Author Archives: edwardkanawu

Akufo-Addo inspects 1D1F project in Tanoso

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has inspected the site of Rhovanni Royal Company Limited, one of the enterprises operating under Government’s “One District One Factory” (1D1F) programme, located at Tanoso in the Ahafo region. President Akufo-Addo visited the project site on Saturday, 13th April 2019, on the 2nd day of his 2-day tour of the Ahafo Region. Government is currently ...

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Your father was a ‘corrupt thief’; you followed his footsteps – Wontumi punches Mahama

Ashanti Regional Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako has hit hard at former President John Dramani Mahama, accusing him of replicating vices his father demonstrated in his capacity as Agriculture Minister under the First President of Ghana, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. Mr. Boasiako, speaking on Kumasi-based Ashh FM alleged that Emmanuel Adama Mahama, then a state ...

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LIVESTREAMING: 2019 AFCON Draw

Hello good evening, your trusted online portal, GhanaWeb will bring you minute by minute account of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations draw which takes place in the Egyptian capital of Cairo this evening. The entire continent is zooming in on Cairo where delegates from all 24 qualified teams have already answered present for the draws of the Afcon 2019. ...

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Ghanaians living abroad sent home $3.8 billion in 2018

Remittances from Ghanaians living abroad to Ghana increased by 7.3 percent to US$3.8 billion in 2018. Remittances to Sub-Saharan African countries in 2018 contributed substantially to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of these nations. Transfers grew by almost 10 per cent to US$46 billion, according to the World Bank’s latest Migration and Development Brief. Ghana was among the top 10 ...

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Mahama cries over Free SHS again

It seems former President John Mahama is not doing away with sharp bitterness towards the introduction of the Free Senior High School (SHS) programme by the Nana Addo led government. The former President whose opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) party claims to be a socialist party and as such expected to be pro-poor, has been kicking against the Free SHS ...

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Infrastructural projects under the Sinohydro Transaction to begin next week – Veep

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo will next week cut the sod for the construction of Tamale Interchange, which forms part of the country’s road infrastructure development. The road infrastructure development is under the two billion dollars Sinohydro Bauxite Barter Transaction between the Government of Ghana and Sinohydro Group Limited of China. The government said US$1.5 billion of the amount ...

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13.3million barrels of oil worth $827m missing – Report

A scandal is emerging in Ghana’s upstream petroleum sector as a whopping 13.3 million barrels of oil worth US$827 million from the Jubilee, TEN and Sankofa fields cannot be accounted for by authorities. Careful scrutiny and analysis of Petroleum Receipts and Distribution Reports released quarterly by the Ministry of Finance from 2011-2017 reveal a cumulative figure of 239,738,762 barrels of ...

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Poeptest darmkanker blijkt succes

Het bevolkingsonderzoek naar darmkanker is een groot succes. Dat blijkt vandaag uit onderzoek in opdracht van het RIVM. De poeptest onder senioren toont meer darmkanker aan dan voorzien en de opkomst is hoger dan verwacht. Bij dit bevolkingsonderzoek, dat loopt sinds 2014, sturen mensen hun poep op ter controle. Een test toont sporen bloed aan in die ontlasting. Een ongunstige ...

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