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The  Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr Christian Tetteh Yohuno The  Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr Christian Tetteh Yohuno, has made significant command changes in the Police Service. COP/Mrs. Maame Yaa Tiwa Addo-Danquah, Director-General/R&P, and COP/Mr. Paul Manly Awini, Service Workshop, Accra, are part of the officers who have been named to the 31 reconstituted Police Management Board. The command changes are aimed at ensuring effective management and operational control of the Ghana Police Service. This was contained in a statement issued on Wednesday, March 19, 2025, and signed by Grace Ansah-Akrofi, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Director, Public Affairs. The new Police Management Board includes: 1. COP/Mrs. Maame Yaa Tiwa Addo-Danquah, Director-General/R&P. 2. COP/Mr Paul Manly Awini, Service Workshop, Accra. 3. COP/Mr Daniel Kwame Afriyie, Director-General/PSO 4. COP/Dr. Ernest Kwabena Owusu, Director-General/SVCS 5. COP/Mr Mohammed Fuseini Suraj...

The Nyameson Fashion Centre at Millennium City in the Gomoa East District of the Central Region of Ghana held its maiden edition of  graduation and fund-raising ceremony in support of the establishment of their free school building and hostel. One of the apprentice  The CEO's of the Nyameson Fashion Centre, Mr./Mrs. NYAMESON, stated that it is a privilege that God has built this Free Fashion Centre upon them. They stated in an interview that it has been three years since they began the school in Mataheko in the Greater Accra Region with 10 apprentices and later moved to Millennium City in the Central Region with 32 apprentices, but it is free, which means, the apprentice are been accommodated free of charge without taken them a penny. The graduands in a queue  Mr. Charles Noble Quainoo (Regional Information Apprenticeship Department, Greater Accra Region, GTVETS, (NVTI)), added that is now the time for the youth to participate in TVETS in order to learn more about how to ...

The Mobile Money Agents Association, has called on agents across the country, to comply with the implementation of government’s 1.5%, which will take off on Sunday, May 1, 2022. In a statement issued on April 30, Association urged its members to continue to educate the general public on the new tax initiative as it will “help restore confidence in and continuous usage of the platform to facilitate all financial transactions”. The statement, which was issued by the Associations’ General Secretary, Evans Otumfou, further disclosed that, deposits, withdrawals/cashouts and savings on momo wallets will not be affected by the new tax policy. The Association also reiterated that, “agents have no hand in e-levy charges or collection hence customers are not to pay any e-levy charges to Agents”. “Management highly appreciates the long standing challenges facing Agents in the business and would take steps at remedying as soon as discussions on e-levy settle. We call on Government to intensify edu...

  30 years after Ghana decided to adopt the democratic system of government, President Nana Akufo-Addo says it’s been the country’s best decision so far. On April 28, 1992, the country went to the polls to vote for democracy after the late president Jerry John Rawlings came into power through a coup in 1981. The results came out that the majority of the citizens wanted democracy, hence they voted in favor.The results were; 3,408,119 for the motion, and 272,855 against the motion, representing 92.59% and 7.41% respectively. Addressing the nation on the 30th anniversary of the referendum approving the 1992 Constitution, President Akufo-Addo said “3O years ago today, on the 20th of April 1992, Ghanaians took one of the most important decisions of our history. We went to the polls in a referendum to decide the nature of the future governance of our nation, whether to continue to live under military rule or to live under democratic rule. Indeed, prior to this, Ghana had sampled almost e...

  Seven people have died after a boat capsized on the Late Volta in the Kwahu North District of the Eastern Region. Police Public Relations Officer in the Region DSP Ebenezer Tetteh said the incident occurred at 6pm on Thursday, April 14, 2022.  A passenger boat with 20 persons travelling on the Volta Lake from Dzemeni to Havorkope on the Dwarf Island capsized mid-way after they were caught up in a heavy storm.  Seven persons – five female and two males between the ages of 31 and 60 years – got drowned. The bodies of the deceased have been deposited at a private mortuary on the island as police commence investigations.  The District National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) Operations Officer, Karrah Joseph Eric, said 13 others onboard the boat have since been rescued after a search and rescue efforts by the boat owners. “The search efforts began since last night, it hasn’t ended yet. Due to the nature of the river, it is likely that some other passengers on ...

