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Banku deaths: Lab results reveal corn flour contained pesticide – FDA
Lab results have confirmed that the 'Banku' dish that claimed the lives of six persons at Akakpokofe in the Volta Region contained some poisonous...
Photos: Pastor’s wife slumps, dies during Sunday praise and worship
Omamen Iyawe, the wife of Pastor Idahosa Iyawe, Assistant Pastor of The StandPoint Church, Abuja, is dead.
According to reports, Mars Iyawe died on the...
HOT AUDIO+PHOTOS: Thief kills fowl owner after attempt to steal fowls failed
A 34 year-old man, Kuma Ahiadu, has been stabbed to death by a suspected fowl thief at Kwame Kokpe, a village near Odupong Ofaakor...
Hot video: Chief fights at funeral of subject
Police in the Western region have arrested a chief for reportedly stabbing a mourner in a free for all fight at a funeral in...
Full text: Akufo-Addo delivers 2nd SONA full of achievements, commitments
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has delivered his second State of Nation Address replete with achievements his first year and commitments to do more.
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HIGHLIGHTS of 2018 State of Nation Address (SONA)
ECONOMY
I am glad to be able to report that the Economic Management Team, under the stellar leadership of the strong, brilliant economist, Vice...
Full speech: Tourism Minister meets the press
Address by the Honourable Minister for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Hon. (Mrs.) Catherine Abelema Afeku, at the meet the press programme
It is an honor...
Ghanaian Cocoa farmers receive international awards for quality
Three Ghanaian Cocoa farmers have been decorated with the international award for quality, flavour and diversifying their cocoa products at the Porte De Versailles...
Investors bullish on 2018
Investors are very upbeat about growth projections and could turn to Ghana for more business, RMB Research’s 2018 outlook on African countries has pointed...
Full text: Ken Ofori-Atta’s speech at 3rd Aliu Mahama memorial lectures
Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta was the main speaker at the 3rd Aliu Mahama memorial lectures held in honour of the former President.
The lecture which took...
Tonnes of cocoa beans left to rot due to bad cocoa road
Tonnes of cocoa beans have been left to rot in farms at Amenfi West in the Western Region due to poor road network.
The road...
FULL TEXT: 2018 budget statement
“Rt. Hon. Speaker, Honourable Members of Parliament, on the authority of the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, I beg to move...
Govt to use $1.3bn to purchase cocoa
The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has disclosed some $1.3bn has been raised to purchase 850,000 tonnes of cocoa beans.
He said while other cocoa-producing countries...
Ghana to hit two- million metric tonnes of cocoa production by 2019
Ghana 's cocoa production is expected to hit two million (2m) metric tonnes by 2019, Mr Joseph Boahen Aidoo, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of...
Hot Audio: NDC members in A-G’s Dept sabotaging prosecution of their colleagues – Ken...
New Patriotic Party Member of Parliament for Assin Central Constituency in the Central Region, Kennedy Agyapong has stated that dockets for the prosecution of...
Reptiles take over abandoned Bunso Presidential Lodge
Even as snakes and other venomous reptiles take over the official Presidential Lodge at Bunso in the East Akim Municipality in the Eastern Region,...
Hot audio: NDC squandered $400m cocoa cash
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has described as "mischievous" claims by the Minority in Parliament that government is stealing from cocoa farmers.
Rather, according to...
Nana Addo promises one-student, one-chocolate
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced that his government will soon roll out a programme that will see every school going child from...
Ghana will regain cocoa glory – Akufo-Addo
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has celebrated the hundreds of thousands of cocoa farmers across the country responsible for the production of a crop...
We are ready for NDC’s unity walk – Police
The Accra Regional Police Command says they have prepared adequately for the NDC's unity walk scheduled for tomorrow 21st September, 2017.
In a press release...
Hot Audio: ‘Docket to prosecute Stephen Opuni ready’
Maverick politician, Kennedy Agyapong has revealed docket for the prosecution of five former appointees under the erstwhile Mahama administration is ready.
Refusing to reveal the...
CID probes Opuni over $100m ‘rotten’ fertilizer
The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service is reportedly probing some immediate past management and board members of the Ghana Cocoa...
Cocoa roads project under scrutiny
A comprehensive value for money audit of the country's Cocoa roads Projects is underway to assess the financial obligation of the projects to government...
Minority goofed in ADB loan contract
The government has cited the Minority MPs for conscious, systematic efforts designed to create negative public sentiments against especially the Finance Minister.
According to Deputy...
Ken Ofori-Atta gave ¢10m ADB loan, contract without Board approval – Minority
The Minority in Parliament has accused Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta of breaching the procurement Act when he awarded a GHȻ10m COCOBOD contract to...
Mahama boys hold secret meeting in V/R over prosecutions
Today can report that some ministers and appointees of the erstwhile Mahama administration, alleged to have either engaged in corrupt practices or superintended over...
Mahama appointee urges government to prosecute corrupt NDC officials
Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamale Central, Inusah Fuseini, is the latest National Democratic Congress (NDC) member who has called on President Nana Addo...
‘Planting for food’ farmers to be allocated warehouses
The Government is to allocate warehouses to off-takers of the planting for food and jobs programme to enable them to stock excess food during...
CID to grill more appointees of Mahama
Even before the much-touted Office of the Special Prosecutor of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) government comes into being, Today can confirm that...
One district, one factory takes off
All seems to be set for the implementation of the much-touted ‘One District, One Factory’ flagship programme of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP).
While...
Akufo-Addo storms Denkyira Obuasi
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will visit Denkyira Obuasi as part of his six day working visit to the Western and Central Regions.
Denkyira Obuasi became...
FULL TEXT: Finance minister presents mid-year budget review
Finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta has presented government's reviewed budget for 2017 as required by the Public Financial Management Act.
SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTION
Right Honourable Speaker...
‘Galamsey’ threatens cocoa seedling production
Activities of illegal miners, who use hazardous chemicals in their operations, have made River Birem unsuitable for irrigation purposes, threatening the production of cocoa...
Daily Post fights GHS800k Hackman damage
Managing Editor of the Daily Post newspaper Michael Dokosi has said he will appeal against the ruling by an Accra High Court ordering them...
Hackman secures GHC800,000 judgment against Daily Post
An Accra High Court presided over by Justice Norvisi Aryine has ordered the Daily Post newspaper to retract by means of a front page...
Cocoa farmers’ children assured of scholarship
Cocoa farmers have been assured to exercise restraint as they might no longer struggle to secure scholarships for their children in Senior High Schools...
Use your marathon press confabs to address corruption under Mahama – Abronye tells Minority
The Brong Ahafo Youth Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Baffoe has charged the minority Members of the Parliament to consider holding...
NPP blasts NDC over cocoa lies
The majority in parliament – New Patriotic Party (NPP) – has asked cocoa farmers in particular and Ghanaians in general to disregard the lies...
Majority hits back at Minority over subsidy of fertilizer
The NPP Majority in Parliament, led by its Spokesperson on Food, Agriculture and Cocoa Affairs, Kwame Asafo Adjei, has denied any wrong doing by...
Audio: Cocoa prices not changed – Hackman Owusu Agyemang
The Board Chairman of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) Hackman Owusu-Agyeman has debunked rumors about cocoa pricing for the next season.
The National Democratic Congress...