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Ghana may revise 2016 budget
Add a CommentThere is a “real possibility” that Ghana may have to revise its 2016 budget due to lower-than-expected global oil prices. Finance Minister Seth Terkper gave the hint at a news conference in Accra yesterday. Ghana produces about 100,000 barrels of … Read more →
We’re breaking away from Ghana – Volta Region Group
Add a CommentA group known as the Homeland Study Group Foundation based in Ho is demanding the secession of the Volta Region and parts of the Northern and Upper East Regions from Ghana to become the Western Togoland state as soon as … Read more →
Nana Oye Lithur in New York – Ghana has reduced poverty
Add a CommentGhana’s Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Nana Oye Lithur has announced that the poverty level in the country has been reduced from 51.7 per cent to 24.4 per cent as a result of a number of social protection measures … Read more →
Ghana lacks brave leaders in Gov’t – Ace Ankomah
Add a CommentA member of pressure group Occupy Ghana, Ace Ankomah has lamented government’s weak-willed efforts in retrieving almost GH?200m wrongfully paid to private companies. Ace Ankomah is shocked that despite Ghana’s ‘beautiful laws’ regulating the management of the public purse, there … Read more →
Standard of education in Ghana worrying – UK-based Ghanaian Educationist
Add a CommentA United Kingdom (UK)-based Ghanaian Educationist, Prince Armah has bemoaned the country’s delay in implementing the espoused reform agenda contained in the Education Act, (Act 778) since its passage in 2008. He asserted that there was widespread concern about the … Read more →
Gitmo detainees: 17 of them are in Ghana not 2 – Opoku Prempeh
Add a CommentThe Member of Parliament for Manhyia South Constituency, Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh has revealed to TOP news that 17 of the infamous Guantanamo Bay prison inmates are currently in Ghana, contrary to claims by President John Dramani Mahama and government … Read more →
Ghana ill-equipped to handle detainees – US Senators
Add a CommentFour Republican senators are calling for cutting foreign aid to Ghana if two former Guantanamo Bay prisoners who were transferred to the African nation escape or return to terrorism. According to Fox News, the move marks a renewed effort by … Read more →
Ghana improves in 2015 corruption perception index
Add a CommentGhana has improved slightly in the fight against corruption in the sub-region in the latest Corruption Perception Index (CPI) by anti-graft agency Transparency International. Ghana is now ranked the 7th African country with high level of corruption in the latest … Read more →
Syrian refugees ‘unhappy’ with Gitmo detainees in Ghana
Add a CommentThe Head of the Syrian community seeking refuge in Ghana, Abdul-Ghani Badenjki, has told Citi News he is unhappy about Ghana’s decision to accommodate the two Yemeni nationals released by the United States from the Guantanamo Bay Detention Centre. There … Read more →
Meningitis kills 32 in Ghana
Add a CommentThe outbreak of a variant of meningitis in parts of the country is causing public health concern among the people. The people in communities where there have been reported cases are particularly alarmed because the disease over the last three … Read more →
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