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“We have experimented and practicallized the toll collection at various toll booth on our roads by Persons With Disability (PWDs) and it has so far proved very efficient,” these are the words of the Roads and Highways Minister, Kwesi Amoko-Atta when he took his turn at government’s ‘Meet the Press’ session at the Ministry of Information. He said as at ...

The President of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA) Anthony Forson has resurrected the age old debate about the conditions of service for MPs in the country. The GBA President wants salaries of MPs and other officials of state institutions improved to properly reflect the services they render the nation. Speaking at a consultative meeting to collate inputs for formation of ...

The national chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Samuel Ofosu Ampofo is urging the Electoral Commission (EC) to implement Representation of the People Amendment Act (ROPAA) such that every Ghanaian living abroad can vote. Speaking to Mugabe Maase, host of Inside Politics on Radio XYZ 93.1, Mr Ofosu Ampofo stated that NDC will resist any attempt by ...

More than 16, 000 health facilities which have not been licenced by the Heath Facilities Regulatory Agency (HeFRA) will be shut down from April 1. Every health facility in both the private and public sector is required by law to seek licence from HeFRA which is mandated to ensure the facilities conform to standards before being allowed to operate. Also, ...

Founder and President of Concerned Voters Movement (CVM), Razak Kojo Opoku, has opined that the “impressive performances” chalked by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo over the past two years has come as a shock to former President John Dramani Mahama. A statement signed by the CVM’s boss, reiterated that Akufo-Addo’s notable mode of governance is giving sleepless nights to John ...

Moves by the General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Asiedu Nketia, to get a suit brought against him by the Chairman of the Audit Service Board thrown out of court has crumbled. This follows the dismissal of an application filed by his lawyers which sought to throw out the suit filed against him by Prof. Dua-Agyemang. The ...

The Ministries of Business Development and Local Government and Rural Development intend to spearhead a project that seeks to attract Ghanaians in the diaspora to invest in various sectors of the economy. Importantly, the initiative will deliberately seek to attract such investments into the country’s hinterlands in an effort to achieve spatial diversification in an economy where more 90 percent ...

The Ministry of Agriculture has targeted 1 million farmers to benefit from subsidized fertilizer in its Planting for Food and Jobs program in 2019. This target was raised from that of 700,000 following improved numbers of farmers who got covered in 2018. In all, 300,000 metric tons of inorganic fertilizers and 200,000 metric tons of organic fertilizer worth GHc400 million ...

An Accra Circuit Court yesterday, ordered the Managing Director of Mobile Telecommunications Network (MTN) to produce audio conversation of Mahama Ayariga, Member of Parliament for Bawku Central and an officer of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA). The court gave the order at the request of Special Prosecutor (SP) Mr Martin Alamisi Burns Kaiser Amidu. Mr Amidu told the Accra Circuit ...

Dr Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, a former Electoral Commissioner, has lauded two judges for making recommendations to the Electoral Commission (EC) towards improving the electoral process during the 2012 Presidential Election Petition hearing at the Supreme Court. He recounted that during the 2012 Presidential Petition Election hearing in 2013 at the Supreme Court; Justices William Atuguba (now retired) and Jones Victor Mawulorm ...