Accra- Thursday June 29, 2023: The Office of the Head of the Local Government Service (OHLGS) in partnership with the GIZ Governance for Inclusive Development Programme and the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) organised a one-day knowledge and experience sharing workshop on Anti-Sexual Harassment Policy (ASHP). The workshop was held at the Coconut Groove Hotel in […]

Accra – Wednesday 21st June, 2023: The OHLGS-USAID-CARE partnership has been launched in an official ceremony held at the Alisa Hotels in Accra. The launch was to amongst other things brief stakeholders on the DAGI tool and to also have an overview of the key findings on the current performance of Metropolitan, Municipal and District […]

Accra – Friday June 9, 2023: The Head of the Local Government Service (LGS), Ing. Dr. Nana Ato Arthur has planted a commemorative tree on the third edition of the Green Ghana Project under the theme “Our Forest Our Health”.   At the forecourt of the Office of the Head of the Local Government Service (OHLGS), […]

The Head of Local Government Service, Ing Dr Nana Ato Arthur has challenged Chief Directors/ Regional Coordinating Directors (RCDs) of the Service to make conscious efforts to hugely reduce audit infractions in their respective Regions. He believes this can be achieved by adhering to audit recommendations and responding to breaches raised through auditing within the […]

VARIOUS – April to May, 2023: The Office of the Head of the Local Government Service (OHLGS) as part of its mandate assessed sixteen (16) RCCs and Two Hundred and Sixty-One (261) MMDAs across the country. The overarching aim of the exercise was to ascertain the overall performance of RCCs and MMDAs based on their […]

VARIOUS – April to May, 2023: The Office of the Head of the Local Government Service (OHLGS) has honoured three (3) Regional Coordinating Councils (RCCs) and ten (10) Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) with citations and plaques for their outstanding performance in the 2021 LGS Performance Contract assessment. These RCCs and MMDAs were outstanding […]

The Head of Local Government Service, Ing Dr Nana Ato Arthur, has admonished Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives to make use of Information Officers assigned to their assemblies. The Head of Service made the admonition when the Minister of Information Hon Kwadwo Oppong Nkrumah paid an official visit to him at his office on […]

Accra – Thursday, May 11, 2023: The Head of the Local Government Service, Ing. Dr. Nana Ato Arthur has implored the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to provide intensive capacity building on digitalisation for staff of the Local Government Service (LGS). Dr. Arthur made the appeal when some officials from JICA paid a courtesy call […]