The former CEO of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), Sedina Tamakloe Attionu, has denied inflating the cost of vehicles meant for the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU), opening up the state to some financial loss. Making her voice heard on the matter for the first time in a statement, Mrs. Attionu said the claims ...

The Ghana Fire Service has said its preliminary investigation has revealed that an electrical fault is most likely to have caused the fire that gutted the office of the Ghana Maritime Authority (GMA), contrary to widespread suspicion of arson. Speaking in an interview with Citi News’ Anass Seidu, the Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Fire ...

The National Nasara Coordinator of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kamal Deen Abdulai, has expressed his heartfelt appreciation to the people of the Upper West Region for the warm welcome given President Nana Akufo-Addo during his two-day tour of the region. Kamal Deen Abdulai, who was with the President during the two-day exercise, said the ...

The Golden Tulip Accra Hotel has hosted the Ghana Rugby National sevens team, the Ghana Eagles, to a buffet lunch shortly before the team departed Tuesday for Kampala, Uganda, to participate in the Africa Rugby men’s sevens two-day tournament. This is part of the qualification for the sevens rugby world cup 2018, the commonwealth games, ...

Access Bank Plc, the majority shareholder of Access Bank Ghana, which is ranked as one of the top 3 banks in Nigeria and amongst the top 20 banks in Africa by assets and capital, has announced its intention to inject additional capital into the Bank’s operations in Ghana before end of Q1 in 2018 after ...

President Akufo Addo, has assured the Chiefs and People of the Upper East Region of the government’s commitment to revamp the defunct Tomato and Meat factories in the area. The President  gave the assurance when the Upper East Regional Minister, Rockson Ayine Bukari, and the Vice President of the Upper East Regional House of Chiefs, ...

A taxi driver accused of kidnapping a young motorist after a traffic accident in South Africa has been struck off Uber’s roster, eNCA news site reports. The news site has spoken to the father of the alleged victim. He says his son was forced to enter another vehicle by an Uber driver who attempted to extort ...

The gunman behind Sunday night’s mass shooting in Las Vegas planned to flee, and he may have had help with planning the massacre, officials suspect. Stephen Paddock was “living a secret life, much of which would never be fully understood”, Sheriff Joe Lombardo told reporters. The gunman’s girlfriend said she had no idea what he was plotting. ...

A class one teacher of Richard Ackom Memorial School in the Greater Accra Region, Faustina Thompson, has been adjudged the Overall Best Teacher at this year’s International World Teachers Day Celebrations held at Koforidua in the Eastern Region. Faustina Thompson, who has been in the teaching profession for over 17 years, was awarded with a ...

The IT Manager of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA), David King Boison, has in a rejoinder denied playing any role in the award of procurement and usage of information technology (IT)-related projects of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA), from 2014 to the early part of 2017. He has thus denied the ...

Ghana received a little over $247.18 million in 2016 from oil revenue – the lowest amount since Ghana began commercial production of oil in 2011. In 2011, when commercial production commenced, the country received $444.12 million in 2012 and $ 541.62 million and $846.77 million in 2013 and 2014 respectively. The country recorded the highest ...

The  Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, says her outfit is considering closing down some courts in the country due to “unhygienic” conditions that persist there. According to her, the situation at a number of the nation’s courts left a lot to be desired, and was not befitting of the institution. Speaking at the 37th Annual General ...

The Minister for Zongo and Inner City Development, Abubakar Saddique Boniface, has alleged that a 73 million euro loan secured by the Kufuor Administration for the improvement of communities like Old Fadama cannot be traced. The loan was procured in 2007 and handed over to the John Mills administration after 2009, but 10 years later, Alhaji Saddique ...

The Minister for Zongo and Inner City Development, Abubakar Saddique Boniface, had some frank words for political party foot-soldiers who are seemingly pawns on Ghana’s political terrain. Form where the Minister stood, he viewed the desperate and the poor as the main casualties in political tensions, and advised the masses to rethink their uncompromising loyalty ...

The Minister for Roads and Highways, Amoako Atta, has stated that, government has paid contractors a sum of over GHc1 billion to enable them resume work on stalled road projects across the country. According to him, most ongoing road projects had stalled due to failure of the previous administration to pay contractors for work done between ...

Former Ghanaian President, John Dramani Mahama, will later today [Thursday], leave Accra for Liberia, to lead an ECOWAS Observer Mission to monitor the general elections in that country. This was contained in a statement signed by Mahama’s Special Aide, Joyce Bawah Mogtari. “Former President John Dramani Mahama is leaving Accra today [Thursday], for Monrovia to ...

The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) chapter of the Ghana Veterinary Medical Students Association (GVMSA), has launched a campaign to vaccinate at least 1,000 cats and dogs in the Ashanti region against rabies. This is to help reduce the cases of rabies recorded in the region and  across the country. President of the ...

The Judicial Service Staff Association of Ghana (JUSSAG), is threatening to declare a strike if government continues to delay the payment of rent allowances for its members. A letter addressed to the Minister of Employment and Labour Relations and signed by General Secretary of JUSSAG, Derrick Annan, said the outstanding allowance has been in arrears ...

Aduana Stars stayed at the top of the Ghana Premier League after beating WAFA 1-0 at the Nana Agyemang Badu Park in Dormaa on Wednesday. The match was billed as key to deciding where the Ghana Premier League title could eventually end up but it lacked a lot of action. However, Derrick Sasraku found the only goal of ...

President Akufo-Addo has given assurances that he will not amass the country’s resources and wealth for his personal use, but use them judiciously for the country’s development. He said, “we [government] are going to ensure that all the money that is mobilized by the government is spent in dealing with the issues that concern our ...