By Daniel Nii Okine ADIDOME, VOLTA REGION — To those sitting in offices in Accra, or living far outside the Central Tongu District, the Atsiteto and Klamandor Boundary road may sound like just another stretch of transit on a map. On the ground, however, it has become the site of an active, unfolding infrastructure disaster. […]
Prominent Upper East Region figure Mr. Gabriel Agambila has expressed strong displeasure over the exclusion of the Upper East Region from a major $500 million feeder roads project funded by a loan secured by the government. According to details of the project, all regions except the Upper East and North East have been allocated portions […]
The Minister for Roads and Highways, Kwame Governs Agbodza, has ordered the Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Highways Authority, Mallam Issah Ishak, to begin the process of terminating the contract of Black Oak, the contractor working on the Bogoso–Prestea Road. The contract was awarded in 2025, but the contractor only mobilised to the site […]
A lecturer at the University of Professional Studies Accra (UPSA), Dr Kwabena Bomfeh Jnr, has called for the resignation or dismissal of the Minister for Roads and Highways, Governs Kwame Agbodza, over concerns surrounding sole-sourced contracts under the government’s Big Push infrastructure programme. Speaking on the JoyNews AM Show on Monday, March 30, Dr Bomfeh […]
The Ghana Highway Authority, on behalf of the Ministry of Roads and Highways, has announced a temporary traffic management plan to accommodate ongoing construction works on the Accra–Tema Motorway and its extensions. According to a press statement issued by the Authority, the arrangement is required to facilitate T-beam launching works for the expansion of the […]
The Department of Urban Roads, under the Ministry of Roads and Highways, has announced an upcoming traffic disruption due to drainage and traffic management works on a section of Cantonments Road. The affected area lies between the Police Station and Danquah Circle, with construction starting on Sunday, May 26, and continuing until Monday, July 29, […]
The Ministry of Roads and Highways has clarified that the government has not reinstated toll collection across the country. In a press statement issued Tuesday (July 26, 2022) evening to clarify the Finance Minister’s Statement on the Collection of Road Tolls in the 2022 Mid-Year Budget Review, the ministry stated: “the government has not reinstated toll collection across the country.” […]
Commuters on the Accra-Tema motorway will start paying tolls again after the completion of expansion works on the road. Similarly, users of other newly constructed roads would also have to pay road tolls to use those roads. The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta said this when he presented the Mid-year budget review statement in Parliament […]
The government will start work on nine new major road projects in parts of the country this year and complete many others that are at advanced stages of completion. Documents secured from the Roads and Highways Ministry indicate the new road projects as the Accra-Kumasi dualisation (in sections), the Kumasi South and Western Bypass and […]
The Ministry of Roads and Highways has turned to Cabinet in search of an increment in road tolls to boost revenue for the road fund. The Sector Minister, Kweku Amoako Attah, said this was needed to improve the cash flow of the road fund and help pay contractors “As at now, I have sent a memo […]
The road sector is undergoing massive transformation in just two years of the Akufo Addo administration. All the regions, including the newly created 6 regions are getting projects. It is an absolute fact that when this regime formed the government in 2017, the Road fund was inaccessible. This was because the Mahama administration used the […]
