Tag Archives: Development

The Chief of Assin Dansame, Dr. Nana Okofo Twum Barimah V, has voiced his disappointment with the government for neglecting development projects in his area. Speaking in an interview with Onua FM’s evening news on June 5, 2023, he expressed concern over the abandonment of crucial projects in Assin Dansame …

President Akufo-Addo has dismissed the Deputy Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Northern Development Authority, Patrick Seidu. His sack takes effect, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. A letter from the Chief of Staff, Frema Osei-Opare has asked Mr Seidu “to comprehensively hand over your duties and any official property in your …

The chief of Asafo, in the Kumasi Metropolis of the Ashanti Region, Akyeamfour Asafo Boakye Agyeman Bonsu, says education must remain one of the important tools for national development adding that education is the base to the society.   He has therefore urged major stakeholders in the education sector to …

The ruling New Patriotic Party NPP has tagged former President John Mahama  as the worst performing president in terms of infrastructural development in the Ashanti Region.   The NPP in a press conference on Thursday October 20, 2022 at Kumasi described the former president as the most “wicked” president who starved …

Former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Professor Emeritus Stephen Adei, has said that the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, resigned from Databank approximately four clear years before joining frontline politics. According to him, although Ken Ofori-Atta is the founder of the Databank, he has nothing to do with it …

The United State has announced new monetary support in the area of development assistance to Ghana. The sum of US$2.5 million announced today (August 5, 2022) is to help Ghana amid a global food crisis, a USAID statement read. The statement comes at a time a top official of the …

The Bantama wing of the group by name Asanteman Youth has called on the Members of Parliament (MPs) in the Ashanti Region to use their large numbers to push for development projects for communities in the region. Addressing a press conference Wednesday morning at the Center for National Culture,  spokesperson …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has under Executive Instrument (E.I) 144, declared that five parcels of lands of the Achimota Forest should no longer serve as ecological forest. The parcels of land, totaling 361.50 acres, which lie at Achimota-Accra in the Greater Accra region, ceased to be a forest reserve …

The members of the Mobile Money Agents Association of Ghana (MMAG) have thrown their weight behind the electronic transfer levy popularly known as the E-levy. In a meeting with His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo at the Office of the President, Jubilee House, on May 10, 2022, the General Secretary …

The Dormaahene, Osagyefo Oseadeeyo Dr. Nana Agyemang Badu II, has appealed to the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II to extend urgently needed development to his area. His appeal was contained in a widely circulated video in which the Dormaahene is heard challenging the Asantehene on the installation of a chief …