President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is hopeful that the new GH¢20million Sweet Potato Processing Factory under construction will transform rural communities in and around Gomoa Bewadze in the Gomoa West district of the Central Region. The factory, to be operated by CASA de ROPA Limited – a wholly-owned Ghanaian private agribusiness company financed by the Ghana Export-Import (EXIM) Bank – ...

Reports reaching DAILY GUIDE indicates that business is currently booming in Kumasi, the Ashanti regional capital. The Kumasi Mayor, Osei Assibey Antwi, attributed the positive trend to the implementation of the free Senior High School (SHS) policy. He said the free SHS policy, notably the Double Track System, has increased enrolment in schools. “Parents and students have been trooping to ...

The National Democratic Congress has announced membership of committees to manage its up-coming national delegates congress to elect executive officers. The congress will be held on Saturday, November 3, 2018 at the Trade Fair Centre in Accra, according to the party at press conference it held Wednesday. Apart from a 17-member planning committee chaired by the party’s General Secretary, Johnson ...

The National Executives Committee (NEC) of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), in consultation with the party’s National Council, on Wednesday appointed deputy national officers and directors to head the various directorates of the party. After a meeting of the two bodies at the party’s headquarters at Asylum Down in Accra, seven officers were appointed to head key directorates of the ...

The daughter of Ghana’s first President says her father’s vision to see a united Africa is relevant today as it was some six decades ago. “’Africa must unite.’ Not ought to, not should; a must. Africa must unite,” said Samia Nkrumah in reference to three words that describe her father. Samia was speaking Friday on the Super Morning Show on ...

The immediate-past Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) under previous Mahama administration is likely to face prosecution for alleged corruption. Sedina Tamakloe Attionu, according to a forensic audit report, allegedly misappropriated GH¢3,193,592 and is therefore expected to account for the huge amount of money. Ms Attionu and other former heads of six state-owned agencies have ...

The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has accused the opposition National Democratic Congress in Juaboso in the Western region of bussing minors to register for a referendum. Director of Elections Evans Nimako posted pictures of a pick-up with registration number GX 696-16 with a number of young people on board, one of them in school uniform. “They are just bussing ...

First President Kwame Nkrumah delivered the first independence speech on March 6, 1957, to hundreds of participants including representatives from the British monarch. “We have won the battle and again rededicate ourselves,” he had said, adding “Our independence is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa.” Today, Ghana celebrates Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day (a.k.a Founder’s ...

The Minority National Democratic Congress [NDC] in parliament, will from October 2018, roll out a national outreach program to engage Ghanaians on their position on the recent fuel price hikes. This according to them, is an attempt to explain the issues plainly to the citizenry, and further press home their demand for the scrapping of the special petroleum tax. The ...

Ghana’s roads are to undergo a major reconstruction with modern all-season road network linkages to spur economic and social development through easier access to and from rural areas to the main population centre. The $10 billion project will include undertaking a thorough assessment of the current road network in Ghana to identify and build roads, from scratch, expand some existing ...