The high level of mistrust for banks has long been an issue of statistics placed at a very discouraging figure of 60 per cent, representing the unbanked of population of bankable Ghanaians. But it is a story of an elderly woman in Kpassa in the Nkwanta North District of the Volta Region that epitomises this … Read more
25-year-old man Alidu Abubakar Sadiq has drowned in river Oti at Damanko in the Nkwanta North District of the Volta Region. This unfortunate incident occurred when he was swimming to cross the river with his friends Saturday afternoon. According to an eyewitness, Sayibu Aliu after two of the young men had crossed the river, they … Read more
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has fiercely denied false reports suggesting that he has passed on. Reports on social media on Monday, suggested that the former President who was seeking medical care at Johannesburg in South Africa, died after a spine operation. Some of the reports had claimed that a team of medical doctors successfully performed … Read more
Residents of the Nkwanta North constituency of the Volta region took advantage of President John Mahama’s campaign tour to the area Tuesday to drive home their demand for the completion of the Damanko-Kpassa-Nkwanta section of the eastern corridor road. The road, which connects the Nkwanta North and South constituencies to parts of the Northern region, … Read more
President John Mahama’s campaign tour of the Volta Region has been greeted with a litany of protests as he slammed the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) over what he called blatant accusations. According to the president, the accusation that his government has saddled the country with huge debts through his unbridled borrowing could not be … Read more
Some residents of Kpassa in the Nkwanta North Constituency in the Volta region are threatening to vote against President John Mahama if the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) fails to construct some roads in the region. The residents in the region say several attempts to get government to fix their roads have proved futile. Speaking … Read more
President John Mahama has issued a two-day ultimatum to a contractor working on the Kpassa Road in the Volta Region to begin work or risk having his contract abrogated. The president was disappointed with what he said is the poor attitude to work by the contractor. Speaking at a durbar on the second day of … Read more
On the campaign trail in the Volta Region, President John Dramani Mahama said on Tuesday that his works will speak for him in the December 7 polls. Speaking at separate rallies of NDC supporters at Nkwanta in the Nkwanta South Constituency and Kpassa in the Nkwanta North Constituency, the President said he had not mentioned … Read more