Dr. Bawumia

Internal Auditors Are Key Stakeholders In The Quest For Fiscal Discipline – VP Bawumia

The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has said internal auditors in the public sector have crucial roles to play in the fight against corruption and the quest to achieve fiscal discipline. Addressing the 2022 Internal Audotors Conference in Accra on Tuesday August 16, 2022, Dr. Bawumua underscored the significance of internal auditors to the quest to improve financial mobilisation and ensure fiscal discipline, adding that they should be seen as major stakeholders in the process. "The theme of "Injecting Fiscal Discipline in Resource Mobilization and Utilization for Sustainable Development" need to be complete with internal auditors across board who should…
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VP Bawumia Inaugurates Zongo Development Fund Board

The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has inaugurated the Board of the Zongo Development Fund at the Jubilee House in Accra on Wednesday August 9, 2022. Dr. Bawumia also administered the swearinging-in of the eleven-member Board, which is chaired by Mr Seidu H Nasigri. Addressing members of the board after swearing them into office, Dr. Bawumia urged members to "work assiduously with all stakeholders, to ensure that the ZDF continues to deliver on its mandate.." The Zongo Development Fund, Dr. Bawumia noted, is very dear to the "heart of the President and government and all of us" because it was…
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VP Bawumia Commissions ZDF Projects In Ashanti Region

Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia has commissioned a number of projects undertaken by government through the Zongo Development Fund (ZDF) in the Ashanti Region. At separate ceremonies at Asokore (Asokore Quranic Islamic School), Effiduase (Hamdaniya Islamic School), both in the Sekyere East District, and at Bantama in the Kumasi Metropolis, Vice President Bawumia commissioned furnished classroom blocks, a water system and a Community Sports and Social Centre as part of his two day visit to the Region. “Zongo communities are indispensable stakeholders in our determination to ensure a comprehensive and inclusive development in Ghana,” Dr Bawumia declared at the commissionings on…
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I Will Work To Ensure Bawumia Is The Next NPP Presidential Candidate- Chairman Wontumi Reveals

The Ashanti regional Chairman for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Bernard Antwi Boasiako popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, has revealed what led to his victory, stating that he retained his position as the party’s Regional Chair, after complying by an order given to him by his constituency executives to support Dr. Bawumia’s Presidential bid. Speaking at Effiduase/Asokore constituency where Hon. Nana Ayew Afriyie serves as the Member of Parliament (MP), Chairman Wontumi indicated he can not go against what his people want, adding that Dr. Mahumudu Bawumia, the vice-President of the Republic of Ghana is the person his constituency executives…
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Bawumia Commissions 100km Of Kumasi Inner City Roads

The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has commissioned the 100km Rehabilitation and Auxiliary Infrastructure of Kumasi Inner Ring Road and Adjacent Streets Project - Phase 1, for which he cut sod on 13th December, 2019 at Kentenkrono in the Oforikrom Municipality. This brings the total number of kilometers of completed roads constructed by the Akufo-Addo administration since 2017 to 1,180.2. This figure is more than double the 503.44 kilometers of road constructed in the region between 2009 and 2016. The 100km Rehabilitation and Auxiliary Infrastructure of Kumasi Inner Ring Road and Adjacent Streets Project - Phase 1 was undertaken with…
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VP Bawumia Commissions Ultra-Modern Educational Facility At Tunga Zongo

The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has, on Wednesday July 27, commissioned a two-story classroom block for the Tunga Zongo Community in Dansoman, Accra. The project, a complete rebuild snd transformation of a dilapidated classroom of Tunga Community Islamic School into a modern facility, was funded by the Zongo Development Fund, the development agency created by the Akufo-Addo Government to ensure inclusive and sustainable development in Zongos and related deprived communities. Speaking at the commissioning of the facility, Vice President Bawumia said investing in such an edifice, and many others across the country, demonstrates government’s resolve and commitment to expanding…
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VP Bawumia Cuts Sod For First Inland Marine Port In Northern Ghana As Part Of The Trans-Volta Logistics Corridor

The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has cut the sod for work to begin on the construction of the first Inland marine port in the northern parts of Ghana and an accompanying Industrial Park at Debre in the Savannah Region. The multi modal transport corridor, known as the Trans-Volta Logistics Corridor, is being undertaken by LMI Holdings and involves the development of a system to transport containers and bulk cargo from the Port of Tema to Burkina Faso and other landlocked countries via the Volta Lake. An additional port, to be constructed at the termination point of the Tema- Mpakadan…
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Ghana Launches Africa’s First National-Scale Epharmacy Platform

The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has launched the National Electronic Pharmacy Platform (NEPP)  in Accra on Monday. The national ePharmacy, which is the first national-scale ePharmacy platform in Africa, is a digital convergence of licensed pharmacies across the country, which will enable Ghanaians to have access to prescribed medicines and buy by making an order with a mobile phone through the ePharmacy app, website or a shortcode, and have the medicine delivered to a requested location Launching the NEEP, Vice President Bawumia, who challenged the Pharmacy Council to go digital in 2019 and supported the implementation of the NEPP…
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NPP Flagbearership: Dr.  Bawumia Will Win  With 75% Vote- George Kwarteng

NPP Flagbearership: Dr. Bawumia Will Win With 75% Vote- George Kwarteng

A communications team member of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), George Kwarteng,has predicted a win for the vice-President of Ghana, Dr. Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia to lead the NPP in the 2024 elections as the Flagbearer. Sharing his thoughts on the upcoming national delegate conference on Movement In The Morning Political Show  Mr. Kwarteng affirmed that Dr. Bawumia is in the lead to succeed President Akufo-Addo as flagbearer for the NPP. "It's like every member of the party knows who becomes the next flagbearer, there's no contest. I can promise you that what happened in 2008 will not recur- when…
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VP Bawumia Cuts Sod For Construction Of Tamale-Walewale Highway

VP Bawumia Cuts Sod For Construction Of Tamale-Walewale Highway

After cutting the sod for the construction of 167km Tamale-Yendi-Tatale highway on Monday, the Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has, on Tuesday June 14, cut another sod for the commencement of work on another major highway in the northern part of the country -  the Tamale-Savelugu-Walewale highway. The project is being financed by the Indian Exim Bank and the Indian High Commissioner to Ghana H.E. Sugandh Rajaram was among dignitaries present at the ceremony in Walewale in the North East Region. The reconstruction of the international highway, which connects the southern part of the country to major parts of the…
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