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Former President John Mahama has served notice the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will not take chances with the 2024 elections insisting polling stations will be “do or die” affair. According to the 2020 flagbearer of the opposition party, the electoral commission deliberately took measures to ensure that President Akufo-Addo and the NPP won the 2020 elections. “It is said that ...

The Tertiary Education Institution Network (TEIN), a youth wing of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has described the government’s One Teacher, One Laptop initiative as a plot to steal from the people. Deputy National TEIN Coordinator, Ekow Djan, in statement on the cost involved in the whole exercise said it smacks of thievery. The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, launched and handed over 350,000 ...

The Ashanti Regional Security Council (REGSEC) has been urged to ramp up measures to halt the influx of alien child beggars on the streets of Kumasi. The principal streets of Ghana’s second-largest city have recently been invaded by hundreds of alien beggars, the majority of whom are believed to have migrated from Mali, Burkina Faso, South Sudan, Chad and Niger. ...

Some Ghanaian architects have accused the Akufo-Addo-led government of ignoring procurement procedures in awarding contracts under the Agenda 111 project. They are also accusing the government of handpicking the architectural company of famous Ghanaian-British architect, David Adjaye, for the designs of the hospital. In an interview on TV3’s New Day, Member of Ghana Chamber of Construction Industry (GhCCI), Sammy Amegayibor, ...

Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has revealed that the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) brought over 2.6b USD worth of investments into Ghana in 2020. He said this in relation to the ongoing GIPC Annual Investment Summit dubbed #SparkUp2021. In last year, Ghana saw a surge in Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) inflows, recording an impressive 2.6 billion dollars’ worth of inbound investments ...

MTN Ghana has appointed Mr. Shaibu Haruna as Chief Sales and Distribution Officer with the responsibility of providing strategic direction for MTN’s Sales Strategy, Operating Model, Channels distribution as well as digital sales infrastructure. He will also support MTN accelerate growth and digitalization in accordance with the company’s Ambition 2025. Shaibu is a visionary and results oriented executive with proven ...

EQUITY investor, Quick Angels Limited, has supported an indigenous paint manufacturing company to raise its daily production capacity by a dozen times to help meet demand and industrialise the economy. The company, Dominion Paints Manufacturing Industries Limited (DOPAMIL), was producing 2,000 litres of the Agatex brand of paint per day upon demand but raised it to 40,000 litres in a ...

Deputy Finance Minister John Kumah says the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has no solution to challenges facing the Ghanaian economy. According to him, despite the consistent ‘lamentation’ by the opposition party, they offer no fresh ideas for the resolution of the problems. “John Mahama has come on a complaining spree and he’s shown that he doesn’t have any master ...

The Jachie Pramso SHS (JAPASS) student, who was allegedly assaulted by the school’s headmaster, is traumatized as she fears the situation may affect her output in the ongoing West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). Identified as Mary, the 19-year-old final year student while speaking on Akoma FM‘s current affairs and political show GhanAkoma Tuesday, September 7 laments she was ...

The Ghana Water Company Limited has announced an interruption to water supply to parts of Accra starting Monday, September 13. GWCL in a statement said its engineers will be replacing some faulty valves on the main 900 mm transmission pipelines, which impedes water flow and causes serious challenges in the distribution lines. It also said there are some leakages also ...