President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday received a strategic document and Charter that outlines the roadmap for Ghana’s attainment of her goal of self-reliance and the vision of a country beyond aid. The document, which was put together by a 13-member Ghana Beyond Aid Charter Committee, constituted by the President last June, is envisaged to become the mobilizing instrument ...

24,000 acres of forest reserve at Diaso in the Upper Denkyira West District of the Central Region has been devirginized by illegal Chinese miners. A task force found the illegal miners at the Aminase Forest Range Reserve arresting the twelve Chinese nationals and their one Ghanaian counterpart on site as well as retrieving 24 excavating machinery located. The activities of ...

Op de chip van nieuwe identiteitskaarten die EU-landen uitgeven, moeten over ruim twee jaar verplicht twee vingerafdrukken van de kaarthouder komen te staan. Onderhandelaars van de lidstaten en het Europees Parlement hebben hier vandaag een akkoord over bereikt. Het tegengaan van document- en identiteitsfraude door criminelen en terroristen is een belangrijke motivatie voor de maatregel. De wetgeving schrijft minimale standaarden ...

The average change in the price levels of consumer goods and services measured by inflation dropped to its lowest in six years, the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has reported. The inflation rate for January 2019 was 9.0 per cent, which was 0.4 percentage points lower than the 9.4 per cent recorded in December 2019. The monthly change rate for January ...

Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) has started the conversion of manual vehicle registration documents into electronic formats, in line with reforms at the authority. The institution has so far captured data from 1995 to 2016 onto the electronic platform as part of efforts towards enhancing vehicle information security and making searches stress free. “What this means is that a ...

About $30 million of the funding required for the construction of the newly built Terminal Three of the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) was sourced from oil revenues. The figure, which represents 12 per cent of the total funding of the $250 million project, was from the Annual Budget Funding Account’s (ABFA’s) allocation to the Ghana Infrastructure Investment Fund’s (GIIF’s) in ...

Commission of Inquiry has agreed to hear in-camera, invectives used by National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP, Sam George, attracting slaps from a security operative during an ill-fated bye-election in Ayawaso West-Wuogon in Greater Accra region. A Commander of a SWAT unit, DSP Samuel Azugu who called for a private hearing explained, the words used are too unpalatable for public hearing. ...

The recruitment of a Procurement Manager at the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) based on a directive of the state-owned oil company’s Board Chairman Mr Freddie Blay, has resulted in a misunderstanding between him and the CEO, Dr K. K. Sarpong. Dr Sarpong, in a letter, accused Mr Blay of overstepping his boundary by ordering the Chief Finance Officer (CFO) ...

The Church of Pentecost is discouraging excessive noise making by its local assemblies, directing for strict adherence to the bylaws on the permissible noise level. This is contained in a five-year strategic vision of the Church (Vision 2023) dubbed “Possessing the Nations” being implemented by the Church under the Chairmanship of Apostle Eric Nyamekye. The Vision 2023 strategy is focused ...

A total of 233 communities in the Ashanti Region will benefit from a grid expansion project being undertaken by the Electricity Company Ghana (ECG). The expansion scheme, which is expected to enhance distribution of electric power in settlements which has seen an increase in population growth, economic activities and new physical developments, is being implemented under the Special Grid Intensification ...