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 ...

Sensitive parts of the Emile Short Commission’s probe should be in-camera to save Ghana’s security chiefs from appearing to be unprepared and uncoordinated, a legal practitioner, Yaw Oppong has suggested. This is to preserve the confidence Ghanaians have in Ghana’s security architecture, he argued. The lack of coordination from the testimonies by the Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery; the National Security ...

The Chief Executive of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Dr. Samuel Annor has reportedly left office after 2 years of service to the Authority. Although the reason for his resignation is yet to be known, DGN online checks suggests it was due to his age. Last month Dr. Annor’s name was listed among some eight Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) ...

A group calling itself Concern Youth in Politics (CYP) wants former President Mahama stripped off every privilege he enjoys as an ex-president. According to the group, the action by Mr Mahama to show videos of Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election violence to foreign diplomats is very “irresponsible” of him. The convener of the group, who doubles as former Assembly Member for ...

There is strong advocacy for former President John Mahama to submit any evidence he has on government’s complicity in the violence that marred the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election to the Emile Short Commission. Sulemana Braimah, the Executive Director of Media Foundation for West Africa said helping the ongoing hearing by the Emile Short Commission with factual evidence is key to ...

A former Chief of Defense Staff, Brigadier General Joseph Nunoo-Mensah says operatives of the National Security have no business moving in or taking action into dealing with violence or crime situations. Brigadier Nunoo-Mensah’s comments come on the back of fallout from the Emile Short Commission of Inquiry investigating the incident of violence which occurred during the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election ...

The European Commission (EC) has added Ghana to a list of 23 countries with strategic deficiencies in their anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing frameworks. Ghana and her West African neighbour Nigeria were added to an already existing blacklist of 16 countries announced by the EC in a press release on February 13. The listing does not entail any type of ...

The plea by the Electoral Commission (EC) to the Accra High Court for an extension of time to operationalise the Representation of the People’s Amendment Act (ROPAA), 2006 (Act 699), which gives Ghanaians in the Diaspora the right to vote from abroad, has been challenged. The challenge was filed by five Ghanaians in the Diaspora who won a case on ...

It is turning out that the multi-million agreement between the Dr. Stephen Opuni-led COCOBOD and companies of businessman Seidu Agongo for the supply of fertilizers was signed at a time the previous Mahama administration had been defeated embarrassingly and was on its way out of government. The said contracts with three of Seidu Agongo’s companies were signed on December 19, ...

Some Ghanaian staff who are manning the various Terminals of the Kotoka International Airport under the Ghana Airport Company Limited, the Customs and Ghana Immigration and some of GACL’s third party partners have been exposed as beggars and petty thieves, MyNewsGh.com has filed. An investigation conducted by MyNewsGh.com following series of complaints from many Ghanaians and foreigners who are appalled ...