Railway Workers Call Off Strike
The Ghana Railway Workers Union has called off its strike after reaching an agreement with the National Labour Commission. The Union declared a strike, 11 days ago after all efforts aimed at getting...
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Asuma Banda Calls For Gov’t Action On Unemployment Situation
Business magnate Alhaji Asuma Banda says he is worried about what he describes as a growing unemployment situation in the country. The teeming youth lining the streets of, the capital city especially...
10,000 ‘Kayayes’ To Be Absorbed Into Youth Employment Programme
By Nana Ohemaba Kayayeis (head-porters), are mostly young women and men – sometimes below 18 years, who carry loads for fellow Ghanaians, after they have finished shopping in our various markets to...
Ghana Gas Deals Tough With Striking Workers
Four workers of the Ghana National Gas Company (Ghana Gas) have been sacked for going on strike illegally. The management of the company has told 42 others that they would forfeit their salaries for...
Mahama Endorsed Child Labour With His Money Sharing Act – Lawyer Oppong
A Law Lecturer at the Central University, Lawyer Yaw Oppong has described President John Mahama’s action of giving out money to a young girl during his campaign tour of the Greater Accra as...
Petroleum Workers Petition Ghana Gas Board Over Dismissals
The General Transport, Petroleum and Chemical Workers’ Union, (GTPCWU), is petitioning the Ghana National Gas Company Limited over the dismissal and suspension of some workers at the Atuabo Gas...
Colleges of Education Teachers Suspend Strike
The Colleges of Education Teachers Association of Ghana (CETAG) has suspended its nationwide strike and asked members to return to lecture halls. President of the Association, Reverend Joseph Nkyi...
Ghana Gas Sacks 40 Workers
The Management of the Ghana National Gas Company has dismissed over 45 workers for misconducting themselves during a protest for improved working conditions. The General Secretary of the Ghana...
Bad Policies The Bane Of Unemployment In Ghana
Governments are instituted to enact policies to make life comfortable and easy for its citizenry. Successive governments especially in the Fourth Republic have failed to implement policies and...
I Don’t Know Agya Koo
The 2016 election Campaign Coordinator of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) Kofi Adams claims he’s never heard about popular Kumawood movie Star, Agya Koo. The talented actor, paid a...
We Won’t Give In To Labour Demands – Mahama
President John Dramani Mahama has reiterated government’s commitment not to yield to pressures from agitating labour unions for an increment in their salaries and allowances. The President says...
Railway Workers Resolve To Defy NLC
The Ghana Railway Workers Union (GRWU) has resolved to defy a directive of the National Labour Commission (NLC) against its intended strike over the release of funds for the payment of salary arrears...
Education Ministry Reverses Controversial Memo
The Education Ministry has withdrawn a controversial memo to Regional Directors of Education instructing them to post all newly trained teachers but not issue an appointment letter to them to begin...
Hollywood Undeniably Racist
Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has said it is "pretty undeniable" that Hollywood is racist. He told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme the film world was seen as "very, very progressive",...
Bawumia Slams ‘419’ Teacher Postings
Plans by government to post newly-trained teachers without appointment letters has been described by the vice-presidential nominee of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, as...
Newly Trained Teachers To Be Posted But Won’t Be Allowed To Teach
The Ghana Education Service has directed its regional directors to post all newly trained teachers to the various schools across the country, although the government has not given the financial...
A Clear Case of Bribery Or What, EC?
The reason given in an allegedly leaked labor negotiations memo authored by workers of the Electoral Commission (EC) for demanding a 50-percent raise in their salaries in the form of allowances...
Obama’s Advisors Give Final Recommendations On Doing Business In Africa
The President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa (PAC-DBIA) has issued its final recommendations to U. S.President Barack Obama before he leaves office in January 2017. The advisors...
Mahama Gov’t Stole GHC1bn Through GYEEDA – Agyarko
Ghanaians gave President John Mahama a job to do but he has failed the people “miserably” with his “incompetence”, Mr Boakye Agyarko, Policy Advisor to the presidential nominee of the New...
Vic Hamah’s Father To Run For President As Independent Candidate
A Veteran Trade Unionist and Industrial, Public Relations consultant, Mr John Alex Hamah, has picked a Presidential Candidate nomination forms to contest the upcoming December 7 election as an...