After frantic efforts to beat the transfer deadline, Arsenal has finally secured the signature of Black Stars Deputy Captain, Thomas Teye Partey, for a whopping £45 million (€50m/$58m). The deal has seen the Gunners secure the services of the now ex-Athletico Madrid star for a period of four years with the option of an additional year. After chasing Partey for ...
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NPP exposes Mahama over inflated cocoa road projects
The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has said it has in no way neglected cocoa road projects as being claimed by former president John Mahama. Speaking at a press conference in Accra on Monday, 05 October 2020 as part of its leadership series, the director of communications of the NPP, Yaw Buaben Asamoa, said the projects had to be suspended ...
Read More »General Secretary of the largest opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is making a wild allegation about government’s plot to turn the Volta region into a ‘war zone’ ahead of the December 7 polls. Johnson Asiedu Nketia, who was speaking on NEAT FM’s morning show ‘Ghana Montie’, Monday, October 5, 2020, said he has first-hand information about government’s plot to terrorize Voltarians. He told host, Mac Jerry Osei-Agyemang that he has concrete evidence of “distribution of weapons by government to some vigilante groups.” General Mosquito, as affectionately called in politics, also hinted of a government plot to clad some vigilante groups in military uniform as a disguise to ease their operations on election day. “They [NPP] will clad some vigilante groups with military uniforms to terrify Voltarians on the elections day. I have the list of all guns with registered numbers given to groups,” he made a wild allegation. According to him, the brouhaha about the secessionist group is a plot by the NPP. “They should know we are aware, if we don’t speak against it, NPP will destroy this country like the way they killed Yaa-Naa, that is their game plan,” he said.
General Secretary of the largest opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is making a wild allegation about government’s plot to turn the Volta region into a ‘war zone’ ahead of the December 7 polls. Johnson Asiedu Nketia, who was speaking on NEAT FM’s morning show ‘Ghana Montie’, Monday, October 5, 2020, said he has first-hand information about government’s plot to terrorize ...
Read More »NDC, NPP reps in near exchange of blows on live radio
But for the swift intervention of the studio producers and the host, the District Chief Executive for Sekyere Afram Plains would have traded blows during a live studio radio discussion on Akoma FM’s weekend flagship programme Wonsom with former Municipal Chief Executive for Obuasi. The heated confrontation ensued after the DCE, Joseph Owusu, popularly known as Odenkyem, representing the New ...
Read More »Ghana’s Jubilee Field hits 300-million-barrels of oil production mark
Tullow Ghana Limited (TGL), operator of the Jubilee and Tweneboa, Enyenra and Ntomme (TEN) fields, is proud to announce a significant milestone of 300 million barrels of oil production from the Jubilee field. Tullow and its partners; GNPC, Kosmos, Anadarko and Petro SA, in a statement, said they “are proud to be part of Ghana’s remarkable Jubilee story”. “With the ...
Read More »Akufo-Addo cuts sod for 83.5km railway line from Kumasi to Obuasi
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has cut the sod for work to commence on the 83.5-kilometre standard gauge railway line from Kumasi to Obuasi, as part of the new Western Line being constructed. Performing the sod cutting ceremony, he noted that, by January 2017, out of the 947 kilometres of colonial narrow-gauge rail network bequeathed to the country by the ...
Read More »We rioted because EC ‘removed’ our names from the register – Secessionists tell court
Suspects who appeared at the Circuit Court 3, presided over by Susan Eduful after rioting in some parts of the Volta Region, have claimed that the removal of their names from the Electoral Commission’s voters register is what triggered their activities of rioting. They claimed their rioting was to let the world know that they were been being ‘marginalized’ in ...
Read More »Rijksambtenaren krijgen meer loon en thuiswerkvergoeding van 363 euro
De 120.000 rijksambtenaren krijgen per 1 juli een loonsverhoging van 0,7 procent. Ook komt er een thuiswerkvergoeding van 363 euro netto, zo zijn de vakbonden met de overheid overeengekomen. Verder worden de ambtenaren betrokken bij gesprekken over zogenoemd ‘hybride werken’, meldt vakbond CNV. Het betreft dan een mix van thuiswerken en naar kantoor komen. Binnenlandredactie 28-09-20, 19:46 Laatste update: 07:42 ...
Read More »Grapperhaus tegen kerken: maximaal 30 mensen in de kerk en niet zingen
Zoveel mogelijk online-diensten, maximaal 30 mensen bijeen en niet zingen. Dat heeft minister Grapperhaus afgesproken met kerkelijke koepels na de ophef van afgelopen weekend over drukbezochte kerkdiensten in Staphorst. Bij drie diensten gisteren in de Hersteld Hervormde Gemeente waren per dienst maximaal 600 mensen welkom. Bezoekers hoefden geen mondkapje te dragen en er werd gezongen. Politici van allerlei gezindten waren ...
Read More »Niet alle ouderen vrezen nieuwe coronagolf: ‘Als ik het krijg, is het mooi geweest’
REPORTAGEVeel verpleeghuizen hadden het zwaar tijdens de eerste uitbraken van corona. Voor de 23 instellingen van Thebe, in hartje Brabant, was de schade minder groot. Tot nu toe overleden er dit jaar zelfs minder bewoners dan normaal. Angst voor de tweede golf is er nauwelijks. ,,We worden hier toch goed verzorgd?’’ Annemieke van Dongen < 03-10-20, 17:00 ,,Als het komt, ...
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