Tag Archives: AKUFO

E-Levy: Start reducing your salaries- UN Peace Amb. to Akufo-Addo, others

The United Nations (UN) Eminent Peace Ambassador and the Country Director for International Association of World Peace Advocates, Ghana Chapter, Dr Samuel Owusu has urged the President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo to reduce his salary and cut down certain privileges. He has also advised political leaders, including Ministers …

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Sam George uses Akufo-Addo’s $1-GHC1 video to question his anxiety over the cedi

Ningo-Prampram Member of Parliament, Sam Nartey George, has critiqued the President by reviving a video of then opposition candidate Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, slamming the then government’s handling of the currency in particular and the economy in general. Akufo-Addo on a campaign platform is heard slating the then government – …

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Prices of 3-bedroom East Legon houses can buy mansions in US – Akufo-Addo

President Nana Akufo-Addo has bemoaned the high cost of properties in Ghana and urged the Ghana Chamber of Construction Industry to find innovative ways to build less costly properties for Ghanaian citizens so more people can own homes. The President told the Chamber at a meeting: “I hear in Ghana, …

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Free SHS to cover first year public TVET institution students this year – Akufo-Addo

Government will from this year, expand the free Senior High School (SHS) programme to cover public Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institution first year students, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced. President Akufo-Addo who emphasised investments in the educational sector as being a key priority of his …

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Akufo-Addo speaks on UTAG strike

President Akufo-Addo has reiterated the government’s commitment to bring to an end the industrial action of the University Teachers’ Association of Ghana (UTAG). The President, who gave the assurance at the opening of the National Labour Conference at Kwahu Nkwatia in the Eastern Region yesterday, stated that more needs to …

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Akufo-Addo’s State of the Nation Address rescheduled

The advertised announcement in Parliament about the State of the Nation Address by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has been withdrawn. Deputy Majority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin told Parliament on Friday, February 25 that the President will no longer be in the House on Thursday, March 3 to deliver the SONA as earlier adverstised. “This indicative …

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Akufo-Addo expected to launch Asamoah Gyan’s memoir in April

Former Black Stars captain, Asamoah Gyan will officially outdoor his memoir in a star-studded ceremony in Accra on April 30. The event is expected to take place at the Kempinski Hotel in Accra. The book will contain a full, revealing, candid and detailed account of Gyan’s football career that took him …

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Akufo-Addo jets off to Niger, Abuja

President Nana Akufo-Addo has embarked on a day’s trip to Niamey, the Capital of Niger, Mr Alban Bagbin, the Speaker of Parliament has announced. Delivering a message from the President on the floor of Parliament on Tuesday, Mr Bagbin said the President would return to Ghana in the evening of …

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‘I thought Akufo-Addo was tough but now he is too gentle for my liking’ – Ken Agyapong

Assin Central MP, Kennedy Agyapong, has expressed his appointment over President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s inability to be on the toes of persons in government. He said the president has become too gentle which has resulted in his failure to sack his appointees who are not doing their jobs well, asaaseradio.com reported. …

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Akufo-Addo didn’t treat Adwoa Safo fairly, NPP should rather beg her – Amoako Baah

A Political Scientist, Dr. Richard Amoako Baah has observed that the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), is conducting itself in a way that is gradually leading them to the opposition. He accused the leadership of the party of sowing seeds of division among the rank and file ahead of the internal elections. …

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