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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 ...

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 ...

Allowances paid to Chiefs and queen mothers have been increased by 100% by the Akufo-Addo-Bawumia government. Making the announcement on Monday, 6 November 2017, during a meeting with the National House of Chiefs in Kumasi, the Ashanti regional capital, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo said the increment is in line with a 2016 manifesto pledge. “The allowances for Paramount Chiefs ...

Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia’s response to former President John Mahama in connection with the $2.5 million national digital addressing system which the latter described as “419”, was excessive. In his response, Dr Bawumia described Mr Mahama as “clueless” and “ignorant”, adding that the former president would have done himself a great favour if he had read more about the project ...

A former Deputy Minister for Communication, Felix Ofosu Kwakye, has likened Vice President Bawumia’s recent utterances on Ghana’s Digital Property Addressing System to political serial callers who call into FM stations to rant over issues. He made the comment on Eyewitness News on Monday. According to Mr. Ofosu Kwakye, Dr. Bawumia must desist from purporting to be educating former President ...

Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia says former President John Mahama’s record in government makes him unsuitable to describe a government’s digital address system as ‘419’. Taking on arguably his favourite political target, Dr. Bawumia said he found it “incredible that he [Mahama] would have the effrontery to talk about 419 scams.” After learning of Mahama’s description of the application as a ...

Former president John Agyekum Kufuor together with the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu 11 have been spotted in Britain ahead of a crucial meeting by Grand Masters of the Freemasons Former president Kufuor was recently “promoted” to become a Senior Grand Warden of the United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE). So far, John Kuffuor and the Asantehene remain the only Ghanaians ...

In a scheme to rake in profits, several importers of electrical cables are flooding the market with fake products that do not meet critical safety requirements. A nationwide surveillance conducted by the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) last Friday revealed that more than 70 per cent of all imported electrical cable brands on the market were substandard and could cause fires. ...

In reaction to former President John Mahama’s description of Ghana’s newly launched digital property addressing system as ‘419’ or fraudulent, Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has told the latter that the real scammers under his previous National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration, will soon be exposed. A visibly incensed Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia did not take kindly to the former President’s criticism, ...

Former President of the Republic, John Dramani Mahama, has sent a notice to the Minority National Democratic Congress (NDC) Members of Parliament (MPs), congratulating them for being effective in opposition and always putting pressure on their colleague MPs on the Majority side to do the right thing. He said even though the NDC MPs are in the Minority side of ...