The President Nana Akufo Addo has appointed the Convener of pressure group, Let my vote Count Alliance (LMVCA), Mr David Asante as the new Managing Director of Ghana Publishing Company. His appointment Citi Business News understands takes effect from the first of August, 2017. Ghana Publishing Company was established in 1965 as a corporation, but … Read more
President Akufo Addo has disclosed that his government plans to make the study of French language compulsory in all Senior High Schools. According to him, the government intends to make significant progress by making the language compulsory from next academic year in September. Akufo-Addo made the remarks in Togo on a two-day official visit to … Read more
New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Lawra Anthony Karbo has reflected on his party’s nine years in opposition and the ‘enormous task’ of getting their leader Nana Akufo-Addo elected. He said he had completed a Masters’ program in the UK when he and others were approached in 2007 by now President Nana … Read more
Government will construct 1000 metric tonne-capacity warehouses across the country to store foodstuffs in each of the 216 districts in the country, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has disclosed. Mr Akufo-Addo said this at Goaso in the Brong Ahafo Region on Wednesday 19 April at the launch of the Planting for Food and Jobs programme. … Read more
The World Bank has urged government to institute measures to ensure that it stays within its fiscal deficit target outlined in the 2017 budget. The World Bank has supported the country with about $1.2 billion credit to help finance government’s agenda of bringing back the economy unto the path of progress. Speaking with the media … Read more
Sources within the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and government have hinted at 20 names which have been recommended and shortlisted for appointment as Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives by President Nana Akufo-Addo. Below are the names of those individuals: Join GhanaStar.com to receive daily email alerts of breaking news in Ghana. GhanaStar.com is your … Read more
President Nana Akufo-Addo has said he needs all the 110 Ministers and Deputies he has appointed to succeed. “I don’t believe that my government in the Fourth Republic has big numbers in view of the swollen challenges,” the President said in an interview with the Daily Graphic and Ghana Television to parry criticism about the … Read more
“I don’t believe that my government in the Fourth Republic has big numbers in view of the swollen challenges,” President Akufo-Addo has said in an interview with the Daily Graphic. In a reaction to the criticisms of his “elephant size government,” President Akufo-Addo said, the unprecedented problems confronting Ghana demand a large government to face … Read more
The unprecedented problems confronting Ghana demand a large government, President Nana Akufo-Addo has said in response to the criticism fired at him over the size of his government, which has seen him appoint or nominate 110 ministers. “I don’t believe that my government in the Fourth Republic has big numbers in view of the swollen … Read more
The unprecedented problems confronting Ghana demand a large government, President Nana Akufo-Addo has said in response to the criticism fired at him over the size of his government, which has seen him appoint or nominate 110 ministers. “I don’t believe that my government in the Fourth Republic has big numbers in view of the swollen … Read more
The Communications Director of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), has said that concerns about the size of President Akufo-Addo’s government are legitimate and in order, just as the party raised similar concerns while in opposition. He however said the President believes he needs the numbers to honor the numerous promises he made to Ghanaians … Read more
NOT POLITICS AS USUAL: Loyalty over competence; a candid review of president nana addo’s appointments. 18/01/2017 All over the world loyalty and competence are the two most critical and potent factors political leaders consider before appointing officials to serve in their government after an electoral victory. They are the most critical because a President must … Read more
All over the world loyalty and competence are the two most critical and potent factors political leaders consider before appointing officials to serve in their government after an electoral victory. They are the most critical because a President must first of all have some considerable level of trust and confidence in an individual before considering … Read more
Three days after the first appointment of the incoming New Patriotic Party (NPP) government was announced, a private legal practitioner has questioned the process. Samson Lardy Anyenini has faulted incoming President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for announcing the appointment of his Chief of Staff, Presidential Staffers as well as his security capos without consulting the … Read more
The host of Good Evening Ghana on Accra-based Metro TV says incoming President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has demonstrated gender boldness by appointing a woman as his Chief of Staff (CS). Paul Adom Otchere lauds the incoming leader of Ghana for defying convention by announcing former Member of Parliament (MP) for the Ayawaso West Wuogon, … Read more
The new national security hierarchy laid down by President-elect Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is excellent because it addresses a loophole in the country’s security structure, Major Osahene Kwadwo Boakye-Gyan, a spokesperson of the defunct Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC), has said. Mr Akufo-Addo, in a press conference Wednesday January 4, announced, among others, Brigadier General … Read more
Our wise elders have warned us that if a man dies by stumbling over a stone, we do not run to his funeral. For the fear of also stumbling, we walk carefully to such funerals. Perhaps, it is because of this conventional wisdom that some people grumble that President-elect Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has made … Read more
Incoming Chief of Staff Frema Osei-Opare brings solid credibility and a track record in public administration to the position she will be occupying under the Nana Akufo-Addo government that will be inaugurated January 7, 2017, Dr Eric Oduro-Osae, Dean of Graduate Studies at the Institute of Local Government Studies, has said. According to him, Mrs … Read more
A former rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Professor Stephen Adei, has described as “impressive” the list of appointments made so far by the President-elect Nana Akufo-Addo. According to him, the persons appointed to serve in the incoming government represent a fair blend of gender, age and competence. Nana Akufo-Addo … Read more
Ghana’s president-elect Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Wednesday announced nine persons he would be working with as his core staff at the Flagstaff House in Accra from January 7 when he takes over the governance of the country. He also named two people to be in charge of Ghana’s national security as well as the … Read more