Minister for Youth and Sports, Isaac Asiamah, has revealed that over $6 million was budgeted for the AFCON 2019. This, according to him, included training tour, expenses for main tournament and related activities. “A budget of US$6,365,033.44 was approved for the tournament comprising training tour, main tournament and their related activities.” He added that out of the allocated amount, US$4,563,353.00 ...
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Report jeans-wearing wives to police – DOVVSU
Married men who are being denied sex by their jeans-wearing wives have been advised to report their wives to the police. The Central Regional Coordinator of the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU), Mr George Appiah-Sakyi, explained that “denying your spouse sex amounted to emotional abuse”. “If your wife wears jeans to sleep and causing you emotional abuse its ...
Read More »$1 million per constituency project will develop deprived communities – Bawumia
Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has expounded what the real effects of President Akufo-Addo’s flagship one million dollars per constituency policy are. At a special breakfast meeting with Caribbean and African heads of mission in Havana, Cuba on Friday, 19th July 2019, Vice President Bawumia highlighted progress made by government to develop Ghana to the admiration of the diplomatic Corp. ...
Read More »Two dams completed in Sissala West District under 1V1D
Mr Mohammed Zackaria Bakor, the Sissala West District Chief Executive (DCE), has said two out of the ten dams under the One-Village-One-Dam (1V1D) programme have been completed. He said out of the remaining eight dams, four were at an advanced stage of completion, two of them were 50 per cent complete while work on the remaining two is yet to ...
Read More »Mid-Year review to raise more revenues to complete government’s agenda
The mid-year budget review which will be delivered by Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, the Finance Minister, on July 29, will among others focus on augmenting government revenues to fund the outstanding coordinated programmes of social and economic policies. Mr Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, the Information Minister, who announced this a media briefing in Accra on Sunday, said the 1992 Constitution requires every ...
Read More »Three billion cedis road infrastructure projects to start nationwide
Government has announced plans to start road infrastructural development in the second half of the year, amounting to three billion cedis. The road projects are expected to see a major boost nationwide upon the resumption of the cocoa roads projects. It will be recalled that cocoa road projects were discontinued for audit and re-scoping and proper alignment of funds to ...
Read More »Mid-Year review to raise more revenues to complete government’s agenda
The mid-year budget review which will be delivered by Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, the Finance Minister, on July 29, will among others focus on augmenting government revenues to fund the outstanding coordinated programmes of social and economic policies. Mr Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, the Information Minister, who announced this a media briefing in Accra on Sunday, said the 1992 Constitution requires every ...
Read More »VVD en CDA: Ziekenhuizen moeten boerkaverbod handhaven
Regeringspartijen VVD en CDA vinden dat ziekenhuizen het boerkaverbod gewoon moeten handhaven. ,,De wet is glashelder,’’ zegt VVD Tweede Kamerlid Dennis Wiersma. Meerdere ziekenhuizen vertelden aan deze krant niet van plan te zijn het boerkaverbod te gaan handhaven. Zij vinden het verbod op gezichtsbedekkende kleding ‘onwenselijk’, omdat zij vrezen dat vrouwen die doorgaans een boerka dragen zorg gaan mijden. De Nederlandse Federatie ...
Read More »Martin Amidu on his way out, set to rejoin NDC
Ghana’s Special Prosecutor, Martin Alamisi Kaiser Amidu is homeward bound to rejoin his political comrades in the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in frontline politics, Ghanacrusader.com can report authoritatively. The anti-corruption crusader, who accepted President Akufo-Addo’s appointment to serve as head of the novel Office of Special Prosecutor last year, has faced many frustrating and counter-productive moves from appointees of ...
Read More »Ayorkor Botchwey sues Larry Dogbe, The Herald for defamation
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Ms Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has sued the editor of The Herald newspaper, Larry Dogbe and the publisher of the newspaper, Prime Mark Company Limited, for defamation. It is the case of the Foreign Minister that a story published on the front page of the June 10, 2019 issue of The Herald newspaper ...
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