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 ...

The Attorney-General (AG) has tendered a document as evidence to prove that two residential properties at Trasacco Valley in Accra belong to the embattled National Democratic Congress (NDC) bankroller, Alfred Agbesi Woyome and not the defunct UT Bank. Both houses have become a subject of litigation in the ongoing trial of Woyome who has been accused of ‘defrauding’ the state ...

Dr Tony Aidoo, a staunch member of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), has described the 40-year national development plan for Ghana as nonsensical. Responding to a question on Accra-based Starr FM on Tuesday, 20 November 2018 about comments made by President Nana Akufo-Addo in the early part of 2018 concerning the need to create a database for the various ...

The Universal Merchant Bank (UMB) has reported to the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) to investigate what is said to be a photoshopped written cheque book in the name of former President John Dramani Mahama. Two UMB cheques bearing the name of Mahama and issued to two candidates of the just ended National Democratic Congress, Joshua Akamba and Sammy Gyamfi, ...

President Akufo-Addo says he is determined to change the economic conditions of Ghana for the better. That, he said will make young Ghanaians “who constitute our future citizens, see our country as a place of opportunity, instead of a place from which they flee at the peril of their lives.” According to him, in a statement to mark the celebration ...

Dr Joe France, the Director of Financial Stability, Bank of Ghana (BoG), has said that over 90 per cent of fraud-related cases in the banking sector are associated with the employees. According to him, investigations have revealed that some of the banking staff masterminded most of these frauds and urged the management of Banks to be wary of people they ...

The government has directed the Police Administration to interdict and begin formal criminal investigations into the conduct of 21 police personnel involved in a shooting incident which resulted in the death of seven persons at Manso-Nkwanta within the Amansie West District of the Ashanti Region. The seven persons were reportedly gunned down on July 17, 2018, by Police on suspicion ...