The National Identification Authority (NIA) has begun the Ghana Card mass registration exercise in the Volta Region amidst some technical challenges. The month-long registration exercise is expected to capture at least 85 per cent of Ghanaians in the Region in all 18 districts and municipalities. At about 0950 hours when the Ghana News Agency visited some registration centres in the …
The National Identification Authority (NIA) is unable to issue Ghana cards to applicants in a number of centres in its mass registration exercise in the Volta Region on Monday. Applicants had queued at some 350 centres designated for the exercise as early as 7:00 am but the Authority was unable to upload data of the applicants onto the authorities severs. …
Hired thugs, allegedly contracted by a rival chief, last night unleashed terror on the people of Lower Dixcove in the Western Region, destroyed properties and kidnapped the Omanhene, Nana Kwesi Agyeman IX, allegedly over a boundary dispute. The Western Regional Police Command, which was called in to restore order, has placed both the Lower and the Upper Dixcove areas under …
Ghanaians do not like in helping others up but are only interested in pulling them down, actress Yvonne Nelson has opined. The mother of one, in a post on twitter, said Ghanaians are not good at pushing people up at all. She tweeted: “Majority of Ghanaians lack the ability to push people up!” It’s a cliche we always hear about, …
Shatta Wale has called on Ghanaians to help him hype his song with Beyoncé to the heavens so that the American singer would have mercy on him and shoot a music video with him for the song. Shatta Wale and Bey’s track ‘Already’ was released earlier today, and it’s already making a lot of waves on social media. However, the …
Ghanaian rapper and the CEO of NKZ Music, Maradona Yeboah Agyei, professionally known as Guru is advising Ghanaians on how to put an end to their poverties. According to the rapper, the only quickest path to poverty is to continue sleeping in your bed like a dead man without having any plans on how to work. “Poverty Is Manufactured In …
A pressure group, Right Alliance Ghana, has called for the release of Mr Gregory Afoko, one of the suspects standing trial for the alleged murder of the Upper East Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Adam Mahama. An Accra High Court presided over by Justice Merley Wood, on Monday, 15 July 2019 quashed the earlier bail granted by another …
Minister for Special Development Initiatives, Mavis Hawa Koomson has indicated that Ghanaians should not expect a meaningful dam with an amount of GHC 250,000 allocated to her ministry as the said amount can’t construct the Akosombo-like dam they want. Speaking to Ghanaweb in an exclusive interview, the Minister said the pond-like dams constructed is exactly what the Akufo-Addo-led government promised …
Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joseph Osei-Owusu, has stated that elected leadership are a reflection of the people who elect them into to office. According to him, there is no way the elected would be any different from those who elected them into office; and expressed surprise that corruption is usually discussed as if only politicians engage in corrupt practices. The …
The Minister of State In-charge of Public of Procurement, Hon. Sarah Adwoa Safo, has admonished stakeholders in the fight against corruption to reinforce all efforts at addressing the menace by making it a high risk activity in the country. Such a bold initiative, she noted, will strengthen the country’s procurement system which has been recording higher percentages of malpractices in …
