A payroll audit by the Auditor General has uncovered that over 10,000 employees have either no justification or sufficient information to continue drawing salaries from the public purse. It has therefore asked the affected employees to make themselves available for enumeration from January 28 to February 11, 2020 at the Audit-Service Headquarters (Payroll Audit Branch), Accra to avoid disallowance and ...
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Give proof your government sold 361 vehicles legally – OccupyGhana to Mahama
Pressure group, OccupyGhana, has challenged former President John Mahama to prove that the reported sale of some 361 government vehicles during the last days of his regime were done legally. OccupyGhana made the demand following ex-President Mahama’s recent promise that should he be elected in December 2020 as President of Ghana once again, he would “put an immediate and permanent ...
Read More »90% of ‘galamseyers’ have ceased operations – Frimpong-Boateng
The Minister of Environment, Science, Technology & Innovation, Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng has said that about 90% of illegal small-scale miners (galamseyers) have ceased operations since the Operation Vanguard Team was established almost three years ago. “I can say 90 percent, by and large, [of] those who are doing galamsey, I can say about 90 percent have stopped. These galamsey people ...
Read More »Ghanaian youth with little credit, no lights always quick to insult on social media – Sonnie Badu
Internationally acclaimed Ghanaian-UK based gospel artiste, Sonnie Badu says instead of focusing on what they can do for the country and how best to do it, a group of the current crop of Ghanaian youth are only focused on being quick to jump on social media to dish out insults to their elders. According to the gospel singer and preacher, ...
Read More »Corruption Perception Index: The level of rot from Rawlings to Akufo-Addo
Transparency International since 1995 annually releases its Corruption Perception Index, a ranking of countries by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, as determined by expert assessments and opinion surveys. Just last week the group released the 2019 edition of the rankings which has seen Ghana fall two places further from its 78th position in 2018 to 80th, out of ...
Read More »New Register: Chief Imam spokesman backs EC, calls demos needless
The Spokesperson for the National Chief Imam and Co-Chairperson of the Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO), Sheikh Aremeyawo Shaibu, has described arguments against the compilation of a New Biometric Voters Register as unconvincing. Some Ghanaians including some civil society groups and the Interparty Resistance Against New Voters Register have kicked against the EC’s decision to compile a new voter’s ...
Read More »Hoe de brexit ook mét deal levens in de war schopt: ‘Ik ben straks mijn paspoort kwijt’
Nog vijf dagen, dan is het eindelijk zover: brexit. Een historische gebeurtenis die miljoenen levens ontregelt, aan beide kanten van de Noordzee. Hoe? Een aantal gewone mensen legt het uit. ,,Nooit gedacht dat ik mijn paspoort zou kwijtraken. Je zou kunnen denken dat de brexit, die op 1 februari een feit is, een administratieve formaliteit is geworden. Er ligt toch ...
Read More »Meet the Cape Coast King who challenged the legitimacy of British authority
It is on record that King John Aggrey Essien of Oguaa (Cape Coast) was the first king in the 19th century to really have challenged the legitimacy of British authority. Organizing systematic protests against the British earned him the accolade as one of the African political martyrs of British imperialism, but not the first king of Cape Coast. King John ...
Read More »Government ready to distribute 307 Ambulances on Tuesday – Oppong-Nkrumah
The commissioning and distribution of 307 Ambulances to all the 275 constituencies nationwide as part of efforts to improve emergency healthcare delivery in Ghana would take place on Tuesday, January 28. Mr Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, the Information Minister, who announced this at a news conference in Accra on Sunday, said the digitised ICT system, tracking devices and labelling had been ...
Read More »Nyinahin bauxite: ‘Give us concession, CEO post’ – Tano-Offin chiefs tell ‘deceitful’ GIADEC
Traditional leaders of Tano-Offin have accused the Ghana Integrated Aluminium Development Corporation (GIADEC) of opaqueness in its operations and plans as far as the mining of bauxite in the Nyinahin forest reserve in the Ashanti Region is concerned. In a statement of protest jointly signed by Nana Tabbri Gyansa III, Mpasaso Omanhene (No1); Nana Kusi Amankwaa Marfo II, Nkawie Paninhene; ...
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