The Member of Parliament (MP) for Builsa South, Dr. Clement Apaak has slammed government after it announced that it has taken delivery of 34 vehicles out of the 43 procured by the previous administration. According to the government, it has renegotiated and saved over $3million from the $9million luxury cars that were procured by the … Read more
Trade Minister Alan Kyerematen has called for the prosecution of Minority Chief Whip Muntaka Mubarak for causing financial loss to the state. According to Mr. Kyerematen, the Asawase MP championed the setting up of a committee to probe the cash for seat allegations and since the claims have been described as lacking merit, Hon. Mubarak … Read more
The Managing Director of Japan Motors Trading Company Limited, Salem Kalmoni has said he understood the “President” being referred to at the Presidential table during last year’s Ghana Expatriates Business Awards (GEBA) to be President Akufo-Addo. This was revealed in a 146-page report of the 5-member ad hoc committee of Parliament investigating extortion allegations against … Read more
The Northern Regional Police commander, DCOP Patrick Adusei Sarpong, has served notice to criminals his personnel will meet them “ruthlessly” as part of efforts to combat rising crime in the region. Speaking at the launch of an exercise coded “Operation Calm Life”, DCOP Sarpong warned traditional leaders and politicians to stop interfering in their works, … Read more
Ahead of the presentation of President Nana Akufo-Addo’s second State of the Nation Address to Parliament Thursday, 3news.com brings you the highlights of what the president said in his first address in 20 infographics. Like his first address which was delivered to parliament on February 21, 2017, Thursday’s will cover all the sectors of the … Read more
A former President of the Private Universities Students Association of Ghana (PUSAG), Benjamin Panlogo-Logodam, has asked the National Security to investigate and close down all unaccredited tertiary institutions operating in the country. These institutions, he said, were churning out “half-baked students” who are unable to gain employment after completion; something he observed has contributed to … Read more
American artiste, Rihanna was in Dakar, Sengal over the weekend. She was in the West African country as part of her duties as the Global Ambassador of Global Partnership for Education (GPE), a multilateral partnership and fund dedicated exclusively to education in the world’s poorest countries. After the fundraising ceremony and her speech, the ‘Work’ artiste shook hands … Read more
Africa cannot depend on others to finance education on the continent, when it has the wherewithal to do so, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said. He said Africa has the resources and capacity to finance access to quality education of its citizens, and also promote the interests of the continent. “If we make our … Read more
The First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joe Osei Owusu has told the Minority to seek redress at the courts if they believe President Akufo-Addo erred in law in suspending the Upper West Regional Minister, Sulemana Alhassan. His call comes after the Minority challenged the legality of the President’s decision to suspend the regional minister rather … Read more
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says Africa has the resources and capacity to finance access to quality education by its citizens, and to also promote the interests of the continent. “We cannot depend on other people to finance the education on our continent. I am saying that not to turn my back or to be … Read more
The Upper West Regional Minister, Sulemana Alhassan, has been suspended by President Akufo-Addo for allegedly shielding thugs who attacked officials of NADMO in the region. Staff of the National Disaster Management Organization who accused the minister of protecting hooligans have vowed not to work again until the attackers believe to be members of the governing … Read more
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has urged the 17 member states of the African Union which signed the 2003 Maputo Protocol to ratify it. The Maputo Protocol dubbed ‘Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa’, according to President Akufo-Addo is the blueprint for empowering women … Read more
The Parliament of Ghana has summoned the Local Government Ministry and management of the Births and Deaths Registry to explain the basis for their declaration that certain Ghanaian names are unworthy for registration. According to the Members of Parliament, the decision by the Births and Deaths Registry is illegal and should come to Parliament if … Read more
The five-member ad hoc committee set up by the Speaker of Parliament to probe into claims that foreign businesses were levied to sit near President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo at the Ghana Expatriates Business Awards (GEBA) has finished its work. The committee brought its work to an end on Thursday after meeting a representative of … Read more
The fate of the two former inmates of Guantanamo Bay in Ghana is being decided upon by government and a report will be sent to Parliament when it resumes, the president has disclosed. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo said the decision to either keep or release the two will be taken “now” and not in … Read more
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has reiterated his confidence in the Office of the Special Prosecutor to deal with corrupt government officials. Speaking at a media encounter in Accra, the President said the Office is expected to get rid of the fear of partisan prosecution among Ghanaians. According to the President, the Special Prosecutor will … Read more
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has acknowledged that the Office of Special Prosecutor will not have the panacea to the quest to ending corruption among public officials. “But I do believe that at least the Office will remove the fear of partisan prosecution and begin to put the fear of God in all public officials … Read more
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has scheduled an encounter with journalists on Wednesday. This will be the second time the president will face the press for questions after a similar session was held in July, 2017, six months after he assumed the presidency. He promised to make the encounter a six-monthly event. Wednesday’s encounter to … Read more
All the expatriate business representatives scheduled to appear before the Parliamentary ad hoc committee looking into allegations of the payment of monies to sit near President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo at an awards event last year failed to show up on Tuesday. The business executives were expected to appear before the committee at 10:00 am … Read more
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has denied reports that the US Ambassador to Ghana has been summoned by President Akufo-Addo over the derogatory remarks made by President Donald Trump about Africans and Haitians. Donald Trump is reported to have called African countries shitholes in a meeting with law makers on immigration issues. … Read more