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The government’s programme of subsidizing electricity consumption for the next three months is estimated to cost 60 million Ghana cedis, Deputy Minister for Energy, William Owuraku Aidoo has disclosed. President Akufo-Addo in April this year announced the reduction of electricity tariffs by half and provision of potable water for free to all Ghanaians for the months of April, May and ...

Government is making arrangements for more Ghanaians stranded abroad as a result of the coronavirus pandemic to return home. So far, a total of 2,250 have been aided back home safely. The evacuees would go through the mandated 14-day quarantine before being allowed to go to their individual homes. Presenting the mid-year budget review on Thursday, July 23, Minister of ...

In view of the up coming Eidul-Adha 2020 festivity and the challenge of the covid-19 pandemic, a consultative meeting of representatives of the various Islamic denominational groupings was held at the behest of the Eminent National Chief Imam Sheikh Dr. Usmanu Nuhu Sharubutu. The groups that were represented include, the Ahmadiyya, the Shia, the Tijaniyyah and the Ahlu Sunna Muslim ...

Ghanaians will enjoy another three months of free water and electricity supply as government further reduces the burden of the Covid-19 pandemic on the citizenry. The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta who announced this during his Mid-year Budget review said it is because government puts the concerns and aspirations of the ordinary Ghanaian first. “That is also why we further reduced ...

The management of the National Service Scheme (NSS) is calling on Ghanaians to desist from paying monies to fraudsters. According to the National Service Scheme, some persons posing as agents of the scheme on various social media platforms, extorting money from prospective national service personnel with the view of assisting them to be posted to their preferred institution. According to ...

Immigration officials in Ghana have confirmed the arrest of 28 Burkinabe nationals in the Upper West Region for attempting to sneak into the country illegally. The ECOWAS nationals were arrested on Wednesday at about 9am at the Hamile District Assembly Barrier in the Upper West Region. The irregular migrants comprising 19 males and nine females were on board a passenger Benz bus with registration ...

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has petitioned the National Media Commission (NMC) to resist any attempt by government to reduce the channels of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) on the Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) platform. In the petition copied to Myjoyonline.com, the Foundation questioned the legitimacy of government in making the demand, noting that the directive undermines the constitutional ...

Deputy Attorney General Godfred Dame has said a birth certificate rather gives a record of birth and not a proof of Ghanaian citizenship. His comment follows the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision ruling out birth certificate as a form of identification. “A birth certificate is not a form of identification. It does not establish the identity of the bearer. Nor does ...

Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has commissioned the Right to Information (RTI) Secretariat. The Secretariat commissioned on Friday, July 17, 2020, seeks to provide support to the designated RTI Officers and Assistant RTI Officers at the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) in the public sector to fully operationalise the RTI Act. The RTI Secretariat is a Division of the Information ...

Ghana and Mexico, Wednesday, held their second consultation under the Bilateral Political Consultations Mechanism towards building a stronger bond. Mr Charles Owiredu, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration co-chaired the meeting with Mr Julian Ventura, his Mexican counterpart. They discussed regional and global issues of common interest and reiterated the commitment of their respective governments to multilateralism ...