Adnan Adams Mohammed Metropolitan and Municipal District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) has been urged to avoid overly relying on the District Assembly Common Fund (DACF) to undertake developmental projects in their respective areas. In the wake of controversial approval of MMDCEs nominees,
SSNIT flat occupant allegedly assaulted by co-tenant over ‘fufu pounding noise’ A female painter and mother of one, Joyce Mensah, have reportedly accused her co-tenant of assaulting her over late night ‘fufu pounding noise’. Joyce Mensah, who is a fourth floor occupant of one of the Borteyman SSNIT flat building, reported to the Kanewu Police […]
Adnan Adams Mohammed As Ghana reopen its point of entries after some months of closure due to COVID-19, arriving passengers at the Kotoka International Airport are required to take a PCR test for the virus and receive results within 15 minutes. There will be no mandatory quarantine as well, as it has […]
On 20 July 2020, the Minister and lawmaker Hawa Koomson did admit shooting a gun in a crowd in Kasoa a town in Ghana, as self defence, then she was arrested by Ghana Police and left off the hook of justice or the police hook of injustice. Fortunately or unfortunately, four […]
The Agyapa/Asaase agreement – selling Ghana’s Gold Royalties to investors through an SPV – has created a hullabaloo and rightfully so. It succeeded in muddying the waters and raises a number of legal and valuation questions. Firstly, it raises the important question as to whether Ghana Govt should be gambling by investing in […]
CSOs Response to the Implementation of the Minerals Income Investment Fund and Matters Arising 25th August, 2020 Ladies and Gentlemen of the Press, We, members of the Alliance of CSOs Working on Extractives, Anti-corruption, and Good Governance, have been following keenly, the raging disquiet among sections of the Ghanaian population about […]
Adnan Adams Mohammed Government of Ghana have been accused of deliberately disregarding and sidelining the Ghana Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (GHEITI), watchdogs in extractive governance (Civil Society Organizations, Media), Traditional authorities and the citizens of mining communities (whose resources the President is holding in
Projected total wages and salaries of public sector workers will rise by 7.0 percent to GH¢28.5 billion in 2021, according to the 2021 Fiscal Framework of the Ministry of Finance. This is equivalent to 6.5 percent of Gross Domestic Product. Compensation of employees for 2020 is estimated at GH¢26.6 billion, about […]
Adnan Adams Mohammed A section of the Ghanaian business community, Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA), is raising concerns about the failure of member states of the African Union (AU) to agree on a key issue of engagement as ‘rules of origin’, even as the commencement date for the continental single […]
Adnan Adams Mohammed For the past half a decade, Ghanaian traders and foreigners operating in the retail business (especially, Nigerians) in a breach to the Ghana Investment Promotion Center(GIPC) law have been jostling each other to the extent of forcefully locking up shops belonging to foreigners within the business districts of