POLITICS

The Deputy Minister for Works and Housing, Freda Prempeh has said government is ready to give incentives to the private sector to address the current 1.7 million housing deficit in the country. According to her, government alone cannot address it, therefore, it will partner the private sector developers to reduce the huge housing deficit in the country. Madam Prempeh made ...

The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has bemoaned the challenge of overpricing of projects in Ghana indicating that the practice has caused huge financial loses to the State. To that end, he has charged stakeholders and participants at a Value for Money Conference in Accra to urgently develop and propose strategies that will help government to put an end to ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has donated his one month’s salary to a student competing in a business idea competition. President Akufo-Addo has promised to top up the package to be given to 19-year-old Vanessa Aisha Limann in the competition dubbed: “Presidential Pitch”. “…By the way, that is one month’s salary. My take home pay is GH₵29,000”, President Akufo-Addo revealed ...

The Newly National Democratic Congress Chairman for Assin Central Constituency Hon. Baba Gariba Adam has call on all aspirants who lost in their constituency election to come together to form a formidable team to capture power in 2020. According to him, he said, ” in every election there is a winner and a looser, but in this case, we are ...

The Central Regional Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Bernard Allotey Jacobs, says he cannot be blamed for the party’s defeat in the 2016 general elections in the region. According to him, he worked with the likes of former Vice President, Paa Kwesi Amisah Arthur, and a former Deputy Finance Minister, Cassiel Ato Forson in the region, and ...

A Deputy Chief of Staff, Samuel Abu Jinapor, does see why the government should be more transparent with records about the travels of some Ministers, Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives abroad. Though Mr. Jinapor said he did not have such records readily available, he also said he was “not sure of the usefulness of putting that information out.” He ...

National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Kumbungu, Ras Mubarak, has asked the government to take a firm stance against moves by the US government to repatriate some Ghanaians awaiting deportation in that country. The US Embassy had threatened to among other things, charter flights for the deportation of these migrants. It indicated in a statement that this had ...

The Managing Director of the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL), Clifford Briamah, has described as baseless calls for the removal of the Board Chairman of the Company, Alexander Afenyo Markin, by some workers of the company. Some members of the Public Utility Workers Union (PUWU) of GWCL in the Ashanti Region, last week called for the immediate dismissal of Mr. ...

The Member of Parliament for Kumbungu, Ras Mubarak has described his colleague legislator, Kennedy Agyapong as a bully who must be sanctioned. According to him, Agyapong at the least opportunity tries to belittle Parliament; a move he said is “unbecoming” of a Member of Parliament. “I will support every move to make sure that he [Kennedy Agyapong] faces the full ...

President of the republic, Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo, has stopped all ministers of state and government officials from traveling abroad until further notice. The directive on a temporary ban was contained in a press statement signed by the chief of staff, Akosua Frema Osei-Opare, has warned that the only minister allowed to travel will be the minister for foreign affairs ...