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President Nana Akufo-Addo has said that the so-called unprecedented projects, especially roads, which former President John Dramani Mahama and his National Democratic Congress (NDC) government spoke about are nowhere to be found. During the 2016 electioneering campaign, then President Mahama accused Nana Addo, then presidential hopeful of the New Patriotic Party), of not seeing the ‘rehabilitated roads because he was sleeping as he travelled to do his campaign throughout the country. President Akufo-Addo made this observation yesterday when he interacted with the chiefs and people of Nkoranza North, as well as all the chiefs who want the creation of Bono East Region from the Brong-Ahafo Region. The durbar of chiefs and the people took place at Busunya in the Nkoranza North District on day one of the president’s three-day tour of the region. His response was in reaction to a request by the Omanhene of Techiman, Oseadeeyo Akumfi Ameyaw IV –chairman of the Coalition of Bono East Regio...

The Chiefs of Ahafo, in the Brong Ahafo Region, have expressed their appreciation to the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, and his administration for the level of development they have witnessed since January 7, 2017. The President of the Ahafo Traditional Council, Nana Ansah Adu Baah, Chief of Yamfo, on behalf of the Council, told President Akufo-Addo that despite being in office for 16 months, the President’s achievements have been overwhelming. “Because of the policies you (President Akufo-Addo) have put in place, anyone can now say confidently that I am Ghanaian. When people state that they have not seen anything, we, in Ahafo, can boldly state that we have seen a lot,” Nana Ansah Adu Baah said. The President of the Ahafo Traditional Council made this known on Saturday, 19th May, 2018, at Goaso, in Asunafo North constituency, when President Akufo-Addo met with “the Council of Zone B Chiefs”, on day two of President Akufo-Addo’s tour of the Brong Ahafo Regio...

Dr Clement Apaak, Member of Parliament for Builsa Southhas called on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and his government to tell Ghanaians the cost incurred in printing the 2017 and 2018 presidential dairies. According to him, it would be better for NPP government to come clean on the matter as a way of ensuring transparency for the country. Dr Apaak made the called during an interaction with the media in Parliament after the House adjourned sitting for the day.Nana Akufo-Addo, then flagbearer of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) in 2015 alleged at an International Conference of the NPP at the NH Grand in Amsterdam that President John Mahama’s administration had spent$10 million on printing presidential diaries. The then opposition leader also lambasted the NDC government for putting together $10 million as a down payment for the debt owed to Nigeria for the supply of gas to Ghana. Dr Apaak also questioned the integrity of the current NPP administration for going ahead ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has given the strongest indication yet that he’s going to contest the Presidency in the 2020 general polls. According to him, he has reflected on the numerous calls by the party’s teeming supporters and sympathizers to declare his intention to contest in 2020; adding “I have listened to your calls”Mahama who has been silent on his intention to contest wrote on his facebook page: “I want to congratulate the rank & file and executives of our party, the NDC, at all levels for the commitment and work we have put into our reorganization efforts. The zeal and determination of the average sympathizer ofour great party is greater and miles ahead of what it was after the December 2016 Elections. We need to keep up with the momentum generated and follow the published timelines. To you the teeming supporters and sympathizers calling and requesting me to declare my intentions for the future, I wish to assure you today, that as a servant-leader, I have l...

Twelve people have been confirmed dead in a fatal accident which occurred at Akwatiakrom in the AhafoAno South District of the Ashanti region last Sunday. A Ford mini bus, travelling from Sunyani in the Brong Ahafo region to Kumasi in the Ashanti regional capital collided head-on with a cargo truck travelling from Mankraso. The crash left 11 dead males, including the driver of the Ford mini bus and a female.Police sources say foggy weather condition hampered visibility on the road. The 15-seater mini bus, with registration AS 7257-15 veered off its lane onto that of the cargo truck with registration GR 2624-14 travelling from Kumasi to Dormaa Ahenkro to load cashew. Three people, including the driver of the Benz cargo truck who survived the accident are currently on admission at the Bechem Government Hospital. It took Fire Service serveral minutes to arrive at the scene from Sunyani after police from Mankraso were called to help convey both the injured and dead to hospital as well...

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says his government is going to use oil revenues to create assets for the country, and not waste it on consumption. According to President Akufo-Addo, as a relatively new entrant in the league of oil-producing countries, Ghana is not going to treat her oil like she has done with gold, and allow it to be exported in its raw material form as crude. Ghana’s oil, President Akufo-Addo explained, presents the country with the perfect opportunity to transform the structure of Ghanaian economy through industrialization and value-added commercial activities. “Our oilfields provide us with the perfect opportunity to create a petrochemical industry in Ghana. We have begun the processes leading to the setting up of a gas feedstock industrial estate in the Western Region of the country,” he said. The President indicated further that “we intend to convert our petrochemicals into hundreds of industrial and consumer products produced in G...

