Monthly Archives: July 2019

Two dams completed in Sissala West District under 1V1D

Mr Mohammed Zackaria Bakor, the Sissala West District Chief Executive (DCE), has said two out of the ten dams under the One-Village-One-Dam (1V1D) programme have been completed. He said out of the remaining eight dams, four were at an advanced stage of completion, two of them were 50 per cent complete while work on the remaining two is yet to ...

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Mid-Year review to raise more revenues to complete government’s agenda

The mid-year budget review which will be delivered by Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, the Finance Minister, on July 29, will among others focus on augmenting government revenues to fund the outstanding coordinated programmes of social and economic policies. Mr Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, the Information Minister, who announced this a media briefing in Accra on Sunday, said the 1992 Constitution requires every ...

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Three billion cedis road infrastructure projects to start nationwide

Government has announced plans to start road infrastructural development in the second half of the year, amounting to three billion cedis. The road projects are expected to see a major boost nationwide upon the resumption of the cocoa roads projects. It will be recalled that cocoa road projects were discontinued for audit and re-scoping and proper alignment of funds to ...

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Mid-Year review to raise more revenues to complete government’s agenda

The mid-year budget review which will be delivered by Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, the Finance Minister, on July 29, will among others focus on augmenting government revenues to fund the outstanding coordinated programmes of social and economic policies. Mr Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, the Information Minister, who announced this a media briefing in Accra on Sunday, said the 1992 Constitution requires every ...

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VVD en CDA: Ziekenhuizen moeten boerkaverbod handhaven

Regeringspartijen VVD en CDA vinden dat ziekenhuizen het boerkaverbod gewoon moeten handhaven. ,,De wet is glashelder,’’ zegt VVD Tweede Kamerlid Dennis Wiersma. Meerdere ziekenhuizen vertelden aan deze krant niet van plan te zijn het boerkaverbod te gaan handhaven. Zij vinden het verbod op gezichtsbedekkende kleding ‘onwenselijk’, omdat zij vrezen dat vrouwen die doorgaans een boerka dragen zorg gaan mijden. De Nederlandse Federatie ...

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Martin Amidu on his way out, set to rejoin NDC

Ghana’s Special Prosecutor, Martin Alamisi Kaiser Amidu is homeward bound to rejoin his political comrades in the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in frontline politics, Ghanacrusader.com can report authoritatively. The anti-corruption crusader, who accepted President Akufo-Addo’s appointment to serve as head of the novel Office of Special Prosecutor last year, has faced many frustrating and counter-productive moves from appointees of ...

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Ayorkor Botchwey sues Larry Dogbe, The Herald for defamation

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Ms Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has sued the editor of The Herald newspaper, Larry Dogbe and the publisher of the newspaper, Prime Mark Company Limited, for defamation. It is the case of the Foreign Minister that a story published on the front page of the June 10, 2019 issue of The Herald newspaper ...

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NDC sacks official for selling nomination forms to Muntaka’s challenger

The Ashanti Regional Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Kwame Zu has relieved his female Personal Assistant of her position after the latter is said to have sold nomination forms to supporters of one Mabarick Masawudu, seeking to contest the sitting Member of Parliament (MP), in the party’s internal elections. “I am relieving her of her position ...

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ROPAA Committee begins engagement of Diaspora

The Electoral Commission (EC) on Monday started consultation of strategic countries towards the operationalization of the Representation of the People Amendment Act (ROPAA) 2006 (Act 699), which gives Ghanaians in the Diaspora the right to vote from abroad. The EC ROPAA Committee in fulfilment of its mandate, will engage the Senegalese Electoral Commission, Ghanaian Community in Senegal and other strategic ...

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