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The Governing Board of the National Identification Authority (NIA) has rejected the petition by the Public Services Workers Union, Trades Union Congress (TUC), demanding the removal of Executive Secretary Professor Kenneth Attafuah. On July 1, nearly a thousand NIA staff members sent a petition to the President to demand the …

Former General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Ohene Ntow, has criticised the Legislative Instrument (L.I) seeking to regulate cement prices. The Special Advisor to independent presidential aspirant, Alan Kyerematen has said the L.I is a knee-jerk approach because it fails to tackle the underlying structural issues. Acknowledging …

Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has called on Parliament to expedite its probe into the spillage of the Akosombo and Kpong dams, which resulted in an estimated 30,000 people being displaced last year. Despite the urgency of the matter, Parliament has yet to establish the committee …

Senior Presidential Advisor Yaw Osafo-Maafo has raised concerns about Ghana’s education system, noting that it does not solve the nation’s problems. Mr Osafo-Maafo stated that, education must solve the problems of a nation but that seems not to be the case for Ghana He was speaking at the International Educators …

Physician, author, and politician, Dr Arthur Kobina Kennedy has voiced his opposition to the Chief Justice’s request for President Akufo-Addo to nominate five new justices to the Supreme Court. Dr Kennedy believes that the timing is particularly problematic, as the country is just five months away from a general election. …

Out of the 16,016 people living with HIV (PLHIV) in the Volta Region, 65.52 per cent are women, while young people (15–24), accounted for 27.5 per cent of new infections last year. The figure includes 230 adult males, 468 adult females, 214 young people, and 80 children in the 0–14 …

The Okyenhene, Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin has called on the government to move certain ministries to various regions to ensure equitable development in the country. He argued that individuals living in other regions are forced to migrate to the country’s capital, Accra, because there are no jobs as most state …

Chief Justice, Gertrude Sackey Torkornoo has urged female leaders to transform workplaces to better accommodate the varying needs of both genders. She emphasised that robust resilience measures should be devised to enable the presence of women in the legal profession and the judicial system to ensure that they give their …

Former President John Dramani Mahama and flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Dramani Mahama has said he is also hoping for a positive outcome for NDC in this year’e elections to continue the party’s relations with Labour Party in the United Kigndom. Mr Mahama said this while congratulating …

A senior member of the Movement for Change, Hopeson Adorye, has made a bold prediction regarding the fate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the upcoming general elections. Adorye believes that widespread dissatisfaction with Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, popularly known as NAPO, will lead to the party’s defeat and …