The Cuban government has expressed worry about government’s failure to pay Cuban doctors serving in Ghana.Deputy Minister of Health Marcia Cobas Ruiz while payinga courtesy call on the Northern Regional minister SolomonBoar said these doctors have not received their salaries since September last year. There are more than a hundred Cuban doctors in Ghana providing health care in Upper East, Northern, Volta, Eastern, and Greater Accra regions with most of them in the northern part of the country.”This is not just” she complained. Madam Ruiz said so far, only those in Accra have receivedfull payment with those in the northern region taking just part payment. She said poorer countries in Africa like Chad pay the Cuban doctors regularly. Madam Ruiz the Cuban doctors remain committed to discharging their duty despite the difficulties. Details about the salary arrears are yet to be ascertained but Ghana as at March 2017 had an US$4,7m outstanding indebtedness to the Cuban medical brigade...

Former President John Kufuor has attributed Ghana’s slow pace of development to failed leadership. Mr. Kufuor believes a mineral-rich country like Ghana should have been better developed than currently is the case. The former president said most of the country’s leaders across sectors are performing poorly because they were forced into those positions. He was speaking at the launch of an endowment fund for the John Agyekum Kufuor Foundation in Accra. The problem of unprepared leaders is not limited to Ghana, it pervasive in much of Africa, he said.But “I don’t blame the leaders because many of them wereforced into leadership positions; they were not prepared;…you cannot give leadership in any sector [to anybody] without they being prepared in terms of knowledge and experience and exposure,” he stressed. Mr. Kufour wants the process of preparing the country’s leaders to be focused on the youth, who form the foundation for Ghana’s leap to prosperity. He said businesses in a develop...

The main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is coming back into power in 2020, former President John Mahama has said. Although he is yet to declare his political future, Mr Mahama told the NDC’s maiden Conference of Ex-MMDCEs on Saturday that with their help at the grassroots level, the party would surely return to the reins of government after the 2020 elections. “We count on you to help us at the lower level, the grassroots level to make sure that things go very well”, Mr Mahama charged the ex-MMDCes, adding: “We have the ability to capture more than 50 seats back from the NPP in the next elections if we handle ourselves well and if we’re to handle ourselves well and make this reorganisation effective, then you cannot exclude the role of DCEs at the grassroots level and I’m sure that with the zeal and the passion that I’ve seen in you today, nothing makes me doubt that by the grace of God, Insha Allah, we’ll win 2020 and come back into government”. If he decides to run ...

Suspected suicide bombers struck three different churches in Indonesia on Sunday morning, killing at least seven people and injuring scores more, police say. Forty-one people — including two police officers — are in the hospital being treated for injuries following suspected terrorist attacks in Surabaya, a port city on the east coast of Java Island, East Java Police spokesman Frans Barung Mangera said. Earlier reports indicated at least 10 people died, but Head Gen. Tito Karnavian, Indonesia’s highest-ranking police official, told reporters seven victims were killed. The explosions targeted the Santa Maria Catholic Church, the Indonesian Christian Church and the Pentecost Central Church. St. Maria was the site of the first blast, which occurred at 7.30 a.m. local time Sunday (8.30 p.m. Saturday ET), before blasts at 7.35 a.m. and 8 a.m., state-run news agency Antara quoted him as saying.”Right now there are only three locations. Do not believe in misleading information that (the b...

Mother’s Day means big business for retailers. This year is no different — shoppers will spend an average of $180 per mom. If you hate all of the commercialization behind the day that celebrates moms, imagine how Anna Jarvis would feel now. The holiday’s founder worked so hard to get the world to give moms everywhere a shoutout. But before her death, even she had to admit she had some regrets about starting Mother’s Day. If she were alive now, she’d probably be living her worst nightmare.She just wanted to honor her momLong before her death, Jarvis’ mom Ann Reeves Jarvis hoped someone would dedicate a day to honor mothers. When she died on May 9, 1905, Jarvis set out to do just that. She began campaigning not only for her mom but for moms everywhere. It started off with her hometown of Grafton, West Virginia, which takes credit for hosting the first official Mother’s Day celebration three years later at Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church. Since then,the church has been dubbed the “...

The commander and the senior enlisted adviser of a US Navy SEAL Team deployed to Africa have been relieved of their duties and sent home due to sexual misconduct allegations regarding multiple fellow US military female service members, a US defense official tells CNN. “Special Operations Command Africa commander Maj. Gen. Mark Hicks suspended the Special Operations Command Forward – East Africa commander and senior enlisted adviser of their duties on May 10 due to allegations of misconduct,” Maj. Casey Osborne, a spokesman for Special Operations Command Africa, told CNN. “Gen. Hicks directed both individuals to return to their home station for further adjudication regarding the allegations,” Osborne added, while not specifying the nature of the allegations. Many of the Navy SEALs in East Africa conduct operations in Somalia, where they advise Somali forces battling al-Shabaab, the local affiliate of al Qaeda. The two Navy SEALs are being investigated by the Navy’s Criminal Investig...

