For a typical diplomat, the highest ranking representative of a specific country abroad, many will expect that he or she rides in the most expensive cars, eat at luxurious restaurants, be surrounded by heavy security and have less or no engagement whatsoever with the ordinary citizen of the host country. But this is not the case with Gregory Andrews, the ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says the $150 COVID-19testing fee being charged passengers at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) shows that the test is of high quality and thus justified. Speaking to the nation for the 17th time since Ghana recorded its first two cases of the novel Coronavirus in March, 2020, the President stated that, the test at the ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo during his 17th address to the nation announced that until December 14, the wearing of face masks remains compulsory across the country. The decision, he noted is to maintain the gradual reduction that has been observed in the number of active Coronavirus cases being recorded. “On Monday 14th September, I extended my Executive Instrument, the ...

Award-winning Gospel musician, Empress Gifty Adorye says she is so far satisfied with government’s work for the Creative Arts industry however, there’s still room for more work to be done. There have been mixed reactions among showbiz personalities especially after the New Patriotic Party (NPP) launched their 2020 manifesto a couple of weeks ago. While some have chastised the government ...

The next administration of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will supply motorbikes to Okada operators on hire purchase terms, former President John Mahama has promised. Speaking at a mini-durbar of chiefs and people of Kajeji in the Sene East Constituency of the Bono East Region, the NDC flagbearer said after his next government amends the law to legalise the use ...

Implementation of the law that bans the importation of salvaged vehicles and those older than 10 years into Ghana has been suspended. The Tema Regional Chairman of the Ghana Institute of Freight Forwarders (GIFF), Alex Asiamah, told Citi News that the suspension was announced by the Customs Commander at the Tema Port. Mr Asiamah told Citi News that “Just this ...

Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the Asantehene, has observed with concern that so far as chiefs keep running to politicians for favours, the chieftaincy front will remain divided and eventually lose its relevance. Addressing a durbar of Nananom at the inauguration of the renovated National House of Chiefs'(NHC) building in Kumasi, the Asantehene said, “as fathers of this nation, politics came to ...

Seasoned journalist, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has berated former President John Dramani Mahama for claiming the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has been embarking on a ”sakawa” sod-cutting of projects. The Flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Mahama, speaking at the party’s Town Hall meeting held in Kumasi questioned the NPP’s commitment to complete the projects saying it’s ...

Some customers of collapsed savings and loans and finance houses, who will from Wednesday, September 16, 2020, receive their locked-up capital, have expressed gratitude to the Chief Executive of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly. According to the Leader of the Coalition of Affected of Savings and Loans Customers, the Mayor Osei Assibey Antwi was very instrumental in their quest to retrieve ...

The Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) on Wednesday, September 16, 2020 made public its preliminary findings on the status of projects promised by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) during the 2016 electioneering campaign under the ‘$1m-one-constituency.’ The report, which started in 2017, found that overall there was very low community awareness of the pro-poor ...