The government is targeting to plant some 10 million trees this year. The number represents a reduction in last year’s target of 20 million.
Launching this year’s Green Ghana Project, Lands and Natural Resources Minister, Samuel Abu Jinapor said several factors accounted for the government’s failure to meet last year’s target.
“On the maiden edition of the Green Ghana Day, we...
Despite a significant redemption reprofiling and a substantial reduction in interest rates, Ghana’s public debt-to-Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has decreased by only one percentage point to just above 100% of GDP, according to rating agency Fitch.
This assessment was made using the standard 5% discount rates that apply in the International Monetary Fund/World Bank debt sustainability framework for low-income countries.
Fitch...
The National Communications Authority (NCA) has announced that over 11 million unregistered SIM cards will be deactivated on May 31, 2023.
The 11 million SIMs include subscribers who were exempted from the current exercise. These include diplomats, refugees, and Ghanaians on official duties outside the country.
Others include subscribers who have registered some of their SIMs, people with Ghana Cards who...
An aspiring presidential candidate of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, has slammed persons claiming he is not worthy to be the presidential candidate of the party for the 2024 polls.
The vociferous Assin Central Member of Parliament said his critics say he is not “presidential material” because he does not speak impeccable English like some of...
The National Communications Authority (NCA) has justified why telecommunications giant, MTN Ghana’s data zone service was suspended.
According to NCA, MTN data zone bundle offered the lowest data price among its competitors thereby breaching the Significant Market Power (SMP) regulations.
Briefing journalists in Accra on Wednesday, Director General of NCA, Joe Anokye, said some market players raised concerns about MTN violating...
The Minority caucus is calling on Parliament to set up a bi-partisan investigative ad-hoc committee to look into Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng’s bombshell report on illegal mining in the country.
The group says the involvement of some key persons who are linked to the government in the document is making it difficult for the president to act on the report which...
Former President John Mahama has called for the resignation of the Health Minister after he openly admitted that the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has failed.
Kwaku Agyemang Manu says the Scheme is no longer working, admitting that he no longer uses the service and prefers to pay for his medical treatment.
According to him, treatment given to NHIS card holders...
Police inspector Ahmed Twumasi, who killed his girlfriend, Maadwoa, by shooting her multiple times, is suspected of having mental health issues.
The Executive Director of the African Center for Security and Counterterrorism, Emmanuel Mawanye Kotin, believes the severity of the police work was the reason for his uncontrollable action.
The expert stressed that many police officers do not seek therapy and...
The President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has laid to rest rumours about who the next Chief Justice of Ghana will be.
In a letter that has been sighted by GhanaWeb, and signed by the president, it has named Gertrude Torkonoo.
The president indicated that it is important that he begins the processes for the replacement of the outgoing CJ...
Former President John Dramani Mahama has questioned the thought that went into President Nana Akufo-Addo’s decision to demolish what was a fully-fledged La General Hospital serving the people of La and surrounding communities in the Greater Accra.
The hospital, which was upgraded from a Polyclinic into a General Hospital by President Mahama to expand and improve access to quality healthcare...
