The Auditor-General (A-G) has issued more Certificates of Indebtedness to individuals towards the recovery of State funds, which they directly or indirectly caused its wrong utilization, bringing the total to more than 35. About 100 cases are being processed to determine which ones to be considered for surcharge, an official of the Legal Department of ...

Black Stars skipper Asamoah Gyan believes the hunger exhibited by the youngsters in the team during their double header against Congo bodes well for the team’s future. Individual players like Thomas Agyapong and Ebenezer Ofori look set to become a major components of the Black Stars going forward after their initial displays. He urged them ...

The Ministry of Youth and Sports have dismissed the assertion that shirking their duties resulted in the Black Stars making their own travel arrangements from Brazaville back to Ghana. Captain of the side Asamoah Gyan had to eventually rescue the situation by paying for a direct chartered flight back to Ghana after the emphatic 5-1 ...

Google has redesigned its Street View camera system so that it can take clearer images and capture more data about shops and buildings. The new hardware takes clearer panoramic photos, while two high definition cameras capture detailed images of shops and street signs. Data such as shop opening hours can be spotted by machine-learning algorithms ...

The US has proposed a range of new United Nations sanctions against North Korea, including an oil ban and a freeze on leader Kim Jong-un’s assets. The draft resolution circulated to the Security Council members comes after North Korea’s sixth nuclear test and repeated missile launches. Pyongyang also claims to have developed a hydrogen bomb ...

The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has denied it is recruiting fresh personnel. It said news of any such recruitment making rounds on social media is fake. The Immigration Service in a statement signed by its Head of Public Affairs, Michael Amoako-Attah, said its attention “has been drawn to a purported recruitment exercise which has gone ...

The Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, Elizabeth Afoley Quaye has stated that the two Chinese nationals who are said to have imported unwholesome tilapia into the country did so in contravention of the law. According to her, there is a current ban on tilapia importation hence anybody found to have imported such product into ...

About 50 workers of the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission are stranded outside their office following an unannounced lockout. The move, the workers believe, was informed by a protest on Wednesday to resist the reinstatement of the former Director of Public Affairs of the Commission, Nana Yaa Jantuah, who resigned in May, 2017. The posters on the ...

Former Attorney General and anti-corruption campaigner, Martin Amidu has said he has not received any official communication from the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee of Parliament to his appear before the committee and contribute to the Bill setting up the office of the Special Prosecutor. The Chairman of the Committee, Ben Abdallah on Eyewitness News on ...

Taxis and commercial vehicles have become ‘alternative ambulances’ for inter-hospital referrals of critically ill patients in the Eastern Region due to lack of ambulances. Patients are usually referred to the Regional Hospital, Koforidua, and the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital and 37 Military Hospital, both in Accra. But the patients are not transported in ambulances but usually ...

Ghana may soon lose its fishing stock if nothing is done to overturn issues confronting the country’s fishing sector. Ghana which consumes over 950,000 metric tons of fish annually currently imports over 60 percent of its fish. Ghana in 2016 imported $135 million worth of fish because of the reduction in the country’s fish stock. ...

The Ghana Standards Authority will not name the oil marketing companies (OMCs) cited for infractions detrimental to the interest of consumers, its acting Director-General, Professor Alex Dodoo has said. These OMCs, 57 in number, were fined GHc 261,000 for engaging in the infractions in the Greater Accra Region alone, between September 2016 and August 2017. Prof. Dodoo noted on ...

The World Bank wants the Ghana COCOBOD to massively restructure its operations if it is to restore growth in Ghana’s cocoa industry. The Bank has among others impressed on the cocoa industry regulator to target its fertilizer subsidy program at needed communities. The World Bank has also suggested the need to diversify the marketing strategy ...

Businesses that pay 25% of their profits in corporate taxes should expect to pay less from next year (2018). The corporate tax is expected to be reduced to twenty percent eventually. It follows what the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta says is the consideration of reducing the tax in the 2018 budget. This is also ...

Fifty-seven oil marketing companies (OMCs) have been sanctioned by the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) for engaging in various infractions detrimental to the interest of consumers. All the affected OMCs are in the Greater Accra Region. They were fined a total of GH¢261,000 for serving customers with lower volumes of fuel, using non-approved GSA seals and ...

The once vibrant city of Kumasi is in serious disarray. Disorder and chaos are what the CBD (Adum) has become. Adum today can be likened to a giant junkyard with the many shops selling mainly imported second-hand items and poor-quality goods from south Asia. Roads are strangled, blocked, seized and turned into markets leading to ...

The Upper West Regional Coordinating Council is picking the well-being of the environment over business interests as it has refused to allow a lumbering firm with a legal permit, to cut rosewood in its domain. The Forestry Commission in a July 2017 letter approved a permit for the lumbering firm, AttaKey Limited, to allow it ...

Eastern Harvest Food Bank, a non-profit charity organization, has taken it upon itself to provide food for hungry people who are above the age of 50 years daily in New Juaben Municipality of the Eastern Region. The aim of the food bank is to reduce hunger whiles respecting the integrity of the aged in the ...

Hurricane Irma has caused widespread destruction across the Caribbean, reducing buildings to rubble and leaving at least nine people dead. The small island of Barbuda is said to be “barely habitable”. Officials warn that St Martin is almost destroyed, and the death toll is likely to rise. Irma, a category five hurricane, the highest possible ...