Former Communications Minister, Edward Omane Boamah in a piece to celebrate the party asked Ghanaians to be proud of the NDC because “development is our goal.” He wrote: NDC built unprecedented Regional and District hospitals & CHPS facilities that have provided and still provide quality healthcare to Ghanaians over the years. In recent years, the University of Ghana Medical Centre, the Ridge Hospital project, the Bank of Ghana hospital, the Maritime hospital have been added and have saved many Ghanaians from death particularly during this COVID-19 period. In addition, NDC established Universities, built schools including Community Day Senior High Schools,…
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The General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, has touted the achievements of the party in the political history of Ghana. The NDC is celebrating its 29th anniversary today, [Thursday], June 10, 2021. According to Asiedu Nketiah, the social-democratic political party played a very instrumental role when Ghana’s 1992 Constitution was being written. He said the 1992 Constitution which stood the test of time laid the platform for the country’s democracy to thrive till this day. At an event to commemorate the party’s 29th anniversary, Mr. Nketiah said the NDC’s achievements cannot be compared to…
More controversy keeps coming up regarding government’s procurement of Russia’s Sputnik V for Covid-19 vaccination in the country. In a document sighted by Myjoyonline.com, the Health Ministry has contracted another supplier, S. L. Global Limited to purchase five million doses of the drug at $26 per dose. Digging further into the 20-page document, the Ghanaian owned company serving as the intermediate is to deliver the vaccines in batches; one million doses each month until the fifth month when the country would have had the enough doses for inoculation. Among other things, the agreement was that the purchase will not include…
The Bono Regional Minister Justina Owusu-Banahene has asked the youth and Ghanaians to adhere to the ABC (Abstinence, Be faithful and Condom use” of HIV to contribute to reducing new infections and charged policy implementers to up their game. She said HIV/AIDS was still causing havoc in society and there was the need for broader stakeholder engagement and investments to help fight the disease in communities. Justina Owusu-Banahene made the appeal during HIV/Aids review meeting organised for the technical support unit and focal persons in the Bono region on Thursday. Justina Owusu-Banahene reiterated government’s commitment to UNAIDS’s 90-90-90 target of…
A reliable information available to Masemtvgh.com reveals that the National Democratic Congress, the NDC, has instructed its Caucus on the Appointment Committee to boycotte the vetting of Mr Martin Adjei-Mensah Korsah. Mr Martin Adjei-Mensah Korsah, a nominee of one of the three deputy ministers designate for Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development is scheduled for vetting this morning, Thursday, June 10, 2021. According to a source, some of the Minority Caucus on the Appointment Committee have expressed a contrary view on the directives by the National Democratic Congress on the instruction to boycotte the vetting of Mr Martin Adjei-Mensah Korsah.…
The Health Committee in Parliament says the government is not being ripped off in any deal to procure Sputnik-V for COVID-19 vaccination in the country. Per reports from a Norwegian news portal and subsequent communication from the Minority in Parliament, the Health Minister, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, has signed an agreement to purchase Sputnik-V vaccines through intermediaries at higher prices at the expense of the taxpayer. The concerned groups say the purchase is also in breach of procurement procedures. But speaking on Eyewitness News on Wednesday, the Chairman of the Health Committee, Dr. Nana Ayew Afriyie, said although the country has signed…
A Circuit Court in Takoradi presided over by Mrs. Abigail Animah Asare, has slapped three illegal small-scale miners with a 15-year jail term each. The convicts are also to pay a fine of GHS 240,000 each. The three, Joseph Donkoh, 40, Joseph Paul, 27, and Charles Ewuse, 27, were arrested on 16th February 2021, carrying out illegal small-scale mining in the Cape-3-Point Forest Reserve of the Western Region according to the Prosecutor of the case, Sergeant Robert Amonoo Yawson. They were charged with conspiracy to commit crime and undertaking small-scale mining operations without licence contrary to Section 23(1) of the…
The opposition National Democratic Congress in Parliament has described the decision by the Chief of Justice as ”assault of freedom of expression” in his letter dated on May 25, 2021. The Chief Justice, Mr Anin Yeboah has directed a former Deputy Minister of Justice and Attorney to the Ghana Legal Council to investigate a purported statement he allegedly made at a program organized by CDD-Ghana. This decision by Mr Anin Yeboah has resulted in many people condemning the act and say that the action amounts to bringing back the culture of silence which is aimed at causing fear and panic…
On the May 19th-23rd 2014, the African Development Bank (AFDB) held an annual meeting at Kigali in Rwanda dubbed “Leadership for the Africa we want.” Among the panels were Ibrahim Mo (Chair, Mo Ibrahim foundation), Dlamini-Zuma (Chairperson, African Union Commission), Paul Kagame (President, Rwanda), Obasanjo (Former President, Nigeria), Ruto (Vice President, Kenya). Former President Obasanjo in his introductory statement said he was very uncomfortable about six month ago when a Nigerian young girl about 27 years old presented a letter to him and it reads; I am worried and constrained to write to you this letter, it is because I…
Hilda Asomani, A 27-year-old woman has stabbed her boyfriend to death for refusing to give her a grass cutter meat on Tuesday, June 8 around 1am at dawn. The deceased was stabbed in the neck and his jaw. The incident happened at Genny Guest house, an area near Abesim in the Sunyani East Municipality of the Bono Region. Speaking with the Police Detective Officer who went to the scene, Sergeant Benjamin Lartey State that,“So at 1:10 am that we had a call that there was fighting so we rushed to the scene and when we got there it was true.…