The Special Prosecutor, Martin A. B. K. Amidu, is set to discharge his duties following the enactment of the enabling law backing his operations. Defence Minister, Dominic Nitiwul, yesterday laid the Legislative Instrument (LI) in Parliament to give legal backing to the Office of the Special Prosecutor on behalf of the Attorney-General, Gloria Akuffo. The L.I. which would mature in ...

Former Power Minister, Kwabena Donkor, has revealed his 2015 controversial resignation from office as the then sector minister was not as a result of his purported inability to end the power crisis (dumsor) the country faced at the time. The Member of Parliament for the Pru East Constituency in the Brong Ahafo region on assuming office as the then power ...

Former President John Mahama says it is only God who chooses a leader, not President Akufo-Addo as he wants Ghanaians to believe. Addressing delegates of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Bekwai on Monday, Mr Mahama played down comments by President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo that the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) would remain in opposition for a long time. Incensed ...

t has emerged that the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) under the management of its current Chief Executive, Joseph Boahen Aidoo, purchased some 100,000 bags of an untested fertilizer called “Cocoa Nti” worth US$3.5 million, using a forged scientific report which is a subject of controversy at the ongoing trial of Dr. Stephen Kwabena Opuni and Alhaji Seidu Agongo. The forged ...

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has released a full list of teachers who have been sanctioned for violating the code of conduct of the service. According to a statement issued and signed by Cassandra Twum Ampofo, Head of Public Relations Unit of the GES, the decision was arrived at after thorough investigations into their conduct by the Disciplinary Committee which ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has visited the Kete Krachi Timber Recovery Limited, a company operating under Government’s 1-District-1-Factory initiative. The company, located in Asuogyaman, in the Eastern Region, runs a timber salvage operation on the Volta Lake, using barge-mounted salvage units, built around modified Caterpillar excavators. It will be recalled that construction of the Volta Lake resulted in vast ...

The Nandom District Assembly in partnership with Netherland Development Organisation (SNV) on Monday celebrated World Toilet Day in Nandom in the Upper West Region, highlighting the worsening sanitation situation in Ghana. The day brought to the fore deteriorating sanitation conditions in local communities, districts and towns, which estimated 24.5 million Ghanaians as not having access to safe and clean toilets. ...

The Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has revealed that the government of Ghana is ready to access the first tranche of the $2 billion Sinohydro infrastructure-for-bauxite facility. The monies are expected to be used for the completion of some 68 roads nationwide; which project is expected to start before the year ends through to the year 2020 when it ...

The government has said it intends creating five new districts in order to facilitate development in those areas. Some 38 new Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies were created in 2017. Together with the proposed five, the country will have 259 MMDAs in total. According to Deputy Local Government Minister, Collins Ntim, who laid a Legislative Instrument (L.I.) on the floor ...

Attorney General Gloria Akuffo has described a law suit challenging the construction of a National Cathedral as a misunderstanding of the character of Ghanaian secularism. She is urging the court to dismiss the case filed by the Convention People’s Party’s Director of Elections, James Kwabena Bomfeh. He argues in his suit that Ghana is a secular state and it was ...