Author: Krobea

Leading global information and communications provider Huawei Technologies has presented five laptops and 40 pieces of 10-inch tablets to the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA). The items worth about GH¢100,000 is to support the AMA to implement its goal of making Accra a smart city. Receiving the items on behalf of the Assembly on Friday, the Chief Executive Officer of AMA, Mohammed Adjei Sowah, thanked Huawei for the donation and promised that  the items would be put to good use. He said the AMA is working towards ensuring a smart Accra and was hopeful that the gesture would go a long…

On Monday, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in partnership with the Ministry of Health, the Ghana Health Service, and Korea International Development Agency (KOICA) commissioned four Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) compounds in the Volta Region. Chiefs, assembly members and community members joined USAID/Ghana Mission Director Sharon L. Cromer, USAID/Ghana Health Office Director Akua Kwateng-Addo, Ketu South Municipal District Chief Executive, the Honorable Edem Elliot Agbenorwu, Ghana Health Service Director of Policy, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Division Dr. Koku Awoonor-Williams, Volta Regional Health Directorate Deputy Director, Administration Edward Kaba, KOICA Deputy Country Director Seungmin Oh and USAID Systems for…

“Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” – Lord Acton The political corruption in Ghana has been a major encumbrance declines in our central part of democratic mechanisms that has lead to economic meltdown and government failure since the era of Dr Kwame Nkrumah. Ghana has over the years witness a lot of tragic events since independent but efforts to establish a just and efficient administration have been frustrated by political corruption. Most recently during the 2016 electioneering period under the led Umbrella flag barrier,  NPP orchestrated allegations against most if not all ministries having involve in fraudulent cases and corruption.…

The Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST) has served notice it will take “necessary steps to protect its corporate image” if some media firms do not desist from publishing “untruths” about it. According to them, the practice is “becoming rampant”. BOST in a statement on Thursday mentioned The Herald, The Informer, The Daily Post, The Ghana Palaver and The Republic as the newspapers to have published the “defamatory” publications. According to the statement, the first three newspapers mentioned above published the articles in their December 20 editions while The Ghana Palaver and The Republic published on Tuesday, December…

The Ministry of Roads and Highways has reopened the Buipe and Yapei bridges in the Northern Region to vehicular traffic. The two bridges were closed down to motorists last month for repair works. This resulted in congestion at the Yeji ferry station as most commuters resorted to travelling across the Volta Lake by ferries. The inadequacy of ferries led to most passengers getting stranded at the ferry station. This led to widespread criticism of the Ministry of Roads and Highways as well as the Ghana Highway Authority, especially for the timing of the repair works. Parliament even summoned the sector…

The Trades Union Congress of Ghana (TUC) is accusing Gold Fields Ghana Limited of demonstrating bad faith in breaching the development agreement it signed with government in 2016. The TUC said despite getting the huge fiscal incentives from the March 11, 2016 agreement, Gold Fields is adducing arguments to “justify what is basically an unjustifiable action”. The gold-mining company had served notice of laying off about 1,500 of its employees due to a new business model it wants to run. According to reports, it intends to run a contract mining model at its Tarkwa and Damang mines. The decision was…

Minister of Trades and Industry Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen has shot down claims that monies were extorted from expatriate business executives during a recently held Ghana Expatriates Business Awards (GEBA). He said most of the business executives who were seated on the Presidential High Table for the event “already have direct access to the President and do not need to pay monies to interact with him”. There has been widespread controversy over a certain demand for the payment of monies between $25,000 and $100,000 for expatriate business executives to sit near President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo at the event. It is…

The Ghana Health Service has started vaccinating students and staff of Kumasi Academy Senior High School to prevent the spread of the H1N1 virus. The Service has also hinted of tracing absentee students to their various homes to vaccinate them. Over 2,000 students of KUMACA have so far received their vaccination since the beginning of the exercise on Thursday. Some parents and media personnel were also part of the exercise due to their frequent visits to the school. Ashanti Region Deputy Director of Public Health Dr Yeboah Awudzi says the students have turned out in their numbers to be vaccinated…

The Center for Democratic Development (CDD) is advising the three commissioners of the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) to take a decision in their best interest as their impeachment proceeding begins. The piece of advice comes on the back of fears that the commission is likely to be distracted, following the setting up of a committee to investigate allegations of corruption against the three main commissioners as part of the impeachment process. The Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, has set up a five-member committee to probe the claims against Chair Charlotte Osei, Dr Ahmadu Sulley and Georgina Opoku Amankwa. But Head of…