The Deputy Minister for Finance and Economic Planning (MOFEP), Mr. Seth Terkper, has reiterated that government would do its very best in strengthening its development agenda and take a lead in defining a budget which donors can support. He was speaking at a day’s workshop on the Multi-Donor Budget Support (MDBS) programme, which was aimed at enhancing transparency and accountability. “Ghana... 

THE National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) is one laudable policy that was implemented by the immediate past New Patriotic Party (NPP) under ex-President John Agyekum Kufuor. The policy replaced the “Cash and Carry” system which was practiced under ex-President Jerry John Rawlings National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration. SINCE its introduction, the policy has come to stay and contributed... 

Some rogues in and around Awoshie have turned Odorgonor Senior High School premises into a football park where they play football and create a lot of noise for academic activities, TODAY has gathered. According to the school authorities, the activities of these rogues on the school compound have gone on for quite a long time, and all efforts to stop them have fallen on deaf ears, as they remain resolute... 

Plans are underway for the Ministry of Education to revamp science resource centers in selected schools throughout the country to help lay a solid foundation for students before reaching the tertiary stage. The ministry also intends to restore science and technology workshops for girls in order to increase women scientist in the country as well as raise the number of senior high schools to increase... 

Two people died in an armed robbery attack and several others sustained various degrees of injuries last Monday at about 1:45 p.m., at Lashibi in the Tema metropolis of the Greater Accra Region. Information indicated that the armed men attacked a car containing money which belonged to the HFC Bank at a filling station at Lashibi. Paul Quaye, IGP TODAY gathered that apart from the driver of the car,... 

The Chief Executive Officer of National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Mr Sylvester Mensah, has disclosed that the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has witnessed some cases of financial malfeasance in the Ashanti Regional office of the scheme. He revealed that it is in this vein that those NHIS staff has been suspended for thorough investigations to begin. “Some members of the scheme need... 

Organized MESS, a multi-disciplinary marketing and ICT Nigerian firm, has opened a branch in Ghana. The Managing Director of organized MESS Ghana, Edima Otuokon, said the company has extensive experience in the rapidly advancing area of information technology, which ranges from system design, development analysis of business process and planning, to technology implementation and integration. “We... 

Newmont Ghana has revealed that it has contained and neutralized within its Mine Site, a minor overflow which occurred at its processing plant at its Ahafo Mine. According to Newmont, the overflow at the processing plant contained gold ore active processing solution (including sodium cyanide). “It was immediately contained with sandbags and neutralized with sodium hypochlorite (neutralizing solution... 

TODAY has uncovered from months of investigations that about 85% of people living at the Tema European Market, adjacent the Pioneer Food Cannery at the Tema fishing harbour are suspected hardened armed robbers and criminals. Tema European Market These people, the paper can report, sleep in kiosks they have put up for themselves at the market and its surrounding areas. Some of them live with their... 

Sleuth investigations conducted by TODAY at the Accra International Airport, the nation’s premier airport, has revealed that Security Officers at the Airport harass and extort monies from tourists and other travelers. Our sources at the airport revealed that security officers deployed mainly at the traveling and other entrance points are the main culprits in such corrupt practices. Kotoka International...