Ashanti Regional Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako has hit hard at former President John Dramani Mahama, accusing him of replicating vices his father demonstrated in his capacity as Agriculture Minister under the First President of Ghana, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. Mr. Boasiako, speaking on Kumasi-based Ashh FM alleged that Emmanuel Adama Mahama, then a state ...
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Parliament approves €155m loan for KATH maternity, children’s block
Parliament has approved a €155 million loan for the completion and equipping of the maternity and children’s block of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital. Estimated cost of the project is €138.50 million and it will take three years to complete but the Health Minister, Kweku Agyeman-Manu has assured that due to the over 40-year delay in its completion, the Ministry ...
Read More »LIVESTREAMING: 2019 AFCON Draw
Hello good evening, your trusted online portal, GhanaWeb will bring you minute by minute account of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations draw which takes place in the Egyptian capital of Cairo this evening. The entire continent is zooming in on Cairo where delegates from all 24 qualified teams have already answered present for the draws of the Afcon 2019. ...
Read More »Ghanaians living abroad sent home $3.8 billion in 2018
Remittances from Ghanaians living abroad to Ghana increased by 7.3 percent to US$3.8 billion in 2018. Remittances to Sub-Saharan African countries in 2018 contributed substantially to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of these nations. Transfers grew by almost 10 per cent to US$46 billion, according to the World Bank’s latest Migration and Development Brief. Ghana was among the top 10 ...
Read More »Mahama cries over Free SHS again
It seems former President John Mahama is not doing away with sharp bitterness towards the introduction of the Free Senior High School (SHS) programme by the Nana Addo led government. The former President whose opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) party claims to be a socialist party and as such expected to be pro-poor, has been kicking against the Free SHS ...
Read More »Infrastructural projects under the Sinohydro Transaction to begin next week – Veep
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo will next week cut the sod for the construction of Tamale Interchange, which forms part of the country’s road infrastructure development. The road infrastructure development is under the two billion dollars Sinohydro Bauxite Barter Transaction between the Government of Ghana and Sinohydro Group Limited of China. The government said US$1.5 billion of the amount ...
Read More »‘Import levy cut true; I cleared car for GHC18K instead of GHC31K’ – Ayine’s son
Mr Ross Berizaya Ayine, a son of former Deputy Attorney General Dr Dominic Ayine, has testified to the fact that the 30 per cent cut in import levies on cars has started taking effect at the ports as announced by Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia. Mr Ayine said he cleared a Honda Civic Touring at GHC31,000 last week but cleared the ...
Read More »13.3million barrels of oil worth $827m missing – Report
A scandal is emerging in Ghana’s upstream petroleum sector as a whopping 13.3 million barrels of oil worth US$827 million from the Jubilee, TEN and Sankofa fields cannot be accounted for by authorities. Careful scrutiny and analysis of Petroleum Receipts and Distribution Reports released quarterly by the Ministry of Finance from 2011-2017 reveal a cumulative figure of 239,738,762 barrels of ...
Read More »Poeptest darmkanker blijkt succes
Het bevolkingsonderzoek naar darmkanker is een groot succes. Dat blijkt vandaag uit onderzoek in opdracht van het RIVM. De poeptest onder senioren toont meer darmkanker aan dan voorzien en de opkomst is hoger dan verwacht. Bij dit bevolkingsonderzoek, dat loopt sinds 2014, sturen mensen hun poep op ter controle. Een test toont sporen bloed aan in die ontlasting. Een ongunstige ...
Read More »Government orders speed limiters for commercial vehicles to reduce road crashes
All commercial and goods carrying vehicles with gross weight of 3.5 tonnes and above are to be fitted with speed limiters as part of mechanisms to reduce growing road crashes in the country. The move, according to Minister of Transport, Kwaku Ofori Asiamah, was in line with Regulation 135 of L.I 2180 (Road Traffic Regulation, 2012) which mandates all such ...
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