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ECG Pays Meter Reading Staff Paltry GH₵1,000 As Salary

March 23, 2023

Details are emerging that officers employed by the state-owned Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) for the reading of its postpaid meters across the country are not paid well, as many receive a paltryGH₵1,000 as salaries for years without any increments. Interestingly, they are also not entitled to any allowances, like transport, medical bills and provident […]Continue Reading

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Wasteful ECG Embarks On Wild Goose Chase

March 21, 2023

The Managing Director (MD) of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Samuel Dubik Masubir Mahama, has shockingly disclosed that the company has only 800 officials reading over 2.5 million postpaid meters, covering all the regions it supplies power to. Even though the number has been viewed as woefully inadequate and unacceptable, the MD, who was […]Continue Reading

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GH¢75,000 Hajj Fare Inflated

March 16, 2023

A former Ghana Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, under the erstwhile John Dramani Mahama administration, Alhaji Said Sinare, is alleging that the cost of transporting Ghanaian pilgrims to Mecca this year has been inflated, as compared to the actual figures. He explained that, based on airlines charges, accommodation and transport charges, among others, […]Continue Reading

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More Doctors Quitting Consulting Rooms For Parliament

March 15, 2023

At a time Africa, and for that matter Ghana, is working to stop most of its professionals from leaving for greener pastures abroad, others who chose to stay are abandoning their professions for politics. One of such professions is medicine, where doctors are speedily disappearing from the consulting rooms in droves for mainstream politics. But […]Continue Reading

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Alan Cash Boycotts Akufo-Addo’s SoNA For Campaign

March 9, 2023

Resigned Trade and Industry minister, Alan John Kwadwo Kyeremanten, was conspicuously missing from the State of the Nation Address (SoNA), presented by the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, in Parliament yesterday. The absence of the revered governing party stalwart at yesterday’s event, organized by a government he recently served, is raising several questions about Continue Reading

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Ahwois Pick Running Mate For Mahama

March 8, 2023

Even before former President John Dramani Mahama launches his campaign to lead the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2024 general elections, a vice presidential candidate is subtly being imposed on him. A very powerful bloc within the opposition party is demanding that Mr. Mahama repeats his 2020 Veep candidate, Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, for […]Continue Reading

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Hunger Bites Ghanaian Medical Students In Cuba

February 28, 2023

Ghanaian medical students in Cuba on government scholarship are apparently being forced to enter into amorous relationships just to survive the difficult situation they find themselves in. It is emerging that both male and female students who are at their wits end appear to be offering sex, just so they can be supported by their […]Continue Reading

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You Can’t Stop Akonta, But Spare Okoben Mining

February 27, 2023

There is growing tension among residents, particularly the youth, in the Gwira traditional area of the Western Region over the seeming failure on the part of the authorities to halt alleged illegal mining by Okoben Mining Ltd, a local small-scale mining company operating in the area. According to the youth, they are disappointed that after […]Continue Reading

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Fight Against Irresponsible Mining Yielding Results

February 27, 2023

The relentless national campaign against illegal mining, otherwise called “galamsey,” is yielding some positive results, as the quality of some water bodies along certain mining communities is beginning to improve. The Anchor has observed that, some areas of the Ankobra River, which was heavily polluted some months ago as a result of the activities of […]Continue Reading

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Mahama Picks Forms For ‘Round 3’

February 27, 2023

Former President John Dramani Mahama has picked nomination forms to contest in the flagbearer race of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), slated for May, this year. It is the third time in a row, Mr. Mahama, 64, will be seeking to lead the party in a general election, after he tried it the first […]Continue Reading