Former President of Ghana, John Agyekum Kufour has backed Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in what many have described as an elephant size government According to him in an interview with Oman Fm’s Kwabena Kwakye monitored by MyNewsGh.com, considering the nature of the work Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo came to meet, there was the need to have broken down some Ministries to get these Ministers ...
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‘You politicians have made the country very hard to live in’ – Eyewitness recounts how Mfantseman MP was shot
Ekow Quansah Hayford, the Member of Parliament for Mfantseman in the Central Region was shot dead by unknown assailants, according to reports. Sources say the MP of the incumbent NPP was shot on the Abeadze-Dominase-Abeadze Duadzi-Mankessim Road while returning from a campaign trip. The MP, according to eyewitness accounts, had visited four communities within his constituency to campaign for reelection for another ...
Read More »NPP exposes Mahama over inflated cocoa road projects
The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has said it has in no way neglected cocoa road projects as being claimed by former president John Mahama. Speaking at a press conference in Accra on Monday, 05 October 2020 as part of its leadership series, the director of communications of the NPP, Yaw Buaben Asamoa, said the projects had to be suspended ...
Read More »Parliament approves US$243.6 million Supplier’s Credit for trains
Parliament has approved an amount of US$243.6 million, being Supplier’s Credit Agreement between Ghana and Dongfang Electric International Corporation, for the procurement of Standard Gauge rolling stock (trains). The terms and conditions of the Agreement are that the facility amounts to US$243,600,000, repayment period of 10 years, tenor of 12 years, grace period two years, interest rate of six months ...
Read More »Provide evidence of $10m spent on cocoa roads audit report – Fiiffi Boafo to Mahama
Senior Manager of Public Affairs at the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Fiifi Boafo has dismissed claims by former President John Dramani Mahama and the NDC Minority Caucus in Parliament that the Akufo-Addo government spent a whopping $10 million to conduct an audit report on the cocoa roads awarded to contractors under the erstwhile Mahama administration. Wondering how the leader of ...
Read More »EC, NDC disagree with filing procedure
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has accused the Electoral Commission of imposing challenges on the Party hence its inability to file the nomination at 1100hours as earlier promised. The NDC said the decision by the EC to use a provisional register for the filing process instead of a certified one accounted for the delay of nomination submission. The Electoral Commission, ...
Read More »How DK Poison reacted to news of government paying his $45,000 debt
Ekow Asmah, the spokesperson of David Kotei Poison has revealed the legendary boxer’s reaction to news that President Akufo-Addo has ordered the Finance Ministry to pay him the $45,000 debt owed him by the state. Ekow Asmah disclosed to Graphic that DK Poison was excited and fulfilled that after four and half decades, his money has finally been paid to ...
Read More »Ken Ofori-Atta reacts to EU blacklist of Ghana, says it’s like a ‘sledgehammer thrown at us’
Ken Ofori-Atta, Ghana’s Minister for Finance says the decision by the European Union to add Ghana to the “blacklisted countries for non-compliance with money laundering rules” is like “a sledgehammer thrown at us”. He made these remarks when he met the European Union Ambassador to Ghana to sign an agreement for some 87 million Euros budgetary support labelled as a ...
Read More »2020 Elections: Protests in Talensi ahead of Akufo-Addo’s Upper East Region tour
Protests broke out on Tuesday at Winkogo, a key electoral area in the Talensi District, 24 hours before President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s timetabled tour of the Upper East Region. The protests were staged by the community members of Goriko, an integral suburb of Winkogo, where the now-governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) organised its last rally whilst in opposition ahead ...
Read More »Stop leaking official documents to politicians – Civil servants cautioned
The Head of the Local Government Service (LGS), Dr. Nana Ato Arthur has condemned the leakage of official documents by some public and civil servants to politicians. Dr. Arthur indicated that the practice which is currently on the increase is “illegal” and the act needs to be frowned upon. He added that measures were being put in place to ensure ...
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