A proposed Lands bill, which is before the Lands and Forestry Committee of Parliament, has prescribed new sanctions for landguards who terrorise landowners in major cities and towns of the country, Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Benito Owusu-Bio, has revealed. “[With the proposed Land bill] we have even gone to the extent of bringing in and defining people ...

Information Minister-designate, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah, has taken a swipe at former President John Mahama for repeatedly questioning the ‘sense’ in the implementation of the Free Senior High School and double track programs. Government rolled out the Free SHS policy in September 2017 in fulfilment of its campaign promise in the build to the 2016 general election. A year after its implementation, ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo last Friday officially proclaimed 2019 as the Year of Return for all Diasporan descendants of Africans who were captured and transported into the Americas as slaves in the 17th and 18th centuries. Titled, ‘Year of Return, Ghana 2019’, the proclamation was read at a ceremony at the United States National Press Club in Washington DC ...

Ms Mavis Hawa Koomson, Minister for Special Development Initiatives, has stated that Government was impacting lives under the Infrastructure for Poverty Eradication Programme (IPEP) to improve livelihoods across the country. She said under the audacious IPEP policy initiative, the President was delivering on his promise to re-orient the national capital expenditure, to place focus on local constituency-specific needs to properly ...

The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (MLGRD) has presented to Parliament a bill on the amendment of some articles in the 1992 Constitution. The amendments when passed will allow Ghanaians to vote for metropolitan, municipal and district chief executives (MMDCEs). The articles slated for amendment are Article 243 (1) on the appointment of MMDCEs by the President and ...

KPMG an Accounting and Auditing firm which was mandated by the Central Bank in March this year to take over as administrators of unibank, has made some damning revelations about certain suspicious transactions involving the bank. Managers and some shareholders of the bank have already been dragged to court for their roles in the alleged diversion of funds of depositors ...

Ghana’s economy is now valued at GH¢256.6 billion after the rebasing of gross domestic product (GDP) based on measurements from 2013 instead of 2006. This is the second time in less than 10 years that the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) is rebasing GDP figures in the country. The exercise is expected to present an accurate reflection of recent activities in ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has stated that, over the last 21 months Ghana’s economy has been revived, with the various macroeconomic indices all pointing in the right direction. Addressing the Ghanaian community in Washington DC, on Friday, 28th September, 2018, President Akufo-Addo noted that, prior to his assumption of office on 7th January, 2018, all the indices of economic ...

It appears the decision by former Mayor of Kumasi, Kojo Bonsu, to contest the National Democratic Congress’ presidential primaries, has not gone down well with some members of the party. Joseph Ade Coker, the newly elected Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the party, is very incensed about the decision, telling Mr. Bonsu to stay away from the race because the ...

Former communications minister Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, Agricultural Economist Goosie Tanoh, former National Health Insurance boss Sylvester Mensah and 2nd Deputy Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin, and former Deputy Minister of Finance Kweku Ricketts-Hagan are among individuals who have began moves to work in concert to ensure that former president John Mahama is not elected flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress ...