Today's Front Pages [21 January 2016]

WE ARE SUFFERING: WORKERS ON DEMO CRY OUT

Thousands of workers on Wednesday thronged certain streets of Accra to protest against hikes in utility tariffs and fuel prices.

GOVERNMENT SUED OVER EX-GITMO DETAINEES

The legality of the government’s decision to accept into the country two former alleged terror suspects detained by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay is being challenged by two citizens.

AKUFO-ADDO GOT IT ALL WRONG – OMANE BOAMAH

The government says it did not violate the Anti-Terrorism Act (Act 762) by accepting to host the two former Guantanamo Bay detainees in Ghana as alleged by the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana AddoDakwaAkufo-Addo.

WORKERS GO WILD OVER KILLER TAXES

Thousands of public sector workers, with support from the informal sector, yesterday took to the streets across the country to protest against poor management of the Ghanaian economy leading to the imposition of killer taxes.

A-G SUED OVER AL-QAEDA FOOT-SOLDIERS

Two concerned Ghanaians have dragged the Attorney General and the Minister of the Interior to the Supreme Court over the two ex-Guantanamo Bay inmates currently cooling off in Ghana.

19 NHIA OFFICERS INTERDICTED FOR FRAUD

The National Health Insurance Authority has interdicted 19 of its staff following investigations by the Bureau for National Investigations into alleged fraud at the Authority.

FIRMS RELOCATING TO COTE D’IVOIRE OVER ECONOMIC CRISIS

The deteriorating business environment in Ghana which has culminated in the ongoing industrial agitations in the country’s public and private sectors has compelled many businesses to relocate to neighbouring Cote d’Ivoire and Nigeria.

PRE-PAID METER USERS RAISE HELL

Few weeks after an almost 60 percent increase in electricity tariffs, electricity consumers have been complaining bitterly about unfair deductions of their credit units.

BOG TO ACCESS ECONOMY

The Bank of Ghana will from tomorrow begin its first assessment of the economy this year when its Monetary Policy Committee starts its sitting.

KILLER TAXES DEMO HIT GOVERNMENT

Workers unions across the country yesterday staged demonstrations in the various regional capitals to register their displeasure with the recent increase in utility tariffs and prices of petroleum products.

NHIA INTERDICTS 19 STAFF

Nineteen staff of the National Health Insurance Authority have been interdicted in connection with ongoing investigations into alleged financial malpractices.