Minister of Works and Housing, Samuel Atta Akyea, has accused the erstwhile Mahama administration of embezzling over $114 million in the Saglemi Housing Project. According to him, this was revealed in an audit report conducted by the Ghana Institution of Surveyors. Speaking on Joy TV’s PM Express Wednesday, October 14, 2020, the housing minister said, “the Ghana Institute of Surveyors ...

The New Patriotic Party has accused the National Democratic Congress of creating imaginary collusion between the Electoral Commission of Ghana and the government as a way of misinforming Ghanaians to believe the existence of a plot to rig the 2020 elections for the ruling party. Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, October 14, 2020, the NPP’s Deputy Campaign Manager, ...

A traffic management expert Samuel Oppong is proposing a new national database system through a Digital Readable Vehicle Number plate to reposition the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) to achieve optimal revenue and road safety. He said this would be achieved through the use of improved automated systems in the case of vehicle registration in Ghana. Mr Oppong suggested ...

The Ministry of Roads and Highways has spearheaded the pulling down of structures on land reserved to develop an alternative road to ease the traffic congestion on the American-House-Adjiringanor road. Mr Kwasi Amoako-Attah, the Minister of the Sector, who directed the exercise on Tuesday on a visit to inspect progress on the site, said his Ministry had given the owners ...

The fourth prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of former COCOBOD CEO and two others was found wanting after it emerged that she issued different fertilizer certificates to Sidalco without recourse to an Act of parliament regulating how her office is administered. The witness, Dr. Felicia Ansah-Amprofi, who is the National Director of the Plant Protection and Regulatory Services Directorate ...

A group calling itself the Dragons of Western Togoland military army has sent a note of caution to Energy Minister John Peter Amewu, Volta Regional Minister Archibald Yao Letsa and the MP for North Tongu, Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, that it will move to claim “the motherland” in the next 21 days. The group sent the message via video. In ...

Paul Adom-Otchere, the host of Good Evening Ghana (GEG) on Metro TV, has again hit hard at Naana Opoku-Agyemang, the opposition NDC’s vice presidential candidate, over some responses the latter gave in her recent media interview about the incumbent NPP’s flagship free SHS policy. Two media houses, GHOne TV and Citi TV on Monday October 12, aired different interviews Professor ...

Former National Democratic Congress Member of Parliament for Ejura Sekyere-Dumase Constituency in the Ashanti Region, Alhaji Mohammed Issifu Pangadu, has said he is being bastardised for speaking about the positive impact of the Planting for Food and Jobs initiative. According to him, people do not understand why a former NDC Member of Parliament could make public statements about an opposing ...

General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has alleged that the government of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is distributing over 4000 weapons from the state armoury to some vigilante groups associated with the incumbent NPP. According to him, this is part of the many ploys the incumbent NPP is taking to disrupt the December 7 elections. “We are aware that the government ...

The Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) on Friday, October 9 impounded a consignment said to contain pistols illegally imported from Turkey. The ammunitions were concealed in the consignment of personal effects. They belong to one Felix Wallace, who has been arrested by the marine police. He had come to clear his 1X20 footer container of household goods ...