Adentan is best local Assembly
This was announced at the launch of the 2020 DLT in Accra by the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC).Sene East District in the Bono East Region was the lowest-ranked. With a score of 94. 46 under the Water and Sanitation sector, the Adentan Assembly triumphed over the La Nkwantanang-Madina Municipal Assembly with a 1.43...
Speaker directs Finance Minister to appear before Parliament with amended Budget
Addressing the House following his resumption to work after a two-week medical leave, he said the statement should capture all the modifications and concessions. While he was away, the Majority Members of the House voted to reinstate and approve the 2022 Budget Statement and Economic Policy on November 30. The Minority...
13th African Games Accra 2023: Launch of Official Logo, Mascot and Website
After the West African sporting powerhouse won the rights to host the 2023 African Games (previously christened All-Africa Games) in October 2018. Since it secured the rights to host the multi-sport event in the 2.557 million-populated capital city, the Local Organizing Committee headed by Executive Chairman Dr. Kwaku Ofosu-Asare has ever been working feverishly around the clock...
2021 PHC: over 1 million persons are unemployed
Professor Samuel Kobina Annim, the Government statistician, said the unemployment rate among the population aged 15 years above was 13.4 per cent and higher for females with 15.5 per cent and 11.6 per cent for males. He said about half a million of 487, 470, representing 2.5 per cent of persons aged 15 years...
GRA will collect E-levy – Ministry of Finance
The Ministry, in a statement issued by the Public Relations Unit and copied to the Ghana News Agency, said, “GRA will manage all discussions to ensure full deployment of their current platforms and resources for the collection of the e-levy.” This follows discussions that government should drop the allocation of GHC241,933,000 for the e-transaction...
Otumfuo commemorative gold coins launched with praise to the King
Proceeds from the sale of the coins, which will be auctioned across the globe, will be used for the establishment of a Cultural Resort Centre to promote the customary resolution of conflicts. This is also to immortalise the credential of the Asantehene as a national peace maker, especially, his role in the resolution of...
BoG urges Rural and Community Banks to help curb illicit financial trade
The move is to ensure that criminals do not use them as conduits to perpetuate or facilitate illicit financial trade. Mr George Nkrumah, Head of Financial Integrity at the Bank of Ghana said this on Monday at a sensitization workshop for Rural and Community Banks and some microfinance institutions in the Western and Central...
COVID-19: Ghana records 7 omicron variants in community testing
Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, said the cases were detected after conducting a community-testing. The Service, initially, recorded 34 cases at the Kotoka International Airport. He said after the country recorded 34 cases of the new variant, the Service had sequenced about 66 community samples, which were all...
Understanding the Hehe Culture and A Community of Shared Future for Mankind in Taizhou, Zhejiang
Themed “Hehe Culture and A Community of Shared Future for Mankind”, the 2021 Hehe Culture Global Forum was held in Tiantai county, Taizhou city, Zhejiang Province on December 9. With this year’s forum focusing on Hehe culture and a community with a shared future for mankind, three sub-themes were set, including: upholding peace and...
Kojo Tsikata saved 4th Republic from another Rawlings-engineered coup plot – Nyaho-Tamakloe
But for the late Captain Kojo Tsikata, President Jerry John Rawlings would have succeeded in engineering another coup in the dying embers of his civilian presidency, ex-military officer Dr. Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe has revealed in an exclusive interview with Accra100.5FM’s morning show Ghana Yensom aired on Monday, 13 December 2021. Eulogizing the late National Security Advisor, who passed...
