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A former deputy Finance Minister, Cassiel Ato Forson, says the allocation of GHC1.576 billion by the government to the District Assembly Common Fund in the 2017 budget is in clear breach of Ghana’s constitution. He argued in a Facebook post Monday that the allocation falls short of the five per cent of the country’s total revenue, which Article 252 (2) requires the government to allocate under the District Assembly Common Fund. “Reconciling the allocations made to the District Assemblies Common Fund in the Appropriation Act and the requirement of Article 252(2), and the definition given to total government revenue in…

President Trump’s Executive Order on Climate Change will have far reaching impacts on many developing countries, especially in Africa, that are already bearing the brunt of the negative impacts of climate change. African Civil Society, under the umbrella of the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), says reversing the Obama climate plan is one of the greatest injustices and an onslaught on Mother Earth, especially in the fight against climate change. The Energy Independence Executive Order, signed by US President, Donald Trump on March 29, 2017, has been hailed by groups in the fossil fuels business, but condemned by environmental…

The committee led by lawyer Philip Addison that concluded that the Ameri deal was fraudulent and recommended a renegotiation, was apparently sponsored by Ameri Energy, the Minority in Parliament has disclosed. The committee as part of its investigation visited the Ameri Energy’s office in Dubai but the trip was ironically sponsored by the company it was supposed to investigate, that’s according former Power Minister Dr. Kwabena Donkor. At a press conference organized by the Minority in Parliament Monday, he challenged the committee to make public who paid for the trip to Dubai. “Members of the Addison Committee, including Mr. Addison…

Some small scale miners at Bonsa, a farming community in the Tarkwa –Nsuaem Municipality of the Western Region , are using their largesse to woo innocent primary schoolgirls into sexual relationships. The phenomenon has resulted in high teenage pregnancy in the area; something that has also given rise to school dropout among the schoolgirls. Authorities at the Bonsa No 2 MA Primary say about three girls of the school are impregnated every academic year, causing them to drop out. Chairman of the school’s Parent and Teachers Association, Steven Anderson, told Takoradi-based Connect FM that the situation has been of a…

Reliable information picked up by Onua News suggests that transport fares would go up by tomorrow, Tuesday, April 4. Credible sources withing the transport operators say they will today meet officials of the Ministry of Transport over the review of fares. The Ghana Private Road and Transport Union (GPRTU) and the Ghana Road Transport Coordinating Council (GRTCC) have all confirmed to Onua News that they will be meeting the Ministry at 2pm today to deliberate on the increment. New fares for both intra-city and intercity have all been decided, but they need the consent of the government through the Transport Ministry…

Short of four days, the NPP would clock three months in office. So in ten days, the Government would record its symbolic 100 days in office. So far, His Excellency has confirmed that he’s in a hurry indeed to deal with the herculean tasks on his plate. The haste with which the President has filled almost all the political offices with a team made up of a blend of old and fresh personalities prove that he was prepared for the political office which he had probably eyed and prayed about the greater part of his life. So far, everything seems…

The Member of Parliament for Tamale North, Mr Alhassan Suhuyini has explained his involvement in the circumstances that led to chaos in the chamber of Parliament last Thursday. According to him, his colleague lawmakers for Manhyia South, Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, and Ablekuma West, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, rained insults on him on the floor of parliament.He said while Dr Opoku Prempeh referred to him as a “mad” man, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful also hurled other insults at him at the same time. In a radio interview on Accra based Class FM Monday morning, he said: “I told him [Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh]…

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched the first-ever Ghana District Profile Series report in Accra. This report is part of USAID’s work to support evidence-based decision making, and to bridge the data and information gap at the sub-national level in the implementation of Ghana’s local government decentralization policy. The Ghana District Profile Series, arguably the most comprehensive report ever to be developed in Ghana, is designed to help stakeholders better understand the development progress and challenges being made in the districts where USAID works. The 486-page report, which covers all 59 districts in the three northern…

Although reheating a Chinese takeout when you’ve got a hangover is one of life’s great pleasures, leftover rice can actually be scarily bad for you, the UK’s National Health Service  says. Because if you didn’t already know, you can get a pretty grim case of food poisoning from eating reheated rice; it’s not the reheating that causes the problem, but instead the way the rice has been stored after being cooked the first time. So uncooked rice often contains spores (cells capable of reproducing quickly) of Bacillus cereus — a bacteria strand that can cause food poisoning — that can…

Although reheating a Chinese takeout when you’ve got a hangover is one of life’s great pleasures, leftover rice can actually be scarily bad for you, the UK’s National Health Service  says. Because if you didn’t already know, you can get a pretty grim case of food poisoning from eating reheated rice; it’s not the reheating that causes the problem, but instead the way the rice has been stored after being cooked the first time. So uncooked rice often contains spores (cells capable of reproducing quickly) of Bacillus cereus — a bacteria strand that can cause food poisoning — that can…