Ghana’s roads could undergo major reconstruction to spur economic and social development through easier access to and from rural areas to the main commercial centres. The $10 billion projects will include undertaking a thorough assessment of the current road network in Ghana to identify and build roads from scratch, expand some existing roads as well as maintain others. It is ...

The government has hinted at plans to restructure the economy by issuing a $50 billion century bond. Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, has expressed optimism that the century bond will contribute to strengthening the falling cedi. Speaking with the parliamentary press corps on Monday, 24 September 2018, Mr Ofori-Atta said the government is exploring several means in its bid to ...

The government has assured that tax waivers await local companies that are also able to take up significant initiatives like the ‘300 villages satellite TV project’, being undertaken by Chinese multinational media company, StarTimes. This would mean the local companies will be investing at least GHc3 million in equipment for such projects. “The Chinese government is giving us equipment to ...

Minister of Communication, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has said the Akufo-Addo government is reimbursing wholly Ghanaian-owned IT firm K-NET, for all customs duties and charges it paid at the ports when the company imported equipment into Ghana to build the Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) Network infrastructure. The reimbursement, according to Mrs Owusu-Ekuful, is part of the current government’s support to local companies ...

Alban S. K. Bagbin, who is aspiring to be flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has bemoaned the extreme calamitous pandemonium that the members of the main opposition party finds themselves in. Speaking over the weekend on Prestea based Energy 93.3 FM in the Western Region of Ghana, Hon. Bagbin said, “one of the reasons that motivated me to ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said he expects the country to be firmly handle the current economic difficulties. Though the President said the country was not at a crisis point, he acknowledged that the average Ghanaian was in difficulty. “It is not a crisis, but the difficulties that we are going through now are difficulties that the system will be able ...

A Midwife is chastising Ghanaian men for sabotaging family planning efforts. Madam Abigail Adjei, who works with the Ankaase Methodist Faith Healing Hospital observes that many women complain about negative repercussions of many of the family planning options. “Some say they bleed endlessly when they take some of these options, others say they grow very lean, some even say they ...

Ghana’s Digital Terrestrial Platform (DTT) infrastructure will be managed as a commercial entity, the Ministry of Communications has announced. It will be incorporated as the Central Digital Transmission Company Limited (CDTCL) and governed by a board, the ministry has explained. A statement issued in Accra and signed by the Minister of Communications, Mrs Ursula Owusu Ekuful, said the board would ...

A government sanctioned forensic audit has revealed that the acquisition of helicopters worth over $61 million by Ghana National Gas Company (GNGC) caused financial loss to the state because the choppers were never utilized. The four Z-9EH helicopters bought from China for surveillance by Ghana Gas during the previous Mahama administration at the total cost of $100 million ($25m each) ...

The 2018 Ghana Garden and Flower Show has opened in Accra with a call for more efforts towards the plant, garden and flower sector due to huge economic benefits. Mr Ron Strikker, the Netherlands Ambassador to Ghana, who made the call, said plants, flowers and gardens provided huge employment and economic benefits for Netherlands saying that, there were currently 3000 ...