Government has partnered a local company to establish a factory in the Western Region to produce charcoal from palm kernel for export. The factory, to be sited within the Prestea Huni Valley municipality, is expected to generate revenue for the assembly and create jobs for the people in the area. Municipal Chief Executive for the … Read more
The University of Cape Coast (UCC) has called on Government to revive the Aboso Glass Factory for more jobs to be created in the area. Professor David Kofi Essuman, Dean of the School of Physical Sciences of UCC, who made the call said the Unit would also enhance the teaching and study of sciences and … Read more
Good day Honourable Minister, May I humbly take this opportunity to formally congratulate you on your appointment to the Ministry of Trade and Industry, a position you once held under President Kufuor. Throughout the 2016 general elections campaign, the NPP through its then flagbearer, now the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo, promised … Read more
An appeal has been made for the rehabilitation of the defunct Bonsa Tyre Factory. The chiefs and people of the Wassa Fiase Traditional Area in the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipality in the Western Region made the appeal to the President, Nana Akufo-Addo, last Friday at a traditional council meeting. Speaking at the meeting the Wassafiasehene, Odeneho Akrofa … Read more
Desperation has set in, government machinery is virtually shut down as the Chief of Staff who is supposed to be running the government systems is on the campaign trail, Kwmena Ahwoi has his team, Asiedu Nketia is on the other side. The otherwise neglected and abandoned Amissah-Arthur who is a ‘constitutional Vice-President’ with no active … Read more
President John Dramani Mahama has said he intends revamping factories built by Ghana’s first President Kwame Nkrumah which are now tottering or totally dormant. According to him, some of those factories have so much potential and could serve as a booster to the economy in this modern era. For him, it would be worthwhile to … Read more
Policy Think Tank IMANI Africa, has stated that the next Mahama-led administration – if given the nod in the upcoming elections – will need an amount of $24 billion to implement 75 percent of the promises contained in the party’s manifesto. President John Mahama outlining the party’s manifesto for the next four years at the … Read more
President Mahama presented the highlights of the NDC’s manifesto in the evening of 13th September 2016 in Accra. By ‘highlights’ he obviously meant the most important, most high-impact, and most representative aspects of the 100-plus page manifesto document he shall be unveiling on 17th September 2016. IMANI can thus use this speech alone to analyse … Read more