Author Archives: larryehu

Mahama visits Super O.D.

Former President John Mahama has paid a visit to veteran actor Super O.D.“I was in Swedru on Sunday to visit my friend, the good old Super OD. He is such a good company always,” Mr Mahama wrote on his Facebook page.His visit came a day after he took part in the main opposition National Democratic Congress’ Unity Walk in the ...

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Market, distribute your own work – Richard Bona to African artistes

Grammy Award winning jazz bassist, Richard Bona, has admonished African musicians to learn to market and distribute their own work after production. The musician believes that the mark of every successful business venture is the ability to market one’s products to accepted satisfaction. He told Naa Ashorkor on Showbiz A-Z on Joy FM on Saturday that “when you look at ...

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We’ve not received any petition for Kwabena Agyapong’s reinstatement – Freddy Blay

The hierarchy of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), is yet to receive any official petition demanding the reinstatement of its suspended General Secretary, Kwabena Agyapong. This is regardless of a number of groups making appeals in the media for the NPP hierarchy to forgive him. The NPP suspended its 2nd Vice Chairman, Sammy Crabbe, alongside Mr. Agyapong in 2015, after ...

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Gov’t urged to decentralise Free SHS Secretariat to tackle challenges

Challenges of over-congestion in classrooms and dormitories, inadequate desks and a lack of teaching and learning materials, and others that have greeted the Free SHS policy can be tackled by decentralising the Secretariat tasked to manage the policy. According to Dr Eric Oduro-Osae, a lawyer, an Economist a local government expert, a decentrailised Free SHS Secretariat will fast track the ...

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Akufo-Addo Launches Accelerated Oil &Gas Capacity Programe Today

President Akufo-Addo will today Tuesday, November 7 launch the Accelerated Oil and Gas Capacity Programme in Accra. The project is in fulfilment of the Government’s campaign promise of aggressively investing in education and skills to manage the oil and gas sector. A statement issued by the Energy Ministry said this program has four thematic areas namely; technical, vocational, apprenticeship development ...

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GHS45K Tema Motorway toll cash robbed

Armed robbers on Friday, 3 November attacked the toll booth at the Tema – Accra stretch of the motorway and made away with GHS45,000 being tolls collected for three days. Accra100.5 FM’s Tema regional correspondent, Danso Abbeam, reported on Ghana Yensom on Monday, 6 November that: “The Police officers guarding the toll booth were not present when the robbery attack ...

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Prosecute BOST MD first – Kwakye to Bawumia

A former deputy minister of communication, Felix Kwakye Ofosu has asked the Akufo-Addo government to begin prosecuting corrupt officials by starting with one of his own – the current Managing Director of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation (BOST) Alfred Obeng, before extending same to former officials of the Mahama administration. According to him, Mr Obeng has been accused of ...

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DVLA launches smart driver’s licence

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) will today launch a new driver’s licence and a new vehicle registration smart cards. The new licence, also a smart card, contains a chip loaded with the owner’s bio-data and the driver’s personal information. The introduction of the two has been met with opposition from some driver unions and groups the authority suspects ...

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