President Akufo-Addo cuts sod for Tamale interchange; launches $2 billion sinohydro deal

  The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has launched the $2 billion Government of Ghana – SinoHydro Master Project Support Agreement (MPSA), and also cut the sod for the construction of the Tamale Interchange, the first interchange in the northern sector of the country. According to President Akufo-Addo, Ghana, through a barter arrangement, […]

Akufo-Addo cuts sod for construction of Tamale interchange under Sinohydro Master Project Agreement

As part of the $1.5 billion roads infrastructure project under the Sinohydro Master Project Agreement, President Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo today, Wednesday, April 10, 2019, cut the sod for the construction of the Tamale Interchange project. The Master Project Support was agreed between Ghana and the Sinohydro Corporation Limited in 2017 to address major infrastructure challenges […]

Value-for-Money Audit report okays $2bn Sinohydro Project – Oppong Nkrumah

Minister for Information, Hon. Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has rendered untrue, the falsehood put out by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) that there is no value-for-money audit report for the $2bn infrastructure for bauxite project between government of Ghana and Sinohydro. On the contrary, he says the value-for-money audit report has okayed the project. Hon. […]

You have no shame at all: how dare you ask for Short commission report-Buabeng Asamoah slams NDC

The Director of Communications for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Yaw Buabeng Asamoah has slammed the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) for requesting the publication of the Emile Short Commission report. The NPP Member of Parliament for Adentan Constituency is surprised that the NDC which boycotted the commission’s hearing at the unset and ordered […]

Rawlings writes to Education Minister: exclude my name from public universities draft bill

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has written to the Minister for Education, Mathew Opoku Prempeh, requesting that his name be excluded from the Public Universities Draft Bill to be submitted to parliament. The former president has asked government to withdraw the decision to name the University for Development Studies (UDS) after him, explaining that he […]

Public Universities Bill:  Akufo-Addo will be remembered as the Idi Amin of university education in Ghana

The opposition National Democratic Congress Member of Parliament for North Tongu Constituency in the Volta Region, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has described the Public Universities Bill as one that smacks of an authoritarian agenda by president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and government to meddle in the management of higher institutions of learning in the country. ‘’A […]

 Tame the borrowing to curb Ghana’s rising public debt-Adongo cautions govt

 The Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolgatanga Central, Mr Isaac Adongo, has warned that government’s appetite for loans will cripple the country’s future and saddle generations yet unborn with debt. According to him, government borrows to finance consumption instead of capital investment. Speaking at a forum organised by the Coalition for Restoration, under the theme […]

Ghanaians are too wise to be deceived again: you called us incompetent, so we won’t help you-Alban Bagbin

The Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin has lampooned the ruling New Patriotic Party government, saying Ghanaians have become discerning and enlightened and cannot be deceived again. According to the Nadowli/Kaleo lawmaker, the NPP then in opposition castigated and denigrated the NDC government, labeling it incompetent and therefore cannot turn around and […]

Dele Momodu and Osuofia can’t dabble in our politics, they can’t tell us who to vote for in Ghana – Koku Anyidoho

Former Deputy General Secretary of the opposition NDC has cautioned against foreign celebrities especially from neighbouring Nigeria dabbling in the main opposition’s political campaigns in general elections in Ghana. Mr. Anyidoho contends the party’s structures must work effectively and bring all party members onboard in NDC’s campaigns instead of allowing aliens to take over its […]