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Cape Coast Airport: NPP Govt. Plans To Build Airport In Cape Coast.
The New Patriotic Party(NPP) has declared its intentions to build an airport in the central region of Ghana. The Vice president of the NPP said it will make more economic sense to build an airport in Cape Coast just like the Ho Airport in the Volta Region.
Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia believes this shouldn’t be up for debate as Cape Coast was once the Capital of Ghana (Gold Coast)
“Tourists like convenience, I can fly into a place, I don’t have to come in and be on a three-hour journey on a bus to get to the place, so the airport will provide a lot of convenience for a lot of tourists who are coming in. It will help a lot and it will also boost other industries in and around Cape Coast as you have it.”
“So I think that the whole idea of boosting the place, you look at Accra, Kumasi, the Cape Coast-Takoradi area, that triangle, that area, has probably 60 percent of the population of Ghana,” He said.
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NPP GVT: 70 Traders receive funds to Improve Businesses.
SEHP (The Samira Empowerment for Humanitarian Project) has provided funds to about 70 traders from some market centers in Accra in business development skills to give them a sustainable income.
The beneficiaries were drawn from the Agbogbloshie, Okaishie, Abossey Okai markets, and surrounding communities.
The Samira Empowerment & Humanitarian Projects (SEHP) is a not-for-profit organization established with the purpose of empowering the underprivileged in Ghana through diverse social intervention projects to improve lives.
NPP Govt. To Introduce National Rental Assistance Scheme.
The New Patriotic Party plans on introducing a new National rental assistance Scheme. Ghana’s vice president, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia made it known at the party’s manifesto launch that the National Rental Assistance scheme would pay the rents directly to landlords and will later be deducted at source from beneficiaries’ salaries.
He also mentioned that beneficiaries would have to have a formal employment, a regular salary and a guarantor to access the facility, He indicated it was important to address the rent challenges to relieve a lot of people of the burden.
“It is clear that there are a lot of youth who have problems just trying to rent accommodation after school because of large demands for rent allowance sometimes up to two years allowance. But someone who has finished school and just started a job doesn’t has much saved to pay all these huge demands for rent allowance,” he said.
NPP Govt Hands Over 100 Buses To Senior High Schools
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has obtained and given out 100 buses to various Senior High Schools, with a further 250 on the way, in the continuous ongoing fulfillment of President Akufo-Addo’s responsibility not only to increase access but to also guarantee that corresponding resources are given to empower the conveyance of quality education to Ghanaians.
At a short yet beautiful event on Thursday, July 30, 2020, Vice President Bawumia gave over the keys to the heads of the chosen Senior High Schools, drawn from the North Eastern, Northern, Savannah, Upper East, Upper West, Oti, Bono, Bono East and Ahafo districts, and charged them to guarantee their appropriate use. In light of a legitimate concern for decency, schools that got transports in 2016 are excluded from the distribution list this year.
This most recent expansion to the vehicular assets of the Ministry of Education comes after the handover, earlier in the year, of 365 out of a total of 840 Isuzu Double Cabin pickup trucks, which was distributed to all Metropolitan, Municipal and District Directorates of Education, as well as selected agencies under the Ministry of Education.
Also, 493 out of a total 2,000 motorbikes to aid the work of circuit supervisors and to further enhance their supervisory roles in the education sector were also handed over earlier in the year. Many more vehicles are on the way, according to officials of the Ministry of Education.
Nana Akuffo Addo Commissions The Largest Green House Estate In West Africa
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on 13th August 2020 commissioned the largest Greenhouse estate consisting of 75 greenhouses as well as an Entrepreneurship and Innovation center at Dawhenya.
Nana Akufo-Addo Cuts the Sod For the University of Environment and Sustainable Development (UESD)
On Wednesday, 5th August 2020, The president of Ghana Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo appointed the University of Environment and Sustainable Development (UESD) and cut the sod for the beginning of the development of Phase Two of the University.
The agreement for Phase Two was marked on the sixth of May 2020. It is a turnkey contract concurrence with M/S Contracta, estimated at forty-nine million, eight hundred and ninety-one thousand, ninety-eight euros (€49,891,098.00), to be finished within thirty (30) months of signature of the agreement. The completion of UESD is yet another example of Ghana’s commitment to providing quality education and skills training for Ghanaians.
Nana Akufo-Addo unveils first Ghana assembled Volkswagen car
President Nana Akufo-Addo has unveiled the first Volkswagen(VW) assembled vehicle in Ghana. The President declared the occasion on his Facebook page today.
