The government has settled GH¢588 million of the GH¢2.4 billion indebtedness of the Volta River Authority (VRA) to local banks and its suppliers.This was after an initial deposit of GH¢250 million and two quarterly payments of GH¢169 million in the last quarter of 2016 and the first quarter of 2017.
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The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), in partnership with the Regional Coordinating Council (RCC), has put together a scheme to clear a number of drains in Accra of silt ahead of this year’s rainy season.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo last Saturday cleared any ambiguity over the government’s policy to roll out its free senior high school (SHS) policy, effective September this year, saying SHS education would be truly free.
Five Chinese and five Ghanaian illegal miners have been busted in an operation by the Western Regional Police Command around the Ankobra river in the Western Region during their mining for gold.
The ten illegal miners were spotted digging in the river Ankobra in two communities, Bamiankor and Duwale both in the western region.
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) in partnership with the Elections Committee of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) would on Tuesday, March 28, host candidates contesting the various positions in the Association at a public forum in Accra.
A statement issued by the MFWA and copied to the Ghana News Agency said the forum would feature a debate among candidates contesting the presidential slot.
Ghanaian-American novelist Yaa Gyasi is poised to make a huge splash in the literary world with her debut historical fiction novel Homegoing which has already earned her a $1-million advance from the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
The novel was inspired by a trip to Ghana in 2009, her first since leaving the country as an infant.
A three-city tourism training programme to help enhance the capabilities of various players in the nation’s tourism sector will be held from April 23 to April 29 in Kumasi, Ada and Cape Coast.
Members of the Afigya South Association who live abroad have started the construction of a modern outpatient department (OPD) for the Boamang Health Centre in the Afigya Kwabre District in the Ashanti Region.
The building, which is part of their contribution to better the life of people in the area, has two consulting rooms, a waiting area, a pharmacy, a store unit, an accounts office, a laboratory, detention, injection and dressing rooms.
A leader of the Delta Force group of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) which stormed the offices of the Ashanti Regional Security Coordinator in Kumasi, smashed windows and doors and threw him out of his office has been arrested.
Kwame Bamba who is 37years and a mechanic was arrested by the police on Saturday and has been detained to assist with investigations whilst there is an ongoing search for his accomplices.
During the attack on Friday a member of the Delta Force sustained a deep cut and bled profusely but was hurriedly carried away by other members of the group to an unknown location.
A quarter-century of impressive human development progress continues to leave many people behind, with systemic, often unmeasured, barriers to catching up. A stronger focus on those excluded and on actions to dismantle these barriers is urgently needed to ensure sustainable human development for all.
The Minister of the Interior, Mr Ambrose Dery, has assured the Presidency and Parliament that the security agencies are committed to employing effective measures to protect the security of the President and Members of Parliament (MPs).
A solar rooftop Programme by the Energy Commission is to be expanded to cover non-residential facilities including ministries, departments and agencies across the country.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has asked personnel of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) to upgrade their knowledge and enhance their professional competence to deal with national security challenges.
The Head of the Local Government Service (LGS), Dr Callistus Mahama, has called for the continuous operationalisation of the LGS policy framework to ensure improved and efficient service delivery at sub-national levels.
Two men are in the grip of the police for allegedly advertising vehicles on an online trading platform to defraud people. The two suspects who use the names Yaw Owusu or Emmanuel Osei, 28, and Isaac Akye or Hope Ahetoh,36, and a number of aliases, are said to have engaged in fraudulent sale of cars using tonaton.com, an online trading platform.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo yesterday joined the French Ambassador to Ghana, Mr Francois Pujolas, to lay the foundation stone for the construction of a new embassy building in Ghana with a pledge to protect investments by the French in the country.
The National Insurance Commission (NIC) has called for an amendment to the Insurance Act, 2006 (Act 724) to ensure that all government properties are insured.
More than 200 Ghanaians are reported to be stranded at the Costa Rican-Nicaraguan border post of Penas Blancas in their attempt to transit into the United States of America (USA).
Merona Foundation, a non-profit organisation (NGO) based in the United Kingdom (UK), has donated educational materials to the Royal Feed Home, an orphanage at Ofaakor, near Kasoa in the Central Region.
The items include books for beginners, learning materials, assorted pens and pencils, writing aids, clothes, shoes, bicycles and playing kits.
Some irate members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) who call themselves Delta Force on Friday stormed the offices of the Ashanti Regional Security Coordinator in Kumasi, smashed windows and doors and threw him out of his office.
During the attack, a member of the Delta Force sustained a deep cut and bled profusely but was hurriedly carried away by other members of the group to an unknown location.