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Ghanaian-owned technology company, Rlg Limited has been awarded the contract to manufacture Set Top Boxes (STBs) for the country as the country inches closer to the final phase of its Digital Migration. This follows the commencement of work on the local production of STBs in Ghana. The sale and distribution of approved Digital Terrestrial Television (DDT) Receivers and Decoders will be rolled out in the early part of this year ahead of the migration to the digital platform. Government announced that Phase 1 of the multi-million-dollar Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) network project had already been completed in April 2016 and…

Some youth, believed to be members of the governing New Patriotic Party, today made botched attempts to takeover the offices of the National Health Insurance Scheme in Sagnerigu and Tamale metropolis. The about 30 youth stormed the NHIS offices in the Northern region Monday but their efforts to eject workers there were thwarted by the timely intervention of the police. The errant youth, nonetheless, insisted that the directors of the scheme should vacate their posts by Tuesday. They claimed the directors where appointed by the previous National Democratic Congress government, and must therefore leave office for new persons to be…

As the new administration starts work today, a governance expert has called on the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to consider cutting down drastically the size of his government. Professor Albert Puni opined that the President can attain his goal of protecting the public purse if he is able to form a lean government. He made the call on Onua Fm morning show Yen Nsem Pa hosted by Bright Kwesi Asempa on Monday. “The president should endeavor to avoid things that transported the NDC administration to opposition, some of those is to ensure value for money, he should check the…

After being sworn into office on Saturday, President Nana Akufo-Addo officially starts work today. A guard of honour was therefore mounted on Monday to usher him into the presidency. Below are colourful pictures from the event. Source: 3news.com | Ghana]]>

File photo[/caption] Former President John Dramani Mahama has left Accra to Abuja to attend an ECOWAS Meeting on the situation in The Gambia. The former Ghanaian President who recently handed over to newly elected President Nana Akufo-Addo has been asked to continue his mediation role in the effort to resolve The Gambian political crisis. In a meeting of ECOWAS held on the sidelines of the inaugural ceremony of President Akufo-Addo, the leaders requested the former president to continue to assist President Muhammadu Buhari as co-mediator in the Gambian issue. In a telephone conversation yesterday, President Akufo-Addo personally conveyed the ECOWAS…

This was found on the tomb of an unknown man: ‘When I was young, I told myself that I would change this world but I realized at the time of my death that I had changed nobody because I should have changed myself first’. Food for thought. A few days after Ghanaians of various persuasions ‘danced over’, ‘jumped over’, ‘Pushed Over’, ‘Rolled Over’ and did all to get over from 2016 to 2017, the final act of sealing what democratically took place in Ghana on December 7, 2016 happened on Saturday, January 7 when there was a handing over and…

Contractors owed by the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) started receiving payment today January 6. 2017 started with some contractors working on GETFund projects picketing at the Ministry of Finance to demand monies owed them. It is to the tune of over GHc 300 million spanning a period of six months. This also incited the Association of Building and Civil Engineering Contractors in the Volta Region to threaten to block access roads and facilities they have constructed today if they are not paid monies owed them. But speaking to 3FM business, Deputy Director of GETFund, Stephen Baffoe, says the Fund has…

Mr Bagbin has been in the House since 1992[/caption] The outgoing Majority Leader of Ghana’s Sixth Parliament under the Forth Republic, Alban S.K. Bagbin wants the next Parliament, as an institution, to intensify its efforts at educating the public on what members do in the house in order to court the support of the public. Speaking on the floor of the House at the end of dissolution of the Sixth Parliament of the Forth Republic , the Majority Leader was hopeful the move will  bring Parliament closer to the people . He cited for instance the Annual Public Fora, the…

Police officers at the Tamale Airport junction in the Northern Region appear to have defied instruction to suspend checking of vehicular documents on the roads by the Ghana Police Service. The Ghana Police Service in October instructed that all vehicular checks at the various Police check points across the country be suspended with immediate effect. The directive, sent via the security agency’s wireless service, received backlash after it found it way into the public domain as a section of the public claimed it was to score a political point. The police communication directorate revealed that the directive was not politically motivated but rather…

Patronage of New Patriotic Party (NPP) paraphernalia is booming across the country ahead of the inauguration of the president-elect, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Saturday. Traders are cashing in as the day approaches in various stores and traffic intersections across the country. Onua FM’s team of reporters across the country reports of a happy mood of traders who sell various NPP paraphernalia. Afia Afriyie reports from Accra that traders in traffic intersections such as Kaneshie First Light, Abeka Junction, N1 Highway, among other places have made a lot of sales due to the event. She explained that most drivers, private and…