 Franklin Cudjoe of IMANI Ghana says President John Mahama’s
announcement of a free Senior High School (SHS) policy is "whimsical.” "The whimsical nature with which this policy was announced…this was
whimsical, it was capricious, it was not thought through, it was just
mentioned,” he said. He also opined that the President’s state of the nation address last Tuesday "was all over the place, lacked coherence.” The President, John Mahama as[...]
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 The Inter-Ministerial Task Force Against Illegal Mining (Galamsey) is
to move into the second phase of its operation soon, President John
Dramani Mahama has said. The first phase of the operation, conducted in 2013, saw the task
force dismantling hundreds of illegal gold mining sites in the country
and evicting thousands of illegal miners, including Chinese, from the
sites. During the second phase, the President said, the task force would spearhead a livelihood[...] |
 The 15th edition of the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMA) is a Charterhouse Ghana Event supported by GHOne TV and Sponsored by Vodafone, was launched yesterday on the 1st of March, 2014. The full list of award nominees is finally out. Sarkodie, Castro, Kwabena Kwabena, Guru and Bisa Kdei took the lead with several nominations in the various categories. And the two hot Dancehall Artists were Nominated in The Artists of the year category[...] |
 Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, has submitted a proposal to
the upper house of the Russian parliament, the Federation Council, to
use the country’s armed forces in Ukraine, Kremlin has reported. "In connection with the extraordinary situation in Ukraine and the
threat to the lives of Russian citizens… I submit to the Federation
Council a request to use the armed forces of the Russian Federation on
Ukrainian territory until the[...]
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 Some opposition parties in the country have condemned the consistent increment of fuel prices. In compliance with the automatic adjustment formula, the National
Petroleum Authority (NPA) has upwardly revised petroleum prices which
took effect on March 1. Owing to the increment, the price of petrol has been increased by 6.2 percent. It is against this backdrop, the People’s National Convention (PNC),
the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) and the[...] |
 President John Dramani Mahama on Thursday said his administration
would continue to prove his skeptics wrong by delivering on the promises
made in the 2012 general election campaigns. He said: "while we are always trying to deliver on our promises, our
opponents are always ready to say we cannot do anything and that is why
we are going to deliver on our promise to prove all of them wrong. President Mahama, who was addressing[...] |
 Motivational Speaker Dr Mensa Otabil says Ghana is a nation of
jokers. He wonders why Ghanaians create jokes out of very serious
issues, and by so doing, belittle very weighty matters. Speaking at the Spring Board Road Show in Accra, of which Radio XYZ
is a media partner, Dr Otabil said: "One District Chief Executive makes a
comment which we should be angry with, but it has become a national
joke and we just carry on and on and on and I’m[...] |
 Political Strategist, Dr Kobby Mensah says the main opposition New
Patriotic Party (NPP), owns the free Senior High School idea on which
the 2012 elections were fought.
Speaking on Radio XYZ’s news analysis programme ‘The Analyst’ on
Saturday March 1, 2014, Dr Mensah who lecturers at the University of
Ghana said: "When it comes to campaign strategy, they [NPP] can lay claim to the free SHS because it was sitting in the
constitution, nobody made[...] |
 A National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament and a
backbencher who has gained notoriety for shouting at members on the
opposite side received bashing from the Minority leader, Osei
Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu on Wednesday when he said his behaviour does not
belong to the House as an honourable member. The NDC MP for Yunyoo in the Northern Region, Joseph Bipoba Naabu
rudely interrupted the Minority leader when[...]
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 The Turkish Kitchenware sector is working to increase its trade
investment inflow in Ghana through partnerships with Ghanaian
industrialists within the next five years. Currently, Turkish kitchenware exports to Ghana stands at $1.06
million. Overall, Turkey’s annual kitchenware exports to the rest of the
world stands at $4 billion. Mr Murat Akyuz, Chairman of the Istanbul Chemicals and Chemical
Product Exporters’ Association (ICCPEA)[...]
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 Ghana loses approximately $1.2 billion in tax incentives offered
foreign companies every year which would otherwise have been channelled
into segments of the economy crying for real resuscitation, a study
carried by ActionAid Ghana has established. Consequently, the study has advised the enactment of necessary
legislation so that all the huge sums or money that go to cushion
foreign companiesoperating in the country,[...]
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