  Two Policemen who were among the officers allegedly involved in bullion van robberies have been killed during exchange of fire with the Police at Ashaiman in Accra. Four other officers have also been arrested and will be appearing before court on Wednesday March 9, a Police statement said on Tuesday March 8. “The police have carried out an intelligence-led field raid at a hideout of the gang connected with the investigation into the bullion van robberies. “During the raid at Borteyman near Ashaiman there was an exchange of gunshot and two policemen, Constable Reindolph Gyimah Ansah and Cpl Stephan Kwaku Nyame who had been arrested in connection with the bullion van robberies were shot and were pronounced dead on arrival at the Police hospital for treatment. “Further investigations have led to the arrest of five other suspects, four of whom are policemen. We are pursuing five other civilian suspects who have gone into hiding. “The Policemen involved have been interdicted and all t...

  Economist and Finance Lecturer at the University of Ghana Business School (UGBS), Prof. Godfred Bokpin, wants the government to tread cautiously in its pursuit to raise revenue to salvage the economy. He says ongoing discussions on the imposition of the Electronic Transaction Levy and the country’s possible return to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) should be well-thought through. Speaking on   Eyewitness News , Prof. Godfred Bokpin, who is strongly in opposition to the E-levy advocated for home-grown solutions, also called for a national consultative dialogue on whether Ghana should fall back to the IMF in these crucial moments. “I don’t support E-levy because it is not the way to go. It’s regressive and even if it’s passed, it’s not Ghana’s solution. But for going back to IMF, let’s have a national conversation around it. Let’s have a home-grown way with clear benchmark indicators and requirements. That cannot support this large government and wasteful expenditures. T...

The Supreme Court has asked its Registrar to serve notice of a suit before it to NDC MP, James Gyekye Quayson as an individual and not a Member of Parliament. The order was issued on Tuesday, February 1 2022, when the case involving the governing NPP and Mr. Quayson was heard. This became necessary because attempts by the bailiff to serve the suit on Mr. Qauyson, through Parliament has proved futile. Mr. Quayson, according to  JoyNews ’ Joseph Ackah Blay, has not been served with the process. Speaker Alban Bagbin has also not received the process as he is out of the country. The NPP claims that Mr. Quayson cannot continue performing Parliamentary duties because he was not qualified when he applied to contest on the ticket of the NDC in the Assin North Constituency. The Director of Elections of the NPP, Evans Nimako said in court that the judicial process will be used to stop the MP from attending Parliament “We’re in the Supreme Court to seek interpretation of article 94(2a) in add...

  Government has released GH¢44 million to contain the spread of bird flu across the country.  This was disclosed by the Minister for Food and Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Akoto Afriyie.  This comes on the back of reported cases of bird flu across the country. According to the Agric Ministry, the outbreak, which occurred in seven out of the sixteen regions affected over 700,000 birds. The Minister for Food and Agriculture, at a press briefing in Accra, announced some major interventions, including the allocation of money to curb the spread of bird flu. “It will be recalled that government granted approval for the immediate recruitment and deployment of an initial 550 veterinary professionals out of a total 1,100 professionals throughout the country. The intervention also includes approval for the release of an emergency budget support of approximately GH¢44 million to the ministry. This is for the implementation of an action plan involving some key activities for combating the ...

  Communications and Digitalization Minister, Ursula Owusu Ekuful believes the 1.75 percent tax on electronic financial transactions, also known as the E-Levy when compared to other taxes introduced in Ghana, is the lowest so far. She made this claim during the maiden edition of government’s town hall meeting on E-Levy held on Thursday, January 27th at Koforidua in the Eastern Region. The townhall meeting, according to government is part of measures to engage the public and bring them to speed on the need to implement the policy, ahead of the relaying of the controversial 1.75 percent Electronic Transfer Levy in Parliament. Speaking at the government’s town hall meeting in Koforidua, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful also charged Ghanaians to embrace the E-levy as it holds the key to solving the country’s unemployment and infrastructural problems. “In 2008 the government of president Kufour introduced the communications services tax in August of that year. And it became another source of in...

