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The 2019 annual Islamic pilgrimage Hajj fare has been fixed at GH¢19,500 an equivalent of $3,500 dollars by the Pilgrimage Affairs Office of Ghana (PAOG), in collaboration with Hajj Agents Association. This is a 23 percent (GH¢ 4,500) increment as against

Senior Minister Yaw Osafo-Marfo has expressed disappointment at  the office of the Special Prosecutor stating that they have  not met his expectation. He indicated the confidence people reposed in the office, but that has not materialized so far. Some Ghanaians, including

The European Commission added Ghana, Saudi Arabia, Panama, Nigeria and other jurisdictions to a blacklist of nations that pose a threat because of lax controls on terrorism financing and money laundering, the EU executive said on Wednesday. “The European Commission adopted

Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST ) Otumfuo Osei Tutu ii , has inaugurated a three-member committee to probe the violence that occurred in October last year. There was a misunderstanding between the students and school authorities which

Albert Kan Dapaah, National Security Minister has stated that, until perpetrators engaged in electoral violence are punished, violence associated with elections are likely to recur. Mr Dapaah told the Emile Short Commission probing the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election shooting incident on

The government has  extended an invitation to the leadership of five transport associations together with the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers Ghana (COPEC-Ghana) to dialogue following the groups’ threat to stage a demonstration on Monday, 19 February 2019 against government’s implementation of

Madam  Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, Foreign Affairs Minister has downplayed suggestions that Ghana should retaliate the visa sanctions imposed on the country by the U.S. “Are you dealing at arm’s length [with the U.S.], there are more Ghanaians [seeking to travel] than

The anticipated Right to Information Bill, RTI, is scheduled to take effect only in the 2020 financial year should it be passed. This follows an amendment proposed by the majority leader and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu on