The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has said internal auditors in the public sector have crucial roles to play in the fight against corruption and the quest to achieve fiscal discipline.   Addressing the 2022 Internal Audotors Conference in Accra on Tuesday August 16, 2022, Dr. Bawumua underscored the significance of internal auditors to the quest to improve financial mobilisation and ...

A startling 148,000 government workers out of a total of 602,000 on the payroll of the Controller and Accountant General’s Department have been found to have identifications which do not match any biometric identification at the National Identification Authority. The Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia said this came up after a biometric audit by the Controller and Accountant General’s Department. Addressing the 2022 ...

A startling 148,000  government workers out of a total of 602,000 workers on the payroll of the Controller and Accountant’General’s Department have been found to have identifications which do not match any biometric identification at the National Identification Authority,  after a biometric audit by the Controller and Accountant-General’s Department, Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has revealed. Addressing the 2022 Internal ...

August 17, 2022 The Lands and Natural Resources Ministry has destroyed about 800 changfans used by illegal small-scale miners on River Offin and Pra. This was done during a three-day exercise carried out by Operation Halt-2 with the help of military personnel. The Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources in charge of Mines, George Mireku Duker who led the ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says he is fully aware that things are difficult for Ghanaians and so he is working to lift them out of the challenges sooner or later. “Things are not at all where we would like to be as far as the economy is concerned, and I’m fully aware that these are difficult times for us,” he ...

The Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) has increased the end-user electricity tariff by 27.15% and that of water by 21.55%. According to the Commission, the new tariffs are expected to take effect on September 1, 2022. The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) and the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) in a 55-page document released on Tuesday, May 10, 2022, proposed ...

The Honourable Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration of the Republic of Ghana, Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has met Mr Amer Al Alawi, Chargé d’Affairs at the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates in Accra. The minister received the top embassy official in Accra, to discuss bilateral relations and a number of issues of common interest on the table ...

BH News Blog of Tuesday, 9 August 2022 Source: Frank K. Harrison The tone for the rejection of the 2024 outcome of the election is being fueled by government in collaboration with the Electoral Commission of Ghana. This is rightly so due to recent pronouncement by some Government and NPP members as it appears the EC is craftily being seen as ...

Revenue of the mobile money (MoMo) arm of telecommunication market leader – MTN – reached GH¢899million, a 9 percent growth on year-on-year growth in the first half of the year, its unaudited interim report has shown. The figure, however, pales in comparison to the 50.9 percent YoY growth recorded a year earlier, and was attributed to slower growth in Peer-to-peer ...

Business News of Friday, 5 August 2022 Disclaimer Source: GNA President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says he is very optimistic that Ghana’s economy would bounce back stronger. He said despite the current economic challenges, which had compromised the nation’s finances, the programmes and policies his administration had put in place would return the country to the path of ...