“This is nonsensical and madness,” Roads Minister, Kwasi Amoako-Atta fumed on Wednesday when he led a team to the Airport residential area Wednesday. The Minister led the team to demolish a concrete barricade erected by some Turkish developers who are putting up a 22-storey building in the area. He also called for the arrest of the contractor working on the ...

Born on April 24, 1827, Ghana’s Kwasi Boakye is the world’s first black mining engineer. The African-Dutch mining engineer was a prince of the Ashanti Empire and the eldest son of Kwaku Dua II, a king of the Ashanti kingdom. In 1837, along with his cousin Kwame Poku, the prince left to pursue an education in the Netherlands. The prince ...

The Ministry of Trade and Industry has released a list of 58 completed factories under the government’s flagship program, One District One Factory. The factories’ production ranges from agri-goods to the production toiletries, fabrics and bottled/sachet water. Out of the 58 companies, 22 of them can be found in the Greater Accra Region, 11 in the Eastern Region and 12 ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has justified why 96 out of the 275 ambulances are currently parked at the State House. The issue of these parked ambulances emerged after the Minority side on Parliament’s Health Committee gave the government the ultimatum to immediately release the ambulances or risk further public agitations. Others joined in the campaign indicating that there is ...

Think tank, IMANI Africa, has scored the Nana Akufo-Addo government an overall mark of 48.78% with regards to the fulfilment of its 2016 manifesto promises. The think tank also scored the government 54.35% for how it has managed the economy, stating that out of a total of 162 promises, only 41 have been implemented. The scores are contained in the ...

Majority Leader and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu has accused the embattled Auditor General, Mr Daniel Yao Domelevo of heinous moves to scandalise appointees in the current administration under the guise of fighting corruption. “In many instances when the report has come to Parliament we find out that many times the Auditor-General has gotten it wrong and ...

Member of the governing New Patriotic Party ( NPP) Fadi Dabbousi has reacted strongly to comments by Member of Parliament(MP) for Sagnarigu, A.B.A. Fuseini to the effect that every other thing has gone up except President Akufo-Addo’s height. In a strongly-worded rejoinder, Ghanaian-Lebanese wondered whether the MP had considered his unsightliness made worse by his badly cut tribal marks on ...

The National House of Chiefs (NHC) has removed the Omanhene of the Sefwi Anhwianso Traditional Area, Ogyeahohor Yaw Gyebi II as the chairman of the Governance and Development Committee of the House with immediate effect. This is because, according to the NHC, it was the second time Ogyeahohor Yaw Gyebi II had gone public to criticise a unanimous decision taken ...

Alex Mould says the US$170 million savings President Akufo-Addo said the nation saved for the change of fuel from HFO to natural gas from Ghana’s Eni operated Sankofa Gye Nyame (SGN) oilfield, are fabricated. The n Energy and Financial expert who was part of the initial arrangement for the Karpowership Purchase Agreement and the fixing of the pricing of the ...

It has emerged that elements of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) together with some people at the presidency allegedly planned the removal of the three electoral commissioners over a year ago. This was contained in an audio conversation available to US-based Ghanaian journalist, Kevin Ekow Baidoo Taylor and cited by GhanaWeb. The audio conversation was allegedly between Gordon Asare ...