Author: TNRgh

The Puri clan of the Bimoba tribe in the Mamprugu Traditional Area of the Northern Region has reintroduced its annual home-coming and development durbar after a decade of suspension. The home-coming festival known as the Sanpauk was celebrated by the Chiefs and people of the Puri Clan to thank the gods of the land for protection and prosperity, and also to reunite the clan. The three-day celebration which used to be purely ritual sacrificial activities was threatened by the influx of modernity as members of the clan refused to finance the celebration claiming it was idol worshiping. But after consultation,…

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File photo[/caption] The Member of Parliament for Nsawam Aduagyir, Annor Dompreh is calling for the arrest of persons believed to be members of the New Patriotic Party who are trying to use illegal means to take over government establishments. The NPP MP maintained that the president was elected by and for the people of Ghana, which means he is not the president for a selected few. Annor Dompreh speaking on Onua FM morning show, Yen Nsempa, urged the leadership of the New Patriotic Party to talk to the youth of the party to desist from the act. According to him,…

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The Minority National Democratic Congress in Parliament insists the president, Nana Akufo-Addo, withdraws a speech delivered at his inauguration on Saturday after it emerged that portions were “plagiarized”. Whilst castigating the president’s speechwriters of not being original, the Minority in a statement issued by its Deputy Leader James Klutse Avedzi mentioned the embarrassment the speech has purportedly brought to the nation. “It is indeed shocking that for a presidential campaign that anchored its core message on competence and incorruptibility will on its first day in office fall short of its pledge in such a spectacularly disgraceful manner. “If the NPP…

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Ghanaian-owned technology company, Rlg Limited has been awarded the contract to manufacture Set Top Boxes (STBs) for the country as the country inches closer to the final phase of its Digital Migration. This follows the commencement of work on the local production of STBs in Ghana. The sale and distribution of approved Digital Terrestrial Television (DDT) Receivers and Decoders will be rolled out in the early part of this year ahead of the migration to the digital platform. Government announced that Phase 1 of the multi-million-dollar Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) network project had already been completed in April 2016 and…

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Some youth, believed to be members of the governing New Patriotic Party, today made botched attempts to takeover the offices of the National Health Insurance Scheme in Sagnerigu and Tamale metropolis. The about 30 youth stormed the NHIS offices in the Northern region Monday but their efforts to eject workers there were thwarted by the timely intervention of the police. The errant youth, nonetheless, insisted that the directors of the scheme should vacate their posts by Tuesday. They claimed the directors where appointed by the previous National Democratic Congress government, and must therefore leave office for new persons to be…

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As the new administration starts work today, a governance expert has called on the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to consider cutting down drastically the size of his government. Professor Albert Puni opined that the President can attain his goal of protecting the public purse if he is able to form a lean government. He made the call on Onua Fm morning show Yen Nsem Pa hosted by Bright Kwesi Asempa on Monday. “The president should endeavor to avoid things that transported the NDC administration to opposition, some of those is to ensure value for money, he should check the…

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File photo[/caption] Former President John Dramani Mahama has left Accra to Abuja to attend an ECOWAS Meeting on the situation in The Gambia. The former Ghanaian President who recently handed over to newly elected President Nana Akufo-Addo has been asked to continue his mediation role in the effort to resolve The Gambian political crisis. In a meeting of ECOWAS held on the sidelines of the inaugural ceremony of President Akufo-Addo, the leaders requested the former president to continue to assist President Muhammadu Buhari as co-mediator in the Gambian issue. In a telephone conversation yesterday, President Akufo-Addo personally conveyed the ECOWAS…

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This was found on the tomb of an unknown man: ‘When I was young, I told myself that I would change this world but I realized at the time of my death that I had changed nobody because I should have changed myself first’. Food for thought. A few days after Ghanaians of various persuasions ‘danced over’, ‘jumped over’, ‘Pushed Over’, ‘Rolled Over’ and did all to get over from 2016 to 2017, the final act of sealing what democratically took place in Ghana on December 7, 2016 happened on Saturday, January 7 when there was a handing over and…

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Contractors owed by the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) started receiving payment today January 6. 2017 started with some contractors working on GETFund projects picketing at the Ministry of Finance to demand monies owed them. It is to the tune of over GHc 300 million spanning a period of six months. This also incited the Association of Building and Civil Engineering Contractors in the Volta Region to threaten to block access roads and facilities they have constructed today if they are not paid monies owed them. But speaking to 3FM business, Deputy Director of GETFund, Stephen Baffoe, says the Fund has…

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