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The government has signed two new Power Purchasing Agreement (PPAs) to add about 720 Mega Watts (MW) of power to the country’s generation capacity, Minister of Energy, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh has disclosed. The two agreements 370MW AKSA, Tema and 350MW AKSA, Kumasi were signed under the new PPA policy which …

    The Deputy Minister of Arts, Tourism, and Culture also an aspiring parliamentary candidate in Ayensuano constituency, Mark Okraku Mantey, has returned Ghc50,000 intended for election “operations” after being pursued by angry party executives. The crux of the matter revolves around the fiscal transactions of Vice President Dr. Mahamudu …

  The sanitation minister Freda Prempeh has tasked WASH stakeholders to focus a bit more on delivering comprehensive district-wide sanitation services to meet the set targets. According to the Minister, meeting these set targets will require coordinated, cost-effective, and inclusive efforts by all. The recently launched Ghana WASH Sector Development …

A Ghanaian delegation led by the Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has been meeting the country’s external creditors to push for them to immediately provide debt relief for Ghana  to enable it access the second tranche of the US$3 billion IMF support. The meetings are being held at the sidelines of …

United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledged to stop people being “bullied” into accepting trans arguments as he used his conference speech to take on Labour over gender. The Prime Minister said it “shouldn’t be controversial” to ensure parents were informed what their children were being taught about sex and …

The death has been reported of Enoch Teye Mensah, reputed to be one of the finest politicians from the Provisional National Defense Council (PNDC) days into the Fourth Republican dispensation. ET Mensah as he is widely known, served in several public leadership roles, one-time as a Mayor of Accra in …

Minister of Trade and Industry, K.T Hammond, has explained the rationale behind the government’s decision to suspend permits for the construction of new factories for manufacturing and bagging of Portland cement in the country will boost confidence within the local manufacturing sector. According to him, the temporary ban was to …

A week after catastrophic floods ravaged Derna, rescue teams are still pulling out dead bodies from ruined buildings and the sea. The interior minister of the self-proclaimed eastern administration – Essam Abu Zeriba – has told the BBC that while they accept all types of aid, at the moment they …

The Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei-Mensah, has urged his party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), to go on the attack in the 2024 elections. Speaking in an interview shared by journalist KB Nkansah, on Monday, September 5, 2023, Osei-Mensah said that the NPP must go on the offensive in the strongholds of the …

The Federal Government says it has no intention to borrow from any local or foreign organisation with its removal of subsidy on petrol and exchange rate harmonisation. The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Wale Edun, revealed this at the end of the inaugural Federal Executive Council …