Participants in a stakeholders conference on the Emoluments and Privileges of Article 71 Office Holders have called for an end to the “class system” that the concept has created in the country. The proponents, drawn from state and non-state institutions and groups such as the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC), […]

The Ministry of the Interior has officially announced that Wednesday, March 6th, 2024, will be observed as a statutory public holiday nationwide in commemoration of Independence Day. In a statement released on March 1, 2023, the Minister for the Interior, Henry Quartey, stressed the significance of this day in Ghana’s history and called upon all […]

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has called on fellow Heads of State and the global business community to focus on unleashing the $450 billion AfCFTA-driven potential income that stands to be accrued from continental trade by 2035. President Akufo-Addo added that a one per cent increase in Africa’s share of global trade from two per […]

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has called on the global investor community to recognise that Africa is now the new frontier for manufacturing, technology and food production. According to him, the savage lessons of these past few years, “where the financial markets have been set up to operate on rules designed for the benefit of […]

The Controller and Accountant General has directed that, the salaries of employees, who are yet to acquire and have the details of their Ghana Card captured on its system, will be suspended with effect from March, 2024. This measure according to the Controller and Accountant General is to help eliminate ‘ghost names’ from the government […]

There is a mixed reaction by some pensioners in Tema to the news of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) 15 per cent monthly pension increment. While some described it as a drop in the ocean, others said it was better than nothing. SSNIT has increased monthly pensions by 15 per cent for […]

Some public sector employees in the Ashaiman Municipality have expressed mixed reactions to the directives from the Controller and Accountant General Department (CAGD) to suspend the salaries of employees who are yet to acquire Ghana Cards. Mr. Reynard Annison, a local government employee, responding to the directive, told the Ghana News Agency that he disagreed […]

Mr. Kwasi Kwaning-Bosompem, the Controller and Accountant General, has stated that any public sector worker without a Ghana Card will risk losing his/her salary effective March 2024. This follows the launch of a software solution that integrated the databases of the Mechanised Payroll System of the Controller and Accountant General’s Department (CAGD) and the National […]

“I used drugs to ease my pain and depression because I found myself in a broken home,” Dogbeda, a drug addict, lamented.   He had a good job as a procurement officer in the Western Region, yet he could not hold himself together after his mother was diagnosed of brain tumour. He was dismissed for […]

H.E. the President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Monday, 13th November, 2023 swore Dr. Irene Stella Agyenim-Boateng, Vice Chairman of the Public Services Commission (PSC), into office. In brief remarks after he administered the official Oaths and Oath of Secrecy to Dr. Agyenim-Boateng, H.E. the President urged her to bring […]