Month: August 2023

National AfCFTA Coordination Office Launches Ghana Expo 2023- Tanzania

National AfCFTA Coordination Office Launches Ghana Expo 2023- Tanzania

As part of Ghana’s Strategy for boosting trade with the rest of Africa the government, the government established the National African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Coordination Office under the Ministry of Trade and Industry. The NCO has over the last 2 years implemented strategies designed to create awareness of Ghanaian stakeholders and Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) and to prepare them to participate on the African market. In October 2022 Ghana alongside, Kenya, Cameroon, Egypt, Rwanda, Mauritius and Tanzania participated in the Guided Trade initiative in Collaboration with the AfCFTA Secretariat. This GTI signalled the beginning of commercially…
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Medeama Gets GH¢1M Support From Akufo-Addo Ahead Of CAF Champions League Campaign

Medeama Gets GH¢1M Support From Akufo-Addo Ahead Of CAF Champions League Campaign

Ghana Premier League champions, Medeama Sporting Club, have received support from Nana Akufo-Addo ahead of their participation in next season’s CAF Champions League. Akufo-Addo pledged to the Tarkwa-based side on Wednesday, August 2, on their visit to the Presidency to present the league trophy. Ghana’s Deputy Minister for Mines and Natural Resources, George Mireku Duker, who also serves as the Member of Parliament for Tarkwa, led the players to meet the President. Others present were chiefs from the Apinto Traditional Council, the club’s Board Chairman, Dr Tony Aubynn, head coach Evans Augustine Adotey, management and technical team members. Medeama’s opponents…
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NPP Primaries: Deputy Minerals Commission CEO Files Nominations To Contest Nkwanta North Seat.

NPP Primaries: Deputy Minerals Commission CEO Files Nominations To Contest Nkwanta North Seat.

  The two term Member of parliament for Nkwanta North, Joseph Kwaku Nayan, has formerly filed his nominations to contest the upcoming Nkwanta North Parliamentary primaries of the New Patriotic Party. Hundreds of NPP supporters, polling station executives, electoral area coordinators, former constituency executives, elders of the party among many other key stakeholders in the constituency turned out massively to support him submit the forms to the elections committee. The mammoth crowd in the charged atmosphere march through the principal streets of the capital, Kpassa to exchange pleasantries with youth groups and elders in the community amidst drumming and dancing.…
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“No President Can Foist A Candidate On The Party” – President Akufo-Addo

“No President Can Foist A Candidate On The Party” – President Akufo-Addo

“The history of the NPP tells us that no President can foist a candidate on the Party against its wishes. The NPP is not that kind of Party. We have never subscribed to a cult of personality. Indeed, our highly-respected former President, the 1st NPP President, His Excellency John Agyekum Kufuor, in the aftermath of my election as NPP Presidential Candidate, by the 2007 National Congress, told the Congress that ‘the Party has its spirit’, a spirit that cannot be ignored.” These were the words of the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, when he met with communicators…
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President Akufo-Addo Commissions $6.6 Million Ashaiman And Bankuman Sewerage And Treatment Plants

President Akufo-Addo Commissions $6.6 Million Ashaiman And Bankuman Sewerage And Treatment Plants

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Wednesday, 2nd August 2023, commissioned the ultra-modern Simplified Sewerage Facility and Treatment Plant at Ashaiman, and the rehabilitated and expanded Bankuman Simplified Sewerage Plant. The two (2) new simplified sewerage networks, comprising some fifty-one kilometres (51kms) of sewer lines, and a new wastewater treatment plant with a capacity of some one thousand, eight hundred metre-cubed per day (1,800m3/day) in Ashaiman, is to serve some four thousand, eight hundred and five (4,805) households in the community. The plant in Bankuman, with a capacity of one thousand, six hundred metre-cubed per day…
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Oti Region: Buem MP has doubled his ‘ignorance’ – NPP Regional Youth Org. Rebut

Oti Region: Buem MP has doubled his ‘ignorance’ – NPP Regional Youth Org. Rebut

The Youth Orgernizer for New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Oti Region, Prince Amanor has passionately spoken out against the Member of parliament for Buem Constituency, Hon. Kofi Adams who threw dust into the eyes of Ghanaians by indicating that, the next NDC Government would review the underlining principles behind the Ghana Teacher Licensure Examination (GTLE). In a quick rebuttal, Prince Amanor has expressed his disappointment in Kofi Adams comments, describing the MP's utterances as a display of ignorance of thought and a complete misunderstanding of educational policies. The Youth Organizer indicated that, the Ghana Teacher Licensure Examination (GTLE) has increased…
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Change ”Amasaman Housing Project” Name To One That Will Not Mislead People- Popular Radio Personality

Change ”Amasaman Housing Project” Name To One That Will Not Mislead People- Popular Radio Personality

Journalist of Wontumi multimedia, Daasebre Agyei Dwamena, has called on the team facilitating the Amasaman Housing project to come up with a different name for it. Speaking on the Newspaper review segment on Movement In The Morning show, on Movement TV/Wontumi radio, Daasebre expressed his dissatisfaction with the name given to the affordable housing project initiated by the Akuffo Addo led government, and advised for it it to be changed since it can be a form of mislead for people when locating it. He claimed that ''what surprised me most was when I got lost while locating Pokuase because of…
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Medeama SC, ASKO De Kara Of Togo Friendly Game Rescheduled

Medeama SC, ASKO De Kara Of Togo Friendly Game Rescheduled

Ghana Premier League 2022/23 champions, Medeama SC’s international friendly against Togolese champions ASKO de Kara has been rescheduled. The match which was initially scheduled to take place at the Cape Coast Stadium on Friday, August 4, 2023, has been postponed to Sunday, August 6 at the same venue. The fixture forms part of the Ghana Premier League champions preparation for the 2023/24CAF Champions League campaign. Medeama will begin the CAF Champions League campaign against Nigerian side Remo Stars in the first stage of the preliminary round at the Cape Coast Sports Stadium. The Mauves and Yellow will host the first…
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Everton Eyeing Southampton’s Kamaldeen Sulemana

Everton Eyeing Southampton’s Kamaldeen Sulemana

Ghana forward Kamaldeen Sulemana has emerged as a top transfer target for Premier League outfit Everton, Footballghana.com can reveal. The Toffees are said to be exploring a deal to snap up the Ghana international this summer after Leeds United rejected £15m bid for Italian teenager Wilfried Gnonto. According to Daily Mail, Everton will now turn their attention to the Black Stars winger as they grow frustrated in their attempts to sign Wilfried Gnonto from Leeds United. Sulemana was a transfer target for Everton during the January window but Southampton beat off competition to secure the services of the pacey winger.…
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