The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has promised to set up a loan scheme for young Ghanaians that will help them rent decent homes. The Vice President made this revelation at the NPP’s 2020 manifesto launch. He indicated that the government will implement the policy through a National Rental Assistance scheme with an initial sum of GH¢100 million “There are ...

Ghana is preparing to deploy a special Coronavirus testing kit to test international passengers arriving at the Kotoka International Airport and other ports of entry. Currently, the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research is testing the potency of the kit, dubbed Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Detection Kit, ahead of reopening of Ghana’s international air traffic later this month. According to ...

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has released guidelines for coronavirus safety protocols ahead of the possible resumption of international air travels soon. The guidelines include the following: – Ensure there is no congestion at all sections of the airport (arrival, departure and environs) to fail adherence to social distancing protocols; – Compulsory mask wearing for all passengers (both arriving and ...

Economist and Political Analyst, Dr. Worlanyo Mensah, has opined that Ghanaian politicians take the electorates for granted, often making promises they do not intend to keep, only doing so because they feel the electorates will be pleased to hear these promises. He made this assertion in relation to the recent campaign trails by the two presidential candidates of the major ...

The Asogli State Council in the Volta Region has said there are several instances of misreporting of the contents of the speech made by Togbe Afede XIV during a visit by the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) John Mahama to his palace. “First, there was a report that Togbe Afede XIV said ‘the country for almost four years ...

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia claims the National Democratic Congress government constructed the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange at a cost of $260 million while 4 interchanges constructed by the NPP government cost 280 million dollars. Is that a fact? Claim: Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia says the NDC government constructed the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange at a cost of 260 million dollars ...

Under the Mahama regime, there was a state-sponsored campaign to discredit Akufo-Addo’s Free SHS programme, Kweku Baako is alleging. Baako asserts that the government of Mahama did not only oppose the program but they followed through with adverts on media platforms to make it unpopular. The veteran journalist says his newspaper New Crusading Guide were among the media houses that ...

The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, on Tuesday, August 18, 2020, made a presentation to tout the government’s infrastructural achievements in its first term in office. The event was held at the Ghana Academy of Arts and Science in Accra and outlined major achievements under the current administration led by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. “Before the 2016 election, the ...

To bridge the inequality gap and alleviate the plight of the ordinary Ghanaian, political parties are given a mandate by the electorates to implement and manifest their goodwill and promises. By and large, this goodwill of political parties contained in their manifestos in developing countries like Ghana, are mostly weighed per the number of developmental projects which are actually achieved ...

Editor-In-Chief of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has urged Ghanaians to subject Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia‘s public engagement on the infrastructure record of the Akufo-Addo administration to scrutiny. According to him, the Vice President’s assertions should not be accepted at face value but rather there should be a deep dive into the figures and account ...