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605 The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has cited the Akufo-Addo government for what the party alleges to be mismanagement of funds meant for the country’s fight against the Corona Virus Pandemic. This claim and several others come on the back of a recent report of the Auditor-General on a Special Audit of the Government of […]
1,020 SEVENTY-FIVE per cent of the curricula of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) institutions is outdated, a skills gap analysis between 2018 and 2022 has revealed. The analysis, which was matched with an audit of 10 economic sectors, showed that within the period, there was also an ineffective mode of teaching at the […]
784 As part of efforts to prevent Ghana from becoming a dumping ground for some substandard electrical appliances, the Energy Commission has announced a ban on the importation of some new but substandard and used electrical appliances. The Energy Commission in a statement said per its mandate under Act 541, it had caused Parliament to […]
1,421 THE SENIOR Staff of Ghana Gas Company Limited in the Western Region have indicated that they are against government’s decision to allow Genser Energy Ghana Limited to build a gas processing plant with raw gas from the Jubilee fields. Genser Energy is an independent power producer serving multinational clients in the industrial and mining […]
725 The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has announced a review of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) Medicines List and Service Tariffs. This means patients and holders of the NHIS card would have to pay more for medicines and services at the various NHIS accredited facilities. The review of the NHIS Medicines list and […]
917 George Opoku Amponsah, a Social Interest Advocate, Politician and farmer has appealed to the President of the Republic to rather than anything address the nation on the 6th of March instead of the usual commemorative activities that are done across Metropolitan Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs), regional as well as national levels. In a […]
938 The popular Nigerian born British LGBTQIA+ rights campaigner, Davis Mac-Iyalla who was installed as a traditional chief at Yamonransa in the Central Region of Ghana at the weekend is no longer a chief. The chiefs have stripped him of that title and reversed his installation on the grounds that he did not reveal his […]
715 The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has entreated customers to conserve energy and invariably spend less on electricity as the upward adjustment of utility tariffs takes effect on February 1. According to the utility company, it has catalogued all unit consumption and the expected cost in a “reckoner” which clearly explains how the tariff […]
967 Some 3,000 former small-scale illegal miners have been employed as oil palm plantation farmers under the Alternative Livelihoods Project in the Birim Central Municipality of the Eastern Region. The project seeks to curb illegal small-scale mining, otherwise known as “galamsey” in the area, and provide alternative employment for residents who hitherto were engaged in […]
762 State-Owned Enterprises will contribute 25 per cent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2023, the State Interests and Governance Authority (SIGA) has projected. The Ministry of Finance had charged the Authority to ensure that SOEs become economically viable and contribute at least 30 per cent to the GDP. Mr Edward Boateng, Director-General […]