Former President Jerry Rawlings is the latest to have added his voice to the deteriorating roads in the Volta Region, notably, the road leading to the capital, Ho. While travelling to the Regional capital on Thursday, to commiserate with the family of Chairman of the National Democratic Congress there, Henry Ametefe, on the death of his wife, Mr. Rawlings stopped ...

The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, today presented the 2020 Budget Statement and Economic Policies of the government to Parliament. The minister dressed in his usual white apparel, holding his famous brown bag delivered what he described as the “Nkosuo ne Nkabom budget” for 2020. According to the Finance minister, the year 2019 has been “a very good year for ...

The founder and leader of the United Progressive Party (UPP), Mr. Akwasi Addai Odike has said on Radio 1 (100.7) that one major problem of this country is that we are being ruled by fools. Speaking with Nana Kwabena Addo monitored by MyNewsGh.com, Odike said instead of the leaders finding solutions to our problem, they are rather attacking each other ...

The concession agreement for the construction of the Accra Sky Train Project has been signed on the sidelines of the ongoing African Investment Forum in Johannesburg, South Africa. The signing of the agreement means feasibility studies, spanning a period of nine months to determine the bankability of the project will commence, with the investors assuring that the first station for ...

The National Youth Organiser of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Henry Nana Boakye, aka Nana B, has said the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has mastered the art of political mudslinging but lacks basic ideas to move the country forward. The NPP challenged the NDC to come forward with a single alternative policy that can change the fortunes of ...

Ken Ofori-Atta, the Minister of Finance, has welcomed a number of inputs from the Organized Labour for consideration into the 2020 budget presentation. Speaking at a meeting which involved the Minister for Employment and Labour Relations, Hon. Ignatius Baffour Awuah and organized labour, he said, government recognizes the important role stakeholders play in the development of the nation, hence, the ...

GIHOC Distilleries Company Limited, a state-owned manufacturer of distilled and alcoholic beverage brands, has outlined plans to set up five fruit-based alcohol plants known as Standardisation Depots under the One District-One Factory (1D1F) initiative of the Akufo-Addo government. The factories are to be located in five selected agricultural communities in the country namely, Techiman, Goaso, Nsawam, Bibiani and Agogo. The ...

Mark Addo, who is the Director for second-tier side Nzema Kotoko, was named Ghana FA’s vice president on Tuesday after surprising Randy Abbey to win the election. Mr Addo has quietly spent the past 20 years in football administration by owning Accra-based Mandela Stars since the 1990s before switching to take Nzema Kotoko. The unassuming Addo has 18 years of ...

  President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has cut the sod for the construction of a Railway Bridge on the Volta Lake at Ogoli, a village near Juapong in the Volta Region. The bridge will allow for the new railway line from Tema in the Greater Accra Region to terminate at Mpakadan in the Eastern Region. The $20-million Volta rail bridge ...

When a big name in the media space such as Afia Pokua unexpectedly leaves the organisation she has been with for years for another, it is bound to generate a lot of talk. And that is just what her move from Multimedia to the Despite Group has done, it has been trending for the last two weeks or more. Having ...