Former President John Mahama appears to be unhappy with the opportunity given to tens of thousands of Ghanaian students, especially those from poor homes to access education under the Free Senior High School (SHS) programme. He expressed frustration with the large intake of students under the programme once again, even though poor students are mainly benefitting from the laudable initiative ...

Government has allotted GHC197 million for the desilting choked drains and other drainage works in the country, Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources has said. Addressing the press in a joint interaction between her Ministry and the Greater Accra Metropolitan Water and Sanitation Projects, Cecilia Dapaah said the contract for the works has already been awarded by the Ministry of ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has inspected the site of Rhovanni Royal Company Limited, one of the enterprises operating under Government’s “One District One Factory” (1D1F) programme, located at Tanoso in the Ahafo region. President Akufo-Addo visited the project site on Saturday, 13th April 2019, on the 2nd day of his 2-day tour of the Ahafo Region. Government is currently ...

Ashanti Regional Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako has hit hard at former President John Dramani Mahama, accusing him of replicating vices his father demonstrated in his capacity as Agriculture Minister under the First President of Ghana, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. Mr. Boasiako, speaking on Kumasi-based Ashh FM alleged that Emmanuel Adama Mahama, then a state ...

Parliament has approved a €155 million loan for the completion and equipping of the maternity and children’s block of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital. Estimated cost of the project is €138.50 million and it will take three years to complete but the Health Minister, Kweku Agyeman-Manu has assured that due to the over 40-year delay in its completion, the Ministry ...

Hello good evening, your trusted online portal, GhanaWeb will bring you minute by minute account of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations draw which takes place in the Egyptian capital of Cairo this evening. The entire continent is zooming in on Cairo where delegates from all 24 qualified teams have already answered present for the draws of the Afcon 2019. ...

It seems former President John Mahama is not doing away with sharp bitterness towards the introduction of the Free Senior High School (SHS) programme by the Nana Addo led government. The former President whose opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) party claims to be a socialist party and as such expected to be pro-poor, has been kicking against the Free SHS ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo will next week cut the sod for the construction of Tamale Interchange, which forms part of the country’s road infrastructure development. The road infrastructure development is under the two billion dollars Sinohydro Bauxite Barter Transaction between the Government of Ghana and Sinohydro Group Limited of China. The government said US$1.5 billion of the amount ...

Mr Ross Berizaya Ayine, a son of former Deputy Attorney General Dr Dominic Ayine, has testified to the fact that the 30 per cent cut in import levies on cars has started taking effect at the ports as announced by Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia. Mr Ayine said he cleared a Honda Civic Touring at GHC31,000 last week but cleared the ...

A scandal is emerging in Ghana’s upstream petroleum sector as a whopping 13.3 million barrels of oil worth US$827 million from the Jubilee, TEN and Sankofa fields cannot be accounted for by authorities. Careful scrutiny and analysis of Petroleum Receipts and Distribution Reports released quarterly by the Ministry of Finance from 2011-2017 reveal a cumulative figure of 239,738,762 barrels of ...