Новости за 10.12.2019

A Supreme Court judge-nominee, Gertrude Torkornoo says the judiciary has more work to do to purge itself of corruption tag. While 57 percent of Ghanaians interviewed in a recent report alleged that the police is the most corrupt institution in Ghana, 40 percent pointed to judges and magistrates as the second most corrupt. Members of Parliament (MPs) followed the list with 36 percent. The report further indicated that, even though the government has always insisted it 39;s lea ...

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has announced plans to rent new offices to cater to for its large taxpayers by Monday to serve as alternative offices for clients. This new arrangement follows the fire that gutted its large taxpayer office at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra on Sunday, December 1. The acting Commissioner General of the Authority, Amishadai Owusu Amoah at a press meeting today noted that the Authority is resorting to this measure whilst working with ...

The Health Services Workers Union in the Western North and Western Regions have vowed to join their leadership on an industrial action soon if government reneges on its obligation to address their salary distortions and discrimination against clinicians and non-clinicians amongst other concerns. According to them, government has delayed in addressing their concerns, thus they cannot wait any longer. Speaking to Citi News at the Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital in Sekondi, the R ...

The staff of the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) have announced that they will go ahead with the sit-down strike they threatened, beginning Wednesday, December 11. The GRIDCo staff have said they are resorting to the strike ldquo;following non-response by GRIDCO Management and the institutions petitioned. rdquo; The staff had originally threatened to strike on December 4. The sit-down strike is expected to be followed by a picket at the GRIDCo Head Office at later date. O ...

The National Labour Commission (NLC) has ordered the three striking teacher unions to return to the classroom with immediate effect. The NLC, while describing the industrial action as illegal, accused the Unions of failing to notify the Commission before embarking on their strike. The teacher unions mdash; the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT) declared a strike De ...

Over the past weekend, it was revealed that doctors in Ghana were close to declaring kidney disease as an epidemic or medical crisis in Ghana. The Dialysis Services Foundation made the disclosure as it organized an end-stage kidney disease and associated illnesses awareness campaign. Chairman of the Dialysis Services Foundation, Prosper Bani, lamented that there were rising numbers of Ghanaians battling with kidney disease across the country. According to him, judges, doct ...

A suspect, Shani Ibrahim has been picked up in connection with the assault on two subjects of the Nanton chief, Mohammed Bawa at Sandu. The suspect has been detained at the Northern Regional Police Command to assist in further investigations. The Northern Regional Police Public Relation Officer, DSP Mohammed Yusif Tanko, who confirmed the arrest to DGN Online, said on 9th December, 2019 around mid-day, police received a complaint from the office Mohammed Bawa to the effect tha ...

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has warned taxpayers nationwide not to think that the recent fire incident at its Kwame Nkrumah Circle Office in Accra, has stopped it from collecting taxes. Commissioner General of GRA, Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah, served the warning at a press conference on Tuesday, December 10, 2019, in Accra. He said emphatically that ldquo;we are therefore cautioning taxpayers that the fire outbreak has not shifted our focus from our goal of maximizing reven ...

The Ghana Developing Communities Association (GDCA), a vibrant anti-corruption and rural development civil society organization has said one of the surest ways of fighting corruption in Ghana is to empower local communities to monitor, participate and demand accountability and transparency from their local assemblies. The GDCA has in the last decades introduced most communities in Ghana to use of Social Accountability Mechanisms to increase popular participation, transparency, accountabi ...

J.B. Tanzienye a 65-year-old farmer from Gyimiso in the Obuasi East District has been adjudged District best farmer for the Obuasi East District at the just ended 35th Farmers rsquo; Day Celebration at Ayease in the Obuasi East District. Mr. Tanzienye who has no formal education, for his prize as the District Best Farmer, took home Tricycle, Knapsack Sprayer, Cutlass, Field Boots, Key Soap, Cloth and Certificate of Merit. When the sword was handed over to the District best fa ...

More youth in the Amansie South District in the Ashanti Region appears to be showing a keen interest in agriculture following the government 39;s numerous interventions in the sector. This was evident at the district 39;s celebration of the 2019 farmers 39; day where the award winners were predominantly youthful and energetic. In an era where farming is perceived to be the reserve of the elderly, all top three best farmers in the district were below 45 years. Mr. Suleiman Ham ...

The Chief of Murugu in the West Gonja District of the Savannah Region Murguwura Amadu Changa Kramoh has been elevated as the next Busunuwura of the Gonja Kingdom. He succeeds the late Busunuwura Nungbanso Mahama Lenseni who passed on on 5th November, 2019. The selection of the Busunuwura out of 3 others took place at the Palace of the King and Overlord of Gonja Yagbonwura Tuntunba Boresa (I) today Monday 9th December, 2019. The newly appointed Busunuwura was first enskined as Dirpewura of ...

Sixteen farmers in the Adentan Municipality have received awards in agriculture in recognition for their commendable services in ensuring food security in the Municipality on Farmers 39; Day, 2019. The event, which took placed at Manmomo, a suburb of the Adentan municipality was dubbed:: Enhancing Small-scale Agriculture Towards Agri-buisness Development The CEO of Pamela Chicks And Feeds, And Agri-life Pro, Mrs Pamela Agboste was adjudged the overall best municipal farmer and took home ...

Introduction The main premise of the human development approach is that expanding peoples rsquo; freedoms is both the main aim of, and the principal means for sustainable development. If inequalities in human development persist and grow, the aspirations of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development will remain unfulfilled. But there are no pre-ordained paths. Gaps are narrowing in key dimensions of human development, while others are only now emerging. Policy choices determine i ...

The President of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) chapter of the Graduate Students' Association of Ghana (GRASAG), Mr. Raphael Apetorgbor, has asked the youth to uphold the virtues of good ethics and transparency in their daily lives to enable them to deepen accountability. According to Mr. Apetorgbor, this would support the fight against corruption, stressing that the corruption fight could only be win through a change in attitude and vigilance as hu ...

Over the weekend, Koforidua SecTech held its 11th speech and prize-giving day as a part of the major events characterizing this year 39;s homecoming which was under the theme; ldquo;a decade of sustained support to mother SecTech . The association used the occasion to donate items worth over GHC 6000 to the pediatric ward of the Koforidua central hospital. They donated 20 pulse oximeters, which was one of the genuine request the department of the hospital made when the associa ...