Tag Archives: ROAD

NPP Gov’t Has Invested More In Roads Than Past Governments – Amoako Attah

The Minister for Roads and Highways, Hon Kwasi Amoako-Attah has indicated that the ruling New Patriotic Party under the leadership of President Nana Addo, has invested more into roads than the NDC administration. According to the sector minister who is also the Member of Parliament for Atiwa West constituency in …

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Road contractors cry over discrimination in payments

Some road contractors owed by the government have accused the Roads Ministry of discrimination in debt payments since 2017. According to them, some of their colleagues were paid 20% of their monies, and even with that they, “they knew somebody in government”. Meanwhile, the Ghana Chamber of Construction Industry (GhCCI) …

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Akufo-Addo’s ‘Year of Roads’ a scam – Drivers, as cars including ex-TOR MD’s get stuck on muddy stretch

There seem to be some growing concerns among drivers, both commercial and private, who ply the Kumawu road about the poor nature of roads. One of such people is the former Managing Director of Bulk Oil Storage and Transport(BOST) and Tema Oil Refinery(TOR), Kwame Awuah-Darko who used the road in …

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Almost 10% of Ghana’s GDP lost through road accidents – Transport Minister reveals

Ghana has over the last couple of years lost almost 10% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) through road accidents, the Minister for Transport, Hon. Kwaku Ofori Asiamah has revealed. Statistics from the National Road Safety Authority indicate that road traffic accidents cost West African nation 1.6% of GDP annually …

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10-year-old deplorable road fixed hours to Akufo-Addo’s arrival at Koforidua

Residents of Old Labour office in Koforidua were amazed when a road which has been abandoned for over-a-decade was suddenly fixed to welcome President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. Prior to this development, several calls by residents to reconstruct that particular road fell on deaf ears. The then deplorable road which …

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VIDEO: Pastors spotted praying on Accra-Kumasi highway to avert accidents

Some men and women of God were on Wednesday afternoon spotted at Kyekyewere on the Accra-Kumasi Highway praying fervently to God to avert accidents on that road. These men and women of God, said to be members of the Healing Mountain of God Ministry Church commuted along the Accra-Kumasi Highway …

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Residents Of Tsopoli Petitions IGP For The Immediate Transfer Of Some Police Personnel Convening With Landguards To Terrorise Indigenes

Elders and residents of Tsopoli in the Ningo Prampram district are calling on the Inspector General of Police, for the immediate transfer of the district police commander, DSP Issah Mohammed Kantona together with some police personnel at the  District whose association with Land guards in the area they say is …

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No road no vote; our husbands can’t have sex with us – Santasi Apire residents cry outQ

Residents and motorists at Santasi Apire of the Kumasi metropolis in the Ashanti Region have said they will not vote in the upcoming general elections if the government refuses to fix their roads before December 7. The residents made this known during a demonstration to draw the government’s attention to …

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[VIDEO]: Road users scramble for drinks as Club Beer truck crashes in accident on Tema Motorway

A truck belonging to Accra Breweries Limited, producers of Club Beer has crashed in an accident at the Tema Motorway. The truck transporting tons of crates of beer bottles which crashed this morning attracted numerous road users as they rushed and scrambled for beer bottles with some drinking on the …

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Chiefs fume over Dep. Eastern Regional Minister’s ‘insult’ over road project

The Deputy Eastern Regional Minister Samuel Nuertey Ayertey has incurred the wrath of Chiefs in Oborpa and its surrounding communities in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality for allegedly insulting them for kicking against the grading of a major road linking the Communities but in deplorable conditions. The Chiefs stopped a …

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