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The 2016 Flag Bearer of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, has said most Ghanaian politicians lament about national problems without having the solutions. “Ghanaian leaders are so quick at identifying problems but only lament about them and present no solutions,” he told students of the Zenith University College on Tuesday. Speaking on entrepreneurship in Accra, Dr ...

President Akufo-Addo will today cut sod for the construction of the first factory under his government’s one -district one-factory project. It will be a fulfillment of his pledge to promote industrialization and enable each local government area to own factories relative to its resources and capacity to provide jobs. About 5000 persons are expected to be employed by the Ekumfi ...

National Democratic Congress presidential hopeful Professor Joshua Alabi appears to have opened himself up for further probe, as it is emerging he may have known something about the $72 million software purchased by the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) Investigations are at the moment being conducted into an alleged fraud which initial figure was $66 million before jumping ...

Acting NPP Chairman, Freddie Blay says government is committed to attracting real investment into the country with its one-district, one factory (1D1F) project. He said the factories to be constructed under the programme will be completely different from the ones built by the past administration in terms of value for money. Mr Blay told Asempa News Wednesday, the $26 million ...

Kennedy Ohene Agyepong, New Patriotic Party (NPP) firebrand has emphatically stated three heads of public institutions will soon be hauled before courts and thrown into jail for engaging in alleged underhand dealings while in office. He singled out the former Director of Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) Mr Ernest Thompson as the first considering what is alleged to ...

General Overseer of the Action Chapel International, Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams has said he did not persuade the American authorities to allow him lead the Inauguration Day Prayer Service ahead of the inauguration ceremony for the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. The godfather of the Christian charismatic movement in Ghana gave the Opening Prayer on 20th Jan ...

Former Trade and Industry Minister, Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, appears to have made a u-turn about the issue of flagbearership of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC). He stated categorically last May that if former President John Mahama contests as NDC flag bearer for the 2020 presidential election, he (Spio-Garbrah) was not going to join the race. Now that it is becoming ...

Authorities at SSNIT could face the law on causing financial loss to the state in a $66m contract to set up ICT infrastructure aimed at improving operations of the pension scheme. A legal practitioner Martin Kpebu has pointed out, the deal, whose contract has shot up from $34m to $72m ‘definitely seems like a case of causing financial loss to ...

About five thousand delegates of the New Patriotic Party are expected to converge in Cape Coast in the Central region for their annual Delegates Conference. This follows the organization of conferences in constituencies nationwide in fulfillment of the party’s constitution. This follows the organization of conferences in constituencies nationwide in fulfillment of the party’s constitution. The National Delegates conference will ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has called on churches to focus more on the young ones for a better future instead of channeling resources in the tertiary sector. With religious groups now concentrating on the tertiary sector in the provision of education, President Akufo-Addo has made a heartfelt appeal to the Presbyterian Church to take a look back to the ...