Dr. Samuel Sarpong, Ashanti Regional Minister, has inaugurated an eight-member committee to regulate and streamline the activities of illegal mining in the region. The eight-member committee would be chaired by the Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister, Joseph Yammin. Membership of the committee comprises the Ashanti Regional Police Commander, DCOP Kofi Boakye, Commander of the Fourth Battalion […]
The Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) has called for the government of Ghana to consider an efficient public transport system as it looks at proposals to scrap fuel subsidies. There have been calls from Bulk Oil Distributors for government to scrap all subsidies on petroleum products. Their calls follow government’s difficulty in paying off
Ghana’s Ministry of Information has released a statement refuting claims on certain social media platforms relating to the purported resignation of the President John Dramani Mahama. The statement is asking the general public to disregard the letter and its contents. The letter appeared first on Facebook following a protest in the capital Accra with the hashtag
The World Food Programme (WFP) in collaboration with Ghana Education Service (GES) at the weekend, awarded scholarships to 14 girls who excelled in last year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in the Northern Region. The package meant to get disadvantaged girls to school to increase enrolment, school attendance and reduce disparity between boys and girls,
ACCRA, Ghana – Two Nigerians, Victor Aniete Solomon, 21 and Michael Udoh, 14, have found themselves in the grips of the Ghana police for allegedly kidnapping an eight-year-old boy. The suspects were said to have kidnapped the boy (name withheld) at the Achimota/ABC branch of the Jesus Christ of Latter Days Saints Church in the capital
Darryl Wharton-Rigby, an award-winning US writer is reportedly working on a script for a Hollywood thriller based on the story of the fiasco in the Black Stars camp at the World Cup that saw the government airlifting $3million to pay appearance fees to the players in a bis to ward off a boycott of their
The Police Intelligence and Professional Standards Bureau of the Ghana Police Service says 108 Police Officers were dismissed between January 2011 and June 2013 after they were found guilty of various offences. The Ghana Country Report of the Human Rights Commission available to the Bureau said 132 officers were reduced in rank and 239 received
Accra, Ghana- President John Dramani Mahama has reassigned Youth and Sports Minister Elvis Afriyie Ankrah to the Presidency as Minister of State after a woeful World Cup campaign. Information Minister, Mahama Ayariga (MP) is to replace him. Even though no mention of the issues at the World Cup was mentioned it is widely believed that
African leaders called on Thursday for firm action against the rising Islamist militant threat stretching across the continent from Kenya to Mali and pledged to provide the tools for Africa to police its own conflicts. Violence cast a shadow over the opening of the two-day summit of the 54-nation African Union (AU) as Nigerian President
In an effort to interrupt further spread of the Ebola virus in the shortest possible time, the World Health Organization is convening a special meeting of Ministers of Health of eleven (11) countries and partners involved in the Ebola outbreak response in Accra, Ghana from 2-3 July 2014 to discuss the best way of tackling
