Ghanaian entrepreneurs have been advised not to shun the payment of taxes as business people in order to keep their businesses moving. The Chairman of the Northern Chapter of the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) Mr. Osman Sahanoon Kulandi gave this advice during the 2016 annual general meeting held yesterday the 20th of October, 2016 … Read more
A former CEO of the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) is challenging critics to provide evidence that he presided over fraudulent activities whilst at the helm of affairs at the authority. Alhaji Gilbert Seidu Iddi said he is ready to battle it out with critics on any platform to prove that he ran a clean … Read more
A former CEO of the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) is challenging critics to provide evidence that he presided over fraudulent activities whilst at the helm of affairs at the authority. Alhaji Gilbert Seidu Iddi said he is ready to battle it out with critics on any platform to prove that he ran a clean … Read more
The Savanna Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) has opened discussions with the Asian division of accounting and auditing firm, EY, for the firm to partner with a team of experts from the country to estimate how much it will cost the authority to implement turnkey projects contained in its medium term development plan — the SADA … Read more
The Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) will be restructured and rechristened as the Northern Accelerated Development Authority (NADA) in the event that the All People’s Congress (APC) wins the 7 December polls, Mr Hassan Ayariga, flag bearer of the party has said at the launch of the party’s 2016 manifesto at the Aviation Social Centre … Read more
The Savanna Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) is hopeful government will, next year, introduce a levy on non-petroleum imports to serve as a steady flow of resources and source of financing to its operations. The introduction of the levy is a requirement under the authority’s Act, the SADA Act, 2010 (Act 805), which says that government … Read more
The Savanna Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) has aligned its medium-term development plan, the SADA Master Plan, with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development (SDGs) to make it easier for the zone and the entire country to meet and exceed the global goals. In the plan, which is to be executed over a 25-year period, the 17 … Read more
Since independence, successive governments have come up with various policy interventions aimed at transforming specific segments of the country. The idea is always to turn the potential of those areas into growth poles and opportunities that will help attract investments to reverse the poverty endemic in those areas. Mention can be made of the special … Read more
In recent years, Ghana has spent a minimum of US$1.5 billion of its limited resources to import food annually, while some eight million hectares of arable land continue to waste away in the Northern Savanna Ecological Zone (NSEZ). Accounting for 54.5 per cent of Ghana’s landmass, optimal agricultural production in the NSEZ, which covers five … Read more
The Executive Secretary for the Coalition of Civil Society Groups in the SADA zone, Bismark Adongo, has urged managers of the re-introduced afforestation programme in the savannah ecological zone, to be guided by its past mistakes. According to him, this will ensure the programme does not experience another failure. Speaking to Citi News, Mr. Adongo … Read more
A New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) has described as a white elephant a decision by governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) to create four more development authorities. Francis Addai Nimoh who is also development expert says there are already authorities and government agencies responsible for what the party is proposing to do if … Read more
The name Major Seth Anthony would not be familiar to many Ghanaians – one of the lapses in our educational system. A system that not only treats the teaching of history with contempt, but even pours scorn on the liberal arts in general, in the end, making patriotism and pride-in-belonging, the losers. The Chief Executive … Read more
The Savanna Accelerated Development Authority (SADA), has re-introduced the tree planting exercise in the savanna ecological zone as a means of promoting its agricultural-led transformational agenda. The SADA afforestation project under the leadership of former SADA head Gilbert Iddi, failed after some months, but the current head, Dr. Charles Abugre, has promised that the exercise … Read more
The Coalition of Civil Society Groups in the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) zone, says government is not showing ample committment to the development agenda for the area; and has practically shunned its responsibilities to the people in the savannah areas. Addressing a press conference in Accra, the Executive Secretary of the coalition, Bismark Adongo, … Read more
A scoping study to understand and identify viable options for interventions to improve climate resilient agriculture in the Northern Region has identified conservative agriculture, flood recession and small scale farming as the most potent toll of increasing farm productivity in the Savannah ecological zone. The study reveals that at least 40 million cubic meters of … Read more
The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) says it is not obliged to give further and better particulars on its campaign promise of one dam, one village for communities within the three Northern regions. President John Dramani Manama on Metro TV Good Evening Ghana, said he was yet to be abreast with such a promise and … Read more
The Chief Executive Office (CEO) of the Savanna Accelerated Development Authority (SADA), Mr Charles A. Abugre, says the authority has fixed over 90 per cent of the system challenges that led to the financial misappropriation, which bedevilled the authority prior to his appointment in June 2014. The loopholes were fixed by a combination of internal … Read more
Coalition of Civil Society Organizations are calling on all political parties in this year’s elections to prioritize the sustainability of SADA in their manifesto as part of commitment to addressing poverty and inequality in Ghana. The Northern Development Fund (NDF) broadened and re-christened Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) was established to “provide a framework for … Read more
The Public Accounts Committee of Parliament has instructed the management of the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) to surcharge the former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Authority, Mr Gilbert Seidu Iddi, for a wasteful expenditure of GHc186, 372 on a trip to Turkey in 2012. According to the report, the trip related to SADA … Read more