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A member of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Roads and Transport in Parliament is advocating for over 200 per cent increment in road tolls. Engineer Kwadwo Aboagye Nyanpon, who is also the Member of Parliament for Biakoye Constituency in Oti Region, said saloon vehicles that are currently paying GHp50 should be made to pay GH¢2 while those paying GH¢1 should be made to pay GH¢4. The former Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Highway Authority (GHA) made the call in an interview with Nana Yaw Opare on Onua FM’s Yen Sempa on Friday. The MP was sharing his thoughts on…

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has clarified that mutual funds and unit trusts previously managed by investment firms whose licenses were recently revoked are still valid and must run. According to SEC, the revocation of the licenses on Friday, November 8 of 53 fund managers does not affect the licenses of nor terminate the mutual funds and unit trusts they managed. “Please note that the revocation of the licenses of the Fund Managers neither affects the valid licenses of, nor terminates the Mutual Funds and Unit Trusts that they used to manage,” SEC said in a statement dated Thursday,…

The General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has called on the Minister for Regional Reorganization and Development, Dan Kwaku Botwe, to direct his advice on the December 17 referendum to the President. The Minister has called for the cancellation of the December 17 referendum which is to decide whether political parties should sponsor candidates in district level elections. “People are saying it should postponed and I’m saying why postpone, it should be withdrawn. Why should we spend money on referendum when there are rains and roads and we cannot make roads? Why should we…

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has accused the National Peace Council (NPC) of deliberately fixing dates of meetings for discussions on the draft roadmap to address political vigilantism in Ghana on days of the impending court case of its National Chairman, Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo. The NDC explained that if it happens that way, they have no option that to honour the court hearing instead of the vigilante meeting because for the court, the accused could be cited for contempt should he refuse to appear. The NDC did not show up on Thursday for the final discussions on the draft roadmap. NDC…

Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Akuapem North in the Eastern Region, Dennis Edward Aboagye, has upbraided the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for their campaign against a YES vote in the upcoming referendum. Mr Aboagye expressed fret over NDC’s position, describing it as “hypocritical”, “duplicitous” and “traitorous”. He wants the general public to reject their NO campaign. At a press conference last week, the country’s largest opposition party detailed its position against the YES vote in the December 17 referendum, which seeks to amend Article 55(3) of the 1992 constitution and to introduce partisan politics at the local level. According to…

Measles has killed nearly 5,000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2019, authorities said, after the disease spread to all the provinces in the country. Close to a quarter of a million people have been infected this year alone. The World Health Organization (WHO) says this is the world’s largest and fastest-moving epidemic. Measles in DR Congo has now killed more than twice the number who have died of Ebola there in the last 15 months. The Congolese government and the WHO launched an emergency vaccination programme in September that aimed to inoculate more than 800,000 children. But…

The 470MW Karadeniz Powership Osman Khan currently located in Sekondi in the Western Region has commenced power production utilizing Ghana’s indigenous Natural Gas, Karpowership Ghana Company Limited has announced. The powership relocated from the Tema Harbour to the Western Region in August in a government stratey to make use of natural gas from the western enclave. It was to ultimately save the country millions of dollars annually. The commissioning was completed on Friday, September 6. Ghana National Gas Company assured last month that there will be sufficient gas for consistent supply. Source: 3news.com|Ghana

Staff of Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) have threatened to treat all emergency works as within the regular working hours in a bid to demand all debts owed them by the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) and other key institutions. At a news conference in Accra, the staff said if by December 4, 2019 all debts owed the company are not settled they will embark on a sit-down strike. According to the staff of GRIDCo, during the 2018 tariff review, the company’s transmission service charges were reduced by 16 per cent, which saw a dip in revenue to about GH¢290 million.…

Community rights’ advocate Johnnie Hughes and the entire ‘Community Connect’ team will broadcast live from Nungua Obene Tso shishi on Friday, November 22 from 8:00am to 10:00am on 3FM. The gathering is expected to interact with the Member of Parliament for Krowor Constituency and Minister for Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, Elizabeth Afoley Quaye,  and Krowor Municipal Chief Executive Joshua Nii Bortey. Also in attendance will be all persons living with disability (PWDs) in Krowor, opinion leaders, assembly women, men and unit committee aspirants. The two-hour outdoor broadcast will tackle key issues of concern to the people of the Krowor Municipal Assembly,…

The maiden Ghana Cocoa Awards, slated for Friday, November 22, at the Movenpick Ambassador Hotel in Accra, is set to hold with Johnnie Hughes as host. The versatile broadcaster has become the toast of high-brow event organizers with the most recent being the opening ceremony of the Orbis Flying Eye – the world’s first and only accredited teaching hospital on a plane. The Ghana Cocoa Awards is an effort to reward and institutionalize an annual celebration of stakeholders in the cocoa industry to national development, 140 years since Tetteh Quarshie brought cocoa from Fernando Po to Ghana. The Ghana Cocoa…