Ivor Leads CPP, Samia Cries Foul

Former General Secretary of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Ivor Kobina Greenstreet, pulled a major surprise over the weekend when he beat three others, including favourite Samia Yaaba Nkrumah, to become the party’s flagbearer for the 2016 general election. He has been elevated from the General Secretary position to presidential candidate. With his election, he...

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CPP Picks Leader

The Convention People’s Party (CPP) goes to polls today to elect a flagbearer to lead the Nkrumahist party to the 2016 general election scheduled for November 7. The National Delegates’ Congress, which is scheduled to take place at the Trade Fair Site in La, Accra, would see 2,600 delegates from all 275 constituencies across the country in attendance. Four...

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Sachet Water Price Goes Up

Price of sachet water is expected to go up from GH20p to GH30p starting from February 1. Consumers would pay GH¢5 per bag of sachet drinking water, which was currently being sold on the market at GH¢3. According to the National Association of Sachet and Packaged Water Producers (NASPWP), the increment was as a result of the outrageous tariff increases by the...

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CPP Blasts Gov’t Over IMF Bailout

The CPP presidential aspirants in a debate at TV Africa Presidential aspirants of the Convention Peoples Party (CPP) have condemned the Mahama-led government for engaging the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with the aim of trying to revive the ailing economy. The three-year IMF bail-out is expected to come with stringent conditions such as job cuts in the public service...

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Demonstrators Blast ECG Over Unusual Charges

Contrary to the approved 59.2 percent increase in electricity tariff by the Public Utilities and Regulatory Commission (PURC), consumers have been slapped with a 75 percent increase. This is due to a directive by the PURC to Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to charge additional costs. A group calling itself Pre-paid Demonstrators has threatened to hit the...

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Scrap Fortnight Fuel Price Adjustment – ACEP

Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam, Executive Director of African Center for Energy Policy (ACEP), says with the implementation of the deregulated policy, the fortnight adjustment of prices of petroleum products is no longer necessary. Speaking to Nii Ogbamey Tetteh in an interview, the ACEP boss stated that with abolition of the fortnight...

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Fuel Prices Must Go Down – Economist

Leslie Dwight Mensah, an economist at the Institute of Fiscal Service (IFS), says government should reduce the prices of petroleum products if the current decline in the price of crude oil on the international market persists for a week or two. The price of crude oil on the international market dropped to $25 per barrel yesterday but consumers in Ghana are paying...

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Private Universities Fight For Equal Opportunities

Richard Odame Private Universities Students’ Association of Ghana (PUSAG) has decried President Mahama’s directive to the Ministry of Health to consider graduate nurses from public institutions before their counterparts from the private institutions. According to the leadership of PUSAG, government’s decision to employ graduate nurses only from the public institution...

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‘Al-Qaeda Detainees Debate Is Security Issue’

Nana Yaw Osei-Darkwa Nana Yaw Osei-Darkwa, founding president of Youth Icons Ghana and a non-violence activist, says the ongoing debate over the two Guantanamo Bay detainees who are being held in Ghana should be limited strictly to security and not religion. According to him, the religious twist to the debate by various stakeholders and political commentators...

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Autoimmune Disease Rises

(from right) Dr. Dey presenting the items to a representative of the New life orphanage Dr Dzifa Dey, a Physician Specialist & Rheumatologist and Lecturer at the School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Ghana Medical School, says five out of every Ghanaian get diagnosed with Autoimmune Disease (AD)  on weekly basis. According to her, the condition which...

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Vodafone Foresees Boost In Mobile Money

Haris Broumidis Haris Broumidis, Chief Executive of Vodafone Ghana, has predicted a growth in revenue driven by money transfer and payments using a handset and Machine-2-Machine (M2M) services to take the telecommunication industry to the next level across the country this year. According to Mr Broumidis, 2016 would open doors and avenues for further consolidation...

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Consumers To Pay GH¢4bn Power Debt

From left: Dr Ishmael Ackah, Mohammed Amin Adam and Benjamin Boakye Consumers who would be paying an amount of GH¢1 billion annually in three to four years to settle debts accumulated over the years in the country’s power sector. Mohammed Amin Adam, Executive Director of ACEP, who disclosed this recently at a press conference in Accra, said “Apart from paying high...

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Fire Outbreaks Reduce In Accra

DOII Timothy Osafo-Affum The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) says there was a reduction in fire outbreaks in the first two weeks of January 2016 compared to the same period last year. According to DOII Timothy Osafo-Affum, acting Public Relations Officer for GNFS, the reduction was as a result of on-going fire safety campaigns across the country. DOII...

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Wee Smokers Raze Down Achimota Forest

Uncontrollable fire on Friday swept through a large portion of the Achimota Forest, destroying a major part of the reserve. When Nii Ogbamey Tetteh visited the scene, major parts of the forest had been razed down with smoke still emanating from some tree stumps. A vast area of the forest close to the Abelemkpe roundabout, towards the Greater Accra...

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Gov’t Rakes GH¢3.2bn From Petroleum Levies

(from left) Dr Ishmael Ackah, Mr Adam and Benjamin Boakye The African Center for Energy Policy (ACEP) has accused government of overburdening Ghanaians by imposing many taxes on petroleum products. According to Mohammed Amin Adam, Executive Director of ACEP, the imposition of the 17.5 percent Special Petroleum Tax (SPT) on some selected petroleum products amounts...

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NDC Chases Bawumia

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has called for the arrest of Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, vice presidential candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), for his recent exposé about the credibility of the voter register. Speaking to the media yesterday at the NDC headquarters in Accra, the party’s General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, rubbished Dr Bawumia’s...

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Ohemaa Mercy, Others rocks Alabaster Praise Concert

Ohemaa Mercy hugging a patron at the event Ohemaa Mercy and a host of other Ghanaian gospel musicians on Christmas day thrilled worshippers to live ministrations at the seventh edition of Alabaster Praise Concert at the Assemblies of God (AG) Tema New Town branch. The annual concert, organized by Divine Instruments (DI) of New Life Assemblies of God, is aimed at providing...

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Review: Nkontompo: Obrafour is a Tired Old Man

Obrafour Obrafour is mournful on this Nature produced number. He has always been the one to hold his head and lament, but this song is the saddest I've ever felt him. Why is it even possible, how is it even allowed, that as a man approaches the age of legacy, he's this broken? But Obrafour, who has nothing else to prove to us musically, still harbours such intense...

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Kasapreko Turns To Solar Energy

Dr Adjei addressing the students during the tour Richard Adjei, Chief Executive of Kasapreko Company Limited, says owing to the power crisis in the country, his outfit would switch to solar energy by the end of the year to run its facility effectively. According to him, the switch to solar power is expected to cost the company about $ 5 million and it would provide...

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‘Local Rugby Improving’

General Secretary of the Ghana Rugby Football Union, Abdul Azziz, has expressed satisfaction over the level of player participation and spectatorship in the local rugby league. According to him, there was high level of skills development on the part of players, which was helping to improve the standard of the game to attract more viewers. “Gradually, we are...

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