The Management of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) has denied accusations of human rights abuses levelled against it by the Amnesty International Ghana.It described the accusations as a fabrication, false, and baseless. The denial was made at a press conference addressed by Professor Anthony Afful-Broni, the Acting Vice-Chancellor of the UEW. He said the Amnesty International, at a news conference in Accra, addressed by its Campaign and Fundraising Coordinator, Mr Samuel Agbotsey, had accused the University of abusing the human rights of some staffs and lecturers. He said the Amnesty International had indicated, among other things, that; “There are ongoing cases of withholding of staff salaries, rejection of authentic excuseduties and attempts to dismiss some staff.”Prof. Afful-Broni said no human right abuses have been meted out to any staff or lecturer as had been carried by the Amnesty International Ghana. He said: “Those who are peddling lies of human rights abuses ar...

19-year-old Sudanese woman has been sentenced to death for fatally stabbing the man she was forced to marry, who she says raped her as his relatives held her down. The case of Noura Hussein has shone a spotlight on the issues of forced marriage and marital rape in Sudan, where the legal age of marriage is only 10 and marital rape is legal. Hussein’s supporters filled the courtroom in Omdurman, Sudan, and overflowed into the hall outside as the judge announced the death penalty on Thursday. Her husband’sfamily refused an option to pardon her and rejected financial compensation, requesting that she be executed instead. Hussein’s legal team has 15 days to appeal.”She’s still in complete shock after her sentencing today,” Dr. Adil Mohamed Al-Imam, one of Hussein’s lawyers, told CNN. Al-Imam donated his services after Hussein’s original lawyer withdrew from the case. He added that Hussein was abandoned not only by the law, but also by her family.The harrowing details of her case have s...

My attention has been drawn to a story published by the website “https://ift.tt/2wI6MEq; titled “Real Estate Collections: London’s Property Market receives it’s new top customer, Gyankroma Akufo-Addo from Ghana at a whopping £9.3m”. This publication is nothing but an outright lie and a total fabrication. I do not own any properties in London or in any part of the world, let alone own a “5 bed Edwardian palatial” building, valued at £9.3 million mansion. It is important to state that this website, purposely built forpublishing falsehoods, is the same website that indicated recently that my father, President Akufo-Addo, was bringing a bill to Parliament to legalise same-sex marriage- another fabrication. Obviously the strategy by political opponents is to bandy more of such baseless stories and falsehoods around, employing the use of fake websites, with the aim of creating disaffection for the President and his administration. I urge the good people of Ghana to ignore this and other...

Nollywood Actor Ramsey Noah was spotted at John Dumelo’s Traditional Marriage Ceremony.

Kumawood actress Xandy Kamel who revealed that her ex-lover Bill Asamoah is not sexually good in bed in a viral video has made a U-turn. According to Xandy, she dated Bill Asamoah for some time and during their time together, she knew the popular actor with five other ladies but it did not bother her because Bill was not really good in bed. “When I was dating Bill Asamoah, I knew he was dating five other ladies but I was not bothered because how long can Bill last? While I was dating Bill, he was not really good in bed,” she claimed. However speaking in an exclusive interview with Ghanaweb’s Bernice Owusuwaa, the ‘Mary Go Round’ actress has denied ever saying she’s had a sexual relationship with the president of Actors Guild, Kumasi. When pushed by the host, she responded that she mentioned Bill but not Bill Asamoah as has been reported. “The video is true, I said Bill and not Bill Asamoah. Everybody can go back to the video and watch it again”, she said. She continued the Bill s...

Late highlife musician, Jewel Ackah will be buried on August 4, 2018 in Axim.This was made known at the one week observance of his passing which was held at the Sakasaka Park at Tema, Community Two. A wake keeping and thanksgiving service will be held on August 3 and 5 respectively.Many sympathisers, friends and family converged at the Sakasaka Park near the Community Two Police Station toshow their respect to the legend. Also in attendance are political figures mostly from the National Democratic Congress (NDC). Among them are the party’s Greater Accra Regional Chairman, Mr Joseph Ade Coker, Yaw Boateng-Djan, former National Organiser, Anita De Sosoo and Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah, MP for Ellembele constituency.Former President John Dramani Mahama was also in attendance to mourn the late Ackah. He donated an amount of GHC12,000 to the family in support of the funeral.Jewel Ackah, popularly known as the Prince of Hi-Life, started his career as a professional footballer but went on to ...