Pupils of the Ancilla Basic School at Haatso in Accra have presented a cash donation and assorted items to the inmates of the Weija Leprosarium in Accra. The cash donation, which amounted to Gh¢8,000 and packs of second-hand clothes and shoes was motivated by the school’s corporate social responsibilities. Assistant Headmistress of the school, Rev. […]Continue Reading
The government of Ghana has awarded a contract for the Dome-Kitase road rehabilitation project in the Greater Accra Region to the First Sky Group. The $1.65 million project, which will cover 23 kilometers, will start from the Dome Roundabout in the Greater Accra Region and end at Kitase, near Peduase in the Eastern Region. The […]Continue Reading
The Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) has led a taskforce to demolish illegal structures sited under some of its high tension lines in the Ayawaso West Wuogon municipality. The move, according to GRIDCo, forms part of efforts to reduce the growing human activities around its poles.The power generation company also explained that the site is not […]Continue Reading
The Public Services Workers Union (PSWU) has sent a prior notice to the government ahead of their meeting to come with a mandate not an appeal to resolve the agitation for 20% Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) by organized labour. In an interview with Alfred Ocansey on 3FM Sunrise Morning Show, the General Secretary of […]Continue Reading
Members of the Public Service Workers Union (PSWU) of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) have declared strike starting Tuesday July 19. They cite the rising rate of inflation in the country and other factors as the reason behind their decision. A press statement announcing the decision on Tuesday July 12 said “This situation is further […]Continue Reading
The decision by the Government of Ghana to seek an International Monetary Fund (IMF) intervention is apt, former Chief Executive Officer of Stanbic Bank Ghana, Dr. Alhassan Andani, has said. He explained that in every economic establishment, one will get to a point where expenditure exceeds the income generation. Therefore, there will be the need […]Continue Reading
Workers of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) are up in arms over the refusal of a private company to allow them collect 20 percent revenues. Workers are clad in red and are demanding a rescission of the decision by management. Labour to meet gov’t today over COLA demand The Forum for Public Sector […]Continue Reading
Sir Mo Farah was brought to the UK illegally as a child and forced to work as a domestic servant, he has revealed. The Olympic star has told the BBC he was given the name Mohamed Farah by those who flew him over from Djibouti. His real name is Hussein Abdi Kahin. He was flown […]Continue Reading
The General Secretary of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), Dr Titus Beyuo, says it is out of place for any government official to say workers are being insensitive with their demand for a cost of living allowance (COLA) in the face of the current economic conditions, which has forced a move to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He insists […]Continue Reading
A leading candidate for national chairmanship position of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Stephen Asamoah Boateng, is initiating a policy that will see payment of monthly stipend for all regional and constituency executives of the party. Mr. Boateng, affectionately called ‘Asabee’ noted the executives were doing selfless jobs and the time had come for […]Continue Reading