Mr Clifford Ashun, the Central Regional Head of the Museums and Monuments Board (MMB) has commended government for its resolve to establish an airport in the historic and academic city of Cape Coast. Speaking in an interview with the GNA in Cape Coast, Mr Ashun said international tourists land in Accra before travelling to the tourism hub in Cape Coast. ...
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EgyptAir wins race to partner govt for new home-based carrier
EgyptAir has been chosen as the preferred strategic partner in the establishment of a new viable home-based carrier for Ghana, AviationGhana can exclusively reveal. According to AviationGhana, the Cairo-based airline’s proposal, after careful scrutiny by the committee of aviation experts constituted by the Aviation Ministry, was ‘much better’ than what was proposed by Africa’s biggest airline, Ethiopian Airlines. A Memorandum ...
Read More »Bawumia reaffirms government’s commitment to provide free university education
The Vice President Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has reaffirmed the government’s commitment to ensure that brilliant but needy students would access university education in the next New Patriotic Party (NPP) government. This would make the government’s flagship Free Senior High School (SHS) programme to achieve significant and desirable outcomes. Vice President Alhaji Dr Bawumia said this when he addressed separate ...
Read More »FULL TEXT: EC disqualifies 5 presidential aspirants ahead of Election 2020
LET THE CITIZEN KNOW 19TH OCTOBER 2020 ADDRESS DELEIVERED BY MRS. JEAN MENSA, CHAIRPERSON OF THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION, ON DECLARATION OF RESULTS FROM THE FILING OF NOMINATIONS BY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES FOR THE 2020 ELECTIONS ON MONDAY THE 19TH OF OCTOBER, 2020 AT 4:00 PM Good afternoon citizens of Ghana and our friends from the media. We thank the good Lord ...
Read More »Akufo-Addo commissions Naval Training Command
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has commissioned the newly constructed Naval Training Command at Nutekpor in the South Tongu District of the Volta Region. According to President Akufo-Addo, the Command Centre, which has been the long-held vision of several Chiefs of Naval Staff, “is going to accommodate all the training schools of the Navy, under a unified command, to improve ...
Read More »Jail the disqualified Presidential aspirants who forged documents
A cross section of the public in Ho are calling on the Electoral Commission (EC) to arrest, prosecute and possibly jail the disqualified presidential aspirants that allegedly forged signatures. They said the act constituted a crime and must therefore not be condoned. They alleged that the five disqualified aspirants were likely to exhibit same character when they occupy the highest ...
Read More »Coronavirus: 92 passengers test positive at KIA – Akufo-Addo
After six weeks since the reopening of Kotoka International Airport (KIA) on September 1, 2020, a total 30,564 passengers who arrived at the airport have been tested for the novel Coronavirus, out of which 92 passengers tested positive, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated. Addressing the nation on Sunday, October 18, 2020, from the Peduase Lodge after a cabinet ...
Read More »FULL TEXT: Akufo-Addo’s 18th address to the nation on measures to fight coronavirus
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo addressed the nation for the 18th time on the measures his government is taking to combat the spread of the novel COVID-19 among Ghanaians. In his address, the President mentioned that his aim is to have zero active cases of the novel Coronavirus. “Zero active cases must be the goal and I have no doubt ...
Read More »Ghana’s PCR negative test remains three days before boarding flight – President
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says the PCR negative test period before boarding a flight to Ghana remains three days despite calls for extension to at least five days. He explained that in view of the second wave of COVID-19 infections engulfing many countries in Europe and America, it was imperative for the nation to insist on the three-day period. ...
Read More »Corrupt public officers could face 25-years in jail under new law
Public officers who are found guilty of corruption under the amended Criminal Offences law could face up to 25 years in jail. Section 260 of the memorandum that accompanied the bill stipulates that a public officer who fails a set of accountability requirements could be jailed between 12 to 25 years. The amended law, which was passed last week, is ...
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