GENERAL NEWS

Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, has pledged to revive the Free-trade Agreement among Commonwealth countries if elected as the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth Secretariat. She said a successful free-trade agreement among member states would enhance integration and participation in global and regional supply …

In a bid to defuse mounting tension, the Ministry of Finance has issued an appeal to organised labour and key stakeholders – including the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) and Northern Electricity Distribution Company (NEDCo) – to exercise restraint and engage in constructive dialogue concerning the contentious value added tax …

Dr. Joseph Obeng, president of the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA), has stated that most Ghanaian workers are thieves. Addressing an audience at the National Economic Summit held at Movenpick Accra, he claimed that a significant number of Ghanaian workers are engaging in dishonest practices, attributing this behavior to …

A bus conveying a group of students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has reportedly crashed today, Saturday, February 3, 2024. According to Voice of Knust, a social media news outlet of the university, the students involved in the accidents are final-year students of the Department …

The Executive Director of the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), –the local chapter of Transparency International (TI), –Mary Awelana Addah, has said that Ghana needs a Public Officers Conduct Bill that criminalizes conflict of interests and deals with the issue of unexplained wealth. She stated that it is worrying to observe …

Private legal practitioner, Martin Kpebu, has told President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to drop all his relatives that he appointed as ministers if he wants to win the fight against corruption. Kpebu recounted that President Akufo-Addo, when he was a presidential candidate in opposition, indicated that nepotism and cronyism were …

Lawyer Martin Kpebu Private legal practitioner, Martin Kpebu, has said that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo lost the fight against corruption when he appointed his relatives as ministers of state. To him, Mr Akufo-Addo’s assurance to fight corruption when he was in opposition was mere rhetoric. Speaking on the Key …

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth increased by more than $29 billion between your morning coffee and your lunch break. Mr Zuckerberg who is already worth more than $140 billion, according to Bloomberg’s billionaire index, has cleaned up from Meta’s share price skyrocketing over the past day, after …

Member of Parliament for Asante Akim North, Kwame Andy Appiah-Kubi has opposed the trend where President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is blamed for acts of corruption by other officers who are not even close to the presidency. Mr Appia-Kubi, also a private legal practitioner who has been reelected to represent …

  South Dayi lawmaker Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor says that former President John Dramani Mahama demonstrated political will and fought corruption far better than President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is doing currently. He says that Mr Mahama even prosecuted persons close to his administration for perceived corruption but the same cannot be …