General News Politics

Economic Hardship: Gov’t urged to cushion citizens with affordable transport services

375  Dr Priscilla Twumasi Baffour, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Economics, University of Ghana (UG), has asked the Government to retool various State transport systems to lessen the economic burden on the travelling public. In October alone, drivers increased transportation fares three times to a cumulative 39 per cent after separate announcements in hikes […]

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NDC dissolves Bono East regional elections committee

406  The Functional Executive Committee (FEC) of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has dissolved the Bono East Regional Elections Committee with immediate effect and put the region’s executives’ elections on hold. The decision by the NDC comes months after police arrested five people in connection with the attack on the Bono East NDC party office […]

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Environment Ministry defends 350 delegates participating in COP27

682  The Chief Director of the Ministry of Environment Science Technology and Innovation, Mrs. Cynthia Asare Bediako, has defended the number of registered Ghanaians participating in the ongoing Conference of Parties (COP 27) in Egypt. The number of participants at the ongoing climate conference got social media users and Ghanaians talking with some alleging 270 […]

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Reduce Your Ministers To 40 -Prof.Bokpin To President Nana Addo

503 An economist, Professor Godfred Bokpin, has urged President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to cut the number of Ministers in his administration to 40. According to him the number of Ministers, coupled with other costs of operationalizing Ghana’s democracy such as maintaining 275 Members of Parliament and other Presidential appointees was too expensive for the […]

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Gov’t still committed to probing deaths recorded during 2020 polls – Ambrose Dery

409  Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery says government is committed to justice for the victims and families of those who died during the 2020 elections. At least five people died in separate violent incidents across the country during the election that saw president Akufo-Addo win a second term. Two years after the incidents, there have been […]