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Government will launch an agricultural campaign this year akin to Acheampong’s “operation feed yourself” to beef up Ghana’s food security, Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta announced. Presenting President Akufo-Addo’s maiden budget statement and economic policy to Parliament Thursday, Mr. Ken Ofori-Atta said the campaign would be dubbed “planting for food and jobs creation”. It is expected to create at least 750,000 jobs in both direct and indirect employment. Farmers, he said, would be supported with about180,000 tonnes of subsided fertilizers in 2017. “The campaign is designed to encourage all citizens (both urban and rural) to take up farming as a…

A board member and spokesperson of the Vodafofone Ghana Music Awards, Nii Ayittey Hammond, has rubbished circulating  reportage that two popular Ghanaian artistes Joe Mettle and MzVee had been nominated for Artiste of the Year but none of their songs nominated in other categories. There has been a lot of speculation that gospel musician Joe Mettle and dancehall artiste MzVee have been nominated for the Artiste of the Year category but had no songs of theirs nominated in any other categories. This raised a lot of eyebrows in the entertainment industry with some throwing questions at the organisers of the…

The Human Rights division of the Accra High has placed an injunction on the construction of a facility being built by the Ghana Army, near the private residence, in Accra, of Togbe Afede XIV, Agbogbomefia of Asogli. The President of the National House of Chiefs sued the Army over the construction of the six- storey building, near the 37 Army Mess, stating that its towers and wings overlooked his house, and thus breached his privacy. The Chief of Defence Staff, the Minister for Defence, the Attorney General, and Yao Addo Developments Limited were named as the defendants in the suit. However,…

Reverend Dr Frederick Primrose Deegbe, the Former Secretary General of Christian Council, has commended the Chiropractic and Wellness Centres (CWC), a multi-faceted alternative health hub in Accra for providing quality chiropractic care in the country.   Dr Fredrick Deegbe made the commendations in a sideline interview with the media when the CWC launched its maiden public chiropractic sensitisation project aimed at educating the public on the relevance of chiropractic health care. According to Rev. Deegbe, who is also the senior pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church, Ghana, the CWC continued to provide “top class” services which met international standards making it…

All is set for the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta to present the president’s 2017 Budget Statement and Economic Policy to Parliament today, March 2, 2017 around 11am. The 2017 Budget is expected to focus on stimulating growth and job creation through private sector development, a statement on the Finance Ministry’s website noted. “It will aim at getting Ghana working again,” the statement said. The Budget will include measures to restore fiscal discipline and good economic governance, transparent and accountable use of public resources in accordance with the new Public Financial management law and to provide a credible basis for economic…

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It was a miraculous scene Wednesday evening when dozens of people escaped death as a fully loaded 40-footer articulated truck fell off the newly constructed Kwame Nkrumah Circle Interchange in Accra. Dozens of people however sustained critical injuries in the evening rush hour accident, which occurred at a populated section of the interchange. A lot of people were boarding buses to their respective destinations at the bus stop where the truck and the container landed.It’s not clear what caused the truck, which was said to be loaded with sugar, to topple over the metal railings from the second tier of…

The Minority Chief Whip, Muntaka Mohammed has cautioned the government against substituting the MPs Common Fund with its one-constituency-one-million-dollar policy. In any case, the policy should rather be an addition to the Common Fund given to Members of Parliament to develop their respective constituencies, he argued. The MP for Asawase therefore wants the budget expected to be presented by the Finance Minister tomorrow to spell out clearly what the policy entails. According to him, any attempt to scrap the Common Fund will not be accepted by the Minority because it is a statutory fund. The Member of Parliament for Asawase was…

Paramount chief of Western Nzema Traditional Area, Awulae Annor Adjaye III, has thrown his weight behind the acting  Chief Executive of Ghana Gas Company Limited whose appointment triggered protest from some chiefs in the Nzema area. Awulae Adjaye condemned the minority decision  by the paramount chiefs from three traditional areas in Nzema who opposed the president’s decision to appoint Dr Asante as acting CEO of the company. The chiefs recommended Professor Sagary Nokoe, who they said is a New Patriotic Party member from the area who understands the socio-cultural, economic, security, political and environmental dynamics of the terrain” to be…