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National Labour Commission Orders Psychiatric Nurses To Return To Work

The National Labour Commission (NLC) has ordered Nurses at the Accra Psychiatric hospital to call off their strike and...

Politics

Parliament Approves More Loans For Various Projects

Barely a month to the general elections, Parliament is busily approving loans much to the chagrin of the minority New...

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Health Ministry Begs Psychiatric Nurses To Return To Work

The Ministry of Health has urged striking nurses of the Accra psychiatric hospital to call off their strike as it works...

Opinion

Could MFarms Agribusiness Solutions Be the Way Forward?

A GNA feature By Priscilla S. Djentuh Accra, Nov. 1, GNA - Every nation depends largely on agriculture for economic...

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Government To Reconstruct Well Engineered Markets – President

Government has embarked on an exercise to reconstruct and re-engineer all old markets to avoid perennial fire outbreaks...

International

How Magufuli’s No-Nonsense Leadership Is Changing Tanzania

President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Tanzanian counterpart John Pombe Magufuli at State House, Nairobi Tanzanian President...

Business

Government To Reconstruct Well Engineered Markets

Government has embarked on an exercise to reconstruct and re-engineer all old markets to avoid perennial fire outbreaks...

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¥11bn Loan Approved For Volta Bridge

Ghana’s Parliament has approved a loan agreement worth ¥11billion for the construction of a bridge at Volivo across...

Business

Gov’t Negotiates To Access Remaining US$3bn Chinese Loan

Government is in strategic negotiations with Chinese authorities to access the remainder of the US$3 billion loan for...

International

Somalia Lost $1b To Corruption

A former top financial manager in the Somali government has released a report detailing how over $1 billion was...

Business

‘Don’t Base Budget Allocations On Revenue From Oil and Gas’

The head of Energy, Oil & Gas Unit of the Real Sector of the Ministry of Finance, Dr Joseph Asenso, has cautioned...

Business

Impose ‘Fat Tax’ On Junk Food Operators – SEND

SEND West Africa is pushing for high taxes on operators of foreign restaurants in Ghana. They are raising concerns over...

Business

Budget Deficit Missed In 1st Seven Months

Government missed its budget deficit target in the first seven months of 2016 as the government raised less revenue...

Business

Who Is Buying Ghana’s Oil?

The co-chair of the Ghana Extractives Industry Transparency Initiative GHEITI, Dr. Emmanuel Steve Asare Manteaw, is...

Business

Ghana Issues Maiden Dollar Bond On Local Market

The government last week trapped additional foreign exchange into its vault when it issued a United States...

Opinion

Taxation Battle Over Multinational Companies Non-Compliance

“Sadly, the compliance level of the oil and gas exploration and production companies in payment of levies and taxes...

Sports

Sports Ministry To Sell Black Stars Matches

As part of efforts to put to rest issues concerning the funding of the Black Stars, the Sports Minister, Edward Nii...

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Two Claims of Nana Addo Fact-Checked – 1 Entirely True, Another Half-True

Nana Akufo-Addo’s claim about Ghana’s GDP growth rate was found to be half true while his claim about the...

Politics

Sports Ministry Negotiating To Franchise Black Stars Matches

As part of efforts to put to rest issues concerning the funding of the Black Stars, the Sports Minister, Edward Nii...