Новости за 13.12.2019

First Lady , Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo yesterday met with executives of the Ghana Rice Inter-professional body at her Office in Accra. Accompanied by officers of the JAK Foundation, the visit was for the Association to appeal to the First Lady to join them in the campaign to patronise made in Ghana rice. They said government rsquo;s initiatives in the agricultural sector including rice production were yielding results thus the need for the body to embark on a campaign to ensure that the ...

President Akufo-Addo has said government will soon establish a Crop Tree Development Authority to promote the development of other cash crops in the country. He said the country cannot continue to depend on cocoa as the sole cash crop dominating in the agricultural sector. Addressing journalists at the Jubilee House at this year rsquo;s presidential encounter, President Akufo-Addo said Parliament will soon consider the bill for the establishment of the Authority. ...

President Akufo-Addo has jabbed critics of the Free Senior High School (SHS) policy who are constantly giving apparently erroneous statistics about the progress of implementation of the policy. According to him, unlike his critics, he has not been sitting in Accra to give statistics about the state of infrastructural development in schools nationwide. He said he has been travelling across the country to understand the state of infrastructure within public schools. The Pres ...

President Akufo-Addo has stated that even though his Government has declared 2020 as the year of roads, not all roads in the country will be constructed. That, he said, was because the country does not have enough funds to construct all roads nationwide. It would be recalled that the Finance Minister while presenting the 2020 Budget Statement in Parliament in November, declared 2020 as the year of roads. However, President Akufo-Addo who is addressing journalists at the Ju ...

Kumasi Children rsquo;s home has received a Mobile Money donation of GH30,000 from MTN. The donation is the care home rsquo;s share of proceeds from Ghana Stands in Worship Concert organized by MTN last month. Acting General Manager, MTN Northern Business District, Mr. Simon Amoh who made the donation on behalf of MTN said lsquo;this is in fulfillment of our promise to patrons of the concert rsquo;. According to him, Christmas is approaching and as every home is preparing so does t ...

President Akufo-Addo says his administration has done better than the opposition NDC in strengthening the fundamentals of the economy since he assumed power on January 7, 2017. President Akufo-Addo acknowledged that government, despite those successes, had a lot more to do to put the country back to the path of progress and prosperity. Speaking at an encounter with the media at the Jubilee House in Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo says the achievement of his administration is unprecedented b ...

The World Bank Group has cautioned the government against overly depending on the country rsquo;s natural resources for economic development. The bank noted that Ghana rsquo;s natural resources contributed about 13 per cent to Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which was too high, compared to other lower middle-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa, whose natural resource contribution was around 3.7 per cent. In a presentation at the Kick-Off Meeting for Ghana Partnership Framework, the Senior ...

The state has taken a further step to sell properties belonging to businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome to defray the GH cent;51.2 million he fraudulently received as judgment debt. Two mansions belonging to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) financier located at Trassaco Valley in Accra have been put up for sale to the public. An advertisement detailing the availability of the property for sale has already been published by the Daily Graphic newspaper paving the way fo ...

President Akufo-Addo has rendered an unqualified apology to the media fraternity for his failure to fulfil his promise of meeting them twice this year. Speaking at the media encounter at the Jubilee House on Friday, he attributed the inability to meet them earlier to what he says is his tight schedule for the year. For this reason, he said the current ongoing session which is the first of its kind this year, will be extended to compensate the media. ldquo;It is so ...