We Are More Than Prepared To Meet NPP At The 2024 Elections – Aseidu Nketia. LOCAL NEWS POLITICS by George Vineh Yawson - November 29, 2022November 13, 20240 The General Secretary for the biggest opposition party National Democratic Congress, Johnson Aseidu Nketia has stated that, the party NDC is ready to meet the ruling party and match them boot for boot at the 2024 general election. He made this during NDC Regional delegate’s conference held at Berekum in the Bono region. Adding that the 2024 election will not be an easy task for the NPP and therefore the NDC is ready to match them boot for boot in the Bono Region and the whole country as well. He explained that, during the 2020 election the party was able to obtain equal seats with the ruling party at the Bono Region and therefore they are more than ready to fight harder to
NDC Demands The Removal Of Government Officials Involved In Illegal Mining. LOCAL NEWS POLITICS by George Vineh Yawson - October 7, 2022November 12, 20240 The National Communication officer of the opposition National Democratic Party, Sammy Gyamfi at a press conference earlier today has rejected call by the president not to politicize the fight against galamsey following the president’s comment on a political platform in 2016 to promote illegal mining. This comes a day after President Akufo-Addo met with the leadership of the National House of Chiefs and the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) to discuss the illegal mining menace. Adding that attempt by the president in shifting blames won’t hold and describe the moves as total failure and demand the following from the president.
FONTONFEOM DEVELOPMENT: The Gomoa Assin Mampong Call LOCAL NEWS POLITICS by George Vineh Yawson - September 17, 2022November 12, 20240 Amidst the battered but recovering people, culture and traditions of Africa, is the wholesome and vibrant phenomenon of Drums and Drumming. Drums occupy a cardinal role in our culture and traditions since the era of Kemet, Kush and Nubia. It is therefore of great interest how the culture and traditions of drums and drumming have remained wholly intact from the brutal pressures of foreign invasions. Drums and Drumming are essentially a communication system among the living, and between the living and our Ancestors. It is a language for the cultured and initiated. Drums and Drumming are therefore a sophisticated system. They rally the community, excites and incites our Spiritual Guides and also entertains us. It cannot be oblivious of the cultured
NAFAC: Deputy Tourism Minister Underscores Commitment To Achieving Targeted Objective LOCAL NEWS POLITICS by George Vineh Yawson - September 17, 2022November 12, 20240 Deputy Minister in charge of Ghana’s Tourism, Arts and Culture Mark Okraku-Mantey says his Ministry is determined to reach the four billion dollar target set by the President of the Republic as contribution to national economic growth by 2024. He made this disclosure at the launch of the National Festival on Arts and Culture (NAFAC) and also outlined strategies by the Commission and the Ministry to make industry a tool for development and wealth creation. In all aspects of national development, there is the need to pay attention to the impact of culture on Ghana’s efforts to achieving the desired outcome. Hence the emergence of the National Commission on Culture (NAFAC) by Ghana’s own the late Dr. Alexander Atta Yaw Kyerematen, in what
Dunkwan-Ayanfuri: Persus Mining Begins Reshaping Of Deplorable Road After Residents Demonstrate AFRICA NEWS LOCAL POLITICS by George Vineh Yawson - August 15, 2022November 12, 20240 Persus Mining Ghana Limited has heed to the pleads of Upper Denkyira West District Assembly and the people of Ayanfuri in the Upper Denkyira West District of the central region by reshaping about 8 kilometers of road from Ayanfuri to Kwame-prakrom, to improve mobility in the area after several appeals to them to fix the deplorable state of the road. The 8 kilometers Dunkwa-Ayanfuri road which links the entire Ashanti, Central, Western and Western North region has been a major challenge facing the people plying the route. A lot of accident happens on the road almost everyday which compeled the youth in Ayanfuri to demonstrate against the government on the deplorable state of the road. Speaking in an interview with newsmen, the District
Borstal Home Appeals For Support And Assistance AFRICA NEWS POLITICS by George Vineh Yawson - August 12, 2022November 12, 20240 Officer-in-Charge of Senior Correctional Centre at Borstal Home, ADP Millicent Owusu has made a passionate call to the general public to refrain from stigmatizing inmates of the facility saying such acts sometimes demoralize the juvenile in our society. In an interview with Pan African Television George Yawson Vineh, ADP Millicent also appealed to the public for provision of a bus and refurbishment of existing workshops at the facility to ease their operations. The facility which currently houses about two hundred and twenty inmates with an average of one hundred and five young offenders every year. Story by George Yawson Vineh.
Speaker Bagbin To Deliver Ruling On Adwoa Safo Upon Resumption Of Parliament In October NEWS POLITICS by George Vineh Yawson - July 31, 2022November 12, 20240 Sarah Adwoa Safo Speaker of Parliament, Right Honourable Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin By: Gregory Pilkington Amoah Speaker of Parliament, Right Honourable Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, will deliver his ruling on embattled Member of Parliament for Dome Kwabenya Sarah Adwoa Safo, who was together with two other Members, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong and Henry Quartey cited for absenteeism and referred to the Privileges Committee of the House. The Committee had finalised its report and reported back to the House for a decision to be made on whether or not the seats of these Members ought to be vacated as prescribed by law. The capturing of the motion and its subsequent laying before the plenary generated rigorous debate among both caucuses of the House as the Members on
Minority Accuses Bost, PPA Of Inflating The Cost Of Twin Tower Office Complex NEWS POLITICS by George Vineh Yawson - July 31, 2022November 12, 20240 Edwin Alfred Provencal, Managing Director of BOST Story by: Gregory Pilkington Amoah The Minority in Parliament is accusing the Bulk Oil and Storage Company Limited (BOST) of inflating the cost of the construction of the Twin Tower Complex. According to Ranking Member on the Committee of Mines and Energy John Abdulai Jinapor, the initial cost of the project under the Mr Kwame Awuah Darko in 2015 was Thirty-Nine Million Dollars however, under this administration, the cost has shot up Seventy-Eight Million Dollars. The Member of Parliament for Yapei-Kusawgu says the contract initially increased from Thirty-Nine Million Dollars to Forty-Nine Million Dollars for the construction of the two-unit project before the board of BOST decided to procure only a single unit gaining an approval from
LOGIC’S ESCAPE By Abena Osegu Boateng NEWS POLITICS by George Vineh Yawson - February 22, 2022November 12, 20240 Logic has managed a clean escape from the heads of western leaders and their cheer-leaders in the media and the result is complete senseless confusion. The other day, the world heard Joe Baiden and his friends from England, Germany, and elsewhere in Europe complaining bitterly about Russian aggression in Ukraine and threatening hell fire. The truth however is that the 100,000 Russian soldiers the west has been complaining about are stationed in Russia. They have not invaded anybody’s country and there is not a shred of evidence that they will venture into anybody’s territory. These Russian soldiers are in their own country, and they say that they are preparing themselves to defend their land and people against the crazy militarization of the North
CPA Calls For Proper Regulation By Legislature NEWS POLITICS by George Vineh Yawson - January 19, 2022November 12, 20240 The high level of benchmark calculation specifically on imported vehicles into the country has been describe by many as high. This, the Chief Executive Officer of Consumer Protection Agency (CPA), Kofi Capito has called on the legislature to make laws that will reduce the high cost in calculating the benchmark duties on vehicles at the ports, saying its current calculation method is higher than other African countries surrounding Ghana. Story by George Yawson Vineh