Tag Archives: Akufo Addo

Akufo-Addo cuts sod for 100-bed Obuasi Trauma & Accident Hospital

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Monday, 4 October 2021, cut the sod for the construction of a 100-bed Trauma Hospital for the Obuasi Municipality.   The construction of the Obuasi Municipal Trauma Hospital is being facilitated by a €55 million facility acquired by the Akufo-Addo government, which will also …

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Stop the blackmail, approve Sam Pyne – Akufo-Addo appeals to KMA members

President Nana Akufo-Addo has described as unfair the position taken by members of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly that they will not confirm his nominee for the position of Metropolitan Chief Executive, Sam Pyne until government pays off a GHS50 million debt the Assembly owes. They say the Assembly’s indebtedness has …

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‘Expensive toy for His Majesty’ – How Akufo-Addo mocked JJ over presidential jet

• Government recently announced plans for a new presidential jet • Akufo-Addo has been accused of chartering luxurious jets despite the availability of an official jet • Parliamentary records show that he had opposed the purchase of a jet in 2000  President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in early 2000 was an ardent …

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Protest greets Akufo-Addo at Twedie

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was on Saturday, October 2, met by protesting youth at Twedie as he continued his four-day tour of the Ashanti Region. The youth were incensed by what they describe as a deliberate move by the contractor in moving equipment to the site because the president was …

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Akufo-Addo receives Guinean military delegation; reiterates call for return to democracy

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Wednesday, 29th September 2021, received a three-member delegation from the Guinean military junta, the National Committee for Reconciliation and Development (CNRD), at Jubilee House, Accra. The delegation, led by Colonel Sadiba Koulibaly, Second-in-Command of the CNRD, was at the seat …

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Detailed breakdown of how Akufo-Addo spent GH¢10million on recent travels

• Okudzeto Ablakwa has vowed to use parliamentary procedure to seek accountability over the cost of President Akufo-Addo’s trips to Europe • He claims the president, in his most recent trip to the US flew a $14,000-per hour aircraft • He sums up President Akufo-Addo’s last three trips abroad to …

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Akufo-Addo addresses UN General Assembly today

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will today mount the podium at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly Hall at the annual gathering of world leaders in New York City, United States. It will be the fifth time he addresses the UN General Assembly as President, having done so four times …

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VIDEO: Akufo-Addo told me he was listed for arrest after the 1966 coup – Pratt reveals

• Young Akufo-Addo was a card bearing member of the then ruling CPP • When Nkrumah was overthrown in 1966, Akufo-Addo was listed for arrest • His father used connections with the junta to take him off the list Veteran journalist and Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr, …

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 Akufo-Addo reappoints State Housing Company boss

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has re-appointed Kwabena Ampofo Appiah, popularly known as Vyrus, as the Managing Director of State Housing Company (SHC) Limited. State Housing Company has seen tremendous progress since 2017 after Mr. Ampofo Appiah took over administration. He has brought life to the almost defunct state institution …

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Akufo-Addo sacks controversial Sekyere East DCE

• Mary Boatemaa Marfo has been replaced with the constituency chairman, Osei Adiyiah • Akufo-Addo revoked her appointment in 2020 but rescinded the decision in the same month • She is alleged to have caused a lot of violence in the constituency including campaigning for skirt and blouse voting against …

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