The Daily IIJ

Pakistan ranks 144th in UNDP’s Human Development Index (HDI), out of total 178 countries. According to UNDP’s HDI report, Pakistan faces enormous challenges, including poverty, poor healthcare facilities, illiteracy and a continuously soaring population.

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The management of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has indicated its intention sue Sterling Securities Limited for the recovery of ¢5,950,568,033.50 billion (GH¢ 5.95m), which is the interest, plus principal amount of GH¢4.5m invested in the company.

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The Public Accounts Committee of Parliament yesterday lambasted the Ghana National Petroleum Company (GNPC) for diverting its scarce resources into unprofitable businesses that resulted in the company incurring huge losses in its operations during the 2003-2005 year under review.

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The inability of some state-owned institutions to honour their obligations in paying for power services supplied them, has resulted in the accumulation of huge arrears to their service provider, the Volta River Authority (VRA), a situation officials of the Authority say was having a rippling effect on their operations.

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It takes an average of about four days of hard travelling from Harare by bus and sometimes by train for someone to arrive at a place like Durbanin KwaZulu Natal or Worcester in the Western Cape, two of South Africa’s provinces.

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The Embattled outgoing presidential spokesperson, Mahama Ayariga, may have his hopes of becoming a minister dashed, as the Appointments Committee of Parliament has suspended his approval, pending investigations over his conduct in acquiring five John Deere tractors, under the Agricultural Mechanization Centre Scheme (AMSEC), run by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA).

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The Gambia governments has declared the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) representative Ms. Min Whee Kang persona non grata. Ms. Min Whee Kang has been declared persona non grata by the administration of President Yahya Jammeh and has since left the country.

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The Northern Regional Minister designate, Mr. Moses Mabengba yesterday told the Appointments Committee of Parliament, presided over by Mr. Edward Doe Adjaho that the conflict situation that has bedeviled the northern region was hampering development in the area, highlighting on land and chieftaincy issues as the bane of the conflicts in the region.

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Incoming Interior Minister, Mr. Martin Amidu, has told a public hearing, presided over by the First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Edward Doe Adjaho, that “crime should not be attached with any political connotation.” “Crime is crime, no matter who is involved,” he told the Appointments Committee of Parliament yesterday, when he appeared before it for [...]

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The Local branch of the International Labour Organization (ILO) on Tuesday presented 600 copies of two publications on ‘Financing Local Economic Development in Ghana’ to Parliament.

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