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The Akufo-Addo administration has managed the public sector debt far better than what the previous Mahama administration did, Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has said. He stated that although the debt has increased under this administration, the factors that resulted in the upward trend were not the doing of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration. Dr Bawumia revealed that the NDC signed power purchase agreement which the country did not need but the country is paying about 1billion dollars annually for it. Similarly, he said, the cost involved in the cleanup exercise undertaken in the banking sector, as well as…

Flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr John Dramani  Mahama, has asked President Akufo-Addo to show what he has done with the GHC140  billion that his government has borrowed since assuming office. Mr Mahama says despite the Akufo-Addo regime taking more than twice the amount of  loans the Mahama administration took, the president has not embarked on any major  development project to justify the loans. Addressing the chiefs and people of Sampa in the Jaman North constituency as part of his tour of the Bono Region, the NDC presidential candidate wondered what the government  had been using the borrowed…

After Equatorial Guinea’s decision to opt out of the friendly against Ghana due to travel restrictions caused by Covid 19, Ghana has agreed to play Qatar on October 12 in Turkey. The city of Antalya will host the Black Stars and the 2022 World Cup hosts as part of preparations for international competitive games in November. But for Equatorial Guinea’s decision to not play, Ghana would have played Mali on October 9 and played the Africans three days later but the fresh changes mean the stars will take on Qatar on the same day. The Qataris will play India on…

Ministers in charge of National Security, Interior and Defense are expected to visit the Volta region as part of efforts to deal with raging attacks masterminded by alleged secessionists in that part of the country. Two violent attacks in less than a week, have left one dead, others injured and destruction to property at the Ho STC bus terminal. Representatives of the Volta Caucus in Parliament  on Wednesday September 30 with regional minister Dr. Archibald Letsa over the disturbances. Member of Parliament for North Tongu Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa told journalists after the meeting that “The deliberations have been scheduled to…

President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kurt Okraku has said football deserves more attention from Government following the enormous positive impact it has on the economy. Speaking in interview with 3Sports, he said that the Executive Council has put together a five-member committee to support its argument with a document in the coming months. “Our executive council having realized that we have not been given the needed attention, we decided to form a five-member Committee to put a document together to tell us the contribution of football towards the national economy and this is a process we have started”.…

Board Chair of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Hackman Owusu-Agyeman has noted that there is the need for attitudinal change in order to grow Ghanaian banks to enable them partake in syndication. He said the savings culture of Ghanaian must improve since this is one way the banks can grow. Mr Owusu-Agyeman said this when the COCOBOD signed an agreement for a US$1.3 billion syndicated loan facility for the 2020/2021 cocoa crop season on Tuesday September 29. “We hope that in syndication all the Ghanaian banks can play a role. That will mean that we have to change our habit…

Kumasi Asante Kotoko football club have announced the signing of Emmanuel Keyekeh on Wednesday September 30. The former Nzema Kotoko man put pen to paper Wednesday afternoon after completing his medical examinations. Kotoko announced the signing on twitter. The offensive midfielder joins the Porcupine family from his parent club in a bid to achieve a childhood dream of wanting to play for the club. His arrival will boost coach Maxwell Konadu’s side as they plan to head into the CAF Champions League next year and the Ghana Premier League which begins in November. By Yaw Ofosu Larbi|3news.com|Ghana

Auditors in Ghana openly take bribe to cover up wrongs by officials because their reports are not acted on by the state, a former New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for the Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa Constituency, PC Appiah Ofori, has claimed. He explained in an interview with TV3’s Johnnie Hughes Tuesday September 29 that officials who are implicated in the Auditor General’s report are not dealt with by the state. This situation, he said demoralizes the auditors and forces them to also accept bribes to cover-up wrongs in their reports. He further noted that the fight against graft in Ghana…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has cut the sod for work to commence on the 83.5-kilometre standard gauge railway line from Kumasi to Obuasi, as part of the new Western Line being constructed. Performing the sod cutting ceremony, on Wednesday, 30th September 2020, President Akufo-Addo noted that, by January 2017, out of the 947 kilometres of colonial narrow-gauge rail network bequeathed to the country by the colonialists, barely 10% was operational. He stated that, apart from the 15 kilometre narrow gauge railway line, built between 2012 and 2017, from Sekondi to Takoradi via Kojokrom, no kilometre of railway line had…

The Benkumhene of Drobo Traditional Area and Odikro of Baano No. 2, Nana Okofo Darteh II, has advised his people to vote for the presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr John Dramani Mahama, in the December 7 presidential election. This, according to the chief, is to enable Mr Mahama complete projects abandoned by the Akufo-Addo regime because they were started by the Mahama government. “You awarded the road in this area to a contractor who was on site working and not long after you have left power and a new government was sworn in, we saw that…