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A sprawling Haatso property belonging to All People’s Congress (APC) founder, Hassan Ayariga, has been demolished by the municipal authorities in the company of soldiers and police officers. Mr Ayariga says he is being “politically witch-hunted” for no reason. He said the property, which is under construction, is a Children’s Park meant to serve as a playground for children in ...

The Chief of Sakote in the Nabdam District of the Upper East Region, Naaba Asigiri Bewong, says the introduction of the flagship Planting for Food and Jobs has saved him and his subjects from abject poverty and improved their livelihoods. The Chief says the readily access to improved seeds and fertilizers at cheaper prices has indeed helped his people to ...

The Ashanti Regional Office of the Electoral Commission (EC) has started the process of creating 185 new electoral areas across the region. The move, if successful, would increase the number of electoral areas in the region to 1,243 from the existing 1,058. The Regional Director of the Commission, Serebour Quaicoe, said the new electoral areas were only proposals, as numbers ...

The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) Policy Advisor, Mr. Kofi Asamoah-Siaw, says President Akufo-Addo will be described as worse President Ghana has ever had if former President John Dramani Mahama wins the 2020 Presidential elections. According to him, Ghanaians passed a verdict on the former President Mahama as worse performed President in the 2016 general elections, for which reason he suffered ...

The General-Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has stated that the weird manner in which government is implementing the National Identification Card project can lead to war and bloodbath in Ghana. He accused the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government of trying to use dubious means behind the scenes to prevent some genuine Ghanaians from registering and ...

Patrons of domestic air travel should get access to alternatives by the end of August 2018. This is because a new airline, Passion Air, has joined the space to provide air transport services for the local market. This brings to two, the number of airlines operating in Ghana’s domestic aviation market. Speaking at the official ceremony to inaugurate Passion Air’s ...

The President of the Ghana Institute of Freight Forwarders (GIFF), Kwabena Ofosu-Appiah, has issued a one-week ultimatum to government to stop the implementation of the Cargo Tracking Note (CTN). He said failure by the government to respond positively to their concerns, will result in a sit-down strike of GIFF’s 3,000 members. At a joint press conference with the Association of ...

The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers Ghana (COPEC) is calling for “an immediate national dialogue” on constant fuel price increases that have hit consumers over the past few months. “Ghanaian petroleum consumers have over the past 24 hours been hit with another fuel price increases. Fuel prices across most Major Oil Marketing Companies within the country has seen a marginal increase ...

Accounting and auditing firm, KPMG, has, in its 278-page report on the financial health of now-defunct uniBank, stated that the local bank was enmeshed in “suspicious transactions” to the tune of GHS3.7 billion with withdrawals from a particular account called ‘Other Assets’ by shareholders and their related parties, hitting GHS10.8 billion in value. The Bank of Ghana recently fused uniBank ...

Ghana is currently in talks with three airline operators as the country nears the establishment of a national carrier. The companies will be responsible for injecting capital and help manage the new entity. Air Mauritius, Ethiopian Airlines and Abu Dhabi Aviation, are currently being considered for the private sector participation. The collapse of the erstwhile Ghana International Airlines has warranted ...