Monthly Archives: February 2020

My GETfund scholarship was to help me ‘serve’ you ‘better’ – Adwoa Safo

The Minister of State in charge of Public Procurement, Sarah Adwoa Safo, has said even though she received a Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) scholarship for a training programme at Harvard Kennedy School, the “tone” of media publications on the matter, “smacks of an attempt to smear” her reputation as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Dome Kwabenya. Apart from ...

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Ashanti bar man eyes Odotobiri seat

Former Vice President of the Ashanti Regional Chapter of the Ghana Bar Association, Anthony Mmieh, has filed his nomination to contest the impending New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary primaries in the Odotobiri Constituency of the Ashanti Region. The legal practitioner, who will run against incumbent Member of Parliament (MP), Emmanuel Akwasi Gyamfi who has occupied the seat for four consecutive ...

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Na scheiding het huis behouden wordt makkelijker

Het uitkopen van je ex-partner wordt eenvoudiger. Als de hypotheekverstrekker kan onderbouwen dat een klant de lasten van een woning na bijvoorbeeld een scheiding zelf kan dragen, dan verloopt de financiering onder de voorwaarden van een nieuwe hypotheek. Stefan ten Teije 24-02-20, 15:30 Relatiebeëindiging is één van de meest voorkomende redenen om een woning te moeten verkopen. Vaak wil een ...

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Mahama distributed tax waivers to ECOBANK, GHACEM, others without approval – Oppong Nkrumah

Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has alleged that former President John Dramani Mahama together with former Finance Minister Seth Terkper and then GIPC boss distributed tax waivers worth millions of dollars to a chunk of Ghanaian companies without prior approval from parliament while in power. According to him, these companies from 2015 to date enjoy free access to the port ...

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GJA President cautions journalists against false information

Dr Affail Monney, the President of the Ghana Journalists Association, has cautioned journalists to abide by the ethics of the profession and avoid intemperate language that could derail the country’s peace ahead of the December polls. “We dare not misbehave as journalists in the discharge of our duties or face the wrath of God. If we ‘talk by heart’ on ...

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GETFund denies awarding scholarships to Ministers, MPs

The Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund), has denied awarding scholarships meant for brilliant but needy students to some ministers, government appointees as well as Members of Parliament (MP). According to GETFund, in a statement cited by GhanaWeb, the scholarship fund is not limited to brilliant but needy students. “We wish to categorically state that the award of scholarships by GETFund ...

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Furious Mike Oquaye directs Clark to record Minority’s walkout

The Speaker of Parliament, Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye, has directed that Hansard records the walkout of the Minority caucus during proceedings in the House in Accra on Thursday. The Hansard is the official transcript of Parliamentary proceedings. Prof. Oquaye’s directive followed a concern raised by a Deputy Majority Whip, Matthew Nyindam, who during the correction of votes and proceedings at ...

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Running mate saga: Mahama’s delay sparks panic in NDC

Following his election as the presidential candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in 2019, former president John Mahama, is facing perhaps his biggest test in politics, as time appears not to be on his side in naming his running mate for the 2020 general elections. President Akufo-Addo, who by filing his nomination as the only presidential aspirant for ...

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Napo, Adow Safo, Baffour-Awuah fingered in GETFund scandal

The Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) Scholarship scheme audited for the period 2012 to 2018 has revealed appointees in the NPP administration taking state cash to go to school. The disgraced appointees – Dr Matthew Opoku-Prempeh, Education Minister, Sarah Adwoa Safo, Procurement Minister and Deputy Majority Leader in Parliament, Ignatius Baffour-Awuah, Employment and Labour Relations Minister, as well as other ...

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Fact-check: 5 claims Akufo-Addo made during State of the Nation Address

President Nana Akufo-Addo delivered his fourth State of the Nation Address before parliament in accordance with Ghana’s 1992 Constitution on February 20. The about 1-hour 30-minute address, which is his last State of the Nation’s address of his four-year term in office touched on the Ghanaian economy, foreign relations, tourism, peace and security, agriculture, corruption and other sectors. In this ...

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