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The UK’s Minister of Armed Forces Mr James Heappey arrived in Accra on Tuesday 9th March 2021 for a three day visit to Ghana. Mr Heappey’s visit forms part of a short tour of the West African region. Touching down Armed Forces Minister James Heappey said: “Ghana is a vital …

The Ministry of Information is addressing the press this afternoon from the Peduase Lodge. While it is unclear the exact theme for the briefing, what we know is that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has been meeting his newly sworn-in ministers at the presidential holiday resort. On Friday, a total of 28 …

The Minority MPs on the Appointments Committee have so far rejected three of President Akufo-Addo’s 30 ministerial nominees while five others have been deferred to reappear for further questioning. Information Minister-designate Kojo Oppong Nkrumah; Minister-designate for Fisheries and Aquaculture, Mavis Hawa Koomson and Minister-designate for Food Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie …

Four ministerial nominees are set to be disapproved by the Appointments Committee due to possible perjury regarding the Frontiers Healthcare Solution Services contract. The Minority MPs on the Appointments Committee say they will do everything possible to vote against the approval of Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah, Sarah Adwoa Safo and Kwaku Ofori Asiamah …

A Ugandan minister has withdrawn an ambulance she donated to residents of the northern town of Koboko ahead of the ruling party’s primaries which she lost, the Daily Monitor reports quoting the town’s mayor. The Minister for Investment and Privatisation, Evelyn Anite, donated the ambulance in September last year and …

The Volta regional command of the Ghana Police Service has warned the public not to take part in a demonstration being organized by a pro-New Patriotic Party group in Ho against the reappointment of Dr. Archibald Yao Letsa as the regional minister. The demonstration which is slated for Monday, 25th …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has earned praise for acknowledging persons living with disabilities with the inclusion of one Mr Joshua Makuba in his list of nominees for ministerial appointments. President Akufo-Addo on Thursday, January 21, 2021, sent to parliament a total of 46 nominees for consideration to be appointed as sector …

Prominent South African politician, Jackson Mthembu, has died of Covid-related complications, President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced. Mr Mthembu, who since 2019 had been serving as the minister in the presidency, was a parliamentarian and long-serving member of the governing African National Congress (ANC). He had worked his way up the …

Zimbabwe’s Foreign Minister Sibusiso Moyo has died after succumbing to Covid-19, the government says. Born in 1960, the former army general gained international prominence in 2017, when he announced the military takeover that ousted long-serving President Robert Mugabe from power. Zimbabwe has recorded a surge in Covid-19 cases since the …

The Minister for Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has handed over One Hundred and Twenty Buses to Senior High Schools across the country at a ceremony held today at the Accra High School.