Conversion of cassava into industrial starch is expected to commence at New Aboi in the Wassa Amenfi Municipality of the Western Region as a One District One Factory (IDIF) initiative by the end of this year. “Clearing land for construction of the Industrial Starch Factory will start this month, and hopefully by December it will be completed for production to ...

Lands and Natural Resources Minister, Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh has flatly rejected the assertion that galamsey kingpin, Aisha Huang, was deported in exchange for the two billion dollars Sinohydro loan. He was emphatic on Thursday that the loan arrangement was never tied to the Aisha Huang’s case. “With respect to the 194 foreigners that have been deported, the exact figures dealing with ...

A former Chief of Defense Staff of the Ghana Armed Forces, Joseph Nunoo-Mensah, says comments made by the Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo Maafo, about Ghana’s decision to discontinue a legal action against Chinese national Aisha Huang were honest. Addressing a town hall meeting in the US, the Senior Minister told Ghanaians there was the need for Ghana to maintain a ...

The National Women’s Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr Hanna Louisa Bissiw has taken a swipe at Vice President Dr Mahamadu Bawumia for verbally attacking former President John Mahama over government’s Free Senior High School policy. Dr. Bawumia, who was speaking at a rally in Kwahu in the Eastern Region last weekend, heavily criticised Mr Mahama for hinting ...

Mr Samuel Atta Akyea, Minister of Works and Housing on Wednesday said the Saglemi housing project in the Ningo-Prampram District in the Greater Accra Region has serious challenges resulting in the halt of the project. He said the necessary information including measurement and financials issues have been referred to the Attorney’s General Department for advice as it bordered on contractual ...

A former associate of deported Chinese illegal miner has opened the lid on ‘galamsey queen’ who, puffed up by a colluding horde of security officials, unleashed a reign of terror. The eye-opener, Christian Addo Kuffuor told Joy FM’s Super Morning Show Thursday, he witnessed Aisha Huang pull out a gun and without flinching, load bullets into a Ghanaian, killing him ...

The Minister for Works and Housing under the erstwhile Mahama administration, Sampson Ahi has refuted a publication suggesting that his government was involved in a shady deal which resulted in a reduction of housing units that were supposed to be built for an a mount of two hundred and eighty million dollars ($280m). A report by Daily Guide said the ...

Staff of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) on Tuesday started a week long red attire protest against some unfavourable clauses in the Authority’s port expansion agreement with Meridian Ports and Services (MPS). The staff are to wear red attires for a week to drum home their displeasure at the MPS concession which the Ghana News Agency learnt would ...

The successive NDC governments have dishonoured numerous Manifesto promises, but the one that has ineffaceably stencilled on discerning Ghanaians mental sheets, is the one-time NHIS premium. That Manifesto promise, so to speak, was destitute of honesty and integrity. Given their lackadaisical approach to governance, it would be wholly unreasonable for anybody to suggest that to err is human and therefore ...

National Communications Officer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi has dismissed suggestions that he is lacking credibility on claims that the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) is collapsing under the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government. “I have seen NPP social media commentators calling me a liar. Calling someone a lair does not mean I am a liar”, ...