The big stories of today’s edition of the Eyewitness News with Umaru Sanda Amadu and Hawa Iddrisu are; – Bulldog confirms Shatta Wale’s Exim Bank deal but tight-lipped on alleged GHS2M payment – We haven’t paid Shatta Wale, other brand ambassadors GHS2M – Exim Bank – We’ve created over two million jobs in our first […] The post Eyewitness

Management of the Eastern Regional Hospital Blood Bank is calling on residents in the Eastern Region to as a matter of urgency assist the blood bank by donating blood. According to management, the blood bank which provides essential services for various units within the hospital is currently not running at capacity because of the COVID-19 […] The post Eastern Regional

Manager of musician Charles Nii Armah Mensah, popularly known as Shatta Wale has confirmed the agreement between his artiste and Ghana’s Exim Bank for the promotion of made-in-Ghana products. Shatta Wale’s manager, Lawrence Nana Asiamah Hanson, also known as Bulldog, admits that the contractual agreement signed a few weeks ago has already commenced. The deal […] The post Bulldog

The Deputy National Youth Organiser of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Edem Agbana, says the claim by the governing New Patriotic Party that it has created over two million jobs in its first term is a “blatant lie”. “They have quoted that, they have provided over 700,000 jobs in the public sector, and I […] The post NPP’s two

The Ghana Export-Import Bank has denied paying any ambassador or influencer GHS2 million to promote products made in Ghana. The clarification comes after the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament flagged the alleged payment of GHS2 million to Ghanaian artiste, Shatta Wale by Ghana’s Exim Bank. In a statement, the bank clarified that it had […] The post We

The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) says the Akufo-Addo administration has created over two million sustainable jobs in the last three and half years. The party says data available to it indicates that more jobs will be created before the end of the year. The National Youth Organiser of the party, Henry Nana Boakye disclosed […] The post We’ve created over

Policy research and advocacy NGO, Africa Education Watch, has advocated for more flexible admissions into Senior High Schools for girls who try to return to school after pregnancy. This comes in the wake of its research indicating that the closure of schools during the coronavirus pandemic increased the rate of teenage pregnancy. Kofi Asare, the […] The post Teenage

A group has petitioned the Electoral Commission to reopen the electoral roll for repatriated Ghanaians who missed out on the initial voter registration exercise. The group, known as the Collation of Repatriated Ghanaians, comprises Ghanaians who were unable to partake in the recently held voter registration because they were either observing the mandatory quarantine or […] The post Allow

The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) says there will be an interruption in water supply to the eastern part of the Greater Accra Region from Monday, September 14th to Saturday, September 20th 2020. This is to enable engineers of the GWCL to replace close to 2 kilometres of a weak session of the main 42-inch […] The post Water supply to parts of Accra to

The Graphic Communications Group Limited has asked Parliament to settle its debt for the supply of newspapers since May 2020. According to the Managing Director of the Company, Ato Afful, Parliament and other state institutions are indebted to the company. This was disclosed at the Public Accounts Committee hearing today, September 10, 2020. Mr. Ato […] The post Graphic

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has reiterated his commitment to ensuring that the Ghanaian electorate are able to cast their vote in peace, security and freedom on 7th December. Addressing the Bono Region House of Chiefs on Thursday 10th September 2020, President Akufo-Addo assured the House of the “wholehearted efforts that are going to […] The post Ghanaians

First Lady, H.E. Mrs Rebecca Naa Okaikor Akufo-Addo has donated assorted medical items to the Ho Municipal Hospital in the Volta Region as part of the Rebecca Foundation’s mission to support the health sector. Making the presentation, Mrs.  Akufo-Addo said the Rebecca Foundation has since 2017 been working to complement government’s efforts to improve the […] The post First

A three-time District Chief Executive (DCE) who served under the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Upper West Region has defected to the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP). Mr. Robert Waveh Baka served two separate periods as DCE for the then Sissala District under the Rawlings regime and was again appointed as DCE for the […] The post Sissala West: Former NDC DCE defects

The Member of Parliament for the North Tongu constituency, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has expressed concerns over the government’s poor negotiations of some agreements. His comments come in the wake of the setting up of a Special Purpose Vehicle to manage the country’s Minerals Income Investment Fund. The MP said the government sometimes signs onto these […] The post Government

In this edition of The Voters’ Diary on Citi FM, Abena Nyamekye Ampadu hosted Godfred Akoto Boafo, to continue the analysis of the NDC’s 2020 manifesto. They looked at the social protection, gender, and inclusion sections of the manifesto with focus on women, children, persons with disabilities, zongo development among others. Citi97.3 · Voters’ Diary, […] The post Voters’

The National Youth Wing of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) says the recently launched manifesto of the opposition National Democratic Congress is full of “unrealistic, populist and discredited promises.” Addressing the press in Accra today, Thursday, September 10, 2020, the National Youth Organiser of NPP, Henry Nana Boakye NDC said: “Our verdict is that the NDC’s […] The post NDC’s

Ghana has recorded 125 new COVID-19 infections pushing the country’s active case count to 842. This was announced by the Ghana Health Service in its latest update on Thursday, September 10, 2020. Ghana has within the last seven months recorded a cumulative figure of 45,313 COVID-19 cases with 44,188 recoveries. The COVID-19 related death toll […] The post Ghana records 125 new COVID-19

The Member of Parliament for Kumbumgu, Ras Mubarak is not convinced by answers provided by Deputy Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Finance of the Ghana Exim Bank over the GHS2 million allegedly paid musician, Shatta Wale and others. At Wednesday’s sitting of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Ras Mubarak alleged that the said amount had […] The post Exim

For those who are wondering how the next NDC/Mahama government will finance the transformational policies and programs in our Peoples’ Manifesto, please note that: 1. The main reason the Akufo Addo-government has very little developmental projects to show, is not because they haven’t had access to adequate resources. Indeed, no government in the history of […] The post Sammy

A group calling itself the Coalition of Aggrieved Teachers of Unpaid Legacy Arrears has dared the government to publish the names of teachers said to have been paid legacy arrears. It follows recent pronouncements by the Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to the effect that, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) had cleared arrears owed the […] The post Publish