Director General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), Major (retired) Albert Don-Chebe has said that TV owners who refuse to pay their license fees would be sanctioned. Outlining some of the likely sanctions a person could face, he said, “you are liable to arrest, you could be fined 250 penalty points or one year in […]
The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has scheduled Friday, August 14 to hold an extraordinary general assembly meeting to review its roadmap over members’ conditions of service. This decision was reached on Tuesday, August 11 at the 4th National Executive Council (NEC) meeting in the Eastern Region capital of Koforidua. A statement issued at the end
The Minister of Finance, Mr Seth Terkper, yesterday announced the issuance of five-year treasury bonds to raise GH¢500 million towards infrastructural development. The Government of Ghana bonds, which will be governed by Ghanaian law and listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange, will be available for investment through the Bank of Ghana’s appointed primary dealers. Making
The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) says there are growing cases of unidentified persons collecting voters’ ID cards of eligible Ghanaians including nurses “for all kinds of promised services”. “In many cases especially in Accra, reports indicate people are offered GHC50 in return for submitting their ID cards,” a statement issued by the party on
Minister of Employment and Labour Relations Haruna Iddrisu has warned public sector workers currently on strike that they face forfeiture of their remunerations if they don’t resume work.
An explosion at a crowded market in the north-east state of Borno in Nigeria has killed at least 47 people, officials say.
The National Service Scheme says it will no longer consider requests from service personnel for change of postings on health grounds. According to a statement signed by the Acting Executive Director, Dr. Michael Kpessa-Whyte, management is overwhelmed by the seeming abuse of requests for change of postings based on one health condition or the other,
The National Service Secretariat (NSS) has introduced a new module for this year’s service personnel, which will see them deployed onto the streets to help manage traffic. The module, known as the Urban Traffic Management, is to complement the efforts of the Ghana Police Service in traffic management in the country’s urban centres. A total
More than fifty workers of the National Disaster Management Organization, NADMO, from across the country, have picketed at the Ministry of Finance office in Accra to protest against non-payment of salaries. The agitated workers say they have not been paid for about two years. Others said they have also not received a penny in the
An English teacher at Kokoligu R/C Junior High School, a village in Hamile in the Nandom District of the Upper West Region, is alleged to have raped and impregnated two 17 years old girls in the school. The two form two girls who are now pregnant between four and five months respectively, are among the
