The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) plans to replace their striking party Communicators in the Ashanti Region with immediate effect in order to ensure policies and programmes of government are trumpeted, MyNewsGh.com reports. According to Mr. Kwasi Kyei Danso, the Regional Communication Director, the striking Communicators have an option to resume from their strike or stay home forever. There is a standby team already waiting. This team called team ‘B’ are prepared to take up the job so you can stay or resume …we are not perturbed of any strike”, Kwasi Kyei Danso issued this stern warning on Kumasi-based Otec…
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The organisational department of NDC in the Ahafo Region has taken notice of the dastardly act visited on the Municipal Electoral Commission’s office on Sunday morning, 23rd May 2021. We commiserate with the electoral commission and all stakeholders on the effect and inconvenience the fire outbreak that razed their entire office down might have caused. As we count our collective loss as a Nation and constituency as a result of this fire outbreak, we should not lose sight of the bravery of our gallantmen and women in uniform and would thus, use thisopportunity to congratulate the security services especially the…
A suspected burglar, who pretends to be a ghost to rob houses, has reportedly been arrested in Zimbabwe. According to a Facebook user, General Chiwenga Wisdom, who posted the photos on Thursday, May 26, the suspect specialises in breaking into houses during the night wearing a skeleton costume and pretending to be a ghost. According to him, whenever the house owners see the ‘ghost’ they flee leaving him behind to cart away their valuables.
Ghana is planning to raise as much as $1 billion through a sale of sustainable bonds, including Africa’s first social debt to fund a flagship policy to broaden access to education. The proceeds would help refinance domestic debt used for social and environmental projects, including loans taken to pay for the government’s free senior secondary school policy, Minister of State at the Ministry of Finance Charles Adu Boahen told Bloomberg Monday. The use of social bonds has boomed since the coronavirus pandemic, yet so far only a few sovereign issuers have sold them, including Chile and Ecuador. The European Union…
President Akufo-Addo has been a leading voice for debt forgiveness in the international arena and back home has been imposing additional regressive taxes with the justification that the economy isn’t in a good place. Sadly, he consistently fails to lead by example in a period of austerity where his government is appealing to struggling public sector workers to lower wage increase expectations. It is an outrage and a blatant betrayal for Ghana to own a presidential aircraft in perfect working condition which was ordered by President Kufuor, used by President Mills and President Mahama; and yet President Akufo-Addo chooses to…
Yesterday, 26th May 2021, All NPP Regional women organiser’s across the 16 regions paid a courtesy call on their National women organizer, Kate Gyamfua, to console her following the recent burning of her mining equipment by some military men. Under Ms Gyamfua, their positions, as regional women organizers, have become enviable. It was, therefore, a sorrowful moment as the women breakdown in uncontrollable tears while expressing their profound words of comfort and solidarityThey assured Obaatanpa Kate of their utmost support for her whenever and wherever the need be. The women then made a financial contribution to Ms Gyamfua as their…
Tain Constituency is arguably the most popular in the Bono Region. This constituency, carved out of Wenchi then known as Wenchi West has a lot of history and mystery in the politics of Ghana.The final deciders of the presidential election 2008. The rosebed and playground of General Mosquito and the ever one term seat for members of parliament since it’s creation in 2004. The appointment of District Chief Executives for the District especially under the New Patriotic Party is a ripe research for political observers and policy makers. The race for the DCE position is the most contested in the…
Reference to the statement made on the floor of Parliament by the Hon. Dafeamekpor Etse Rockson Nelson the Member of Parliament for South Dayi on the condition of madam Elizabeth Asantewaa, the young school girl victim of the kulungugu bombing who has been neglected by the state for decades after loosing her limb and sustaining several injuries in that attack on the then President Dr.Kwame Nkrumah. Yet again one of the historical evidences of the treachery and thuggery of the UP forebears brought tolight. But most importantly how, a State can abandon its citizen who has suffered from such a…
The Accra Regional Police Command of the Ghana Police Service has arrested and detained five police officers following a complaint of alleged extortion in two separate cases on 25th May 2021 during patrol duties. This was made known by the Public Relations Officer of the Accra Regional Police Command, DSP Effia Tenge on Wednesday, May 26, 2021. According to her, the Service will not shield any officer found guilty. DSP Effia Tenge further disclosed that the suspects are currently in police custody assisting with investigations. She thus assured the public that the Command will provide further updates on the matter…
The acute water shortage that has bedevilled Dzodze should be blamed squarely on the Nana Addo led government which has failed to pay the Community Water Management Board despite the huge financial support and loans they have received to combat the covid-19 pandemic. The government owes the Water Board an amount of Ghc 425,000 for three months of free water supplied per an independent audit. Consequently, the bill has piled up for a year running into millions of Ghana Cedis owed by the government to the Community Water Board. This has made it difficult for the company to maintain its…