Africa Archive

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia will today Friday, March 19 announce the 2021 Housing and Population Census (PHC) Night when he launches the 100-day count down to the Census. The Census Night is the reference date for Census enumeration and all

First year Senior High School (SHS) students Thursday reported to school to commence the 2021/22 academic year. According to the the Ghana News Agency (GNA) to the St Thomas Aquinas SHS and Accra High School saw the ‘freshers’ going through the

Mr Vitus Azeem, an Anti-graft activist, cannot understand why the Audit Service Board is going after former Auditor-General, Daniel Yao Domelevo for handover notes weeks after his forced retirement. He indicated how the Board is moving with its processes for the notes

Majority leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has stated that the Speaker of parliament does not wield any power under the law to reject the budget. Speaker Alban Bagbin has threatened to reject the budget because there has been a slash in the budget for the

Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin has threatened to block the 2021 budget over the Presidency’s decision to slash budget estimates for the Judiciary and the Legislature. Executive Secretary to the President, Nana Asante Bediatuo revealed to the speaker a ¢77 million

Minister-designate for finance, Ken Ofori-Atta has said the 1 per cent COVID-19 levy introduced in the 2021 budget statement will among other things help pay for the COVID-19 vaccines imported into the country. The government has revealed the introduction of a

The Media Foundation for West Africa has dragged the National Communications Authority to court over a fee of GHS2,000 charged by the authority for access to information. The Foundation wrote to the NCA a year ago asking for information on the

The move by some people in the creative arts industry to have Mark Okraku Mantey appointed as Deputy Minister for Tourism, Culture and Arts appears to have paid off if a report by The Chronicle, newspaper is to be taken at