Former President Jerry Rawlings has revealed that the current New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration inherited corruption at its worst from the previous Mahama administration. According to him, when President Akufo-Addo took over from the erstwhile John Mahama administration in 2017, the country was already drowning in practice of corruption with impunity. “By the time this administration came into office, the ...

The former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Reverend Professor Emmanuel Martey has said instead of Ghanaians clamouring for the prosecution of former public officials and politicians who plunder state resources while in office, as, he cited is done in South Korea, they “hail the thieves and want them to come back” into power. Expressing concerns about how fresh ...

The German Government has invested about $40 million in the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) sector in Ghana for the next five years. German Ambassador to Ghana, H.E Christoph Retzlaff made this known at the launch of the National Skills Competition in Accra aimed at generating greater awareness on the importance of TVET and the development of skills ...

Some 74 persons including current and former Members of Parliament, are to cough up a total of about GHc700, 000 outstanding debt they failed to pay to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture as far back as 2013. Some of those indicted include Tamale Central legislator, Inusah A.B. Fuseini, MP for Salaga, Alhaji Ibrahim Dey Abubakari, former MP for Savelugu, ...

Geldautomaten van ABN AMRO, Rabobank en ING krijgen een nieuw uiterlijk en een nieuwe naam. Ze heten voortaan Geldmaat en gaan er allemaal geel uitzien. Dat hebben de drie banken afgesproken. Vanaf 1 januari worden de oude apparaten vervangen, eind 2020 moet het project zijn afgerond. Geldmaat © Geldmaat Samen met Geldservice Nederland (GSN), dat sinds 2011 de geldautomaten beheert, ...

Raadsleden in kleine gemeenten met minder dan 24.000 inwoners krijgen een hogere vergoeding. De lokale politici krijgen straks 959 euro per maand. Een forse verhoging, want voor sommige van de in totaal 2442 raadsleden betekent dit bijna een verviervoudiging van hun vergoeding. Goede raadsleden zijn extra belangrijk geworden Het ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken maakte de verhoging vanmiddag wereldkundig. Tot nu toe ...

The Awoamefia of the Anlo State, Togbe Sri III, has urged the government to speed up action on the implementation of the One-district, One factory policy to liberate the teeming youth from unemployment. He said the issue of unemployment was causing most youth to migrate to the big cities to seek greener pastures and, therefore, depriving other areas, including Anlo, ...

Popular pastor, Mensa Otabil, and his church International Central Gospel Church are among 15 shareholders and directors of defunct Capital Bank sued over the collapse of the bank. The Plaintiffs Messrs Vish Ashiagbor and Eric Nana Nipah from PricewaterhouseCoopers say the bank’s collapse was a “direct result’ of defendants’” “‘misgovernance” and “willful” breaches of banking regulations. The writ of summons ...

Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams has expressed uneasiness about how Ghanaians “worship, celebrate and value” the dead more than the living, to the extent that some families neglect their relatives in times of need, even when faced by life-threatening situations such as sickness, but are suddenly eager to sponsor the funerals of those same relatives once they die. At his second service ...

The Heir Apparent to the British Throne and head of the Commonwealth, Prince of Wales, Prince Charles, has described the era of “Slave Trade” as a Shameful period in Ghana’s relations with Europe and in particular with the United Kingdom. In his Keynote address at the Commonwealth inspired Public Lecture on the theme; “Towards A Common Future”, at the Accra ...