President Nana Akufo-Addo has said he expects the country to be firmly handle the current economic difficulties. Though the President said the country was not at a crisis point, he acknowledged that the average Ghanaian was in difficulty. “It is not a crisis, but the difficulties that we are going through now are difficulties that the system will be able ...

A Midwife is chastising Ghanaian men for sabotaging family planning efforts. Madam Abigail Adjei, who works with the Ankaase Methodist Faith Healing Hospital observes that many women complain about negative repercussions of many of the family planning options. “Some say they bleed endlessly when they take some of these options, others say they grow very lean, some even say they ...

Ghana’s Digital Terrestrial Platform (DTT) infrastructure will be managed as a commercial entity, the Ministry of Communications has announced. It will be incorporated as the Central Digital Transmission Company Limited (CDTCL) and governed by a board, the ministry has explained. A statement issued in Accra and signed by the Minister of Communications, Mrs Ursula Owusu Ekuful, said the board would ...

A government sanctioned forensic audit has revealed that the acquisition of helicopters worth over $61 million by Ghana National Gas Company (GNGC) caused financial loss to the state because the choppers were never utilized. The four Z-9EH helicopters bought from China for surveillance by Ghana Gas during the previous Mahama administration at the total cost of $100 million ($25m each) ...

The 2018 Ghana Garden and Flower Show has opened in Accra with a call for more efforts towards the plant, garden and flower sector due to huge economic benefits. Mr Ron Strikker, the Netherlands Ambassador to Ghana, who made the call, said plants, flowers and gardens provided huge employment and economic benefits for Netherlands saying that, there were currently 3000 ...

The Turkish Government has expressed interest in partnering the Government of Ghana towards the operation of the proposed national airline. The Turkish Ambassador to Ghana, Madam Nesrin Bayazit, made this known when she paid a courtesy call on the Minister of Aviation, Joseph Kofi Adda in Accra, on Wednesday. She said the Turkish Airlines had the biggest network in Africa ...

The Omanhene of Himan in the Prestea Huni-Valley constituency, Nana Nteboa IV, has made a passionate appeal to the people of Ghana to give the Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Hon. Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, all the support that he needs as he aspires to be the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). According to the Chief, Hon. Bagbin ...

A former Deputy Chief of Staff in the Mahama administration, Valerie Sawyerr, who also served on the board of the Ghana National Gas Company (Ghana Gas), has described as “shoddy” and “disgusting”, an audit report commissioned by the Akufo-Addo Cabinet into some six state institutions, which found that about GHS831 million, was misappropriated. The forensic audit, conducted by Morrison and ...

Aspiring National Chairman of the opposition NDC party Samuel Ofosu Ampofo has parried accusation that he let the party down in his job as the Director of Finance of the party during the 2016 election which saw the NDC losing power. According to him, he can’t be held responsible when the party poorly resourced the Election Directorate. The NDC is ...

The Ashanti Regional chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Mr. Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, has responded angrily to claims by the minority in Parliament that it is needless for ex-president John Dramani Mahama  to be probed over his involvemnt in the transfer of some GH¢40 million from the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation (BOST), to the presidency, through an account allegedly run by ...