The Ministry of Energy has reviewed its target of ensuring universal electricity coverage from 2020 to 2025. This, the Ministry says, has become necessary even as it implements new measures to enhance energy efficiency in the country, as well as address the remaining challenges in ensuring energy supply to some rural parts of the country. In 1989, Ghana set out …
Ghana striker Jordan Ayew was adjudged the Man of the Match in the 2-2 draw against Benin in the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations on Tuesday night. The Crystal Palace forward was a constant threat to the Benin defense throughout the entire match. He was heavily involved in the build up to Ghana’s first goal and capped off his performance …
Tension is brewing at GCB Bank as over 140 clerical staff are likely to lose their jobs over SSCE/WASSCE results. The staff, who were hired in 2016/17 after writing and passing aptitude test at Zenith College and others online, have their fate hanging in the balance as management is now overlooking their tertiary qualification and using lower qualification such as …
The Auditor General, Daniel Domelevo, has called for a streamlining of recruitment into the public service. He believes this will ensure that appointments are solely based on merit and not nepotism. Appointments into Ghana’s public service are often believed to occur along political lines. Daniel Domelevo says nepotism forms the basis for corruption in the public sector. “Cronyism, nepotism, all …
The 2019 edition of the Livestock, Poultry and Fisheries Trade Show (LiPF), is scheduled to take place at the Accra International Conference Center (AICC), from the 29th–31st of July, 2019 in Accra, Ghana. The event, an initiative of Ministry Of Food and Agriculture and Agrihouse Foundation would run alongside the 7th All Africa Conference on Animal Agriculture (AACAA), which is …
Lawyers of Radio XYZ and four others on Wednesday failed to make an appearance in an Accra High Court presided over by Justice Olivia Obeng, to move their motion seeking an order of the Court to strike out an application of the NCA accusing the Chairman of the Electronic Communications Tribunal (ECT), Professor Justice Samuel Date-Bah, a retired Justice of …
Auditor-General (A-G), Mr Daniel Domelevo has revealed how he avoided a potential conflict of interest situation by dissuading his son from applying for a job in the audit service. According to Mr Domelevo, his son wanted to apply for a job at the Auditor General’s department earlier this year when vacancies were announced but he advised him to only apply …
Member of the New Patriotic Party [NPP] communication team, Mr. Richard Ahiagbah has said the recent increment on electricity tariffs is in the right direction. In a statement copied to Peacefmonline.com he explained that Nana Akufo-Addo led government has kept faith with Ghanaians relative to utility tariffs increases unlike the NDC administration that, increased utility prices on Ghanaians a combined …
A match lit by a playful six-year-old boy around 5:50 p.m. on Tuesday, 25 June 2019, has completely razed five separate but adjoining chamber and hall rooms within the same compound at Anlotown, a suburb of Koforidua in the Eastern Region. The disaster has rendered about 30 inhabitants homeless. It took two fire stations to tame the flame and put …
Vitiligo is a skin condition that destructs the melanocytes; which are pigment cells. The condition causes depigmentation of the skin resulting in noticeable white spots on a person’s skin. The white patches appear because the person has little or no skin cells. It is most commonly observed on the face, neck, arms and skin creases. Although vitiligo affects all races, …
