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The Former Youth organizer for the ruling Party (Npp) in the Assin South Constituency, Hon. Jonathan Osei Owusu popularly known as Nana Yaw has invoked curses on Assin Atonsu polling station youth Organizer in Assin central Constituency over false allegations that, Nana Yaw and Hon. Asonaba from the independent Candidate in Assin South Mr. Joseph Kofi Damtse’s camp, are busing ...

The National Road Safety Authority in the Ashanti region is concerned motorbikes and tricycles are posing high risk of road crashes in the region. The Authority is the more worried; these figures could escalate when mass political campaigns kick-off. The NRSA has specifically flagged areas including Tepa, Konongo, Offinso, Obuasi, Mampong and Ejura where a majority of the residents use ...

The Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Obiri Boahen has revealed that the promise to construct an airport in Cape Coast was made by the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, on the spur of the moment. The promise to build an airport and a harbour in the Central regional capital, has been met with mixed reactions ...

Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah, the Minister for Information, says Kofi Bosompem Osafo-Maafo, the son of Yaw Osafo-Maafo, the Senior Minister, has experience in mineral royalties’ transaction and his track record in some of the countries he has worked for very much qualifies him to engage in the Agyapa Royalties deal. Speaking on PM Express on Joy News, the Information Minister said, nothing ...

A former Aerospace Engineer, Matt Afful has revealed that the decision to construct an airport in the Central Regional Capital, Cape Coast was hatched during the erstwhile John Agyekum Kufuor administration. Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia announced during the launch of the NPP’s manifesto for the 2020 elections that the government is considering constructing an airport at Cape Coast during ...

The Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, has said that the service will not rush into re-opening pre-tertiary schools in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic. According to him, the GES would act on sound advice by the committee inaugurated to come up with a roadmap towards the resumption of schools. “The schools will reopen when ...

Volta Regional Minister, Dr Archibald Yao Letsa, has rendered an unqualified apology to the President of the National House of Chiefs, Togbe Afede XIV. This comes after Togbe Afede stated that the Volta Regional Minister, together with the Energy Minister, John Peter Amewu, insulted the chiefs in the region during a confidential meeting with the President on August 14, 2020. ...

Ghanaians, have been left stunned over how President Akufo-Addo and his vice, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, could reject and accept the request to build an airport in the Central Region within a spate of 24 hours. Last Friday, many woke up to news of the President, rejecting suggestion from people in the Central Region that government looks at constructing an airport ...

The Agyapa Royalties deal recently passed by Ghana’s Parliament is just a way to park the country’s debts off the balance sheet, Prof Kwaku Asare, a law professor and accountant has said. Parliament passed the deal two weeks ago by approving five agreements to allow the country to derive maximum value from its mineral resources and monetise its mineral income ...

There are signs of hope on the African continent as cases of COVID-19 begin to fall in some worst hit countries. The continent-wide daily average was 10,300 last week, down from 11,000 the week before. Africa has recorded 1,147,369 cases, more than half of which are in South Africa, and about 26,000 deaths. The Director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control ...