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Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta, is hopeful the railway sector will begin to show signs of recovery after several years of setback. According to him, development of railway infrastructure across the country is nearing completion for the sector to be relaunched. “We are confident, 2019 will witness the relaunch of the railway system in Ghana after some 50 years of ...

The Special Prosecutor’s Office will receive ¢180 million in 2019 to fight corruption, the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has disclosed. He said the move is in line with the government’s promise to fight corruption and the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, remains committed to seeing it through. “In this budget, the Special Prosecutor’s Office has been allocated an amount of ...

It has therefore warned registrants and staff of the Authority to desist from the act. The Authority warned that an applicant will be liable to prosecution in accordance with Section 40 of the National Identity Register Act, 2008 (Act 750) when she/he is found to have provided false or incorrect information. The Authority was reacting to a publication by The ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has asked Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives who are nursing their Parliamentary ambitions to resign voluntarily. According to him, the era MMDCEs neglected their core mandate and campaigned for votes ahead of Parliamentary primaries should be a thing of the past. The Ghanaian leader was addressing a workshop in Tamale organized by the Ministry ...

The High Court in Accra has ordered that an action brought against the General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Johnson Asiedu Nketia, be served on him via the media and on notice boards of the court for 14 days. This follows the difficulty of the plaintiff, Prof. Edward Dua Agyeman, to locate Mr Asiedu-Nketiah in order to ...

Owusu Afriyie Akoto, Minister for Food and Agriculture, has cut the sod for the construction of a $50million food processing plant in the Jasikan District of the Volta Region under the One District One Factory (1D1F) initiative. The construction and machinery installation of the plant sited on a 50-acre plot would be executed with German engineering and expected to provide ...

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has indicated that efforts of the current New Patriotic Party administration led by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to put the economy back onto the right track, is attracting lots of Foreign Head of States into the country “because they see Ghana as the future.” According to him, the implementation of social interventions and other pragmatic ...

Former Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko has denied claims by the former Deputy Minister of Power under Mahama administration that he instructed Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to use “illegal back door activity” to increase electricity tariffs after PURC had gazetted the approved tariffs. According to John Jinapor, bulk generation tariff, which comprises Volta River Authority (VRA) charges and Independent Power ...

The Media Coalition on Right to Information (RTI) and the RTI Coalition have expressed concern about the “lackadaisical attitude of Members of Parliament (MPs) towards the RTI Bill.” Last week Parliament for the second time in five sitting days suspended the consideration of the Right to Information (RTI) Bill for lack of a quorum. Coincidentally, it was the same legislator, ...

A Ghanaian citizen by name Mensah Thompson has petitioned President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as the first step to have the Chief Justice, Sophia Akufo, impeached. He is citing “stated incompetence” as the grounds to have the head of the judicial arm of government removed from office. Article 146 (6) of the 1992 Constitution states that if the president is ...