Sports News of Friday, 16 April 2021Source: Football GhanaAsante Kotoko defender Abdul Ganiyu Ishmael has reacted to his Black Stars debut. The towering guardsman who has been impressive for the Porcupine Warriors in the ongoing Ghana Premier League season received his maiden Ghana call-up for the 2021 AFCON qualifiers last month. He subsequently made his Black Stars debut against South Africa and Sao Tome and Principe and excelled. In an interview, he said, “Its every young player dreams to represent his country and I have the opportunity to do that and then I am very glad”“I want to thank almighty Allah and the coach, management committee of the Black Stars and my colleagues, Asante Kotoko board and everybody who supported me.”

Business News of Friday, 16 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comAn initiative to provide market intelligence on investment avenues and opportunities within Ghana and beyond has been launched. Dubbed as the “SDG Investment Platform”, the objective of the initiative is to assist the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre to fast-track its local and foreign investment targets. “The SDG Investment Platform offers insight, data, and impact measurement tools to both local and foreign investors, with the purpose of fast-tracking attainment of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDG investor Map, a key feature of the platform, provides market intelligence for private sector investors, by translating country-level SDG gaps and priorities into investment opportunities,” the statement read. Chief Executive of the GIPC, Yofi Grant making remarks at the launch indicated that the Investment Platform aligns with the Centre’s objective to identify and promote investment opportunities in the country.

Business News of Friday, 16 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comThe Works and Housing Minister, Francis Asenso-Boakye, has estimated that some 35 percent of the Ghanaian populace are unlikely to get a chance to own their homes even with government support. According to him, some 60 percent of the populace will require government support in order to own their own home. The Authority, according to him will also be responsible for the regulatory, acquisition, development, management, planning and standardization of affordable housing units across the country. Meanwhile, Ghana’s housing deficit stands at some 2 million units and has been projected to hit peak numbers in the coming years. Currently, demand for housing units stands at about 70,000 units annually.

Business News of Friday, 16 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comOver 100,000 Ghanaians have been engaged through employment since the start of the Tema-Mpakadan railway project, Vice President at AFCONS Infrastructure Limited, Udai Veer Singh has revealed. According to the contractor of the 1,000-kilometer Ghana-Burkina rail line, the move was intended to boost local content within the area and knowledge transfer. Following an inspection exercise for works on the Tema-Mpakadan railway line, Veer Singh told journalists, “Presently on the entire project, more than hundred thousand local people have been employed. The project which is being funded by the Indian EXIM BANK at a cost of US$447 million would link Ghana from Tema to Burkina Faso’s capital of Ouagadougou. When fully completed, the two countries would be connected with a modern standard gauge rail line.

General News of Friday, 16 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comThe Ghana Armed Forces has issued an apology to media personnel and civilians who were subjects of brutality by some military officers during a demonstration by some residents at La in Accra. Some journalists were on Thursday, April 15, 2021, assaulted by military during their coverage of the protests. GAF explained that ‘minimum force’ had to be applied in the containment of the protestors which caught some journalists in the process. Thus, in the process, some of the demonstrators or persons got injured. “The Military High Command has directed that the case be investigated to ensure that such unfortunate incident does not occur in future.

General News of Friday, 16 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comSamuel Nartey George, the Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram maintains that the chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Jean Mensa supervised an error-riddled process in the 2020 elections. Sam George opines that with members of the two leading political parties citing irregularities in the 2020 elections, it has become untenable for Jean Mensa to continue in her role as chairperson of the election management body. “The NPP agrees with the NDC that Jean Mensa bloated figures. Nobody can even say that you gave us the correct figures so you must resign,” the MP said on Citi TV. Sam George made the comment in relation to the report by the European Union Election Observation Mission on the 2020 election.

Regional News of Friday, 16 April 2021Source: Ghana GuardianWork on the reconstruction of the Beach Road is progressing and looks set to be completed on schedule. The 10.6-kilometre stretch, known as the Beach Road Expansion Project — Phase Two, is expected to be completed by December next year. The scope of work includes a two-way four-lane urban road, traffic signal system and related auxiliary works, as well as a three-tier interchange at the Nungua Barrier to address congestion on the stretch. ReliefA private motorist, Mr Raphael Nani, said the ongoing work on the road had come as a big relief, saying it was already easing traffic and travelling time on the road. BackgroundIn August last year(2020), the Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, cut the sod for the reconstruction of the Accra-Tema Beach Road.

