Gov’t Buys 100 Vehicles For Ghana Police
The government has announced it has acquired 100 Toyota Corolla vehicles worth $8.8 million for the Ghana Police Service. According to the government, it decided to “retool” the police service...
Tag: Ministry of Information
Information Minister Dismisses Terrorism Threats
The Information Minister, Mustapha Hamid has dismissed claims of looming terrorism threats as reported in the media. A statement issued by the ministry on Friday assured the public that the nation...
Govt Interested In Resourcing GNA To Be More Effective – Nana Dokua
The Ministry of Information would work with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) to position the wire service as the reference point for timely, critical and credible news towards national and continental...
74 Persons With Disability Engaged To Collect Road Tolls
The First batch of 74 persons with disability (PWDs) has been recruited to work at selected toll booths across the country. Additional 126 will be engaged later this month. The move, according to...
If You Want Porn Go To the Internet, Not Live TV
Ace Journalist Esther Armah has lambasted owners of TV stations gleefully showing pornographic movies on free-to air channels. The tough talking playwright says business men who are championing the...
US Pledges $5m To Fight Child Trafficking In Ghana
The US Ambassador to Ghana, Robert P. Jackson has pledged the commitment of the US to help Ghana fight child trafficking. In that regard, he said, the US was committing a $5 million grant over a...
Rural Broadcasters To Benefit From UNESCO Project
A broadcaster development project dubbed “Promoting human development among Sudan’s rural communities: supporting radio broadcasters in Eastern Sudan States” has officially taken off after the...
‘We Won’t Stop Showing Porn On TV’
General Manager for Ice TV, Samuel Owusu Asare said his media company cannot desist from showing pornography films on their channels regardless the complaints made to the National Media Commission...
Review Broadcasting Standards
A legal practitioner, Sammy Bartels believes the guidelines regulating broadcasting content should be reviewed to effectively address the challenges associated with the evolution of broadcasting....
Saudi Shuts Al-Jazeera Office In Qatar Row
Saudi Arabia on Monday shut the local office of Qatar's Al-Jazeera global news channel after the kingdom and other Arab states severed ties with the emirate. "The Ministry of Information closed the...
The Middle East Forced Labour Bandits and the Polemic of Slavery Conventions
The Middle East forced labour bandits and the polemic of slavery conventions The recent countless images and voice messages which are making the rounds on the social media and purported to be from...
Free SHS Committee Inaugurated
Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, Minister of Education has inaugurated a committee to advise and lead the implementation of the country’s free Senior High School (SHS). The committee constituted...
Delta Force 8 Can’t Be Re-Arrested – Lawyer
The Lawyer for the eight Delta Force members in the Ashanti Region who were freed recently after they raided a Kumasi court has insisted that his clients cannot be re-arrested. The lawyer, Mathew...
AG Authorised Discontinuation of Delta 8 Case – Lawyer
Mathew Appiah, the lawyer for the released eight members of the Delta force – a vigilante group – has hit back at the Information Ministry for claiming that the Attorney General was unaware of...
Order For Our Re-Arrest and We’ll Meet You In Court – Delta Force 8 To A-G
The eight members of the vigilante group, Delta Force, who were freed by a Kumasi High Court for lack of evidence, are daring the Attorney-General (A-G) to order for their re-arrest, stressing that...
Gov’t Taking Us For Fools – Sulemana Braimah
The decision by the Principal State Attorney to drop charges against 8 members of pro-NPP vigilante group, Delta Force who were standing trial for storming a court and freeing some of their members...
Statement From the Information Ministry On Delta 8 Was For Damage Control
The Member of Parliament for Builsa South and former presidential staffer under the Mahama led administration; Dr. Clement Apaak has asserted that the statement from the Ministry of Information on...
AG Authorised Discontinuation of Delta 8 Case – Prosecutor
ACP Okyere Darko, the prosecutor at the centre of the release of the eight members of the Delta force – a vigilante group – has hit back at the Information Ministry for claiming that the Attorney...
Delta Force 13’s Case Adjourned To June 15
The case involving the 13 members of pro-New Patriotic Party (NPP) group Delta Force has been adjourned to June 15, 2017. The prosecutor, ACP Okyere Darko asked the court...
Government’s Statement On Delta Force Release Disingenuous – Amaliba
A private legal practitioner, Abraham Amaliba has described as disingenuous the explanation by the Ministry of Information on the discharge of some members of pro-NPP vigilante group, Delta Force on...