EDUCATION

Judges told to fast track land cases to accelerate development

June 27, 2022

Judges in Ghana have been urged to expedite hearing of land litigations as part of efforts to increase development and economic growth. The Dean of the Faculty of Law and Business at at Laweh University College, Mr Kaaka Dello-Ziem explained that when land cases drag for long, it does not send good signal to potential investors. […]Continue Reading

POLITICS

Akufo-Addo nominates new MCE for Juaben Assembly

June 24, 2022

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has nominated Omane Aboagye for the position of Chief Executive of the Juaben Municipality. The Municipality has been without a Chief Executive for over a year after the president’s nominee, Alex Safo Kantanka, was rejected twice by the assembly members. The new nominee, Omane Aboagye, is yet to go through […]Continue Reading

Business

Ofosu-Dorte to speak on new realities & Africa’s future at Cedi Summit

June 24, 2022

David Ofosu-Dorte, a Senior Partner at AB & David will speak on the theme “The Global Trends, New Realities & Africa’s Future” at the Citi Business Festival Cedi Summit slated for Monday, June 27, 2022. He will join two other speakers, Prof. Peter Quartey, the Director of the Institute of Statistical Social and Economic Research […]Continue Reading

Business

SMT Ghana launches 4 new Volvo heavy-duty trucks with driver in focus

June 24, 2022

SMT Ghana, the official distributor of Volvo Construction Equipment, Volvo Trucks and Volvo Penta in Ghana, has held a grand ceremony in Accra to launch four new Volvo heavy-duty truck ranges with a strong focus on the driver’s environment, safety and productivity. The four new-generation extra-heavy commercial trucks – the Volvo FH, FH16, FM and […]Continue Reading

EDUCATION

ATAG kicks against COLA for teachers; pushes for 15% salary increment

June 24, 2022

The All Teachers Alliance Ghana (ATAG) is urging teacher unions to push for a 15% increment in salaries instead of a 20% Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) from government. According to the union, even though the call for COLA is legitimate, teacher unions should use the opportunity to fight for a permanent solution to the […]Continue Reading

Business

Parliamentary leadership visits Dzata Cement Limited

June 24, 2022

The Majority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu together with the Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu on Thursday led members of the Select Committees of Trade and Industry and Works and Housing on a familiarisation tour of Dzata Cement at Tema.   The Majority Leader in his remarks called for the need to extend the benefits […]Continue Reading

HEALTH

Parliament’s health committee worried over dilapidating state of KATH

June 24, 2022

Members of Parliament’s Committee on Health have expressed concerns about some major challenges confronting the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) and called for urgent government intervention to address them. The Committee maintains that the hospital, which is a teaching facility and major referral center must be given all the attention needed to boost the country’s Continue Reading

NEWS

CSIR to offer 12 acres of land to support govt’s Agenda 111 project

June 24, 2022

Management of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Animal Research Institute has moved to give 12 acres of its lands to the government for the construction of a district hospital under the Agenda 111 program. This comes after the Greater Accra Regional Security Council demolished several unauthorized structures built on about 200-acre land belonging to Continue Reading

NEWS

Journalists begin voting to elect new GJA executives

June 24, 2022

Delegates of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) across the country have begun voting to elect new executives to run the affairs of the association for the next three years. In Accra, voting started at 8am at the Ghana International Press Centre, with some security presence at the voting centre. Outgoing GJA president, Roland Affail Monney […]Continue Reading

Business

Ghanaian pharmaceutical companies to distribute COVID-19 vaccines produced in Africa – Nana Addo

June 24, 2022

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced a consortium of Ghanaian pharmaceutical companies ready to package and distribute COVID-19 vaccines that will be produced by BioNTech in Africa.   The German manufacturing giant, BioNTech on Thursday, June 23, 2022, cut sod for the construction of a vaccine production plant in Kigali, Rwanda, which will have […]Continue Reading