Business

Extend SIM card registration to end of 2022 – CUTS urges government

July 26, 2022

A leading research and public policy think tank, CUTS International, Accra is urging the Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation to extend the mobile SIM card registration deadline to the end of the year. According to the firm, the majority of Ghanaians have logistical challenges in obtaining NIA card and using the same to register their […]Continue Reading

Foreign

EU seeks to replace Russia gas with Nigeria gas

July 26, 2022

The European Union is seeking additional gas supplies from Nigeria as the bloc prepares for potential Russian supply cuts, Matthew Baldwin, deputy director general of the European Commission’s energy department, said on Saturday. Baldwin was speaking in Nigeria where he held meetings with officials from Africa’s largest oil producer this week. He was told that […]Continue Reading

Opinion

Unbridled Politicking Messing Us Up in the Eye of International Community

July 26, 2022

The Anchor expresses its gratitude for those that deemed it appropriate and necessary so, to immortalize the country’s late President John Evans Atta-Mills and did actualize this on Sunday, the 24th of July, 2022 at Asomdwee Park, near the Osu Castle in Accra, Ghana, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of his sudden demise, that saddened […]Continue Reading

NEWS

Speed Boats To Curb ‘Galamsey’ Menace Arrive

July 26, 2022

The much-awaited ultra-modern speedboats meant for the patrol duties on the country’s river bodies against pollution, as a result of the activities of illegal miners along the river banks in mining areas, have arrived. The highly-equipped boats, which arrived over the weekend through the Sekondi Naval Base,are scheduled to be commissioned today at Beposo under […]Continue Reading

EDUCATION NEWS

GES Director- General To Be Sacked?

July 26, 2022

Information picked up by The Anchor suggests, the Director-General (D-G) of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwah, may be on his way out of office over his recent gaffe’s suggestion government could be in the process of reviewing its flagship Free Senior High School (SHS) policy. Although, a section of the public believes […]Continue Reading

Business

Road Tolls To Return; As NABCO Ends September 1

July 26, 2022

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has announced plans by government to toll all new roads to be constructed under a concession agreement between the Ghana Infrastructure Investment Fund (GIIF) and the Roads and Highway Ministry, through the Public Private Partnership Act, 2020 (Act 1039). The move, according to the finance minister, is to help government recover […]Continue Reading

NEWS

Koku Anyidoho’s name on Atta Mills bust must be dropped – Prof Gyampo

July 26, 2022

A political science lecturer at the University of Ghana, Prof Ransford Gyampo has called for the removal of Koku Anyidoho’s name on the recently-outdoored bust of the late Prof John Evans Atta Mills. According to him, Koku’s name on the said artwork makes it look ‘wordy’ and ‘clumsy’. In a Facebook post on Monday, he […]Continue Reading

Business

BoG has printed ¢22b without parliamentary approval – Dr Ato Forson alleges

July 26, 2022

Former Deputy Finance Minister, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson has accused the government of encouraging the Bank of Ghana to print an amount of GH¢22 billion without Parliamentary approval. According to him, the fresh currency notes were printed between January and June 2022. The information, according to Dr Forson, is hidden on page 97 of Appendix 2a of […]Continue Reading

NEWS

Free SHS, TVET not under review – Finance Minister reiterates

July 25, 2022

Following speculations about the possibility of the Free Senior High School policy being reviewed, Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has clarified that government has no such intentions. Delivering the Mid-Year Review of the Budget Statement and Economic Policy of the Government for the 2022 financial year today, July 25, 2022, in Parliament, Mr. Ofori-Atta stressed Continue Reading

Crime

Court directs accused persons in alleged coup plot case to open defence

July 25, 2022

The High Court has directed accused persons in the alleged coup plotters case to open their defense. This was after the court found that the Prosecution has, through its 13 witnesses, established a prima facie evidence against them. In a ruling read by President of the Court, Her Ladyship Afia Serwah Asare-Botwe, the Court noted […]Continue Reading