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10 Oct

President Akufo-Addo Receives Honorary Doctorate Degree From Sorbonne University

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The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Akufo-Addo, on Monday, 10th October 2022, was presented with an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Sorbonne, in Paris, France, one of the most prestigious universities in Europe and the world. Sorbonne University conferred the award on President Akufo-Addo, in recognition of his commitment to entrenching the values of democracy in Ghana, fostering peace within the West African Region, guaranteeing access to a minimum of senior high school education for all of Ghana’s children through the implementation of the Free SHS policy, and also for the leadership shown in the fight against…

10 Oct

Education Must Remain A Priority For Global Development” – President Akufo-Addo

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The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has charged Member States of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) to ensure that education remains a priority in the common development agenda of countries. As the recently appointed Domestic Financing champion of the Global Partnership for Education, President Akufo-Addo sought the co-operation and support of UNESCO “to work towards developing sustainable homegrown financial solutions, so we can develop the educational system for the future we want in our various countries.” Addressing the 215th Meeting of the Executive Board of UNESCO, on Monday, 10th October 2021, in Paris,…

10 Oct

Akufo-Addo Pays Tribute To Legendary Highlife Musician, Nana Ampadu

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President Akufo-Addo paid tribute to the legendary highlife musician, Nana Kwame Ampadu. Speaking at the funeral of the legendary Highlife musician, held at the forecourt of the State House in Accra, President Akufo-Addo emphasised the Musician’s contribution to the music industry and how it impacted his (Akufo-Addo’s) political life. “Talk of the commencement and growth of highlife music, and one of the people whose names will be on the lips of most Ghanaians is Nana Kwame Ampadu. “The outpouring of grief by many Ghanaians following the news of his death is in appreciation of the impact his music had on successive…

27 Sep

Ghana’s Industrialization Agenda: President Akufo-Addo Has Changed The Political Narrative- Asiedu Kokro

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The deputy National Director of Communications for the New Patriotic Party(NPP), Asiedu Kokro, has applauded President Akufo-Addo for giving a different perspective to the political narration in Ghana. Speaking to Kwaku Dawuro on Movement In The Morning Show he said that ‘’politics is not about building schools and constructing roads only – it goes beyond that. Ghana currently has 66 factories across the16 Regions. After the overthrown of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah in 1966, no government has focused on the industrialization agenda than the current regime led by President Akufo-Addo. The NPP government has 278 factories of which 125 factories are…

22 Sep

“International Financial System Skewed Against Africa; Reform It Now” – President Akufo-Addo

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The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has called for an urgent reform of the international financial system, as the current monetary system is skewed against developing countries. According to President Akufo-Addo, “the financial markets have been set up and operate on rules designed for the benefit of rich and powerful nations, and, during times of crisis, the façade of international co-operation, under which they purport to operate, disappears.” Taking his turn to speak at the United Nations General Assembly, on Wednesday, 21st September, in New York, the President stated “these are the savage lessons that we…

22 Sep

“Africa Is Ready For Business” – President Akufo-Addo To Investor Community

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“Our message to the global investor community is, therefore, this: Africa is ready for business. Africa needs you and you need Africa. You need Africa because Africa is busily building the world’s largest single market of 1.3 billion people. Soon we will have a customs union, and soon we will have a continental payment system that will accelerate and facilitate trade amongst ourselves.” These were the words of the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, when he delivered an address to the 77th Session of the United Nations, currently ongoing in New York, in the United States of…

22 Sep

FULL TEXT: Akufo-Addo’s Speech At UN’s 77th General Assembly

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Mr President, I congratulate you on your election to lead us through this 77th gathering of the General Assembly of the United Nations. I wish you the best of luck, as you take on this onerous task at this most difficult period of the world. Mr President, as we would say in Ghana, our world is currently not in a good place. The World Bank observed, last Thursday, that the global economy was enduring its steepest slowdown since 1970. Two years ago, our world came to a thundering halt, as we cowered from a health pandemic from an unknown, malicious…

20 Sep

Eastern Region Has Seen Massive Road Infrastructure Ever Under Prez Nana Addo-Seth Acheampong

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The Eastern Regional Minister, Hon. Seth Kwame Acheampong, has noted that no government has embarked on massive infrastructural development, especially in the roads sector, in his region than President Akufo-Addo’s administration. He told Kwaku Dawuro on Movement In the morning show that the region had benefitted massively from the government’s ‘Year of Roads’ agenda, adding that about 1,487 km of roads have been completed, and 5,404 km awarded for construction. “On roads, we have a total road network of 7,147 kilometers. So far, out of this total road network, we have awarded for construction a length of 5,404 km, and…

12 Sep

Akufo-Addo Joins Dr. Agyepong’s Family At Service Of Thanksgiving

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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Sunday joined the family and friends of Dr. Joseph Siaw Agyepong, at the Service of Thanksgiving for Opanyin Samuel Kwame Agyepong, the father of Dr. Joseph Siaw Agyepong. The event was at the Pentecost International Worship Centre (PIWC) Teshie Graceland Church Nungua in Accra, where Dr. Siaw Agyepong, who is the Executive Chairman of the Jospong Group of Companies (JGC) attends church, and is also the Presiding Elder. The service was in two parts. The first climaxed the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Children’s Ministry in the Church of Pentecost (COP), which event was…

12 Sep

“We’ll Overcome Current Economic Challenges” – President Akufo-Addo

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The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has, once again, assured the people of Ghana that his government is determined to bring relief to the Ghanaian people, and return the economy back to the high rates of growth that characterised the management of the economy in the three (3) years preceding the COVID outbreak in 2020. According to President Akufo-Addo, “in recent times, we have been witnessing significant difficulties in the management of the national economy, largely as a result of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global economy, which has been exacerbated by the effects…