In March 2020, the Minister of Trade and Industry, Mr. Alan Kyeremanten, visited the assembling plant of Volkswagen (VW) at the North Industrial Area in Accra, to have direct knowledge with respect to the progressing work of the vehicle giant. Joined by certain authorities of the Trade Ministry, Mr. Kyeremanten communicated fulfillment with the office of VW.
“I assure Volkswagen and its local assembler in Ghana of the full support of the government in creating an enabling environment and incentive framework to make their investment a major success,” he mentioned In his State of the Nation Address, President Nana Akufo-Addo said VW was due to start production by the end of April 2020.
According to him, Sinotruk, which also expressed interest in Ghana, will also begin assembling a plant this year.
“Toyota is scheduled to start the assembly of vehicles in Tema in the last quarter of this year. We have high hopes for this new industry, which has come to join our Kantanka”, the President mentioned.
The establishment of these assembling plants is expected to create thousands of jobs for Ghanaians, particularly mechanical and electrical engineers.
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Nana Akufo-Addo Cuts the sod For Damongo Water Supply Project Construction
Ghana’s president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on 29th July, 2020 cut the sod for the construction of the Damongo water supply project. For the execution of this project, The The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Government has secured a credit facility of forty-nine million United States dollars (US$49,000,000.00) from the UK Export Finance and Deutsche Bank AG.
The development of the Water Supply System is planned for satisfying the water needs for Damongo and its encompassing networks until 2040, in accordance with Government Policy. The Water Supply System is anticipated to serve a populace of some sixty-8,000 individuals, with a normal water request of around 8,000, 800 cubic meters for every day.
Nana Akufo Addo Commissioned Yapei Water Supply Project
On Monday, 27th July 2020, Ghana’s President Nana Akufo Addo commissioned the Yapei Water Supply Project, in fulfillment of a 2nd September 2016, campaign promise He made to the Yapeiwura, Alhassan Soale, and the people of Yapei, in the run-up to the December 2016 elections.
The Yapei water supply project was constructed at a cost of GH¢5,665,966.42
The Yapei Water Supply System to serve 11,443 people – Nana Akufo-Addo
The president commissioned the Yapei Water Supply Project, in fulfillment to the 2nd September 2016 campaign promise he made. He also stated that the five million, six hundred and sixty-five thousand, nine hundred and sixty-six Ghana cedis, forty-two pesewas (GH¢5,665,966.42) project for which Ghana is grateful for will serve eleven thousand, four hundred and forty-three (11,443), people.
New Community Mining Schemes To Create 12,000 Jobs At Aboso, Gwira & Akango
The President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has launched three Community Mining Schemes at Egila/Gwira, Akango/Duale, and Aboso, in the Evalue-Gwira and Tarkwa Nsuaem constituencies, respectively.
The Schemes are expected to create some two thousand (2,000) jobs at Egila/Gwira and Akamgo/Duale, with some ten thousand (10,000) jobs set to be created at Aboso.
The schemes were launched on Tuesday, 18th August 2020, day one of his 2-day working visit of the Western Region, President Nana Akufo-Addo explained that the Community Mining Scheme is an initiative meant to encourage responsible small-scale mining, in line with the Minerals and Mining Law, 2015, Act 703, in communities across the country.
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Elected as Ecowas Chairman
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Monday, 7th September 2020 has been elected Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), at the 57th ECOWAS Summit held in Niamey, Niger.
Ghana’s President, who was elected without exception by his colleagues, takes over the mantle of leadership from the President of Niger, His Excellency Mahamadou Issoufou, for a period of one year.
Following in the footsteps of his predecessors, their Excellencies Jerry John Rawlings, John Agyekum Kufuor, and John Dramani Mahama, who have enjoyed, in times past, a similar privilege, President Akufo-Addo thanked the Assembly for the honour, and assured that he will do his utmost not to let the side down, and discharge his duties to the best of his abilities.
“Excellencies, I am fully aware of the challenges which confront West Africa. Past leaders of ECOWAS have demonstrated their collective will and determination to drive the agenda of regional integration, opening up our economic frontiers, encouraging healthy competition amongst Member States, and ensuring that we adhere to our formative principles,” he said.
The President continued, “As much as considerable progress has been made since the establishment of ECOWAS, some forty-five (45) years ago, we are all agreed that there is much more to be done to consolidate the socio-economic and political gains made over the years.”
News source: Presidency.gov
President Nana Akufo-Addo wins 2020 elections
The incumbent Ghanaian president Akufo-Addo has held on to power following the release of official results.
The Ghana Electoral Commission has announced Nana Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) as the winner, 48 hours after the 7 December election.
President Akufo-Addo won with 51.59% (6,730,413 votes), according to the head of EC, Jean Mensa.
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