It was a near brawl between the Majority and Minority members in Parliament on Thursday evening following the release of the report of the Joe Ghartey committee that investigated bribery allegation made against the chairman and some members of the Appointments Committee of Parliament.
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The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appointed Dr Ernest Kwamina Yedu Addison as Governor of the Bank of Ghana effective April 1, 2017.
He takes over from Dr Abdul-Nashiru Issahaku who announced his resignation on Wednesday.
A statement signed and issued on Thursday by the Director of Communications at the Flagstaff House, Mr Eugene Arhin, said the appointment was made in accordance with Article 183 (4) (a) of the Constitution subject to consultation with the Council of State.
The Joe Ghartey Committee, set up to investigate the recent bribery allegations in Parliament has recommended that the Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, Mr Mahama Ayariga should be sanctioned.
This was after the committee established a case of contempt against him.
Ghana lost an estimated GH¢43 million in 2014 as a result of fraudulent practices in the petroleum sector, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Mr Alhassan Tampuli, has disclosed.
According to him, the lost revenues, which were about 12 per cent of annual freight paid to the NPA, was largely due to the lack of a system to track the movement of heavy duty vehicles which transported petroleum products across the country.
The management of the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital has issued a 21-day ultimatum to encroachers on the hospital’s lands to vacate.
In line with that, officials of the hospital, acting on the advice of the Attorney-General’s office in the Central Region, with protection from armed policemen, last Tuesday posted notices on the encroached lands asking those concerned to vacate.
Ghana is to establish a national cyber security council to tackle the increasing rate of cyber crime in the country. The initiative is part of the government’s effort to build a comprehensive cyber security governance arrangement involving all key public and private sector stakeholders.
The Management of the National Service Scheme (NSS) says the government has approved an upward adjustment of national service personnel allowances from GH¢350.00 to GH¢559.04 monthly with effect from 1st April, 2017.
The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MoTI) has identified more than 100 commercially viable businesses profiled to kick-start the One District, One Factory (ODOF) policy of the government.
The Minister of Monitoring and Evaluation, Dr Anthony Akoto Osei has said that the Bank of Ghana Governor’s resignation was expected.
To him, Dr Abdul-Nashiru Issahaku’s resignation after only 12 months in office and following the change in government was not surprising since he shares a different ideology from that of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP).
An environmentalist, Mr Emmanuel Ocran, has urged the government and environmental agencies in the country to urgently come up with strategies aimed at restoring damaged rivers and other water sources in the country.
According to him, this has become necessary in order that the country is taken out of the ‘water stress’ it is currently experiencing.
The neglect of mental health and related issues has made it difficult to get data on mental health, including suicide, the Director of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital, Dr Pinaman Appau, has indicated.
She said the situation had also led to inadequate mental health personnel, lack of funding and the non-passage of a legislative instrument to back the Mental Health Act, Act 846, which was passed in 2012.
The Danish government will, this year, come up with a number of programmes to help Ghana improve its decentralisation process.
According to the Danish Ambassador to Ghana, Ms Tove Degnbol, the programmes will be in partnership with the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development.
The Minister of State-designate in charge of Tertiary Education, Professor Kwesi Yankah, has defended the four-year Senior High School (SHS) curriculum, saying students who went through that system performed better than their counterparts who went through the three-year course.
He, however, proposed a window to be opened for well-endowed schools that could complete the three-year system with the hope of posting good performance without restrictions.
Prof. Yankah shared his views on the matter when he appeared before the Appointments Committee of Parliament last Monday.
The Rotary Club of Accra-Labone has presented 30 wheelchairs to the 37 Military Hospital in Accra as part of the club's Wheels for Hope project.
The project aims to donate over 100 wheelchairs to health facilities across the country.
The Chinese government says it fully supports Ghana’s efforts to deal with Chinese nationals who breach the laws of the country in their quest to pursue benefits through illegal mining.
It, therefore, called for stronger collaboration with Ghana in its determination to fight the menace of illegal mining involving Chinese in the country.
‘India Business Day’ seminar has been held in Accra with a call for the two countries to deepen their economic cooperation and collaboration for mutual benefits.
The business interaction event which was organised by the World Trade Centre, Accra and brought together high-profile business executives from both countries was on the theme: ‘Promoting India-Ghana Business Relations through Trade and Investment’. It was aimed at showcasing the various programmes and initiatives of the government of India for the benefit of the private sector in Ghana.
The Indian High Commissioner to Ghana, Mr Birender Singh, explained that the partnership with the country would not only deepen the friendly relations between the two countries but would also deepen economic co-operation and collaboration.
The President of the Presbyterian University College, Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Adow Obeng, has challenged universities to have a balance between what he called ‘academic and professional degrees’.
He observed that most professional degrees in science, technology, health and business normally had a positive influence on the socio-economic development of the nation.
The Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Prof. Kwasi Obiri-Danso, has urged the government to invest more in research to build credible data to accelerate the country’s development.
‘No country can develop without credible data,’ he told funders, academics, researchers, educators and policy makers in Kumasi last Tuesday at the second ‘Building Stronger Universities (BSU)’ project under a bi-partnership between KNUST and the University of Copenhagen-led consortium.
The Vice-President, Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has stated that a number of key national institutions are currently working together to deal with the menace of illegal mining (galamsey). “The whole country will soon see a massive change in this direction,” he assured the nation.
A former British Prime Minister (PM), Mr Tony Blair, has urged Ghana to take advantage of the tremendous goodwill it is currently enjoying globally to spur accelerated growth and development.