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Construction of an airport in the Upper East region is about to take place at Sherigu in the regional capital, Bolgatanga, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced. Addressing traditional authorities and residents of the Bongo District at a durbar Thursday as part of his two-day working tour of the region, the President said the region would see “signs of ...

Ecosystem Based Approach to an Integrated Marine and Coast Environment Management in Ghana, dubbed “Mami Wata” Pilot Project has been launched in Accra. The project involves analysing and allocating spatial and temporal space for economic activities, ecosystem services and conservation values in Ghana’s maritime area, so as to achieve the economic objectives of the medium term economic policy of Ghana. ...

The Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Prof. Kwabena Frimpong Boateng has rejected accusations that the government is insensitive to the plight of fisher folks with the ban on fishing at sea. Government announced a closed season for all fishing activities in the ocean as part of measures to improve the country’s dwindling fish stock. The directive which kicks ...

Zongo chiefs have attacks on police and journalists by irate youth who also blocked some roads in the Kumasi city during a demonstration, Thursday. Some of the youth burnt lorry tyres and attacked workers of the Manhyia Government Hospital to protest the killing of seven members of the community by the police on suspicion that they were armed robbers. The ...

The management of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) is rejecting suggestions and opinions it will need the support of churches to enable the scheme work effectively following reports it is cash-strapped and on the verge to collapse According to Dr. Samuel Annor, NHIS Chief Executive Officer (CEO), taxing churches to help in sustaining the Scheme is not a very ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated that the legendary Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela would have endorsed the “Ghana Beyond Aid” project, considering the foreign policy stance he advocated and pursued. He said Mandela’s conduct of foreign policy reinforced the importance he attached to the independence of action to complete stated goals and would have supported the policy that sought to ...

Following his  attacks on the mythology and style of journalism by ace Investigative Journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas, the Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa, Sulemana Braimah has come under intense criticisms from a section of stakeholders in the media. In the wake of this, the credibility of the MFWA seem to have hit its lowest ebb in ...

The Accra High Court hearing the murder trial of Gregory Afoko has ordered the Ghana Prisons Service to send the accused to the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) for medical examination. Afoko is standing trial for the alleged murder of a former Upper East Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Alhaji Adams Mahama. Per the court’s order, the ...

A former Finance Minister Seth Terpker has challenged government’s stance that it has not increased VAT in the 2018 mid-year review budget. “I wish to assure the House that VAT will not be increased. I would like to advise our friends in the opposition that they should stop taking policy direction on the economy from social media,” the Finance Minister ...

A GHOne Journalist, Reynold Dadzie alias Paa Akwasi who was subjected to severe beatings by irate Asawase Zongo youth, has revealed that he was nearly burnt alive but for a timely intervention of one of the demonstrators. According to him, while he was being beaten others suggested they set him on fire until one of them mustered courage and disagreed ...