The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources Hon. Samuel A. Jinapor says Government will this year, begin a programme to reclaim and revegetate Mined-out areas in the country. The programme, “Reclamation of Degraded Lands”, which is to be spearheaded by the Ministry through the Minerals Commission seeks to Reclaim degraded lands caused by illegal mining. The Minister disclosed this when …

Communications educator and media activist Prof. Kwame Karikari has urged the state-owned media to be more assertive and question authority and government policies in order to uphold professional standards in journalism practice. Prof. Karikari, a former Director-General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), said state-owned media such as GBC must exercise their constitutional mandate to create more space for divergent …

  • The Akufo-Addo government, like others, have had their fair share of corruption scandals • The Sputnik V saga, Kelni GVG among others are the notable ones • There is always a debate as to whether officials found culpable in such scandals are made to face the law Though the fight against corruption in Ghana has a rather long …

  • Ofori-Attas and Akufo-Addos could lose their political clout after the current presdient • This is according to a relative of the president, one Kwame Dankwa Ofori-Atta • He has called out persons close to the president who are sullying his reputation A supposed relative of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has warned that level headed and measured as …

Ghanaian musician, Emmanuel Kofi Botchwey, well known as Kwaw Kese has wondered why President Akufo-Addo in his last address to the nation attributed the spike in the coronavirus to foreigners who made their way into the country during the festive season. President Akufo-Addo said, “Recent genomic sequencing undertaken by our scientists have established that some arriving passengers tested positive for new variants …

Political activist Kwame A Plus has aired out documents that alleges the current government is trying to sell the Kotoka international airport. He publicized the document which grants executive approval to the ministery of Aviation to engage TAV-SUMMA as partners to the Ghana airports company. The document is seen to be signed by Nana Badiatuo Asante, secretary to the president. …

The conversation of whether or not prostitution should be legalized is raring its head again in the media as UK-based Ghanaian artiste, Fuse ODG, is campaigning for the legalization of the ‘profession’ in Ghana. The singer who sees nothing wrong with prostitution in an interview with Mamavi stressed that it is their bodies and they have the right to do …

President Akufo-Addo has instructed the police to fish out the persons sabotaging his government by smuggling subsidised fertiliser meant for the Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) programme. He described the people involved in such acts as “greedy criminals” who do not want the progress of the country. The President said this during a visit to the Paramount chief of …

The Chairman of insolvent GN Savings and Loans, Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, says his company would have been “highly liquid” if the Ministry of Finance and other government agencies had paid amounts owed to it. The BoG on Friday (August, 16, 2019) revoked the licences of GN Savings and Loans and 22 other insolvent savings and loans companies and finance …

The Controller-General of Immigration, Kwame Asuah Takyi ,has disclosed to DGN Online that government has gone through the necessary processes in procuring arms for officers of the Ghana Immigration Service stationed at the various borders in the country. “Within a month or two the arms will arrive and we will do the distributions across the borders on the country,” he …