August 2022 - Page 2 of 71

31 Aug

Bitterness Is Wiping Away Your Little Dignity- Maxey Max Jabs KKD

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Master of ceremonies (MC), Kwasi Kyei Darkwah, (KKD) has recently come under fire for alluding that the Director-General of National lotteries Authority (NLA), Mr. Samuel Awuku has terminated a contract with a State-owned television station, Ghana Television (GTV) and handed it over to a privately owned company, United Television. In a Facebook post sighted by Movementtvonline.com, a user of the app, Maxey Max, said bitterness is wiping away the little dignity KKD had after an alleged raping of a 19- year old girl. According to him, KKD wanted to be paid 10,000cedis every week just for a day’s lotto draw-…

31 Aug

Work On National Cathedral Project Suspended Over Inadequate Funds

wontumionline.comNewsWork On National Cathedral Project Suspended Over Inadequate Funds

Work on the National Cathedral project has been suspended, the Executive Director of the project has disclosed. Dr Paul Opoku-Mensah said the Secretariat has run out of capital to finance the construction. He made this revelation on Tuesday when the Redeem Christian Church of God donated to the Secretariat. “We have the contractors and their staff on site, but the work has been suspended. We are hoping that within the next couple of weeks, as part of our fundraising and other initiatives we can begin work again,” he stated. According to him, “our ability to complete this work keenly depends…

31 Aug

Mikhail Gorbachev: Former Soviet Leader Dies Age 91 ‘After Long Illness’

wontumionline.comNewsMikhail Gorbachev: Former Soviet Leader Dies Age 91 'After Long Illness'

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died aged 91 - with President Biden leading tributes and calling him "a man of remarkable vision" who helped avert the prospect of nuclear war. One of the most significant figures of the 20th century, Mr Gorbachev was known for ending the Cold War without bloodshed, but failed to prevent the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991. Mr Gorbachev's office earlier said that he was undergoing treatment at the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow. He died after a long illness, the hospital was quoted as saying by news agencies. Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his deepest…

31 Aug

Tarrif Increase: Consumers Will Pay Higher Percentages Than PURC Announced – ECG

wontumionline.comNewsTarrif Increase: Consumers Will Pay Higher Percentages Than PURC Announced – ECG

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has said that consumers will pay more than the percentage increase announced by the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC). The ECG made the clarification in a press release that expressed its commitment to ensuring a smooth implementation of the new tarrif. On August 15, 2022, the PURC announced an increase in electricity tarrif by 27.15. The increment is expected to take effect from September 1, 2022. In a statement issued on August 30, 2022, signed by the Managing Director, Samuel Mahama, the ECG stated that, “it is important to note that the average percentage…

31 Aug

Govt Provides USD200m For Rural Telephony And Digital Inclusion

wontumionline.comBusinessGovt Provides USD200m For Rural Telephony And Digital Inclusion

The Ghanaian government has invested USD200 million to enable the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC) to accomplish its rural telephony and digital inclusion projects across the country, Ghanaian Times reported. The project, which forms part of the government’s ‘Ghana Rural Telephony and Digital Inclusion Project’, seeks to facilitate the provision of universal access through the use of affordable information and communications technology for socio-economic development. Speaking at an event in the Eastern Region, Prince Ofosu Sefah, Administrator of GIFEC, reiterated the government’s commitment to ensuring 95% mobile network coverage by December 2023, through the deployment of 2,016 rural sites.…

31 Aug

Methodist, Presbyterian, Catholic University Colleges Receive Presidential Charter

wontumionline.comNewsCatholic University Colleges Receive Presidential Charter, Methodist, Presbyterian

President Akufo-Addo has presented Presidential Charters to three universities colleges in the country, bring the number of private universities to receive same to six under the Akufo-Addo administration. The three latest university colleges who qualify for the Presidential Charter are the Catholic University Colleges, Methodist University Colleges and Presbyterian University Colleges. The previous Universities who have received Presidential Charters under the current government are Ashesi University, in 2018, All Nations University in 2020 and Pentecost University also in 2020. Addressing officials of the three university colleges at the presentation ceremony held at the banquet hall of the Jubilee House today…

31 Aug

$750m Afreximbank Loan Received In Full; $37m Set Aside For Debt Resolution – Gov’t

wontumionline.comBusiness$750m Afreximbank Loan Received In Full; $37m Set Aside For Debt Resolution – Gov’t

Deputy Finance Minister John Kumah says government has received the full loan amount of $750 million from the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank). The disclaimer was issued after ranking member on the Finance Committee in Parliament, Cassiel Ato Forson made comments indicating the bank account of government had received only $713 from the total amount in the loan agreement. Deputy Finance Minister, John Kumah in a statement on social media refuted such claims and explained the Ministry of Finance occasionally generates escrow accounts for certain resolutions, in this situation the sum of $37million was set aside by the Finance Ministry for…

30 Aug

Sekondi-Takoradi MCE Abdul Mumin Issah Reinstated

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The Metropolitan Chief Executive for the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly, Abdul Mumin Issah, has been reinstated by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. Mr. Issah was directed to step aside after he was caught on tape verbally assaulting a police officer who had arrested him for flouting road traffic regulations. The altercation between the MCE and the police officer, Superintendent Andrew Sarfo, near the Kwesimintsim Cemetery on the night of Thursday, February 3, 2022, was captured on tape and circulated on social media. Abdul Mumin Issah was heard threatening the police officer with a transfer, among other things. He also described the…

30 Aug

Professor Kofi Abrefa Busia Was A Far-sighted Political Thinker Says President Akufo-Addo

wontumionline.comNewsProfessor Kofi Abrefa Busia Was A Far-sighted Political Thinker Says President Akufo-Addo

President Akufo-Addo says, the former Prime Minister of Ghana, Professor Kofi Abrefa Busia, was a far-sighted political thinker that Ghana and for that matter, Africa, has seen. Speaking at the launch of an audiobook complied by the children of the late Professor K.A. Busia, entitled “The Prof” A Heart of Faith, from “Poor Boy” to Prime Minister”, at the Quodesh (Lighthouse Chapel), President Akufo-Addo said but for the overthrow of Prime Minister Busia in 1972, the story of Ghana’s rural development would have been different from what it is today. “As the eldest child of my father, Edward Akufo-Addo, then…

30 Aug

Address Unprofessional Conduct : Vice-President Tells Doctors

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Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia (left) addressing medical practitioners at the Medical Training and Practice Conference in Accra. The government has urged the Medical and Dental Council, Ghana (MDCG) to address the increasing allegations of unprofessional conduct by healthcare professionals. Among the allegations are clinical negligence, poor professional attitude and inhumane treatment of patients. The Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, who raised the government’s concern, said equally worrying was the matter of some practitioners providing services outside their areas of competency. Speaking at the opening of a two-day medical training and practice conference organised by the MDCG in Accra yesterday, the Vice-President…