The Minister for Transport, Kwaku Ofori Asiamah, has asked the consortium of contractors working on the Boankra Inland Port Project, especially the Ghanaian partner, to maintain focus and deliver quality work to justify the confidence reposed in indigenous contractors by the President of the Republic. According to him, delivery of quality work within the scheduled three-year completion time will pave ...

A deputy Minister of Energy in charge of the petroleum sector, Dr Mohammed Amin Adam, has indicated that the New Patriotic Party(NPP) government has managed the affairs of the Tema Oil Refinery(TOR) better than the erstwhile National Democratic Congress (NDC) government. According to him, TOR witnessed some growth within the NPP tenure. He made this known at ‘The Energy Manifesto ...

Construction of a new terminal building and other ancillary works at the Kumasi Airport is nearing completion, a visit by AviationGhana to the facility has revealed. In June 2018, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo cut the sod for the second phase of the expansion of Kumasi Airport, which is expected to be completed in 24 months. The project, valued at ...

Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu has issued a strong-worded rebuttal to former President Mahama’s description of his decision to defer investigation into the Airbus Scandal as ‘cowardly and stupid’. According to Martin Amidu, Mahama’s response to his comment is a clear indication of his lack of appreciation for issues of security and intelligence. Amidu veered into the politics by averring that ...

The Independence Square will no longer serve as the venue for the swearing-in of newly elected Presidents, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs has said. It is enshrined in the constitution that all newly-elected presidents should be sworn in in parliament but bar President Kufour’s first term, the swearing ceremonies have been held at Independence Square. But speaking at ...

The Electoral Commission of Ghana ahead of the 2020 presidential election has released the profiles of all the candidates. The December 2020 presidential election is set to go in history as having the longest ballot paper in terms of the number of candidates contesting. The 12 candidates set to contest in the elections consist of three females and 9 males. ...

The Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has revealed that out of the 80 warehouses being built across the country, 51 of them are ready. He said at the Nation Building updates series on Tuesday, November 3 that the government will soon commission the completed warehouses. “We decided that we were going to build 80 warehouses across ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has commissioned the first site of the Rural Telephony and Digital Inclusion Project, at Atwereboana in the Adansi South District, in the Ashanti Region. Commissioning the Site on Wednesday, 4th November 2020, President Akufo-Addo explained that the purpose of the Telephony Site is to ensure the provision of basic voice and data connectivity to underserved ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has cut the sod for the commencement of work on the US$330 million Boankra Integrated Logistics Terminal project, popularly referred to as the Boankra Inland Port Project, which has been on the drawing board for some eighteen (18) years. The idea of the Boankra Integrated Logistics Terminal project has been in the pipeline since the ...

The Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA) has charged the Special Prosecutor, Mr. Martin Amidu to re-investigate Former President Mahama on the Airbus saga. At a press conference, the Executive Director of ASEPA, Mr. Mensah Thompson in response to Special Prosecutor’s report wondered why he (Mr. Martin Amidu) captured in his report that the Former President John Dramani ...