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The Head of Client Coverage at First National Bank Ghana, Richard Kokoih, has stressed the need for government to work closely with the private sector to reduce the country’s infrastructure deficit. According to Mr. Kokoih the government must see the private sector as a critical partner in its infrastructure development projects, which should follow the public-private partnership (PPP) model for funding and execution. He says: “The use of PPPs allows the state to minimize costs, shift development risk and managerial responsibility, and attract investment. Infrastructure by its nature stimulates growth and jobs, and boosts GDP while creating lasting benefits to…

A mining consultant has said that the government is only  pretending to fight illicit small scale mining (galamsey) in the country. According to Seth Worlasime, the measures against this particular trade has been heavily politicised by the government, a situation that defeats the move. In 2017, the government placed a two-year ban on all small-scale mining activities in the country in order to weed out the illicit ones. The government also wanted to properly streamline the operation of the legal ones as a way of saving the water bodies and the environment. Subsequently, a taskforce, Operation Vanguard, was set up…

The Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) has revealed that the cumulative indebtedness to the Ghana National Gas Company Limited (GNGC) has continued to increase to US$942,260,510.63. According to PIAC, this is as a result of the failure of GNGC’s customers to honour their obligations. PIAC, the body established by the Petroleum Revenue Management Act (PRMA) 2011, (ACT 815) to supervise the utilization of petroleum revenue, said in a statement on Thursday November 26 that the GNPC spent only nine (9) percent of its total receipts on Jubilee equity financing. This is as a result of the re-phasing of work…

An aide to the presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Joyce Bawah Mogtari, has said the manifesto document of the main opposition party ahead of the elections on December 7 gives hope to Ghanaians who are in despair. The main opposition party has made a number of campaign promises in its manifesto document for the 2020 polls. The party has promised to pay all customers of the collapsed financial institutions whose monies are locked-up in full and restore indigenous Ghanaian participation in the financial sector. Reduce the size of government by at least forty (40) ministers to reduce…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Wednesday, 25th November 2020, commissioned Phase One of the Pokuase Interchange project, as part of his 2-day tour of the Greater Accra Region. It will be recalled that, with the project commencing in April 2018, and the interchange originally proposed as a 3-tier single point urban interchange, the contractor, after undertaking a value engineering assessment, proposed to construct a 4-tier Stack Interchange, which was approved by the Ministry for Roads and Highways. President Akufo-Addo, at the ceremony, opened to traffic tier-3 of the interchange, which is the road from Awoshie to Accra, as well…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said the unemployment rate has reduced under his administration. This is as a result of deliberate job creation policies such as the Nation Builders Corps (NaBCo), the president said. In a tweet on Thursday November 26, Mr Akufo-Addo said “11 days more to Election Day. It’s important to remember that under the NPP government, there is a huge reduction of unemployment as a result of deliberate job creation policies such as the NABCO. Vote for Akufo-Addo and the NPP to create more jobs. #AkufoAddoHasDelivered” 11 days more to Election Day. It’s important to remember…

But for the laws of this country that make it mandatory for elections to be organized, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo should have been allowed to continue governing the country for the next four years without having to slug it out with anyone in an election, a former lawmaker for the Nkawkaw Constituency in the Eastern Region, Mr. Seth Adjei-Baah, has said. This comment comes on the back of his assertion that Mr Akufo-Addo has delivered and rescued the nation from the economic doldrums the previous administration left behind. He explained on Onua FM’s Ghana Dadwene on Wednesday hosted by…

Board Chairman of the Microfinance and Small Loan Centre (MASLOC) is advising against politicizing the support it is given to traders at the Pedestrians Shopping Mall at Kwame Nkrumah Circle whose wares got burnt last week Wednesday. Mr. Seth Adjei-Baah said even though the fire accident occurred during electioneering season and as such people could misconstrue it to be political, the move is for the future of the people. He gave the advice in an interview on Onua FM’s Ghana Dadwene on Wednesday November 25 hosted by Nana Yaw Opare. Hundreds of stalls at the Odawna Market at Kwame Nkrumah…

Over 10,000 prisoners across the country will be voting in the December 7 elections. This is four times the number of prisoners who registered in the last elections, accotrding to the Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Prisons Service Supt. Courage Atsem. Contributing to a roundtable discussion on the Sunrise Moring Show on 3FM, moderated by Alfred Ocansey, Supt. Atsem indicated “All Prisoners who registered will be able to vote and as we speak we have over 10,000 inmates who have successfully registered and will be participating in this year’s elections”.. Other security agencies which took part in the roundtable…

Football legend, Diego Armando Maradona was confirmed dead on November 25, 2020 at his residence in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The former Argentina attacking midfielder and manager has suffered from heart attack for some weeks now. He holds an enviable record in football and his passing away has got the sporting world talking. World Pele tweeted “Que notícia triste. Eu perdi um grande amigo e o mundo perdeu uma lenda. Ainda há muito a ser dito, mas por agora, que Deus dê força para os familiares. Um dia, eu espero que possamos jogar bola juntos no céu.” Que notícia triste. Eu…