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Were you voted for proverbs or development? – Bawumia quizzes A.B.A Fuseini

The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has charged the people of Sagnarigu Constituency to rethink their voting pattern in the impending election, indicating that it could turn their fortunes around in terms of development. He noted that since 1992, the people in the Constituency have voted for the National Democratic Congress but have not seen any changes in development. He ...

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Chairman Wontumi handed $45 million juicy cocoa road contract

Ashanti Regional Chairman of the governing NPP, Bernard Antwi-Bosiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, is allegedly involved in a US$45 million cocoa road project awarded to him by the Ghana Cocoa Board. Some screenshots of documents cited online by GhanaWeb indicate that an engineering company with one Bernard Antwi-Bosiako as director registered early 2018 under the name Hallmark Civil Engineering ...

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FDA boss files defamation suit against major media entities

The CEO of the Food and Drugs Authority, Mrs Delese Mimi Darko, has filed a defamation suit against three media houses at the High Court, seeking general damages of 2 million Ghana cedis from each of the institutions and their reporters. She is also demanding a retraction and apology from the media houses’ online platforms with the same prominence within ...

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Government to send ‘brilliant’ Adeiso SHS student to UK university on full scholarship

The Ghana Scholarship Secretariat has announced that it has granted Thomas Amoaning, a student of Adeiso Presby SHS who excelled in his WASSCE, full scholarship for studies in the United Kingdom. The award package, according to the Secretariat, entails full tuition, monthly stipends, return air tickets, accommodation, health insurance and any other benefits given to foreign scholarship beneficiaries. The Head ...

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Mahama’s claims on separatists attacks disappointing – Gov’t

Government has described as disappointing former President John Mahama’s claim that national security is behind the Volta separatists agenda. Speaking in an interview with Pan African TV, Mr Mahama said that information available to the NDC indicates that the attacks were not carried out by members of the Homeland Study Group Foundation. He said the attacks were done at the ...

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Japan Motors to assemble Nissan vehicles in Ghana from 2021

Japan Motors Trading Company Ltd. (JMTC) is to begin assembling Nissan vehicles in Ghana by the first half of 2021. This is a result of an assembling agreement between Nissan and Japan Motors, which was announced at a ceremony in Accra in line with Ghana’s automotive development agenda. According to the Managing Director of Nissan South Africa, Shinkichi Izumi, the ...

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Cynthia Lamptey appointed interim Special Prosecutor

Deputy Special Prosecutor Ms Jane Cynthia Naa Torshie Lamptey, has been asked to act as Special Prosecutor until a substantive one is appointed by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo following the resignation of Mr Martin Amidu from the post. Ms Lamptey is a lawyer of over 30 years standing at the Ghana Bar and former acting Director of Public Prosecutions. Commenting on her new ...

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Withdraw Assin North NDC PC, he owes allegiance to Canada – Group to EC

A group calling itself Concerned Citizens of Assin North have petitioned the Electoral Commission (EC) in the Central Region to withdraw the candidature of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary candidate, James Gyakye Quayson. The group disclosed that the petition was informed by the fact that Mr Gyakye owes allegiance to Canada. This, the group said, is derogatory to the constitutional procedure towards the ...

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Konadu’s NDP Slams NDC Leave Rawlings Alone

The National Democratic Party (NDP) has accused the National Democratic Congress (NDC) of scheming to profit from the sudden death of former President Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings through sympathy votes on December 7. The NDP led by Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings, former Frist Lady and wife of the deceased ex-President who founded the NDC, broke away from the party to ...

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Mahama accuses NPP executives of ‘stealing’ building materials of Garu hospital

Presidential candidate for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Dramani Mahama has stated that the Garu Hospital project which his administration commenced has stalled because the ruling NPP executives stole materials meant for its continuation. “We were building the Garu hospital; it was one of the hospitals that we chose to be built in this country. We got funding for various hospitals around the ...

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