POLITICS

Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, Sunday refuted claims that government has inflated the cost of district hospitals under the Agenda 111 project. At a media briefing in Accra, Mr Oppong Nkrumah said the cost of $17 million per a district hospital under the Agenda 111 constituted 50 per cent of same constructed by the erstwhile National Democratic Congress (NDC) ...

Work is yet to start on the Kaase to Adum and Obuasi railway line project almost a year after President Nana Akufo-Addo cut the sod for the project to commence on October 1, 2020, prior to election 2020. The Kumasi-Obuasi rail project formed part of other standard gauge rail lines being constructed across the country by the New Patriotic Party’s ...

President Akufo-Addo has broken his silence on the long-awaited release of the list of people to be appointed Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs), indicating that the names will be released before the end of the month. He has, however, indicated that there is no vacuum in local governance as had been perceived in that all districts are manned ...

Deputy Majority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has said the decision of the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin not to declare the Assin North seat vacant is a step in the right direction. According to the Efutu lawmaker, the speaker should not even have been written to, to declare the seat vacant. Mr Bagbin had declined to declare the Assin North seat ...

Deputy Minister of Defence, Kofi Amankwa-Manu, is challenging Media General, operators of TV3, Onua Fm and Onua TV to make themselves available for a site visit to the Afari Military Hospital in the Ashanti for a factfinding mission. According to him, the Accra-based media outlets have misrepresented the facts concerning the state of the military hospital project and equipment at ...

Head of the legal team for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Abraham Amaliba, has said the Akufo-Addo-led administration uses Covid-19 as justification for its abysmal performance in government. According to him, the government finds every opportunity to blame their poor performance on Covid-19. Speaking on TV3’s New Day, the private legal practitioner said he has always maintained that government officials ...

The Board Chairman of the newly-constituted board of the Bui Power Authority (BPA) Kwasi Ameyaw Cheremeh has assured President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo that they will not fail by delivering on their mandate. He said their predecessors have laid a strong foundation at the authority which they are going to build on. He said even if they are unable to ...

Vice-president Mahamudu Bawumia has been highly commended by the new National Lands Commission Chairman, Mr Alex Quaynor, for his active efforts at ensuring a digitised operational framework is being put in place for the Lands Commission. The new Chairman for the Commission, in an address at the swearing-in ceremony of a 25-member National Lands Commission board by President Akufo-Addo at ...

The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has served notice that it would break the two-term-8-year-cycle, which has become the norm for both the NPP and the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) since the commencement of the fourth republic in 1992. Several NPP big wigs have suggested ways to achieve this. In a latest suggestion, a former National Nasara Coordinator of ...

The government has commenced the distribution of laptop computers to all teachers in the country in fulfilment of its promise of the One Teacher, One Laptop programme. Under the “One-Teacher-One Laptop” programme, each teacher at every level of education from Kindergarten to Senior High School will receive a laptop, a novelty in the country’s educational service delivery system. The government ...