A member of the inter-ministerial committee on mining, Charles Bissiw has said the new mining concession agreement will provide all legal small-scale miners with identification cards and uniforms. He said the committee will make sure that at the end of the new registration, government will know how many concessions there are in each district, how many excavators they have there ...

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has stated categorically that the government did not spend $6.8 million on the forensic audits as has been deliberately and falsely put out by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC). It said the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) only provided technical assistance to the office that was coordinating the audit, which was in line with ...

The General Superintendent of Assemblies of God Church, Ghana, Rev. Prof. Paul Frimpong Manso, has taken a strong swipe at certain self-acclaimed ‘men of God in the country. According to him, these pastors are greedy, blaming them for playing a role in the collapsed of the country and lagging behind in terms of development. “If we want to change, there ...

Deputy Education Minister, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, says former President John Mahama’s proposal to review the free Senior High School policy lacks merit. According to the deputy minister in charge of Basic and Secondary Education, the pronouncements by Mr. Mahama, who is seeking another opportunity to run for president, demonstrate a dearth of knowledge in the education sector. “In other ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said that government will not shield anyone found to have played a role in the collapse of the seven local banks. The President, speaking at the opening of the new head office complex of Standard Chartered Bank in Accra, bemoaned the cost of rescuing the seven banks to the tax payer adding that the ...

The World Bank has rated Ghana among the highest growing economies in Sub-Saharan Africa. Speaking to media men at the launch of the 18th edition of Africa’s Pulse, a bi-annual analysis of the state of African economies, a Program Leader with the World Bank, Errol Graham, said Ghana is helping drive the overall growth of the region with its 8.1% ...

Aside from the fact, there were diversions of campaign resources that played to the disadvantage of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the run-up to the 2016 elections, there are new issues cropping up as contributory factors to the party’s defeat. Former President John Dramani Mahama has revealed that internal bickering, disunity and power struggle at the constituency level cost ...

A Member of the Council of State and lawyer, Sam Okudzeto has insisted that former President Jerry Rawlings should apologize for the “mess” that ensued following the mysterious deaths of three prominent Ghanaian judges and a retired army officer in 1982. “There was absolute lawlessness in the country,” Okudzeto told Daniel Dadzie on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show Wednesday. “The ...

The Minister of State in charge of Tertiary Education, Professor Kwesi Yankah, has advised former President John Mahama to desist from drawing him into his campaign on education. According to him, any process to reform the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) flagship education programme, the free Senior High School (SHS) policy would compromise the gains made so far. His comment comes ...

DSP Edmund Oheneasah (retd.) was working in the information room at the Police headquarters in Accra that night in August 1982. It was at a time in the country when every long conversation in Ghana would not have been complete without a discussion on who killed the judges. And it most probably would end with another charge on the police ...