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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says the hard work exerted by the Economic Management Team led by Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia is beginning to yield positive results. He said economic growth has increased from an “alarming” 3.6 per cent recorded at the end of December, 2017 to 7.9 per cent at the end of 2017. President Akufo-Addo expressed this on Thursday while delivering the 2018 State of the Nation address in Parliament. It is just his second time of fulfilling Article 67 of the 1992 Constitution as President of the Republic. Significantly, three former presidents – Jerry John Rawlings,…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has expressed pride in the Ghana Stock Exchange, touting it as the best performing exchange in the world for January, 2018. Delivering his 2nd State of the Nation Address in Parliament on Thursday, the President noted that the Ghana Stock Exchange composite index has gained 19 per cent since the year began in terms of the US Dollar, the most among benchmarks tracked by Bloomberg. The report made by Bloomberg makes Ghana one of the fastest-growing economies, he explained. Ghana’s economy will probably grow 8.3 per cent this year, the fastest in the world, the World…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has waded into the internal politics of the opposition party, National Democratic Congress (NDC), as he began his State of the Nation address on Thursday. In his acknowledgement of dignitaries that included Former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, who was nearly booed by Members of the NDC, President Akufo-Addo wondered why a founding member of the party has been alienated. “Mr Speaker, that’s the way of the world,” he remarked. “The founder of the party no longer recognised by the members of the party.” The former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyemen Rawlings, who seceded…

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia appeared rather strong in Parliament accompanied by his wife, Samira, for the second State of the Nation address by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. Dr. Bawumia took a 12-day medical leave to the United Kingdom after being taken ill on Friday, January 19. The leave was on his doctors’ advice. He returned exactly a week ago on Thursday, February 1. In Parliament on Thursday, when President Akufo-Addo was delivering his address, it seemed the Vice President appeared rather healthy seated beside the Speaker and opposite the President. By Natalie Fort|3news.com|Ghana Follow @3Newsgh

Some members of the Minority in Parliament want President Nana Addo Dankwa AKufo-Addo to come clear on the state of security in Ghana. “I am expecting that the president will address the state of security in the country,” said the Member of Parliament for Ablekuma South Constituency, Alfred Oko Vanderpuije. He said although entrepreneurship has been on the ascendancy in recent times, many cannot open their businesses for 12 hours in a day because of the worsening security situation. Another member, Richard Quashigah, who represents Keta Constituency, said last year in his state-of-the-nation address, President Akufo-Addo described the unemployment situation…

The Aviation Ministry has begun talks with the Finance Ministry to scrap taxes on import duty on aircraft parts and other ancillary aircraft equipment, the former’s minister has said. According to Cecilia Dapaah, when done it will complement government’s move to reduce the components of the price build-up of VAT on domestic airline tickets. It is also expected to increase the patronage of domestic air travel in the country, she added. Speaking at a breakfast meeting to discuss developments in the aviation industry, Ms Dapaah said the move was part of efforts to make air travel within the country affordable.…

US politician Nancy Pelosi is thought to have set a new record for the longest speech ever made in the House of Representatives, after telling the stories of immigrants for eight hours. Ms Pelosi was advocating on behalf of undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children, known as “Dreamers”. She wants them protected as part of a budget deal being agreed this week. The House minority leader began her speech at 10:04 local time (15:04 GMT) – and did not finish until the evening. Dreamers were previously protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals scheme – something…

North Korea appears to have held a low-key military parade, a day ahead of the Winter Olympics, South Korean media said. Its timing drew criticism from the US as it’s the first time in 40 years the annual event has been held in February. Early on Thursday state television began showing patriotic films in what appeared to be a prelude to a live broadcast of the parade. But reports later surfaced that it had already taken place. “It seems that North Korea opened the parade at 10:30 a.m. (Seoul time),” anonymous government sources told South Korea’s Yonhap news agency. In…

A Deputy Minister of Transport, Titus Glover, has added his voice to the call for the legalisation of the commercial motorbike operations, popularly referred to as Okada, in the country. Speaking to Bright Kwesi Asempa on the Wednesday edition of the ‘Yensempa’ morning show on Onua FM, the Deputy Transport Minister opined that the commercial motorcycle operators are doing well in terms of generating incomes for themselves and their dependants even though their activities is against the laws of the land. He added that there must be a national dialogue as to how to apply the laws on the operations…

The Minority Chief Whip of the Parliament of Ghana, Muntaka Muhammad Mubarak, has stated that the legislative arm of government has lost another golden opportunity to redeem its image. He said this in reaction to the final report of the ad hoc committee tasked to investigate allegations of monies paid by expatriate business owners at the Ghana Expatriates Business Awards (GEBA) to sit near President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. The Asawase Member of Parliament said the outcome of the report and the attitude of the chairman of the five-member committee is sad for Ghana’s democracy. According to him, in other…