Deputy Defence Minister Kofi Amankwa-Manu has expressed scepticism regarding John Dramani Mahama’s proposal to provide allowances for Assembly Members if he wins the December 2024 elections. According to him, Mr. Mahama needs to disclose how he intends to raise funds to fulfil this promise. Mr. Mahama, the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), made […] The post Deputy
In December 2023, the National Sports Authority (NSA) took an unpopular decision to close down the Accra Sports Stadium at the time the first round of Ghana premier league was ongoing. After being severely criticized over this obvious poor judgment, the NSA came out to explain that when stadiums are rented out to the premier […] The post Editorial: Does Ghana care about development of sports?
The Education Minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has announced that a 22-year-old Medical Doctor who graduated from Cape Coast University in 2023 has been made a motivator for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education in the country. He explained that the young Doctor would soon be supported to go around pre-tertiary institutions across the […] The post 22-year old Medical Doctor
Mr George Mireku Duker, a Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, responsible for Mines, has elaborated extensively on the policy strategy of the Vice President and Presidential aspirant of the New Patriotic Party, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia for the small-scale mining sector, describing it as a ground-breaking strategy capable of revolutionising Ghana’s mining industry entirely. […] The post Bawumia
Nana Yim Awere Ababio, the Chief of Toase in the Atwima Nwabiagya South Municipality, has been elected as the Presiding Member for the Assembly at the fifth inaugural and elections of the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assembly members (MMDAs) on Monday. The Toasehene, a government appointee to the Assembly, doubles as Director of Finance at the […] The post Toasehene elected
The Bui Power Authority transacts power business with the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) Limited in the United States of America Dollars, instead of the local currency, Cedi. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament expressed concerns over the issue during its public hearing in Accra yesterday. The Chairman of the PAC, James Klutse Avedzi, […] The post Bui Sells Power To
The Minister of Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, has announced plans by the government to distribute over 1.4 million tablets to students in senior high schools under the free SHS policy. The minister said the move is to help improve teaching and learning in the various public senior high schools across the country. Speaking at […] The post Every SHS student to get a tablet
The Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has completed a study dubbed – “Time Release” – to assess the average time goods under customs are cleared at the various ports and frontiers of Ghana. The study, conducted between September 2022 and 2024 was done at the Tema Port, Kotoka International Airport, Aflao and Paga borders, to […] The post GRA
The Nkwanta South Traders Association has called on the Interior Ministry to review the curfew imposed on the township as their businesses are suffering. Mr Richard Owusu Ansah (Paa Rich), the Secretary of the Association, said the current curfew from 1700 to 0600 hours, resulting from the ethnic conflict, was affecting their business activities. Business […] The post Nkwanta South traders want curfew
The Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has announced plans by the government to distribute over 1.4 million tablets to students of Wesley Girls Senior High School under the free SHS policy. The minister said the move is to help improve teaching and learning in the school. Speaking at the speech and prize-giving day […] The post Adutwum promises to
Nana Akufo-Addo and John Mahama President Nana Akufo-Addo has dismissed as “misguided and unfortunate sentiments” comments made by former President and current National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer, John Dramani Read More... The post Nana Jabs Mahama Over WASSCE
Kofi Bentil Senior Vice President of IMANI-Africa, Kofi Bentil, has endorsed Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to be the next president of Read More... The post Bawumia Better Than Mahama – Kofi Bentil appeared first on
The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has stated that the party will not support the proposal for a change in the date for the 2024 elections from December to November. “We [NDC] do not believe that this is being proposed in good faith,” he maintained. The NDC flagbearer made the […] The post We’ll not support
The Member of Parliament for the Yapei Kusawgu Constituency, John Abdulai Jinapor, has added his voice to calls for the construction of the road leading to the Buipe Savannah Diamond Cement Company Ltd. Mr. Jinapor made the call after he led a team of the town’s leaders, including the District Chief Executive, to a closed-door […] The post John
The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has stated that the party will not support the proposal for a change in the date for the 2024 elections from December to November. “We [NDC] do not believe that this is being proposed in good faith,” he maintained. The NDC flagbearer made the […] The post We’ll not support EC’s
The Lands Commission has stated that plot No. 379 at East Legon in the Greater Accra region is owned by no other person than businessman, Magnus A.L. De Souza. The Commission said this in an open court when one of its officers, Jacqueline Osarfo Dikoh, a Senior Lands Administration Officer, was subpoenaed to testify in a suit […] The post McDan Group CEO does not own the East
Former President John Dramani Mahama, on Saturday, inaugurated phase two of the ‘Safe Alternative Housing’ unit at Battor, where about 12,000 residents displaced by the September-November 2023 Akosombo Dam spillage were accomodated. The construction of the disability-friendly houses, an initiative of the North Tongu MP, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa and partners, started on December 13, 2023 […] The post JM
The indigenes of Essienimpong, in the Ejisu Municipality of the Ashanti region, are up in arms with their Chief, Nana Kwaku Appiah Onwawani, for allegedly encroaching upon their farmlands, measuring more than 80 acres through sand winning. The complainants, including Nana Ama Acheampomaah III, the Queen mother of Essienimpong, have accused the Agya Appiah Bitters CEO […] The post Some
The Greater Accra Regional Office of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) can now conduct its operations in a fully-furnished and magnificent office complex, after Benito Owusu-Bio, the Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources in Charge of Lands and Forestry, on behalf of the Sector Minister, officially handed over the newly-constructed office to […] The post Lands ministry
The NPP is at a crossroads! In nearly eight years in power, the party has presided over “a boom and bust economy.” The party is fighting for its political life as it seeks to break an eight-year electoral cycle. And the person charged with turning this apparent impossibility into a possibilityis its flagbearer, Dr. Bawumia. […] The post Bawumia’s
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