The Accra High Court on Wednesday adjourned to March 23, the trial of Mrs Sedina Christine Tamakloe Attionu, and Mr Daniel Axim, former officials of Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) who have been charged for misappropriating state funds. Mrs Attionu, the former Chief Executive Officer and Mr Axim, also former Operations Manager have also been charged with conspiracy, stealing, ...

The Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Dapaah has said that Accra is generally clean, even though the government has been unable to fulfill the promise of making Accra the cleanest city in Africa by 2020. Cecilia Dapaah said this in response to a question asked on sanitation in Ghana. She said the Akufo-Addo-government has put measures in place ...

Inusah Fuseini who is the Ranking Member on Parliament’s Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, has called for the scrapping of the Independence Day celebration. He opines that Ghana is going through lots of challenges and the money used in the celebration could be used in other areas which will affect the lives of citizens positively. Mr Fuseini who is also ...

A failed presidential aspirant of the opposition National Democratic Congress, Stephen Atubiga, has threatened that there will be chaos in Ghana if any institution invites Mahama to answer to queries about his involvement in the Airbus saga. “It is a decision taken by the party that Mahama will not honor any invitation on Airbus, put me on record” Atubiga warned ...

The Minister of State in charge of Public Procurement, Sarah Adwoa Safo, has said even though she received a Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) scholarship for a training programme at Harvard Kennedy School, the “tone” of media publications on the matter, “smacks of an attempt to smear” her reputation as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Dome Kwabenya. Apart from ...

Former Vice President of the Ashanti Regional Chapter of the Ghana Bar Association, Anthony Mmieh, has filed his nomination to contest the impending New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary primaries in the Odotobiri Constituency of the Ashanti Region. The legal practitioner, who will run against incumbent Member of Parliament (MP), Emmanuel Akwasi Gyamfi who has occupied the seat for four consecutive ...

Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has alleged that former President John Dramani Mahama together with former Finance Minister Seth Terkper and then GIPC boss distributed tax waivers worth millions of dollars to a chunk of Ghanaian companies without prior approval from parliament while in power. According to him, these companies from 2015 to date enjoy free access to the port ...

Dr Affail Monney, the President of the Ghana Journalists Association, has cautioned journalists to abide by the ethics of the profession and avoid intemperate language that could derail the country’s peace ahead of the December polls. “We dare not misbehave as journalists in the discharge of our duties or face the wrath of God. If we ‘talk by heart’ on ...

The Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund), has denied awarding scholarships meant for brilliant but needy students to some ministers, government appointees as well as Members of Parliament (MP). According to GETFund, in a statement cited by GhanaWeb, the scholarship fund is not limited to brilliant but needy students. “We wish to categorically state that the award of scholarships by GETFund ...

The Speaker of Parliament, Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye, has directed that Hansard records the walkout of the Minority caucus during proceedings in the House in Accra on Thursday. The Hansard is the official transcript of Parliamentary proceedings. Prof. Oquaye’s directive followed a concern raised by a Deputy Majority Whip, Matthew Nyindam, who during the correction of votes and proceedings at ...