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Government is likely to leave the country’s vice presidential residence to rot away as it has now emerged there are no immediate plans to resume construction work on the 13.9 million-dollar project. Started under the previous administration, construction work on the project was halted in 2017 due to the huge amount the Akufo-Addo government said is involved in completing the building to house Ghana’s vice president. Vice president Dr Mahammudu Bawumia in January 2017 revealed the building was costing the taxpayer 13.9 millon dollars and questioned why the John Mahama-led government awarded a sole-sourced contract for vice presidential building at…

SAGE Ghana held the 14th edition of the National High School Entrepreneurship Competition from the 11th to the 14th of July, 2019 at the University of Ghana Business School (UGBS). This year’s edition saw about 1,200 students from over 50 schools all over the country participate. The students battled against one other for bragging rights and a chance to represent Ghana in either the 2019 SAGE Global competition in San Francisco or the Afroseed Biz Challenge in Abuja, Nigeria. Methodist Girls’ SHS, Mamfe in Eastern Region and Tema Technical Institute, Tema in the Greater Accra Region will travel to San…

The Deputy Attorney General and MP for Tempane Constituency, Joseph Dindiok Kpemka, on Tuesday appealed to the general public to see Members of Parliament as fallible and not subject them to undue criticisms or attacks. He said the MPs were elected to legislate and contribute their quota to the development of the country, rather than being insulted at the least error or fault. “MP are sometimes taken to the cleaners without provocation, Mr Speaker, this is as a result of the breakdown of indiscipline in our society. Contributing to a statement titled “The relevance of Parliamentary Acts without Law Enforcement”…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Tuesday advised his predecessor John Mahama to respect the intelligence of Ghanaians and stop touting falsehood as facts. Addressing a durbar of Chiefs at Daboase, in the Wassa East district of the Western Region, on the first day of his tour of the Region, he said the former president ought not to lay claims to things he had not done during his time in office. President Akufo-Addo said the claim by Mr Mahama that his administration had instituted measures to improve the lot of cocoa farmers was factually incorrect. He challenged him to name a…

An undisciplined commercial bus driver and his conductor (mate) have been arrested in Navrongo in the Upper East Region for indiscriminately dumping bucket-full rubbish in a bush by the Paga-Navrongo highway. The conductor of the Royal branded transport bus registered GS 2884 – 17, reportedly dumped the waste generated by passengers into the bush at Saboro, a village between Paga and Navrongo. A resident of the area, Ali Moro, who witnessed the incident, approached the conductor and insisted that he collected the waste dumped into the bush. Narrating the episode to 3news.com, Moro said the conductor initially refused to collect…

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world”- Mahatma Gandhi. In other words, “you must be the change you wish to see in our country, Ghana.” I am neither too young nor old but over the years, I have been hearing the clergies, monarchs, traditional leaders, politicians, civil servants, governmental and non-governmental organizations alongside other associations and organisations sing one chorus; “HOW GHANA WILL BE A BETTER PLACE FOR ALL OF US TO LIVE IN.” With amazing statements and phrases from our leaders like “Better Ghana Agenda, Ghana First, Ghana Will Work Again, One People One…

Former Vice Chancellor of the University of Education Winneba (UEW), Professor Mawutor Avoke and six other officers who were sacked over alleged financial impropriety, have stormed the university to take back their respective positions. Their action, which triggered tension at the university campus Tuesday, followed the filing of a motion by one Kingsley Amoakwa seeking to get Professor Afful Broni restrained from holding himself out as Vice Chancellor of the University. The motion also seeks to restrain Prof. Afful Borni from interfering in the administration of Mawutor Avoke, who in the plaintiff’s view, is the legitimate vice chancellor. A planned…

National Youth Organiser of the New Patriotic Party, Henry Nana Boakye has touted the achievement of the government and President Nana Akufo-Addo, stating they e are on track in holding their end of bargain. The President, he argued,  has fulfilling his promises to the people of Ghana and provided more jobs to the youth in several areas since assuming office, for which reason he described him as a covenant keeping person. “We are openly declaring today that the president is a covenant keeping President,” Nana Boakye stated on Monday when he addressed the maiden forum to create a platform for…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has cut the sod for the construction of the second phase of a 21-square-meter tile factory at Inchaban in the Shama District of the Western Region as an expression of the One District One Factory policy. The first phase of the KEDA Ghana Ceramics Company Limited was commissioned by President Akufo-Addo 18 months ago has been producing over 14 million tiles annually. The $77 million Chinese investment by the Sunda Group will provide over 5,000 direct and indirect jobs to the country’s youth especially within the operational area of the company. Over 70 per cent…

A security analyst Adam Bonah says sacked Inspector General of Police, David Asante-Apeatu, performed below par throughout the two-and-a- half years he held the high office. On the back of kidnappings and general violent crimes recorded in the country in recent times, Mr Bonah held the outgone IGP performed poorly, for which reason he would overall rate him 30 per cent. COP Asante-Apeatu was on Monday July 22 relieved of his post by President Nana Akufo-Addo with less than a month to the end of his contract. Though his contract was scheduled to end on August 14, he was asked…