Politics

Ghana Police Service identifies over 5000 flashpoints ahead of 2016 elections

IGP

The Ghana Police Service says it has identified over five thousand potential flash point in the forthcoming elections which must be managed to prevent any form of violence.

The Director General of the Police Criminal Investigations Department, Proper Kwame Ablorh made the observation on behalf of the Inspector General at a national Colloquium on peaceful elections organized by the Kofi Annan International Peace Keeping Training Centre (KAIPTC).


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Agalga denies lobbying Martey to chair Peace Council

James Agalga, Deputy Interior Minister

The Ministry of Interior has rejected claims that Deputy Minister, James Agalga, attempted to lure outgoing Moderator of the Presbyterian Church Reverend Professor Emmanuel Martey, to take up the position of chairman of the National Peace Council.

Martey in chronicling series of attempts made at buying his conscience to stop criticizing the government, said that in one of such instances, James Agalga made a phone call to him asking him to make himself available to chair the council, as he was assured of the ministry’s support.


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Prez Mahama calls for support to improve standard of education in the country

President Mahama addressing a durbar at Cape Coast

President John Mahama last Saturday joined the chiefs and people of Cape Coast to celebrate this year’s Fetu Afahye and called for conscious efforts to arrest the deteriorating standards of education in the metropolis.
He expressed concern that in spite of the improvement of the average performance at the basic level for the 2014/2015 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), that of Cape Coast over the same period dropped from 31.3 to 29.92 per cent.


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IMF Programme…..All Set For Positive Third Review

IMF

Ghana is most likely to receive a positive result after the third review of its three-year programme with the International Monetary Fund, IMF.

The staff led by IMF Mission Chief for Ghana, JoëlToujas-Bernaté, were in Accra from Monday, August 29 to Friday September 2, 2016.

The team met with President John Dramani Mahama, Finance Minister Seth Terkper, Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Abdul-NashiriIssahaku and other senior government officials and also conducted its own independent checks some key policies being implemented.


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Success with IMF programme good for Ghana, UK trade figures – Jon Benjamin

Jon Benjamin, British High Commissioner

The British High Commissioner to Ghana has urged managers of the economy to meet conditions in the three-year fiscal support programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), adding that progress with the programme will improve falling UK-Ghana bilateral trade figures.

Speaking at a short ceremony to launch the UK-Ghana Chamber of Commerce (UKGCC) at his residence in Accra, Mr Jon Benjamin said progress with the IMF programme will attract UK investments in Ghana.


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‘Everything I do, I do for Ghanaians’ – Mahama

President John Dramani Mahama

President John Dramani has said every decision and steps he has taken while occupying the highest office in Ghana was for the improvement of welfare and development of Ghanaians.

According to him, every step he has taken upon assumption of office has been to pursue an agenda to push Ghana to an enviable status.

“Everything I do, I do it with you in my heart and with you the good people of Ghana in mind,” he said in a video to thank fans for helping him attain one million likes on Facebook.


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Government and Banks agree to restructure energy sector debts

Seth Terkper, Finance Minister

Accra, Sept.1, GNA - Government has reached an agreement with some local banks to restructure legacy debts of State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in the energy sector.

The initiative would cover a restructuring of the Volta River Authority’s debt as well as those of the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) and Bulk Oil Distributing Companies.

It would target about half of GH₵2.2 billion of the total energy sector debt of GH₵4.4 billion being paid over a period of three to five years


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Speaker dismisses motion to investigate President's Ford gift

Edward Doe Adjaho, Speaker of Parliament

Accra, Sept. 1, GNA - The Speaker of Parliament, Mr Edward Doe Adjaho, on Thursday dismissed a motion by the Minority for a bi-partisan special committee to investigate the controversial Ford Expedition gift to President John Mahama by a Burkinabe contractor.

The Minority, through its leader Osei Kyei-Mensa-Bonsu, earlier in August in the motion, called on the House to investigate the receipt or otherwise of the vehicle by the President, if receipt infringed on any of the Laws of Ghana and on his (President’s) Code of Conduct.


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Full AfricaWatch report: Akufo-Addo has cancer

Cover page of AfricanWatch

For some time now, functionaries of Ghana’s main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) and their presidential candidate himself, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, have strenuously denied reports in the local media of Akufo-Addo’s ill health and its implications on his ability to rule the country.

In one such denial recently, the 72-year-old NPP presidential candidate said: “God is the one who looks after us all and not the wishes of human beings. I am strong.


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We can’t pay Black Stars bonuses – Vanderpuye

Nii Lantey Vanderpuye, Sports Minister

The Ministry of Youth and Sports is seriously cash strapped, the sector Minister, Nii Lantey Vanderpuye has stated.

As a result, he said the ministry has been “struggling to respond to the demands of the GFA [Ghana Football Association]” and that it cannot pay the bonuses of the Black Stars' foreign based players.


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