The NDC Jaman South has taken notice of the unwarranted suffering that our cocoa farmers are going through due to the inability of Nana Addo’s government to pay the farmers for their produce.The government through Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) on September, 2020 secured a loan facility of one billion, three hundred million dollars ($1.3bn) from consortium of banks and other financial institutions to finance the purchasing of about 900,000 metric tonnes of cocoa beans for the 2020/21 cocoa season.The COCOBOD on 2nd October, 2020 announced the opening of 2020/21 cocoa crop season but has since been struggling to pay the…
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Former Lands and Natural Resource Minister, Collins Dauda says the fight against illegal mining by government would prove to be a challenging kind.After a three-day national consultative forum held by government in its effort to eradicate the menace, he revealed that the involvement of state institutions and officials under the auspices of the Ministry in illegal mining also known as “galamsey” would retard government’s progress.“The problem of illegal mining in my view is a difficult one for government to solve. If you are in government and you want to deal with illegal mining activities and you have your regional Chairman…
The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has apologised to journalists and individuals who were caught in the crossfire during its attack on protesters by some La residents in Accra.The military had beseeched a 200-acre land at Tse Addo to disperse protestors who they say had turned violent.A group, Coalition of La Associations within the La Traditional Council had stormed the area in contention between Tse Addo and Airport Hills, around the Military Cemetery to register their displeasure over the military’s encroachment.However, the event took another dimension as the soldiers won’t countenance the behaviour of the demonstrators and applied force to disperse…
Former First Lady, Lordina Dramani Mahama, has through her organisation, the Lordina Foundation, come to the aid of a 10-year old girl abandoned by her family after a motorbike accident. The young girl was knocked down by a motor cyclist in September 2020 and has since been undergoing treatment at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. The family, according to the hospital authorities, has since abandoned the girl. The Lordina Foundation presented toiletries, food items and an undisclosed sum of money towards the little girl’s medical bills and upkeep. Board Secretary of the Lordina Foundation, Priscilla Santuo-Ocrah, after making the presentation, reaffirmed the Foundation’s…
The Deputy General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Peter Boamah Otokunor says the European Union’s Election Observation Mission Report (EU EOM) on election 2020 is not a true representation of Ghana’s election process.He said there are several irregularities and flaws identified in the report. “There is no aspect of this report that talks about security, recommendations that have been made, nothing said on security, I think that is a very big flaw in the monitoring tools that was used by the EU…these are the things they have to look for”.Speaking on Accra Based, Joy TV’s PM Express programme…
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Ningo-Prampram, Mr. Sam Nartey George, has urged President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to stop the rhetoric and hit the ground running in the galamsey fight.In his view, President Akufo-Addo is only paying lip service to the fight against illegal small-scale mining, locally known as galamsey, instead of fighting it head-on.According to him, the president is only giving Ghanaians nice “soundbites rather than real action”.The Ningo-Prampram lawmaker insisted that those behind the menace are government appointees or person aligned to the governing New Patriotic Party and thus urged the President to crack the whip to…
The Wenchi High Court has granted leave for the inspection of the Electoral Commission’s original documents in the ongoing Techiman South parliamentary election petition.The court says parties in the case are to meet in court on Monday, April 19, 2021, for the exercise.This was after the court ruled that only original copies of the documents will be allowed and not the photocopied documents earlier filed by the Electoral Commission.The court gave the Commission three days to properly file the documents for the inspection exercise to be done on the adjourned date.Additionally, the court has awarded a cost of GHS2,000 in…
The Northern Regional Health Directorate has confirmed that about 480 doses of COVID-19 vaccines have gone to waste following the advice by the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) to halt the vaccination exercise.The region received a total of 27,000 vaccines to inoculate health workers and some priority groups, out of which over 26,000 persons were vaccinated.In an interview with Citi News, the Director in charge of Public Health, Hilarious Abiwu, said the remaining vaccines will be transported to the appropriate quarters.He also explained the circumstances that led to the wastage.“Generally, the instruction out there is that if you open any…
The first of “Women in Leadership/Politics”, an initiative of Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, was held at the Aqua Safari Resort in Ada a few days ago.The overall aim of the series is to provide meeting spaces that support career pathways and cohort development among female leaders/politicians from diverse sector backgrounds through service learning, critical reflection, and networking. A major objective of the project is to ensure the retention of women currently in parliament, while facilitating the interests of many more to join women in leadership positions in politics. This workshop was facilitated and financed by the FES and NDC Leadership in Parliament;…
The Member of Parliament for Yapei-Kusawgu Constituency has called on the Akufo-Addo government, to come clean on the recently continous power outages in the country.Over the past months, the entire country, has witnessed two nationwide power outages which was, explained to be as a result of a technical fault by GRIDCo.While section of Ghanaians call for timetable from ECG in order to plan for their schedules, there has been a shadow in the communication between the ECG and the PURC to ensure that the demand for this intermittent timetable is issued out, irrespective of the daily hue and cry of…