Energy Levies Are “a Bitter Pill”
The Energy Sector Levies are “a bitter pill” the country has to swallow to heel ailing utilities, and not because government takes delight in overloading consumers with taxes, Employment and...
Tag: Haruna Iddrisu
Economy Cannot Support Minimum Wage Above 10% Increase
The Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, Haruna Iddrisu has explained to members of the Ghana Employers Association(GEA) that even though the 10 percent increase in the National Daily Minimum...
Akufo-Addo Must Disclose How He’ll Settle Energy Sector Legacy Debt – Gov’t
Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, Haruna Iddrisu has challenged the Flagbearer of the largest opposition, New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Akufo-Addo to publicly state how he intends to...
Pharmacists To Continue Strike After Impasse With Gov’t
The Government and Hospitals Pharmacists Association (GHOSPA) has said it will continue its strike pushing for changes to their market premiums until there is a clear commitment by government to...
You Can’t Intimidate Us To Return To Work
The striking members of the Ghana Hospital Pharmacist Association(GHOSPA) say they will not be intimidated by government to call off their strike. According to them, they’ll only return to work, if...
Minimum Wage Increased By 10 Percent
The national tripartite committee has increased the daily minimum wage from GHC8 to GHC8.80. The 10 percent increment takes effect from January 2017. The decision was taken today, September 7, 2016...
Northern Region Will Not Disappoint Mahama
Communications Minister Dr. Edward Omane Bomah says President Mahama will increase his vote margin astronomically in the northern region compared to what he got in the 2012 elections. He says his...
Angry Gonja Chiefs Demand Retraction of NPP Endorsement ‘lies’
Some chiefs in the Gonjaland including the Overlord of the Gonja Traditional Council, Yabgonwura Tutumba Bore Essah I have denied endorsing leader of the main opposition party Nana Addo Danquah...
Who Has Stolen Whose Ideas?
By Lawyer Edudzi Tamakloe The flagbearer of the NPP for elections 2016, Nana Akufo-Addo, is reported to have said on his campaign tour of the Northern region that "the NDC will steal my ideas." It is...
Haruna Iddrisu Is A Good Presidential Material For NDC – Bagbin
Majority leader of Parliament, Hon. Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin, has marketed the Member of Parliament for Tamale South, Hon Haruna Iddrisu, as a good presidential material capable of leading the...
Haruna Iddrisu Pledges 70,000 Votes For Mahama
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamale South Constituency has pledged to garner 70,000 votes to back the second term bid of President John Mahama. Haruna Iddrisu says even though there are...
CLOGSAG Can’t Get Premiums, We Didn’t Plan For It – Gov’t
The Minister for Employment and Labour Relations, Haruna Iddrisu, has stated that government cannot pay the interim premium being demanded by the Civil and Local Government Staff Association,...
Haruna Iddrisu Fan Deflates Murtala Muhammed
I have tried to withhold my comments about Hon. Murtala's outburst on Diamond FM. But I can't any longer. I have to speak my mind now. His comments were rather unfortunate as an entrant MP in the...
Complete Biography & Profile of Haruna Iddrisu, Minister of Trade and Industry
Haruna Iddrisu was born on 8th September 1970. Hon Haruna Iddrisu is married with two children. Hon Haruna Iddrisu, Member of Parliament for Tamale-South, was sworn in as Minister of Communications...
Egypt and Ghana Join Forces to Fight Terrorism
Egypt will continue to work together with Ghana to exchange views, experiences and knowledge on the threat of terrorism.
That is because Egypt and Ghana are facing similar challenges and have similar...
NPP Lacks Direction to Lead Ghana – Haruna Iddrisu
Member of Parliament for Tamale South, Haruna Iddrisu says the New Patriotic Party lacks national cohesion and direction and therefore has no intention to better the lives of Ghanaians.
He said...
Polytechnic Teachers Association of Ghana (POTAG) Call off 3-Month Strike
The Polytechnic Teachers Association of Ghana (POTAG) has called off its three-month long strike after it reached an agreement with the government to pay its book and research allowances.
Leaders of...
Ghanaian Workers To Go On Strike July 24; Gov’t Calls for Dialogue
Organised labour has called a general strike on Thursday, July 24, 2014, to protest the current economic hardships being experienced by workers.
At a well-attended press conference yesterday, the...