  The Minister of Food and Agriculture (MoFA), has called on farmers and Ghanaians as a whole to embrace the government’s proposed electronic levy (e-levy) which was announced in the 2022 budget statement by the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, last month. According to Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, the Akufo-Addo administration was working assiduously to raise money to support farmers in the country, and that the e-levy would help in that regard. The Finance Minister who introduced the levy in the 2022 budget told Parliament a huge chunk of the proceeds will support entrepreneurship. The Agric Minister said the National Democratic Congress’ entrenched position on the levy is very worrying. Dr. Afriyie Akoto made the assertion when he visited one of the government’s built warehouses at Gambaga in the North East Region on his first-day visit to the region as part of his 13-day tour of the northern sector. “There are two markets in Ghana; the subsidized fertilizer market, which is the pla...

An associate professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Ghana, Prof. Festus Ebo Turkson is suggesting that the size of Parliament should be reduced to cut down on government expenditure.  According to him, the size of Ghana’s economy and the population does not merit the huge number of parliamentarians it has. Speaking on   The big issue   on Saturday, Prof. Ebo Turkson said proposals for the size of Parliament to be increased by 13 more seats does not make governance or economic sense especially given the inadequate revenue of the country.“The time has come when we need to have a discussion on whether our parliamentary system is not having an overbearing impact on our expenditures as well. I think that a Ghana with the size of our economy and population shouldn’t have more than 150 members of Parliament, especially when we have a local government system right from the assembly member to the assembly that is already in charge of the grassroots governanc...

The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications, Ken Ashigbey, has said that the timing for the introduction of the 1.75% levy on electronic financial transactions is ill-timed.  He said the chamber was not consulted by the government on the proposal before the announcement was made in Parliament on Wednesday, November 17, 2021.  “When we got this information, it was surprising because there had not been any prior engagement to discuss this e-levy. The timing of taxing this nascent industry is not now, and we needed to let it [the industry] grow, defeat cash before we attempt any form of taxation,” he said.  The Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, during the reading of the 2022 budget before Parliament on Wednesday said the government is introducing a 1.75% tax on electronic payments as part of efforts to raise revenue to support government’s development agenda including maintenance of roads.  The transactions to be impacted by the tax includ...

  The Ghana Health Service, GHS, has embarked on an extensive vaccination exercise in the Savannah Region after 16 were reported to have died of Yellow fever. The Ghana Health Service on 29th October announced the outbreak of suspected Yellow Fever in the Savannah Region. Yellow Fever is a viral infection spread by a particular species of mosquito. The outbreak has been recorded in the West Gonja Municipality and the North Gonja District of the region. As of Friday, November 12, the death toll had increased to 16 with others in critical condition. To bring the outbreak under control, the Ghana Health Service has started vaccinating people in the two assemblies, with the hope of extending it across the region. Mr. Thomas Suuri, the Disease Control Officer of the Ghana Health Service in the Savannah Region, says about 90% of residents in affected communities in the North Gonja District have been vaccinated “Now the deaths are 16, we have just rolled out the vaccination against Yellow...

  The family and sympathizers of former President Jerry Rawlings gathered at the Holy Spirit Cathedral at Adabraka in Accra to mark a year since his passing. Children of the late president, Zanetor Rawlings, and Kimathi Rawlings, took turns to eulogise their father, who was Ghana’s longest-serving Head of state who died on November 12, 2020, after a short illness. “The journey of combating corruption has been a complex journey for Ghana, but while you lived, you never stopped championing that cause,” she said. She further acknowledged the central role Mr. Rawlings played in Ghana’s history “Your loss was a loss to the whole country, and the pain one felt was by most Ghanaians,” Zanetor Rawlings added. Kimathi Rawlings expressed the gratitude of the Rawlings family to the government and the party Mr. Rawlings founded, the National Democratic Congress. “We are very grateful for the huge presence and love showed to your founder and the family. We count on your continued support.” Form...