General News of Friday, 16 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comJavier Nart, head of the European Union Election Observer Mission (EU EOM) for Ghana's 2020 elections insists that despite recording deadly incidents during and after the last general elections, the overall conduct of the process was peaceful and transparent. It is not good news at all, but when you see the general outcome of the elections, they were produced in a very very peaceful way,” the EU EOM chief stressed. He hammered the point about vigilantes and their seeming politically anonymous nature and charged the NDC to not focus on the five deaths as a reflection of the general situation. “… when you see a general situation, to focus on this disgrace, five people killed, is not the general situation. The EU EOM report has split opinion between the ruling New Patriotic Party, NPP, and the main opposition National Democratic Congress, NDC.

General News of Friday, 16 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comMember of Parliament for Ningo Prampram, Sam George, has said a bipartisan parliamentary body must be constituted to conduct a full-scale probe into the 2014 award of a port management contract to Meridian Ports Service (MPS). “There have been claims made by Africa Confidential that some instances border on very grave action by public officers. It was a $1.5 billion project.”According to him, two key parliamentary committees were suited to probe the report together. He said a leaked version of the contract between GPHA and MPS was what whipped his interest to probe the contents of the deal. He holds that the current government looks disinterested in implementing its own ministerial report because of a certain level of belated complicity.

General News of Friday, 16 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.com“The KSM Show used to be my favourite Comedy show on TV. Now, my favourite Comedy show is Good Evening Ghana,” this was a social media - Facebook, Twitter - post earlier this week by the Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa. He outlined the role of the media by way of educating, informing and entertaining its audience: “… these days they say we do something else. “And because they don’t understand the other part we do, they think it is only entertainment, so they think it is a comedy show…. Adom-Otchere hit back at Asiedu Nketia saying that maybe all he knew how to forecast was lotto but that on Good Evening Ghana, they engaged in political analysis from the stables of Plato and Cicero.

“The military has vowed vehemently to resist the people of La and make sure we don’t get unto our land. “We are going to resist with the last drop of blood in us. “We are not going to be intimidated by the use of security personnel, we are not going to be intimidated by the forces of the military. Demonstrators – involving the La Traditional Council, the Coalition of La Associations – were forcibly dispersed by police and military personnel when they defied an order by police to suspend the protests. In the ensuing clash, some protesters and media personnel were assaulted over the protest against alleged encroachment on La Stool Lands by the Ghana Armed Forces.

General News of Friday, 16 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comProfessor Ransford Gyampo of the Political Science Department at the University of Ghana says it is time for Ghana to stop inviting foreign observer missions when general elections are held. According to him, Ghana has consistently shown that as a transitional democracy, our system has and continues to grow steadily with each electoral cycle, arguing further that, all that foreign observer missions do is to reiterate issues that local observer missions have articulated. GhanaWeb monitored submissions that he made on Joy FM’s news program 'Top Story' on Thursday while contributing to discussions about the recently released European Union Election Observer Mission's (EU EOM) final report on the 2020 elections. “I think as a country we must start kicking against foreign observer missions because they don’t say anything new that we don’t know already. “They don’t say anything that important local election observation missions like the Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO) have said that they keep saying and is reported on.

Harold Davies Johnson, the suspect, was later arraigned before the Accra Circuit Court ‘2’ presided over by Her Honour Naa Adjeley Quaison after due investigations. Harold Davies Johnson was then handed over to Detective Lance Corporal Kwame Adu Asabereh to be kept in Nsawam Prison. The Prosecutor opposed vehemently Counsel for the suspect, Yaw Dankwah, who had prayed that the court grants his client bail. The court, after listening to both arguments, refused to grant the suspect bail and instead remanded him into further custody. But inquiries at the Prisons indicated that the convict since he was convicted in 2019 has not been sent to prison to serve his sentence.

Speculation has been rife about who President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is likely to nominate as deputy minister. Charles Adu-Boahene – Deputy Minister for Finance19.Abena Osei Asare – Deputy Minister for Finance20. Moses Anim – Deputy Minister for Fisheries23. Kwaku Ampratwum – Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration24. Tina Mensah – Deputy Minister for Health25.

This article has no comments yet, be the first to comment