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The Bono Region has equally benefited from development projects under President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s government, Madam Justina Owusu-Banahene, the Bono Regional Minister has said. “It will, however, be disingenuous for government critics in the region to create the impression that the Bono Region has been neglected in terms of development,” she told the Ghana News Agency (GNA). Speaking in an interview on the sidelines of the inauguration of the refurbished conference hall of the Bono Regional Coordinating Council (RCC) in Sunyani, Madam Owusu-Banahene said, “the government is gradually turning Sunyani, the Bono regional capital into a modern city.” The…

Mr Alan Kyerematen, the outgoing Minister of Trade and Industry, says the Government will introduce a Vehicle Financing Scheme to make it possible for “ordinary” Ghanaians to purchase newly-produced vehicles in Ghana. The Minister said access to the market was an important requirement for the survival of Ghana’s budding automotive industry, adding that the Financing Scheme would help to increase market volumes for local manufacturers. Mr Kyerematen said this when he inaugurated a newly-constituted Ghana Automotive Industry Development Council, charged with the mandate to regulate the country’s automotive industry. Members of the Council, numbering 35, were drawn from various government and…

Fisheries expert and advocate, Kofi Agbogah, has stressed the need for fishers to be given early notice before the seas are closed for fishing. For him, when fishers are given early notice, it will help them to prepare themselves for the exercise, thus lessening the social and economic impact that may come with the exercise. Mr Agbogah, who is the Executive Director of Hen Mpoano, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) with focus on fisheries resources, environmental and coastal management, gave the advice at the day two of the ongoing 14th session of the Conference of the Ministers of the Fisheries Committee…

Hawa Koomson is the caretaker Minister of Food and Agriculture after Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto resigned to concentrate on his presidential campaign. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, after accepting Dr Akoto’s resignation has directed Hawa Koomson, who is the Minister of Fisheries to take charge of the Agric Ministry until a substantive minister is appointed. Below is a copy of the statement from the presidency announcing the change The President of Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has accepted the resignation from office of Hon. Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto as Minister for Food and Agriculture. This was after the Minister personally…

Nigerian record producer, Don Jazzy says he is not the type of man that is committed to one woman.Speaking on media personality Nedu’s podcast, he confessed he is never been faithful to one woman before now. “I wouldn’t be able to process the fact that if I like this person every other person should go to hell. As of now in my life, when that butterfly hit me as it hit you people when you fall in love, maybe I will then say every other person is fucked.” Speaking about the qualities he desires in his future wife, Jazzy said…

Ghana’s National Petroleum Authority (NPA), the state oil regulator, has revoked the licenses of some 30 Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) in the country. Reasons given bythe country’s downstream petroleum regulator are non-compliance with the rules and regulations of the Authority on acquisition and maintenance of their licenses including non payments of approved fees. This forms part of efforts of the NPA to sanitise the downstream petroleum sector. At an earlier meeting with the Board members of the Association of Oil Marketing Companies (AOMCs), the Chief Executive of the NPA, Dr. Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, cautioned that the Authority would not hesitate to…

Former President John Dramani Mahama’s claim that President Akufo-Addo sought to absolve Akonta Mining Company of any wrongdoing has been rejected by the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor. The minister said the President’s comments on the Akonta Mining Company had been misconstrued as an “exoneration” by Mr. Mahama, who is seeking to stage a comeback for the Jubilee House. The ex-President, in a Facebook post on Tuesday, took a swipe at President Akufo-Addo, asserting he has the penchant to absolve his appointees and other close associates of any wrongdoing “as he has done with the ongoing…

The much anticipated ministerial reshuffle appears to be in the offing following the exit of two cabinet ministers from the Akufo-Addo government. Two top ministers in the current administration, Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen, Trade and Industry Minister and Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, Food and Agriculture Minister have resigned to pursue to their presidential ambitions of succeeding President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, who is serving his second and last term as president and leader of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP). While Alan is said to have voluntarily resigned effective January 16, 2023, the Agric Minister was said to have been asked…

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has assured mobile money customers who were wrongfully overcharged as a result of the implementation of the 1% Electronic Transaction Levy (E-Levy) of reimbursement. Implementation of the reduction in the E-Llevy from 1.5% to 1% commenced on Wednesday, January 11. The reduction of the levy was made known in the 2023 Budget and Economic Policy Statement presented on the floor of Parliament last year by the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta. A Member of the E-levy Technical Committee at the GRA, Opoku Afriyie Asante assured Ghanaians that adequate measures have been put in place to deal…

A 35-year-old Assistant Headmaster of Ekumfi Akra Methodist Basic School in the Ekumfi District of the Central Region has been shot. The headmaster who also doubles as the local secretary of the Ghana National Association of Teachers was shot while attending to nature’s call in a nearby bush. Information gathered indicates that the Assistant Headmaster, Shadrack Frimpong, on Wednesday, January 11, 2023, went into a nearby bush to attend to nature’s call when some unknown persons fired at him in the bush hitting him in the left eye. It is, however, unclear the motive behind the attempt on the life…