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President of the Creative Arts Council, Mark Okraku Mantey, has revealed that government has released some funds to the body. The money, according to Mr Mantey, is aimed at helping the Creative Arts Council start some of its numerous projects. The Minister for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Catherine Afeku in March last year inaugurated the Creative Arts Council led by ...

Ace Broadcast Journalist and the Host of Abusua Nkommo, Kwame Adinkra has descended heavily on the Ghana Highway Authority (GHA) describing the institution as the most useless and bogus state institution. Ghanaians have recently complained about poor road network in the country which is affecting business activities especially farming activities in the rural areas. About 80 percent of roads in ...

Inmates at the Nsawam Medium Prisons are demanding for the immediate removal of the leadership of the prison Officers detailed to manage the facility. According to the inmates, they would have no option to address their grievance than to embark on massive demonstration in the prison yard which will be very difficult for anybody to control them, should their call ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has said that his administration will scrap the double-track system being practiced in Senior High Schools (SHSs) if re-elected into office in 2020. He made this assertion in a Facebook post on Monday stating: “We will abolish the current shift (double-track) system, re-introduce the more efficient three-terms per academic year programme, and bring back the ...

Mr Richard Quayson, the National Deputy Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has charged Ghanaians to protect national resources by waging relentless war against corrupt practices. He said money lost to corruption formed 300% of Ghana’s foreign aid, and quizzed, why Ghana should be relying on foreign countries for support when “we can achieve the ...

The Deputy CHRAJ Commissioner Mr Richard Quayson says Ghana loses GH¢13.5 billion every year through corruption. The Deputy Upper West Regional Minister, Mr Amidu Chinnia Issahaku, has advised citizens to support the National Anti-corruption Action Plan (NACAP) to fight graft as the menace causes low living standards and worsen diseases. He also attributed the slow pace of Ghana’s economic development ...

The Chairman of the Audit Service Board, Professor Edward Dua Agyeman, has been described as a thief, corrupt and a man lacking the integrity to be holding his current position. General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, at a press conference on Tuesday described Professor Dua Agyeman as a man with bad record. He recounted ...

As part of the effort to control counterfeit products on the Ghanaian market and enable government block tax leakages, the Ghana Revenue Authority has begun its Excise Stamp enforcement exercise. The exercise is to ensure product manufacturers comply with the Excise Tax Stamp policy which is to be affixed on all excisable products. In September 2018 , Commissioner-General of the ...

The Public Affairs Manager of First Allied Savings and Loans, Jones Owusu says the company cannot put out a date for repaying deposits to its customers because any such announcement may lead to the collapse of the business. According to Mr Owusu, chaos greeted a similar announcement last month and repeating same would inadvertently collapse the bank because of the ...

Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah has said a petition by customers of First Allied Savings and Loans will be referred to the government’s economic management team. The move, he said, will bring a lasting solution to the over four months old impasse between customers and management of the financial institution. “We will meet officials of First Allied Savings and ...