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A total of 14 people have been confirmed dead in the church collapse disaster at Akyem Batabi in the Asene Manso Akroso District, Eastern Regional Minister Eric Kwakye Darfour has said. Rescue efforts are still continuing with the help of five excavators and sniffer dogs. Meanwhile, the District Chief Executive of Asene Manso Akroso, Mr Alex Inkoom, has said his ...

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta is calling on rich countries to consider extending the moratorium on debt servicing from poorer countries. Mr. Ofori-Atta made this call as he ended his tenure as chairman of the joint ministerial committee of the boards of governors of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. The Finance Minister urged the G-20 countries to not only extend ...

The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh has noted that for a long time Ghana has been sitting on another mineral that has the potential to catapult the local economy but it hasn’t been given much attention. This, according to him, is iron, the bedrock for the Iron and Steel industry and the base material for the automobile ...

The Paramount Chief of Afife and President of the Afife Traditional Council, Torgbui Adrakpanya VI, has described the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, as a competent, compassionate, great and visionary leader who is deserving of a second term in office. According to Torgbui Adrakpanya VI, “We have been keenly monitoring your development focus and agenda for the ...

The National Sports Authority (NSA) has announced rates to be charged for teams that will use the Accra Sports Stadium in the 2020/21 football season. A statement signed by Professor Peter Twumasi, Director General of NSA said matches scheduled at the stadium had been categorised into three groups. “Management would like to bring to your notice and attention of fees ...

Mr Clifford Ashun, the Central Regional Head of the Museums and Monuments Board (MMB) has commended government for its resolve to establish an airport in the historic and academic city of Cape Coast. Speaking in an interview with the GNA in Cape Coast, Mr Ashun said international tourists land in Accra before travelling to the tourism hub in Cape Coast. ...

EgyptAir has been chosen as the preferred strategic partner in the establishment of a new viable home-based carrier for Ghana, AviationGhana can exclusively reveal. According to AviationGhana, the Cairo-based airline’s proposal, after careful scrutiny by the committee of aviation experts constituted by the Aviation Ministry, was ‘much better’ than what was proposed by Africa’s biggest airline, Ethiopian Airlines. A Memorandum ...

The Vice President Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has reaffirmed the government’s commitment to ensure that brilliant but needy students would access university education in the next New Patriotic Party (NPP) government. This would make the government’s flagship Free Senior High School (SHS) programme to achieve significant and desirable outcomes. Vice President Alhaji Dr Bawumia said this when he addressed separate ...

LET THE CITIZEN KNOW 19TH OCTOBER 2020 ADDRESS DELEIVERED BY MRS. JEAN MENSA, CHAIRPERSON OF THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION, ON DECLARATION OF RESULTS FROM THE FILING OF NOMINATIONS BY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES FOR THE 2020 ELECTIONS ON MONDAY THE 19TH OF OCTOBER, 2020 AT 4:00 PM Good afternoon citizens of Ghana and our friends from the media. We thank the good Lord ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has commissioned the newly constructed Naval Training Command at Nutekpor in the South Tongu District of the Volta Region. According to President Akufo-Addo, the Command Centre, which has been the long-held vision of several Chiefs of Naval Staff, “is going to accommodate all the training schools of the Navy, under a unified command, to improve ...