The High Court in Accra has ordered that an action brought against the General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Johnson Asiedu Nketia, be served on him via the media and on notice boards of the court for 14 days. This follows the difficulty of the plaintiff, Prof. Edward Dua Agyeman, to locate Mr Asiedu-Nketiah in order to ...
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Work commences on $50m 1D1F agro processing plant at Jasikan
Owusu Afriyie Akoto, Minister for Food and Agriculture, has cut the sod for the construction of a $50million food processing plant in the Jasikan District of the Volta Region under the One District One Factory (1D1F) initiative. The construction and machinery installation of the plant sited on a 50-acre plot would be executed with German engineering and expected to provide ...
Read More »Government is on track – Kufour
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has indicated that efforts of the current New Patriotic Party administration led by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to put the economy back onto the right track, is attracting lots of Foreign Head of States into the country “because they see Ghana as the future.” According to him, the implementation of social interventions and other pragmatic ...
Read More »Boakye Agyarko blasts John Jinapor; says he is ‘shallow minded’
Former Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko has denied claims by the former Deputy Minister of Power under Mahama administration that he instructed Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to use “illegal back door activity” to increase electricity tariffs after PURC had gazetted the approved tariffs. According to John Jinapor, bulk generation tariff, which comprises Volta River Authority (VRA) charges and Independent Power ...
Read More »About 200 MPs abandon RTI Bill – Media Coalition
The Media Coalition on Right to Information (RTI) and the RTI Coalition have expressed concern about the “lackadaisical attitude of Members of Parliament (MPs) towards the RTI Bill.” Last week Parliament for the second time in five sitting days suspended the consideration of the Right to Information (RTI) Bill for lack of a quorum. Coincidentally, it was the same legislator, ...
Read More »Impeachment of Chief Justice begins as citizen petitions President Akufo-Addo
A Ghanaian citizen by name Mensah Thompson has petitioned President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as the first step to have the Chief Justice, Sophia Akufo, impeached. He is citing “stated incompetence” as the grounds to have the head of the judicial arm of government removed from office. Article 146 (6) of the 1992 Constitution states that if the president is ...
Read More »CDA en D66: Als Rutte vertrekt, valt het kabinet
Regeringspartijen CDA en D66 willen nieuwe verkiezingen als VVD-premier Mark Rutte volgend jaar tussentijds naar Brussel zou gaan voor een Europese topfunctie. Dat zeggen hooggeplaatste bronnen in de coalitie. Wat de twee grootste regeringspartners van Rutte betreft, zou een tussentijds vertrek niet zonder consequenties zijn. Dan valt het kabinet, waarschuwen ze. ,,Theoretisch zijn nieuwe verkiezingen niet nodig. Maar het zou ...
Read More »Hoe lang zegt Rutte nog ‘nee’ tegen de EU?
Voor CDA en D66 is het helder. Als premier Rutte een Europese topfunctie accepteert, valt het kabinet. Rutte gaf tot nu toe aan in Nederland te blijven. Maar de coalitie is er niet gerust op. Tijdens een gezamenlijke persconferentie met de Duitse bondskanselier Angela Merkel begin oktober, grijpt Mark Rutte ineens het woord. Merkel krijgt de vraag of Rutte kandidaat ...
Read More »Dit jaar geen staatsexamen Nederlands nieuwkomers meer na lek
Om vals spel te voorkomen kunnen nieuwkomers in Nederland pas volgend jaar weer het staatsexamen Nederlands afleggen. Dit examen voor mensen die Nederlands als tweede taal leren, wordt woensdag gestopt. Zo’n 4000 personen zijn getroffen. Eerder was al een onderdeel van het examen geschorst. Nadat delen van het examen Nederland als tweede taal op sociale media waren opgedoken, was aanvankelijk ...
Read More »Controversy as NDC ‘drags’ Boniface, Bolga MCE to Special Prosecutor
call by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Ghana’s Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu, to investigate and prosecute two government officials alleged to have misused state funds in the Upper East region has provoked a controversy between the opposition party and the Ministry of Inner-City and Zongo Development. The NDC told journalists at a news conference the ministry had blown an ...
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