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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has officially appointed Herbert Krapa as the substantive Energy Minister of Ghana. This appointment was announced in a press statement from the Jubilee House on Wednesday, November 20, and signed by the Director of Communications, Eugene Arhin. Herbert Krapa had previously been appointed as the Minister of State at the Energy Ministry earlier this year, ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will be commissioning The Bank Square, Headquarters of Bank of Ghana today Wednesday November 20. In the 1990s, the Bank of Ghana began the search for adequate and secured land for a new Head Office, given that the Central Business District had caught up with the existing Head Office and the need to expand to ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has said that the commissioning of the $1.2 billion Bridge Power Plant in Tema on November 19, 2024 marked a significant milestone in Ghana’s energy journey. It signalled a new era of resilience, sustainability, and progress, paving the way for a future where energy shortages are a thing of the past. The 515-megawatt combined-cycle power ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama, the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has taken a swipe at President Nana Akufo-Addo, suggesting that if statues were built to honour leaders based on their developmental accomplishments, his own would be seen across the nation. Mr Mahama’s comments come in response to a recently inaugurated statue of President Akufo-Addo, which Mahama described ...

Founder and President of Group Nduom, Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom claims President Nana Akufo-Addo regrets working with former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta. He stated that the President believed Mr Ofori-Atta was the best candidate for the role, but this did not materialise after he was allowed to serve as the country’s Finance Minister. Papa Kwesi further alleged that the President appointed ...

Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin has criticized both President Akufo-Addo and the judiciary, accusing them of undermining the Constitution by stalling the passage of the Anti-LGBTQ Bill. The Bill which was passed by Parliament and now awaits presidential assent. According to Mr Bagbin, the judiciary’s acceptance and processing of cases related to the bill, coupled with the president’s alleged refusal ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo took a swipe at former President John Dramani Mahama, highlighting that Mahama remains Ghana’s only one-term president. President Akufo-Addo during a tour of the Ahafo Region on Tuesday, October 29, suggested that Mahama’s lack of a second term calls into question his credibility and political influence, suggesting he should not boast of a higher “level” ...

President Akufo-Addo has instructed the Minister of Defence to deploy additional military forces to reinforce “Operation Halt,” the government’s initiative to curb illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey. The operation will focus on regions near water bodies and forest reserves, which have been severely impacted by illegal mining activities. This directive follows mounting pressure from Organised Labour, which had threatened ...

The first impact of the race for the leadership of the New Patriotic Party in the 2024 elections appears to have been felt with President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo having to settle on the more neutral Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu as the presenter of the 2021 budget. As already known, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta is currently indisposed as he undergoes treatment for ...

President Akufo-Addo and the First Lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo have received the first dose of the initial consignment of COVID-19 vaccines which arrived in the country on Wednesday, February 24. The move to have the President and the first lady take the first jab of the vaccine is to assure Ghanaians that the vaccines are safe. The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu ...