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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...
Gov't promises sustainable source of income for illegal miners
Government has reiterated its resolve to finding sustainable alternative sources of income for illegal miners in the country.
This was made known by the President...
Forestry Commission to arm guards to the teeth- CEO
The Forestry Commission says it will deploy armed forest guards to ward off encroachers engaged in illegal mining as well as logging and lumbering...
Armed robbers shoot mobile money vendor
A Mobile Money vendor was on Tuesday afternoon shot at Bomso in the Oforikrom Constituency of the Ashanti Region following an attempt rob him.
An eyewitness who...
Forestry Commission begins reclamation of degraded forest reserves
The Forestry Commission has begun reclaiming forest reserves degraded by activities of illegal miners.
Eight local firms are working on the program over 12 months...
Cooking for your husband not slavery – Joyce Aryee
The Executive Director of Salt and Light Ministries, a para-church organization, Dr Joyce Aryee, has dismissed claims by some feminists who claim that cooking...
Two pregnant women, seven others drown in Oti River
Two pregnant women and seven others died when a boat, carrying some eleven people traveling from Mawuvi Kofe to Dzagbeshi Kofe, capsized on the...
Nana Addo's introductory remarks at the media encounter
Welcome to the seat of the Presidency of our country, ladies and gentlemen of the media, and I wish you all a happy New...
2018; a year of exponential growth for Ghana's economy
What a year 2017 was for Ghana! Can we call it a successful year? Well, that was meant to be a rhetorical question. In...
Don’t jubilate over UG researche, fix economy and create jobs – Lecturer to gov’t
Political scientist has cautioned government not to jubilate over the survey conducted by the Political Science department of the University of Ghana indicating that...
52% Ghanaians will retain NPP in gov't after 1-year in office- Survey
If elections were held late last year the governing New Patriotic Party will be retained in office, a survey conducted by the Political Science...
PHOTO: Operation Vanguard grabs 11 illegal miners
The anti-galamsey taskforce, Operation Vanguard, has arrested 11 persons for mining illegally on the Offin River.
The miners were arrested in a special swoop by...
14 illegal miners arrested, equipment seized in special operation
Fourteen suspected illegal miners have been arrested and various mining equipment seized in a special operation mounted in the Amansie West District during Christmas.
It...
Kwame Sefa Kayi names his best and worst Ministers under Akufo-Addo
Respected Journalist, Kwame Sefa Kayi has disclosed names of ministers appointed by the President whom he perceives to be the best and the performing.
President...
Ghanaians advised to ensure a noise-free Christmas
Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, the Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, has called on the public to avoid environmental pollution, particularly noise and air...
Col. William Agyapong bows out of Operation Vanguard
The leadership of the national anti-galamsey task force, Operation Vanguard, has changed with Colonel Michael Amoah-Ayisi taking over from Colonel William Agyapong as Commander.
A...
Sefa Kayi wins 2016 Journalist of the Year Award
Host of Peace FM's morning show programme, Kokrokoo, Kwame Sefa Kayi has been adjudged the PAV Journalist of the year, 2016.
Mr Sefa Kayi was...
Hot Audio: Illegal Miner butchers pregnant lover
A 24 year-old galamsey operator, Kwesi Mawuga has butchered his 21-year-old lover who was four-month pregnant to death.
The gruesome murder of the expectant mother...
Ghanaians cannot wait to see CPP united – Joseph Agyepong
A 2016 Presidential Aspirant of the Convention Peoples Party (CPP), Mr Joseph Agyapong on Friday said “Ghanaians are waiting for a Convention Peoples Party...
Blame NDC gov't for depletion of the forest-Sir John
Chief Executive of the Forestry Commission is blaming the depletion of the country’s forests on failure of the past National Democratic Congress government to...
Hot Video: Chairman Wontumi shows off his $120,000 Rolex, $200,000 gold necklace
The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi revealed the ‘shocking’ prices of his ...
Hot video: Small scale miners commit suicide
Watch how eight Small scale miners ended their lives after government's ban on galamsey.
Multimedia stars nominated for People’s Celebrity Awards
Some personalities of The Multimedia Group have been nominated in the 2017 edition of the People’s Celebrity Awards.
The personalities, radio and TV presenters, received...
Help end harmful cultural, traditional practices – Otiko encourages men
The Gender Minister has encouraged men to advocate an end of harmful and negative cultural and traditional practices like Female Genital Mutilation as the world...
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...
Gov’t to provide 200,000 household toilets in 2018
Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta has said the government is ready to provide 200,000 household toilets and 20,000 Institutional latrines through the “Toilet for...
Hot Audio: Abronye invokes 'Antoa Nyama' on Regional Minister
Brong Ahafo Regional Youth Organizer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Kwame Baffoe, popularly known as ‘Abronye DC’, has invoked curses on the Brong...
Mahama boys in trouble
The effort to prosecute corrupt public officials, especially those who served under former President John Dramani Mahama’s National Democratic Congress (NDC) government, is gathering...
Audio: Reinstate suspended Denkyira Obuasi DCE- Ken begs Akufo-Addo
Outspoken New Patriotic Party Member of Parliament for the Assin Central constituency in the Central region, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong is calling on the President...
I will arrest vigilantism – President Akufo-Addo
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has assured Ghanaians that he will do everything in his power to arrest the new...
Don’t shield rapists – Akufo-Addo to chiefs
President Nana Akufo-Addo has urged chiefs and queen mothers in the country not to be afraid of discarding traditions that do not fit into...
Fulani Herdsmen Activities In Ghana: To ban or Not To Ban!
The clamping down of illegal mining otherwise known in local parlance as “galamsey” remains a watershed moment for many stakeholders of agriculture, environment...
More deaths imminent over illegal pits – Mining firm warns
Management of Shaanxi Mining Company operating in the Gbane area of the Talensi District of the Upper East Region, have warned that illegal mining...
Audio: Angry Kwadaso residents threaten to close dangerous bridge
Angry residents at Kwadaso Estate in Kumasi have vowed to close to traffic a partly collapsed bridge that links the community to the rest...
‘NPP doesn’t mind losing 2020 Elections’
President Nana Akufo-Addo and his New Patriotic Party (NPP) will continue to do what is right even if that will cost them the 2020...
61 Chinese arrested by Operation Vanguard task-force
Ninety-nine (99) illegal miners including 61 Chinese, have been arrested by government’s anti-galamsey task-force, Operation Vanguard.
The latest arrest brings to 461 the number of...
Gov’t to extend ban on small scale mining – Amewu
Lands and Natural sources Minister, John Peter Amewu has disclosed that the ban on small scale mining will be extended.
He said initial assessment of...
Nkrumah not sole founder of Ghana – Arthur Kennedy writes…
The 2008 campaign manager of President Nana Akufo-Addo, Dr Arthur Kobina Kennedy has waded into the founding fathers of Ghana controversy.
According to him, Ghana’s...
Don’t take bribe – Otumfuo warns Operation Vanguard
The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has cautioned members of Operation Vanguard (the anti-galamsey taskforce) against the taking of gifts (bribes) that people might...
Gov’t to start paying ‘every gazetted chief’ – Minister
The Minister for Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Kofi Dzamesi, has assured the National House of Chiefs of the government’s plans to pay all gazetted...