The Vice-President of the Republic, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has responded to claims by the former President John Dramani Mahama that the financial sector mess was created by the current government and its clean-up was mishandled by the Bank of Ghana. Dr. Bawumia gave his response at the launch of the United Nations Office for Project […]
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Where was your concern for indigenous firms during your four years of dumsor?-Bawumia asks Mahama
The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has questioned the sincerity of former President Mahama who recently claimed that the job losses created by the revocation of licenses of a number of indigenous financial institutions posed a national security threat. During a speech at the launch of the UNOPS housing project initiative in Accra, Dr. Bawumia […]
Bawumia takes Mahama to the cleaners on banking crisis-says crisis developed under his watch
The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has taken a dig at former President John Dramani Mahama, saying the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer has no locus to denigrate the current administration with regards to the crisis that has rocked the banking sector. The Vice president says the banking crisis developed under the watch of […]
Dr. Bawumia donates GHC20k towards completion of Walewale Catholic priest’s rectorate
The Vice President of the Republic, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, on Sunday, August 25, 2019 donated towards the completion of the Catholic priest’s rectorate at the Walewale Parish in the North East region. An indigene of Walewale in the West Mamprusi district, Dr Bawumia made a donation of GhC20,000 when the Catholic church reached out to […]
Ghana tops in Africa’s Payment Space – VP Bawumia
Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia says Ghana’s strides in the area of technology aided payment systems makes the country the undisputed leader in the payment systems space on the African continent. In his keynote address at the launch of the “Gh Dual Card” at the forecourt of the Ghana Interbank Payments and Settlement Systems (GhIPSS), Vice […]
GH Dual Card is the first in the world; it will eliminate ghost names from public payroll-Veep
The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia on Wednesday, August 8 2019, launched the Gh Dual Card. The Gh Dual Card is an intiative of the Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement System (GhIPPS) and can function as an e-zwich and gh-link card simultaneously. It makes moving funds seamlessly across the various payment platforms: mobile wallets, e-zwich […]
Veep opens World Business Angels Investment Forum Office in Accra
Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia yesterday opened the World Business Angels Investment Forum (GBAF) office in Accra, to empower and finance start-ups, innovators and small and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs) in the country to scale up. The office, the first to be established in the West African sub-region, will interact and engage with a wide range of […]
TESCON well positioned to ensure victory in 2020-Sammi Awuku
The National Organiser of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) Sammi Awuku is counting on the youth wing of the party to clinch victory in the 2020 elections. He is particularly confident that the students wing of the party, the Tertiary Students Confederacy (TESCON) will in no small measure lead the charge for the party’s […]
Cuba to train 40 medical students a year from Zongo and Deprived communities
The Government of Cuba has accepted to train forty (40) brilliant but needy medical students a year from Zongo, inner city and other deprived communities in Ghana. This follows a proposal by the Vice President of the Republic, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, to the Government of Cuba to extend the special arrangement between the two countries […]
$1 million per constituency project will develop deprived communities-VP Bawumia
Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has expounded what the real effects of President Akufo-Addo’s flagship one million dollar per constituency policy are. At a special breakfast meeting with Caribbean and African heads of mission in Havana, Cuba on Friday, 19th July 2019, Vice President Bawumia highlighted progress made by government to develop Ghana to the […]
Research is key to people-centred policies – Dr Bawumia
The Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has underscored the importance of research-guided policies as a key element in delivering the needed transformation that positively affects the livelihoods of the citizenry on the African continent. He added that the demand for Evidence to Action is just as urgent when it comes to how best to allocate resources […]
Digitisation of premix fuel distribution soon – VP Bawumia
The Vice President of the Republic, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has served notice that the digitisation agenda of President Nana Akufo-Addo will soon extend to the distribution of premix fuel in Ghana in order to increase efficiency of its delivery to fishermen. According to Vice President Bawumia, introducing digital technologies in premix distribution will ensure that […]