Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr, has averred that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is dealing with a parliamentary opposition that has no teeth. According to him, the president exuded remarkable confidence when he delivered his first State of The Nation Address (SoNA), to Parliament yesterday. GhanaWeb monitored submissions he made on March 10, 2021 edition of ...
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Introduce meditation in schools – Kofi Jamar to GES
‘Ekorso’ hitmaker Kofi Jamar has suggested that introducing ‘Meditation’ into the school curriculum will breed a new wave of thinkers in the system. The ‘Kumerican’ star on his Twitter page expressed that some Ghanaians are addicted to the noise and drama in the industry which is gradually affecting their choice of music and other forms of entertainment. He also added ...
Read More »Agyapa deal will return to Parliament – Akufo-Addo
President Akufo-Addo has hinted of the possible return of the controversial Agyapa mineral royalties deal to Parliament. “The government will come back to engage the House on the steps it intends to take on the future of the Agyapa transaction,” the President told Parliamentarians Tuesday in his State of the Address Address, the first for his second term. The botched ...
Read More »Akufo-Addo’s claim to bring back Agyapa shocking – Jantuah
Energy analyst and Chief Executive Officer of African Energy Consortium Limited, Kwame Jantuah says he was taken by the comments by President Nana Akufo-Addo to return the controversial Agyapa deal to Parliament. Delivering the State of the Nation Address on Tuesday, President Akufo-Addo said “the government will come back to engage the House on the steps it intends to take ...
Read More »Ghana in disarray under Akufo-Addo – CPP
The Convention People’s Party (CPP) says Ghana is in total disarray following President Nana Akufo-Addo’s State of the Nation Address. In a statement, the CPP described Akufo-Addo’s address as a repetition of recycled unfulfilled campaign promises. Among other things, the President delivering his address on Tuesday said all National ID Card numbers will this year be used as Tax Identification Numbers ...
Read More »Black Satellites players get $10k each for winning U-20 Afcon
Each player of the victorious Black Satellites team has been rewarded with US$10,000 for winning the Africa Under-20 tournament. Ghana conceded three goals and scored nine in the five games played at the championship and also won the best goalkeeper award and the overall best player of the tournament award. Speaking on Tuesday, Nana Addo announced a whopping $10,000 package ...
Read More »Kotoko’s Kwame Poku seals €500,000 move to Algeria
Kumasi Asante Kotoko forward Kwame Poku is set to seal his move to Algerian side USM Alger before the weekends. There were widespread media speculations that the forward’s entourage was against the player moving to Algeria but the player is said to have signed his contract already with the North African giants. The deal is said to be a four-and-half-year ...
Read More »We are not building personality worshippers – Allotey Jacobs slams Sammy Gyamf
Bernard Allotey Jacobs, a former Central Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress has criticized the party’s communication officer for his attack on minority members of parliament. Following the approval of some ministerial nominees of President Akufo-Addo, the National Communications Officer of the NDC, Sammy Gyamfi, took to social media to lash out at the leadership of the minority for ...
Read More »Full text: Akufo-Addo’s State of the Nation Address 2021
1. Let me use this opportunity to congratulate, once again, the Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin, on becoming Speaker of the 8th Parliament. His has been a distinguished career, having entered the 1st Parliament of the 4th Republic in 1993, and I came to meet him in the 2nd Parliament in 1997. 2. Rt. Hon. Alban ...
Read More »Why are you quiet on Ghana’s debt ? – Haruna jabs Akufo-Addo
Minority leader Haruna Iddrisu has taunted President Akufo-Addo over his silence on the country’s national debt in his State of the Nation Address which was delivered in Parliament today, Tuesday, March 9, 2021. According to the Minority leader, whereas the President kept referencing the debt bequeathed to him by the Mahama administration in his previous addresses, he has kept mute ...
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