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Ghana blessed to have a listening President – Council of State

The Council of State has described President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo- Addo as a listening President who takes his advisors seriously. This, according to the Council of State is based on the expeditious manner in which the President accepted and implemented the recommendation for a downward review of the tariff regime at the country’s port of entry. The Council said ...

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Judges frustrating my Galamsey fight – Akufo-Addo

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said the amended illegal mining law has had to take away some discretions of judges because they have not been helpful to the fight against galamsey. At a meeting with the Council of State on Monday, 19 August 2019, the President said he gave his assent to the Minerals and Mining (Amendment) Act, 2019. The Act ...

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50 warehouses ready

The Akufo–Addo government, through the Minister for Special Development Initiatives, has constructed 50 warehouses at various locations across the country as part of government’s ‘One district, One warehouse’ initiative. The 1000 metric tonne prefabricated warehouses initiative was funded from the $1 million per constituency allocation under the agriculture infrastructure component of the government’s Infrastructure for Poverty Eradication Programme (IPEP). The ...

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GN Bank siphoned $62m – BoG

The clean-up of the banking, specialized deposit-taking (SDT) and non-bank financial institutions (NBFI) sectors in the country by the Bank of Ghana (BoG) is opening the Pandora’s box with regard to how some of the owners illegally transferred customers’ savings and investments without traces. The Central Bank last Friday struck once again when it announced a revocation of the licenses ...

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Asamponhene’s killing: Close confidant arrested

A man identified as a close confidant of the Otumfuo’s Asamponhene, Nana Kwadwo Afoduo who was killed on Sunday has been arrested. His arrest comes barely less than 24-hours after the 46-year-old direct relative of the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II was murdered in what police suspect to be contract killing. Though police are tight-lipped on details of the man ...

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‘NDC living in another world; free SHS here to stay’ – President Akufo-Addo

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says the Ghanaian people will not entrust power into the hands of the opposition National Democratic Congress in 2020 because of their determination to cancel the Free Senior High School policy. According to President Akufo-Addo, “I know that there are people in this country who don’t want this policy, who have ...

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Akufo-Addo ‘mocks’ NDC plan to scrap free SHS after 2020 comeback

President Akufo-Addo says Ghanaians will not entrust power into the hands of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in 2020, because of their determination to cancel the Free Senior High School policy. He said, “I know that there are people in this country who don’t want this policy, who have been campaigning against this policy. They are dreaming that they ...

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Franklin Cudjoe must resign for insulting my American accent – Former Maritime boss

The former Director-General of the Ghana Maritime Authority (GMA), Mr Kwame Owusu, who used close to GHS1 million to renovate and expand a two-bedroom colonial-style property into a modern five-bedroom edifice with 13 air-conditioners, has asked the founding president of Imani Africa, Mr Franklin Cudjoe, to apologise to him for certain disparaging remarks the think-tanker made against him. Mr Owusu ...

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