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18 Jan

National Cathedral Can Be Completed By 2024 If Ghanaians Co-operate- Paul Opoku Mensah

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Executive Director of the National Cathedral Board, Paul Opoku Mensah, has lamented that the completion of the National Cathedral can be done by 2024 if Ghanaians Cooperate. Speaking in an interview with Kwaku Dawuro, on Movement In The Morning, on Movement TV/Wontumi radio, Mr Paul Opoku stressed on the fact that if every Ghanaian donates an amount of gh100 monthly, it can go a long way to help complete the National Cathedral by 2024. In response to when the Cathedral will be completed, he said ''When Ghanaians bring the money we can complete it because the current context we are…

17 Jan

National Cathedral Scares NDC, Okudzeto Like ‘Kakai’ But We Will Still Build It- Chairman Wontumi

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The Ashanti regional Chairman for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, has said the National Democratic Congress (NDC) particularly Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, see the construction of the National Cathedral as ‘kakai’ to wit nightmare. Mr. Bernard Antwi-Boasiako aka Chairman Wontumi insisted that even if the project scares the NDC and their Member of Parliament for North Tongu, it will be constructed to keep haunting them. In an interview on Wontumi TV which was monitored by Wontumionline.com, Chairman Wontumi quipped that the NDC can apply delay tactics in stalling the project but assured them that it will be “built”.…

16 Jan

National Cathedral Secretariat Shames Okudzeto Ablakwa Over Lies Against Rev. Kusi Boateng

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The National Cathedral Secretariat has responded to claims of conflict of interest and corruption on the part of Rev Kusi Boateng, Secretary of the Secretariat by North Tongu Member of Parliament (MP) Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, insisting that payment made to the company( JNS Talent Centre), Okudzeto Ablakwa links to Rev Kusi Boateng, was a refund of a loan the company had given to the Secretariat. Mr Ablakwa had earlier in the day claimed in a post on social media that Rev. Kusi Boateng, Secretary to the Board of Trustees of the National Cathedral of Ghana, was the third director of…

12 Jan

Come What May I’ll Build National Cathedral – Akufo-Addo

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President Nana Akufo-Addo has once again stated that no matter what happens and despite the criticisms, he will remain resolute and ensure that the National Cathedral is constructed in the last two years of his administration. Speaking at a prayer service at the Jubilee House on Tuesday, January 10, the President said he will not be deterred by the naysayers adding that he will do everything within his power to ensure the completion of the project. “I am determined, come what may, I have two more years, that whatever the case, the National Cathedral will be at a very advanced…

04 Jan

National Cathedral Project Will Rake In More Revenue

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The National Cathedral of Ghana (NCG) project has a sustainable economic model which is expected to rake in $95m in the first five years of its operation, the Executive Director of the NCG Secretariat, Dr Paul Opoku-Mensah, has said. The economic model is made up of about 10 revenue streams which include multi-purpose rental spaces, an over 1,000-seater banquet hall, a conference centre, a 350-seater biblical restaurant, a café, shops and theatres. The rest are its groundbreaking design, a Bible Museum of Africa and a Biblical Gardens of Africa which would help facilitate the development of the country and turn it into a major religious metropolis…

29 Dec

National Cathedral Project Will Continue Despite Disapproval Of GH¢80m Budgetary Allocation – Joyce Ayree

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Rev Dr Joyce Aryee, a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Cathedral of Ghana, has said that the construction of the Cathedral will continue despite the disapproval of the GH¢80 million budgetary allocation for the project by Parliament. According to her, the GH¢80 million budgetary allocation was only part of the seed money the government was using to support the construction of the Cathedral and thus its cancellation will not affect the project that much. Speaking in a JoyNews interview monitored by GhanaWeb, Dr Aryee added that she is confident Ghanaians will contribute towards the project for…

23 Dec

Govt Channels GHS80m Earmarked For Nat’l Cathedral Into Communication And Road Sectors

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The government has channeled the controversial GHS80 million that was earmarked for the construction of the National Cathedral into Communication and Road sectors, TV3’s Parliamentary correspondent, Komla Klutse who witnessed the debate on the 2023 budget statement on Wednesday December 21 reported. Earlier, the Ranking Member on the joint committee of Trade, Industry and Tourism, Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, on Tuesday, December 20 dedicated a Minority voting decision to reject the budget estimates for the building of the National Cathedral as captured in the 2023 budget statement to Ghanaians. He said the decision was a victory to all Ghanaians as previous…

19 Dec

National Cathedral Will Be Ghana’s Thanksgiving To God For Sparing Us Wars, Famine – Akufo-Addo

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President Nana Akufo-Addo has said upon completion, the National Cathedral will serve not only as the country’s collective thanksgiving “to the Almighty for the blessings He has bestowed on our nation, sparing us the ravages of civil war that have bedevilled the histories of virtually all our neighbours, and the outbreak of deadly mass epidemics but also as a rallying point for the entire Christian community of Ghana, which represents seventy-plus per cent of the population.” The president made this known on Sunday, 18 December 2022, when he delivered an address at the centenary celebration of the Ga Presbytery of…

05 Jul

The National Cathedral Will Be Built By Hook Or Crook- Alhaji Yussif Fofana (VIDEO)

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Government's spokesperson on social services, Alhaji Yussif Fofana, has indicated that those rising against the construction of the national cathedral especially members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), must be told in the face that the edifice will be built. According to him, although he's a Muslim he wholeheartedly supports the construction due to its benefit to the state. Speaking to Kwaku Dawuro on Movement In The Morning Show on Wontumi Radio/Movement TV, Alhaji Fofana stated, "it's just like the building of the Jubilee house; the NDC vehemently opposed it but after it was constructed Mahama occupied it. It's…

16 Jun

Stop The Insanity: You Are Inciting Ghanaians Against Men Of God-Dawuro Tells NDC’s Okudzeto (VIDEO)

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A Journanlist, Kwaku Dawuro, says Okudzeto Ablakwa is inciting Ghanaians against the Men of God who are on Board of Trustees for the building of the National Cathedral. His comment comes at the back of Okudzeto's propaganda tour on the building of the National Cathedral. In 2016, President Akufo-Addo promised to build a Cathedral for God and for the State. The Cathedral when constructed will have a 5,000 seating capacity auditorium with chapels and baptistery, conference rooms, house of music, and a museum of bible and art gallery. The project is said to reflect the the art and culture of…