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The Ghana Education Service (GES) has disclosed that some Metro/Municipal/District Director of Education in submitting the names of teachers for the government’s one-laptop-one-teacher policy have added names of persons who do not qualify, including non-teaching staff and retired or separated staff. According to the GES, in some instances strange names have been added to the list with fake staff IDs. ...

The Ghana National Petroleum Corporation has described some civil society organisations who have raised concerns about the state oil company’s decision to acquire stakes in Aker Energy and AGM Petroleum Ghana oil blocs, as rabble-rousers who are setting their own questions and answering them regarding the deal. According to the CEO of GNPC, Dr Kofi Koduah Sarpong, some of these ...

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has accused President Akufo-Addo and Vice President Dr. Bawumia of seeking another term in government for the NPP beyond their current 8-year tenure to cover up their misdeeds. According to the NDC, the NPP intends to establish what would be a record consecutive 3 terms in office in order to have a free hand ...

The Greater Accra Regional Health Directorate will from today, Tuesday, 31 August 2021 administer the second dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine across all the 29 districts in the Greater Accra Region. The exercise is expected to end on 4th September, 2021. The regional health directorate in a statement said eligible persons are people above 18 years who received their first ...

Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), Dr Ernest Addison has said that one major initiative introduced by the central bank is the Online Regulatory Analytics Surveillance Systems (ORASS). He said this was introduced to help streamline data collection, maintain dynamic corporate profiles on regulated financial institutions, and move licensing and related authorisation onto an electronic platform without the need ...

Ghana will today, August 31, 2021, resume the vaccination of its population with AstraZeneca vaccines, which were first shipped to the country under the COVAX facility in February. After a mass vaccination in March, most people due for their second doses were disappointed as shortage in India, and, indeed, across the world, meant that the timelines would not be followed. Desperation ...

“Since signing the Compact, we, in Ghana, have tackled systematically the structural challenges which have inhibited our drive towards becoming Africa’s Investment Hub.” This was the testimony of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, last Friday, when he delivered his remarks at the G20 Compact with Africa Summit in Berlin, Germany. The President said that “this has been done through the ...

The Port of Takoradi has recorded two separate historic vessel calls said to be the first of its kind since it was built some 93 years ago. The call of the two vessels bares testimony to how competitive the Port of Takoradi has become in the Sub – Region. The two vessels are the Golden Spray and Mona Express. The ...

The Planting for Food and Job initiative of the Akufo-Addo government has so far created 2million jobs, the Minister of Food and Agriculture Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto has said. He said the jobs are across all the five modules under the programme. Speaking at a press conference in Accra on Sunday August 29, he said “when we came on import ...

The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, in collaboration with the National Security and Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority, on Friday, 27 August 2021, impounded 13 containers of rosewood at the Tema Port. Six of the 13 containers have been confirmed to be carrying rosewood. This disclosure was made by the Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources ...