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Former Power Minister, Kwabena Donkor, has revealed his 2015 controversial resignation from office as the then sector minister was not as a result of his purported inability to end the power crisis (dumsor) the country faced at the time. The Member of Parliament for the Pru East Constituency in the Brong Ahafo region on assuming office as the then power ...

Former President John Mahama says it is only God who chooses a leader, not President Akufo-Addo as he wants Ghanaians to believe. Addressing delegates of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Bekwai on Monday, Mr Mahama played down comments by President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo that the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) would remain in opposition for a long time. Incensed ...

Government has finally laid before parliament the Legislative Instrument (LI) on the office of the Special Prosecutor. The Defence Minister Dominic Nitiwul laid the document on behalf of the Attorney General, Monday, Joy News’ Parliamentary correspondent Joseph Opoku Gakpo reported. The document has since been referred to the Subsidiary Legislative Committee for deliberations and it will take 21 working days ...

t has emerged that the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) under the management of its current Chief Executive, Joseph Boahen Aidoo, purchased some 100,000 bags of an untested fertilizer called “Cocoa Nti” worth US$3.5 million, using a forged scientific report which is a subject of controversy at the ongoing trial of Dr. Stephen Kwabena Opuni and Alhaji Seidu Agongo. The forged ...

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has released a full list of teachers who have been sanctioned for violating the code of conduct of the service. According to a statement issued and signed by Cassandra Twum Ampofo, Head of Public Relations Unit of the GES, the decision was arrived at after thorough investigations into their conduct by the Disciplinary Committee which ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has visited the Kete Krachi Timber Recovery Limited, a company operating under Government’s 1-District-1-Factory initiative. The company, located in Asuogyaman, in the Eastern Region, runs a timber salvage operation on the Volta Lake, using barge-mounted salvage units, built around modified Caterpillar excavators. It will be recalled that construction of the Volta Lake resulted in vast ...

Ex President John Dramani Mahama over the past few days on his campaign tour has been vociferous against the Akufo-Addo led government on some key policy areas like the Free SHS. While addressing NDC delegates at Nsuta Kwaman Beposo in the Ashanti region as part of his campaign tour he said, “When these students graduate where will they get employment? ...

The Nandom District Assembly in partnership with Netherland Development Organisation (SNV) on Monday celebrated World Toilet Day in Nandom in the Upper West Region, highlighting the worsening sanitation situation in Ghana. The day brought to the fore deteriorating sanitation conditions in local communities, districts and towns, which estimated 24.5 million Ghanaians as not having access to safe and clean toilets. ...

The Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has revealed that the government of Ghana is ready to access the first tranche of the $2 billion Sinohydro infrastructure-for-bauxite facility. The monies are expected to be used for the completion of some 68 roads nationwide; which project is expected to start before the year ends through to the year 2020 when it ...

The government has said it intends creating five new districts in order to facilitate development in those areas. Some 38 new Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies were created in 2017. Together with the proposed five, the country will have 259 MMDAs in total. According to Deputy Local Government Minister, Collins Ntim, who laid a Legislative Instrument (L.I.) on the floor ...