Musician turned political activist, A Plus, has reacted to a public sector salaries-related pronouncement by Prof Stephen Adei, a former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, GIMPA. Prof Adei was reported by Accra-based Class FM as advocating for a zero percent pay rise for public sector workers citing the harsh economic situation the country is in. According …
It was so cool to witness all the stars show up for the opening of #TylerPerry studios and I am sure many of us are sitting here saying uuuu! Aaaah!!! One man can do this for a State and country! Last year alone, Atlanta as a State made over $10 billion from film and now with this addition of Tyler’s …
The United States government has invested more than $13.5million in Ghana’s health sector, particularly in maternal and child health within the last five years of its support programme for the country. In all, 72 nursing and midwifery skills laboratories and 12 model Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) compounds were refurbished and equipped in beneficiary communities, while 420 principals and …
Highlife musician Rex Omar has added his voice to calls by some stakeholders of the arts to get an autonomous ministry for the sector. The Chairman of the Ghana Music Rights Organisation (GHAMRO), told Graphic Showbiz in an interview that the merging of the arts with tourism has not benefited the former. “The truth is that the Ministry …
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said the auditing of the Temporary Pensions Fund Account (TPFA) of public sector workers will be completed by February 2019. “The relevant institutions have been tasked to complete this exercise to enable the smooth implementation of the second tier pension scheme (the occupational pension scheme) in the public services,” he stated. President Akufo-Addo …
The government has said the planned financial support for selecting banks and the banking sector clean-up exercise that was concluded recently assures it of a more robust sector. “Government is confident about the future of the banking sector in the country, with the assurance that all universal and specialised (ADB and NIB) banks in the country are stronger to support …
Private legal practitioner, Martin Kpebu has called on Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in the country to keep the Bank of Ghana (BoG) on its toes in the aftermath of the banking sector clean-up. According to him, the CSOs must keenly supervise the work of the central bank to enable it discharge its mandate creditably devoid of any invisible political influences. …
Ladies and Gentlemen, when the current Management of the Bank of Ghana took office in early 2017, the banking sector was faced with many challenges. We inherited a financial system which was under a considerable state of distress, with banks that were not meeting the capital adequacy requirement and others whose capital was eroded with high non-performing loans. Some of …
