistols, attempted but failed to steal the miners of gold ore. They were able to get away with 50 gallons of diesel. Porideme Moses, Boadi, Agya Owusu, and Osofo were arrested in their hideout after a special intelligence-led operation by the police. “Items retrieved from them include a locally manufactured pistol, a pump-action gun, nine (9) BB live cartridges, eight (8) AAA live cartridges, and fifty litres of fuel.” “All the suspects...
Santa Maria explosion : ” we couldn’t even locate where the blast came from…….” Assemblyman says
An alleged dynamite explosion at Santa Maria in Accra has left two individuals injured. The cause of the incident is yet unknown,as residents in the neighborhood claim to be living in fear. The explosion was reported to have occurred on Tuesday afternoon June 7th , 2022. Gladys Fiavi, a resident of the Santa Maria is said to have been caught in the blast, which resulted in the loss of her toe nails. A pregnant woman who came to the scene passed out while trying to rescue Gladys and was taken to the hospital for treatment. Talking to JoyNews, the assemblyman...
AISSM APPOINTS ABDUL SALAM YUSSIF AS GHANA COUNTRY DIRECTOR
The Africa Institute for Small Scale Mining (AISSM) has appointed Mr. Abdul Salam Yussif as its Country Director for Ghana from 2022 to 2025. AISSM says Mr. Yussif is expected to lead its operations in Ghana, manage AISSM’s relationship with the government and development partners, and oversee the implementation of AISSM’s 2022–2025 country partnership strategy. The strategy aims to help Ghana emerge stronger from a dispensation of wide spread cases of illicit mining to a responsible mining regime in the small scale mining sector. Mr. Yussif comes with vast experience in the oil & gas downstream sector, Precious metal brokerage...
GIS Repatriates 17 Foreigners Arrested In Bunkpurugu
Some 17 persons made up of Togolese and Burkinabe nationals have been arrested by officials of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) for entering Ghana using unapproved routes. A statement signed by the Bunkpurugu Sector Command Officer In Charge, Supt Edwin Adjetey Doku indicated that on June 2, 2022, the National investigation Bureau (NIB) officer gave information to the GIS about some foreigners or illegal immigrants within Bunkpurugu. He indicated that a team of officers, led by the sector commander of the GIS, the Ghana Police( FPU) and the NIB officer went to the location and arrested the said illegal immigrants....
Alleged money ritual father: Victim joked about dad sacrificing her before incident – Mother tells GTV
The 11-year-old girl whose father had allegedly attempted to use her for money rituals, had jokingly told her mother last Tuesday that, her father was going to use her for sacrifice. This jovial incident happened between mother and daughter on Tuesday [May 31, 2022], three days before the girl was picked on Friday [June 3, 2022] for the said money rituals at Oyibi in Accra. The girl’s jovial statement came after her mother had told her that, she had just spoken to her father on telephone, and the father had repeatedly asked if she was called Yaa, a Thursday born. Once...