Fire guts portions of Buipe Central Market
Buipe (NR), Feb. 21, GNA – Portions of the Buipe Central Market was gutted last Thursday with more than 20 stalls razed to the ground, while rendering many market women out of business. The cause of the fire is not yet known but personnel from the Central Gonja District Command of the Ghana National…
Ugandan elections: what you need to know
Who are the main runners and riders? Uganda’s national and local elections on Thursday see the long-term incumbent president, Yoweri Museveni, (National Resistance Movement) pitted against two leading opposition candidates – Kizza Besigye (Forum for Democratic Change) and Amama Mbabazi (GoForward). This is the fourth attempt by Besigye, the president’s former personal doctor, to win…
South Africa President Zuma survives no-confidence vote
South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has survived a no-confidence in parliament, while a court is hearing a case to reinstate 738 corruption charges against him. Governing party MPs defeated the motion by a big margin, while Mr Zuma’s office said he would oppose the court case. The opposition was behind both actions, accusing him of…
Leap payments go electronic
Beneficiaries of the Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty (LEAP), would be paid their monies electronically starting from this year, Nana Oye-lithur, Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MOGCSP), has stated. The move aimed at improving cash transfer arrangement for LEAP – a safety net to provide some relief to the indigent in the country, comes…
I’m not the smartest economist in Ghana – Bawumia
The 2016 Vice Presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has rejected the often repeated accolade “smartest economist in Ghana” accorded him. The renowned economist believes Ghana is endowed with a lot of smart economists and hence it would be suicidal for anyone to be tagged the best or the smartest.…
Mahama’s power declaration challenged by ACEP
President John Mahama’s declaration that 800 MegaWatts of Power has been added to the country’s generation mix has been challenged by energy policy-think tank, African Center for Energy Policy (ACEP). ACEP has put the figure at 580megawatts. Sounding triumphant, President John Mahama declared that after lots of hard work “we have achieved the fastest mobilisation…
Nana Addo test-drive Kantanka Omama vehicle
The 2016 Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo had paid a visit to the site of the founder and leader of the Kristo Asafo Mission of Ghana, Apostle Ing. Dr. Kwadwo Safo Kantanka, also known as African Star, at Gomoa-Mpota in the Central Region of Ghana. The 2016…