Monthly Archives: November 2019

President cuts sod for railway projects in Volta Region

  President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has cut the sod for the construction of a Railway Bridge on the Volta Lake at Ogoli, a village near Juapong in the Volta Region. The bridge will allow for the new railway line from Tema in the Greater Accra Region to terminate at Mpakadan in the Eastern Region. The $20-million Volta rail bridge ...

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‘Almost-aborted’ Ofori-Atta bankrolled Akufo-Addo’s ‘3 gruelling campaigns’ – Gabby

Danquah Institute founder Mr Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko has revealed that Databank co-founder Ken Ofori-Atta (the current Minister of Finance), bankrolled Nana Akufo-Addo’s three presidential campaigns which eventually saw him get to the Presidency. “Since 2006, Ken put his resources behind Nana Akufo-Addo and took up the ultimate responsibility of raising the resources needed to pursue three gruelling presidential campaigns”, Mr ...

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Ursula Owusu-Ekuful sued for ordering telcos to cease upfront CST deductions

The Minister of Communications, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has been sued for ordering the telecommunication companies to stop the upfront deductions of the 9% Communications Service Tax (CST). The Minister was sued together with the Attorney General and the Mobile Telecommunications Networks by a private citizen called Dzifa Gunu. In his writ, Dzifa Gunu argued that the Communications Minister’s directive to the ...

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