President Nana Akufo-Addo has appointed former Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs Minister Samuel Kofi Dzamesi as the acting Chief Executive Officer of the Bui Power Authority (BPA). A letter communicating the appointment was signed by Chief of Staff Akosua Frema Osei-Opare dated 30 July 2021. “Pursuant to Section 9 (2) of the Bui Power Authority Act, 2007 (Act 740), I am ...

Stonebwoy’s charity foundation, the Livingstone Foundation, has donated items worth thousands of Ghana Cedis to the Orthopedic Training Centre and medical facility in Accra. This gesture is part of the foundation’s list of charity events that seeks to extend its benevolence to individuals and other institutions handicapped in Ghana. The items donated included personal protective equipment (PPE), hand sanitisers, nose ...

The Federal Government on Tuesday summoned Usra Harahap, the Indonesian ambassador to Nigeria, over the alleged assault on a Nigerian diplomatic agent in Jarkarta, Indonesia. The minister of foreign affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, who revealed this in a statement said the incident is against international law and the Vienna Conventions governing diplomatic and consular relations between states. Onyeama said “The Ministry ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appointed a former Acting Editor of the Daily Graphic, Ms Elizabeth Akua Ohene, as Chairman of the Board of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT). The 13-member SSNIT Board was inaugurated in Accra on Tuesday, 10 August 2021, by the Minister of Finance, Mr Ken Ofori-Atta. Mr Ofori-Atta charged the board to ...

The National Insurance Commission (NIC) in a joint operation with the Ghana Police Service has arrested a Lebanese, Gabriel Medawar for operating an unlicensed Insurance broking firm contrary to section 109 of the Insurance Act 2021 (Act 1061). The illegal company operating under the business name, Harmonia Insurance Group, carried out its operations in a private building near the West ...

It has emerged that the African University College of Communication Limited (AUCC) failed to make payment on the agreed amount of GHS4.7million as a buyout of Activity Venture Capital Trust Fund’s (AVFC) 30 per cent stake in AUCC, denying the Trust Fund its share of GHS1,410,000.00 (40%) per the agreement on the distribution of returns among the shareholders of Activity ...

The University of Cape Coast (UCC) has GHS9, 123, 532.57 locked up with First Banc and Gold Coast Fund Management. The licences of the two companies were revoked by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 2019. The locked-up amount was revealed in the Auditor-General’s report on the public accounts of Ghana, public boards, corporations and other statutory institutions for ...

Political Science Lecturer at the University of Ghana, Professor Ransford Gyampo, has described the government’s negotiation team as abysmal and incompetent in their attempts to find a resolution to the strike by the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG). According to Professor Gyampo, the government has been negotiating with the leadership of UTAG for the last 10 years but has ...

The Ghana School of Survey and Mapping (GSSM) has been operating with an expired accreditation since 2015. The school, presently, is running its programmes without accreditation. This disclosure was contained in the Auditor-General’s report on the public accounts of Ghana, public boards, corporations and other statutory institutions for the period ended 31 December 2020. “We noted that Survey and Mapping ...

Lionel Messi has completed his move to Paris Saint-Germain after signing a two-year contract. The six-time Ballon d’Or winner arrived in Paris on Tuesday afternoon to complete a medical and seal his move to the French club on a two-year deal – with an option for a third – worth £25m per year after tax, plus bonuses. Messi will receive ...