Government has completely removed the Free Senior High School (SHS) programme from the list of projects and policies financed directly from the oil cash-funded Annual Budget Funding Amount (ABFA), a recent list of projects to be financed by the ABFA released by the Ministry of Finance has shown. The Annual Budget Funding Account (ABFA)...
Akufo-Addo posted on Twitter that he will sign the RTI into law Tuesday morning.
Key Facts
The President
of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo has announced via Twitter he is signing into
law a bill guaranteeing the right to information on Tuesday, May 21,
2019Right to Information bill was finally passed by Parliament after 17 years of relentless campaigns by local rights groups
Even...
The Accra Regional Police Command has mounted a search for the person who was seen in a viral video handing over a pistol to the dancehall artiste, Livingstone Etse Satekla, known in showbiz circles as Stonebwoy, during the disturbances at the 2019 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMA) at the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC)...
The governing New Patriotic Party, (NPP) will not rule beyond the year 2020, if a stern warning issued by Prophet Ebenezer Adarkwa Yiadom, alias Prophet 1 is overlooked, MyNewsGh.com reports. In a televised sermon monitored by MyNewsGh.com, the founder and leader of the Ebenezer Miracle and Worship Centre said the NPP is losing power ...
Under-fire Black Stars coach, James Kwasi Appiah, has been summoned to an emergency meeting at the Jubilee House over the sudden resignation of the captain of the senior national team, Asamoah Gyan, on Monday afternoon. Gyan stirred controversy by announcing his unceremonious retirement from the Black Stars via Twitter on Monday at a time Ghanaians were eagerly waiting for...
Former President Jerry John Rawlings has swiftly responded to a ‘sharp-teethed’ attack from former Deputy Information Minister Felix Ofosu Kwakye, describing him as a ‘little greedy neck.’ The ex-President, who coined the phrase ‘babies with sharp teeth,’ was prompted into action after the former deputy minister under the previous Mahama administration told him to...
The Akufo-Addo government has wondered why former President John Mahama keeps “bastardising” the Jean Mensa-led Electoral Commission with aspersions that cast doubt on the credibility and neutrality of the election management body since it got a new boss. Responding to the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) flag bearer’s demand for explanations about...
Former President John Mahama has given his assessment of the country’s security situation, describing it as poor.
“My
assessment will be based on how Ghanaians feel and in my conversations
with ordinary Ghanaians, they feel more insecure today than they did in
the past.
“There
seems to be a spate of robberies, there are issues that didn’t exist
before like kidnapping...
Ghana captain Asamoah Gyan has announced his retirement from the Black Stars with immediate effect. In a statement, the striker said he will also not be available for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations tournament in Egypt. “Upon consultation with my family and team, and as an active footballer and captain of the National team, if the...
Police hope that newly released surveillance video will lead to an arrest in a Southwest Philadelphia homicide case. The crime happened around 11 p.m. on Thursday, April 18 in the 7700 block of Lindbergh Boulevard. The video starts out showing three women inside the victim's apartment, gathered around a table eating. Police believe they're all in...
