From Inusa Musah, Tema Hajia Alima Mahama, Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, has charged the media to press duty-bearers to be responsible and accountable to the citizenry. The media constantly throwing their searchlight on public servants, she explained, would result in effective work output and consciousness to serve the nation with good […]
By Joan Lisa Quarshie. The Institute of Financial and Economic Journalists (IFEJ) has launched its 4th edition of the IFEJ Flamingo Awards for business and financial journalists in Accra. Journalists, specifically, financial and economic reporters who write comprehensive and accurate business news, would be the beneficiaries of the IFEJ Flamingo Awards. The IFEJ is […]
By Bernice Bessey To reduce vehicular accidents and death toll on the roads, engineers have been engaged to re-design the roads to make them more accommodating and condusive for all road users, especially pedestrians. Current roads designs, especially in the Accra Metropolis, are more to accommodating vehicular traffic than pedestrians and cyclists. Due to […]
From Maxwell Ofori, Saltpond The 70th Anniversary celebration of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) was, on Friday, 4th August, 2017, marked in grand style on the land of its birth, Saltpond, in the Central Region. The anniversary celebration was kick-started with a Memorial and Thanksgiving Service at the Wesley Methodist Church. At about […]
Visa has announced its support of the new global QR Code Payment Specifications from EMVCo, the global technical body that manages the EMV Specifications. The specifications cover consumer-presented and merchant-presented QR code use cases for digital payment acceptance. QR Codes are two-dimensional machine-readable barcodes used to facilitate mobile payments at the point-of-sale. Visa and […]
From Ernest Best Anane, Kumasi. MTN Ghana has launched Mobile Mobile Month and assured customers of its commitment to expand payments through the Mobile Money system. Mr. Abdul-Majeed Rufai, Mobile Money Manager for Corporate Business Development, explained during the launch that this year marks the 8th Anniversary of the mobile money month celebration, hence, the need […]
Stories from Richard Owusu-Akyaw Military personnel, civilian employees and the Army Wives Association (AWA) of the Fourth Battalion Infantry (4BN) in Kumasi have to donated items to the Deduako Community Special and Vocation School to mark their 20 years of relocation from their old barracks to Complex, near the Prempeh College. The items, estimated […]
From Sebastian R. Freiku. The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has acquired a new aerial platform truck (hoist) at a cost of GH¢520,000 under an Urban Development Grant (UDG). The new vehicle would help the Electrical Department of the KMA to undertake routine maintenance of the street lighting system. The Metro Chief Executive, Osei Assibey […]
Almost two thousand years ago, certain young man dreamt of forming a movement that would transcend all borders and spread to the ends of the earth. To have this very ambitious plan come into effect, He started to lay down concrete programmes. He first formed a group which He taught His ideas and ideals. He […]
It is becoming increasingly clear that sections of Ghanaian motorists have been breaking the Road Traffic Regulation 2012 [L.I. 2180], which is the law governing the use of our roads in this country. Sections of our motorists, especially, government and state officials as well as micro-finance and private security companies, have been installing top […]
FROM NANA KWASI KOOMSON,SEKONDI. A community policeman, whose name was given as Ernest Fiabgenu, drowned at New Takoradi, in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis, on Wednesday 2nd August, 2017, around 9pm, in an attempt to arrest suspected thieves in a canoe. Mr. Fiabgenu, who is in his mid-twenties, was pursuing suspected thieves who went to steal from […]
Kenyan authorities have deported Peter Mac Manu who was leading a team of election observers from the Democratic Union of Africa (DUA) ahead of tomorrow’s Kenya’s General Elections. The New Patriotic Party (NPP) 2016 Elections’ Campaign Manager was met on arrival Saturday at the Kotoka Airport by some officials of the NPP. Sources […]
e By Maxwell Ofori. The Speaker of Parliament, the Rt. Hon. Professor Aaron Michael Oquaye, has charged the Convention People’s Party (CPP) to get out of the bowels of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) if it is to flourish as a political party in modern Ghana. According him, prior to the 1992 elections, the CPP […]
By Inusa Musah. The Wildlife Division of the Forestry Commission has promised to up its surveillance on the criminal activities of wildlife traffickers, especially those who are using Ghana as their transit point. To effectively clamp down on these traffickers, therefore, Nana Kofi Adu-Nsiah, Executive Director of the Wildlife Division, said his outfit would […]
The National Association of Private Lotto Operators and Ghana Lotto Operators Association (GLOA) have called on the Board of the National Lottery Authority (NLA) and the Director-General to walk their talk, and not to make promises they have no intention of transforming into reality. GLOA also says the private lotto operation has a huge […]
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