An Escrow Account opened for about 95% of the total revenue of the Ghana Aiports Company Limited (GACL) to be deposited into to service a loan facility of US$274million secured by the airport operator for the construction of Kotoka Internationl Airport’s Terminal 3 is causing disaffection among the rank and file of the company.
Category: Politics
Open your eyes, you’ll see 1D1F projects around you – Akufo-Addo mocks NDC MPs
The President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has told lawmakers from the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to critically observe things around them as they may have come across a factory built under the government’s rapid industrialization agenda but could not recognize it as such.
ECOWAS calls for equal gender future in a post-covid world
The ECOWAS Commission on Monday, March 8, 2021, joined the international community in observing the International Women’s Day.
28 Ministers of State sworn into office
The President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has sworn in twenty-eight of the twenty-nine ministerial nominees who were vetted and approved by Parliament.
2020 Election Petition: Supreme Court says no Mahama; affirms Akufo-Addo as President-elect
The Supreme Court of the land has dismissed a petition brought before by the 2020 Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) seeking a declaration for a run-off of the Presidential election since none of the candidates (Akufo-Ado and Mahama) obtained a fifty percent plus one of the total valid votes to be declared […]
You have retired; thank you for your service – Akufo-Addo tells Domelevo
The President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has reminded the embattled Auditor-General, Daniel Yao Domelevo to stop holding himself as such since records available to his office indicate that he is on retirement. According to a letter signed by the Secretary to the President, Nana Asante Bediatuo, documents made available by […]
2020 Election Petition: Supreme Court delivers judgment today
After five days of pre-trial hearings and 12 sittings, 17 in all, the Supreme Court delivers its judgment in the 2020 Presidential Election Petition today. Today’s sitting will be the 18th in all and 63 days since the Petition was filed on December 30, 2020. This is the second of its kind in the annals […]
Midnight ballot on Ministerial nominees: Hawa Koomson polls 161 to sail through; Oppong Nkrumah, Akoto survive Minority scare
Despite being vilified for her weak command over the Queen’s language and not fit for purpose for the portfolio (Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture) designated to her by the President of the Republic of Ghana, Hon. Mavis Hawa Koomson polled a surprise 161 votes, representing 60.75% in the secret ballot on Thursday dawn.
NDC writes to EC to demand refund of Presidential and Parliamentary filing fees
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has written to the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana, requesting for a refund of the fees it paid to file the nomination forms of its 2020 presidential candidate, John Dramani Mahama, as well as that of 269 constituencies it filed a parliamentary candidate in.
Parliament won’t be a footnote under my leadership – Bagbin
The Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has assured that the legislature under his leadership, would no longer be an afterthought in the scheme of governance in the country.
There were no 500 excavators missing – Abu Jinapor
The Lands and Natural Resources Minister-designate, Samuel Jinapor has clarified that some 209 excavators were confiscated by the inter-ministerial task force against galamsey and not 500 that could not be accounted for.
Hawa Koomson right person to save our dying fishing industry – Gomoa East Fisher folks
Fisherfolks in the Gomoa East enclave have thrown support to the nomination of the Minister-designate for the Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Hon. Mavis Hawa Koomson, saying that she is the right person to revive the dying fishing industry.