The Ministry of Education is set to hold a crunch meeting with the Vice Chancellors of Ghana (VCG) to take a final decision on an earlier directive for all public universities to cede 34 percent of their Internally Generated Funds (IGF) to central government. The meeting, which is scheduled for...
President Akufo-Addo has said that his government, over the past twelve months, has brought relative stability to the power sector in place of the erratic power situation popularly known as "dumsor" that it inherited. Highlighting his government’s achievements in its first year in office, the president underlined the importance of...
The President, Nana Akufo-Addo has backed the appointment of Martin Amidu as the first Special Prosecutor to ensure that public officials put God first in their operations in a bid to minimize corruption in the public sector. Speaking to the  media to assess his first year in office, the President...
President Nana Addo Dankwa has announced that government in its first year in office has saved GH₵145m from dubious procurement deals. He stated this when he was addressing the media to assess his one year in office. Nana Akufo-Addo won Ghana’s national election on December 9, 2016, becoming president elect at...
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, will today Wednesday, January 17, 2018 hold an encounter with the Ghanaian media at the Flagstaff House and answer as many questions as possible. It will be recalled that a similar event was held in July, 2017, six months after he assumed the presidency,...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has called on the general public to support the “He-for-She” campaign which is aimed at eliminating gender discrimination as part of the United Nation’s (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agenda. In a meeting with the press today to assess his first year in office, the...
 The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has been tasked to collect in excess of GH¢39bn as taxes for the 2018 fiscal year. In 2017, the authority collected GH¢32.4bn as against a target of about GH¢ 34bn, representing 97 percen Mr. Emmanuel Kofi Nti - Commissioner General of the GRA, in an interview...
The increase in ‘no-shows’ recorded by airlines operating in Ghana has led to an increase in overbookings by airlines as they strategise to avoid flying empty planes to various destinations around the world. A "no-show" refers to when a passenger - someone who has purchased a ticket - has not...
Small businesses, especially those in the information technology sector, have expressed worry and discontent over what they consider to be the high cost of using the Internet and its associated poor quality of service. In an interview with the B&FT some of the businesses, which are of different sizes, shared...
Residents of resettled communities within the enclave of the 400megawatt Bui Hydroelectric project have appealed to authorities for bill-free electricity supply as part of their compensation package. They say construction of the dam has adversely affected their source of livelihood – farming and fishing, thus rendering them too financially incapacitated...