Author: TNRgh

The policies and programmes being implemented by the Nana Akufo-Addo government are meant to address the age-long issues of geographical exclusion from national development, the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has indicated. According to Vice President Bawumia, these policies, such as the Free Senior High School, national roll-out of the Ghana Card, Digital Property Addressing System and the establishment of the three Development Authorities are designed to ensure that the challenges militating against nationwide access to development opportunities are addressed in a holistic manner and benefit all. Dr Mahamudu Bawumia outlined the rationale behind the policies of the Nana Akufo-Addo…

Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery may be reassigned[/caption] Impeccable information picked up by 3news.com from the presidency, points to an impending jaw-dropping reshuffle that could see high profile cabinet ministers being shown the exit by the Akufo-Addo-led government. The government was ridiculed by many after dropping a tall list of names, as many as 110, for ministerial appointments, months after taking over power from the National Democratic Congress administration in 2017. It is however not clear if President Akufo-Addo will touch the number in his first reshuffle after one and half years in office. He once defended the widely criticised number…

Professor Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo[/caption] The Governing Council of the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) has appointed Professor Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo as the new Rector of the Institute. Until his appointment, he was professor of Public Relations (PR) and Marketing at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia. A statement signed by Mrs Patience Sowah, the Acting Registrar of the Institute and copied to the Ghana News Agency in Accra on Wednesday said. A brief of Prof. Kwansah-Aidoo indicates that he was a communication scholar with extensive research interests in media and communication studies. Prof Kwansah-Aidoo, established Monash University’s Public Relations programme in the…

President Akufo-Addo exchanging pleasantries at the event[/caption] President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Wednesday, 8th August, 2018, launched the National Public Sector Reform Strategy (NPSRS), 2018-2023. The Strategy, according to President Akufo-Addo, “will lead to the creation of a new public service that is fit-for-purpose, which will help guarantee the delivery of high quality services for the Ghanaian people and the private sector.” Speaking at the launch of the Strategy at the Accra International Conference Centre, the President indicated that when Ghana attained independence in 1957, an efficient public service, the envy of many in the Region, was bequeathed to…

Eleven municipal and district chief executives out of 13 for the newly created districts in the Ashanti region have been sworn into office. They took the oaths of office, secrecy and allegiance on 5th August 2018, to officially begin work at their respective assemblies. The ceremony, which took place at the Regional Coordinating Council, was well attended by municipal and district coordinating directors, traditional rulers, executives of the ruling part, Members of Parliament led by the Regional Minister Simon Osei Mensah. The new chief executives are Fred Owusu Obeng, Tafo Municipal; Andrew Adu Boahene, Adansi Asokwa; Akwanuash Gyimah, Asokwa Municipal;…

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has revealed that Government will honour the late John Henry Mensah with a state burial, which will be held on Friday, 17th August, 2018. This announcement was made on Tuesday, 7th August, 2018, when the family of the late J.H. Mensah paid a courtesy call on the President at Jubilee House, the seat of the nation’s presidency. In his brief remarks, President Akufo-Addo noted that J.H Mensah mentored him and many members of the Danquah-Dombo-Busia tradition, as well as many of the Members of Parliament who entered the House in 1996. “From the days…

Jordan Ayew[/caption] Jordan Ayew is moving closer to leaving Swansea City after refusing to train with the Championship team. Ayew, 26, was the Swans’ top scorer with 11 goals as they were relegated from the Premier League last season. The Ghanaian has been linked with Crystal Palace and Fulham but the Welsh club have yet to receive a bid that matches their valuation. “There’s no further news on Jordan – he’s just not been here,” Swansea boss Graham Potter told BBC Sport Wales. “That tells you that he’s not part of what we’re trying to do, by his own actions.…

Ghana is going through a financial sector crisis, most Ghanaians are either feeling the crunch directly or lucky enough to watch it unravel in the news.  On August 1, the Bank of Ghana announced the revocation of the banking licenses of 5 universal banks. Beige Bank, Construction Bank, Royal Bank, Sovereign Bank and Unibank. Why is the Bank of Ghana doing this?  Simply put, the banks have become insolvent, meaning their liabilities have far outweighed their assets and put them in a position where they cannot meet liquidity demands. The business of banking relies on the liquid asset of cash. The…

The newly elected Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Okaikwei North Municipal Assembly in the Greater Accra region  Nii Boye Laryea has issued summoned letters to ‘recalcitrant’ residents and households for failing to partake in a sanitation exercise. His action is as a result of low turnout of residents the Assembly recorded during Saturday’s national sanitation exercise. The MCE together with the Member of Parliament for Okaikwei North Fuseini Issah on August 4 led the national sanitation exercise programme which falls on the first Saturday of every month. They were shocked at the level of insanitary condition in the Assembly and…

Former President Rawlings[/caption] I read with disbelief the comments credited to Femi Fani-Kayode (whom I am told is a former Nigerian Minister) in which he launched an unjustified attack on former President Jerry Rawlings over a perceived endorsement of President Muhammadu Buhari. Kayode went ahead to use unprintable words on H.E. Rawlings without verifying the authenticity of the alleged comments. I have decided not to join Kayode in his mud-fight, which I am told is his favourite survival game in Nigeria, but simply to demand an apology from him on the following basis: At no point did President Rawlings make…