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The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has launched a mobile application designed to make the purchase of ECG credits and the payment of bills more convenient for the customers of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG). Known as ‘ECG Power’, the app, designed in-house by the ICT staff of ECG, will make it possible for 2.8 million out of the ...

The Ghana Trade Fair Company Limited (GTFCL) has explained why it demolished properties of its tenants at the Trade Fair Centre in Accra last Sunday night, February 16, 2020. The demolition, according to the GTFCL is to pave way for the redevelopment of the site and that the tenants were duly notified about the development. Among the tenants at the ...

A seven member panel of the Supreme Court presided over by Chief Justice Anin Yeboah has fixed April 22, 2020 to deliver judgement in the suit against the Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta on the issuance of a 2.25 billion bond. This was after the apex court had refused an applocation from the Commissiin of Human Rights and Administrative Justice ...

A former MP for the Builsa North Constituency, Timothy Ataboade Awentiirim has lashed out at the Catholic Bishops Conference over their threat to campaign against opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) over the party’s refusal to sign a peace pact put together by the Peace council recently. Rev Father Lazarus Anondee, secretary-General of the Conference, had threatened that the bishops will ...

Following the demolition of a multi-million dollar factory belonging to renowned journalist Raymond Archer by officials of National Security on Sunday dawn, many Ghanaians are calling out government for the harsh action. Several properties of Universal Labels & Packaging Company Limited and Colour Planet Limited were damaged by the state security agency at the Trade Fair Centre in Accra as ...

At least 120 workers have been rendered unemployed following the demolition of some factories situated at the Trade Fair. Raymond Archer, Chief Executive Officer of Universal Labels & Packaging Co. Ltd and Colour Planet Limited, whose facilities were among the many that were demolished Sunday night by the Ghana Trade Fair Company Limited (GTFC) told GhanaWeb his factory has been ...

The Association of Private Healthcare Providers has warned they will withdraw their services if government does not pay up its indebtedness to them. Addressing the media Monday,Executive Director of Health Insurance Service Providers Association of Ghana Frank Torblu said their members are being constantly harassed by state revenue agencies that they owe. “Ladies and gentlemen, it is very sad for ...

The Electoral Commission has declined a request by Ashaiman MP Ernest Norgbe to share information on how it selected its consultants. In a letter addressed to lawyer for the MP Martin Kpebu, the EC said the MP has not paid the necessary charges under the Right to Information law to enable him have access to the Information required. The legislature ...

The 66 Artillery Regiment in Ho has evacuated some 21 persons including a lady believed to be receiving military training from a secessionists group – Homeland Study Group Foundation, in thickets of Kpevedue and Fievue, a twin community on the Ghana-Togo border in the Ketu North Municipality of the Volta Region. The ‘recruits’ were rounded up in a dawn operation ...

Kevin Ekow Baidoo Taylor, a controversial journalist and social media commentator, has come under heavy backlash for some repulsive comments he made against the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference for condemning vigilantism. The journalist on his US-based ‘Loud Silence Radio & TV Network’ stated that the Bishops are speaking like they are having “menopause”. “You people are already politicians…you’re speaking like ...