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‘Trotro’ Passengers To Pay Fares Through Mobile Money – Dr. Bawumia
26 Aug

‘Trotro’ Passengers To Pay Fares Through Mobile Money – Dr. Bawumia

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‘Trotro’ Passengers To Pay Fares Through Mobile Money – Dr. Bawumia Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Vice President of the Republic of Ghana, has disclosed that ”trotro” passengers will soon be able to pay their transport fares from their mobile money accounts. The Mobile Money Payment Interoperability allows for the transfer of funds from mobile money accounts to bank accounts and vice versa as well as providing a link mobile or bank accounts to biometric payment card accounts (ezwich). This means every Ghanaian can now make payments and receive money without having to go to the banking hall. Speaking in an interview…
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Build Your ‘Delivery Tracker’ Let’s Interrogate It – Bawumia Slams NDC
26 Aug

Build Your ‘Delivery Tracker’ Let’s Interrogate It – Bawumia Slams NDC

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Build Your ‘Delivery Tracker’ Let’s Interrogate It – Bawumia Slams NDC The infrastructure debate between the opposition NDC and the governing NPP seems not to be going away anytime soon, as the vice-president has dared the opposition party to also set up a website to showcase what they did while in government. Speaking on Accra-based  FM, Dr Bawumia who was responding to claims by the opposition party that twenty-six of the projects out of the over 17,000 listed during the town-hall meeting last week are non-existent. He said though there might have been some errors regarding some projects, the initiative…
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Free SHS : NDC’s Promise To Review It  Is Pointless – Bawumia Roars
25 Aug

Free SHS : NDC’s Promise To Review It  Is Pointless – Bawumia Roars

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Free SHS : NDC's Promise To Review It  Is Pointless - Bawumia Roars   Vice President of the Republic of Ghana, His Execllency Dr. Mahammadu Bawumia ,has taken a swipe at the NDC saying their sincerity and credibility on the free SHS policy are doubtful. He noted that, the NDC entrusted upon themselves the responsibility of giving  many versions of the free SHS but they have failed to tell Ghanaians  what they can also introduce. "All that they are trumpeting  is to make a review of the free SHS policy but "a review"  as they are propagating  doesn't make sense."…
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Import Duties On Sanitary Pads To Be Eliminated In NPP’s Second Term- Bawumia
24 Aug

Import Duties On Sanitary Pads To Be Eliminated In NPP’s Second Term- Bawumia

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 Import Duties On Sanitary Pads To Be Eliminated In NPP's Second Term- Bawumia The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has pledged to eliminate import duties on sanitary pads should Ghanaians give them a second tenure. Reading the party’s 2020 Manifesto on Saturday, Vice President Dr Mahammudu Bawumia said the move is to improve health conditions of the students particularly among females. He noted that the move has become necessary since some female students absent themselves from classes because they cannot afford sanitary pads. “What we aim to really do is to make sure that we produce the sanitary pads in…
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We Are Completing Inherited Projects – VP Bawumia Asserts
20 Aug

We Are Completing Inherited Projects – VP Bawumia Asserts

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We Are Completing Inherited Projects – VP Bawumia Asserts   The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has shot down claims by the opposition NDC that the Akufo-Addo administration has neglected projects it ‘inherited’ from the previous government. Presenting the Akufo-Addo government’s infrastructure record in Accra on Tuesday, Dr. Bawumia said it is pure propaganda for anybody to claim that the current government has not continued with projects initiated by its predecessor. “Contrary to the propaganda, the evidence is that we have also completed or working to complete many projects that our government inherited,” Dr. Bawumia said. In the educational sector…
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We’Ve Built 372 dams, 80 Warehouses, 100 Greenhouses – Bawumia
19 Aug

We’Ve Built 372 dams, 80 Warehouses, 100 Greenhouses – Bawumia

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We’Ve Built 372 dams, 80 Warehouses, 100 Greenhouses – Bawumia The Akufo-Addo government has invested so much in terms of infrastructure in Ghana’s agricultural sector, Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia said on Tuesday, 18 August 2020 at a virtual town hall meeting in Accra. Dr Bawumia said the government has embarked on the construction of 80 warehouses throughout the country, each with a capacity of 1,000 MT, under the One District-One Warehouse Initiative, as part of measures to ensure food security, reduce post-harvest loses, guarantee farmer incomes and improve marketing. Some of the beneficiary communities, he said, include Ejura, Atebubu,…
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NDC Government Couldn’t Complete Major Roads In The Upper Regions – Bawumia
19 Aug

NDC Government Couldn’t Complete Major Roads In The Upper Regions – Bawumia

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NDC Government Couldn’t Complete Major Roads In The Upper Regions – Bawumia Vice President, Mahamudu Bawumia has said the previous National Democratic Congress (NDC) government failed to complete major roads in some regions in the country. He made this known while addressing a gathering at the government’s 3rd town hall meeting and results fair held at the Ghana Academy of Arts and Science on Tuesday, August 18, 2020. “Under the previous government, after eight years in office, they could not complete one major road in either Upper West, Upper East or Western North Region,” said the Vice President. Dr. Bawumia said the…
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Government Is Building Ghana Not Infrastructure – Bawumia
19 Aug

Government Is Building Ghana Not Infrastructure – Bawumia

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Government Is Building Ghana Not Infrastructure – Bawumia Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the Vice President, has indicated that the NPP administration led by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is building a country called Ghana and not infrastructural projects. According to him, the NPP’s promise to build a country is evident in the over 17,334 projects the government has initiated across the length and breadth of the country. He indicated that their “8,746 completed projects” show that the government has done more infrastructural projects with less money available than the previous Mahama administration. Dr. Bawumia at the government’s ‘Town Hall and Results Fair’ on…
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Infrastructure Not Only Brick And Mortar – Bawumia Jabs NDC
19 Aug

Infrastructure Not Only Brick And Mortar – Bawumia Jabs NDC

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Infrastructure Not Only Brick And Mortar – Bawumia Jabs NDC   Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has taken a swipe at the National Democratic Congress (NDC), emphasising that infrastructure is not only about “brick and mortar”. For him, there is digital infrastructure as well which has been a major area of development for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government, he said. “I would also want to mention that infrastructure today, in this world of digitisation, is no longer just brick and mortar. “We are talking about soft infrastructure and we are talking about digital infrastructure.” Dr Bawumia made this known on Tuesday, August 18…
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NPP’s Infrastructure Projects Provide Value For Money – Bawumia
19 Aug

NPP’s Infrastructure Projects Provide Value For Money – Bawumia

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NPP’s Infrastructure Projects Provide Value For Money – Bawumia   Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia says the Akufo-Addo government has focused on delivering the best value for money for all of its projects. During his presentation of the Akufo-Addo government’s infrastructure record on Tuesday, Dr. Bawumia revealed staggering disparities in the value of similar projects undertaken by the erstwhile John Mahama government and current projects by the Akufo-Addo government. In Dr. Bawumia’s comparative value for money analysis, the cost of projects undertaken by the Mahama government appear to be quiet outrageous. For instance, the Vice President said while the NPP…
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