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Dan Botwe, Minister for Regional Reorganization and Development Each of the six yet-to-be created regions will receive an amount of GHc20 million as seed capital if they sail through successfully in the upcoming referendum slated for December 27, 2018. Minister for Regional Reorganization and Development, Dan Botwe, said the amount is to enable them put in place critical infrastructure for a smooth takeoff. “In anticipation, the 2019 budget and economic policy has allocated GHc20 million as seed capital per the new regions for the provision of critical infrastructure to enable the new regions to take off. So if they succeed, they have that one to start setting up and taking over their region,” Dan Botwe said at a press conference on Thursday. Government is seeking to create six additional regions namely; Western North, Oti, Bono East, Ahafo, Savannah and North East. Currently processes are in place to hold referendum in the six areas. The Supreme Court cleared the ...

Nii Amassah Namoale The camp of Professor Joshua Alabi, an aspiring flag bearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has expressed disappointment with the GHS400,000 filing fee expected to be paid by all flag bearer hopefuls of the main opposition party. The camp of Professor Joshua Alabi, an aspiring flag bearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has expressed disappointment with the GHS400,000 filing fee expected to be paid by all flag bearer hopefuls of the main opposition party. Nii Amassah Namoale, Campaign Coordinator for Prof Alabi, has described the amount as “outrageous” and further called on the Council of Elders of the NDC to intervene. All male flag bearer aspirants of the NDC are expected to pay GHS400,000 as filing fee while female flag bearer aspirants are to pay GHS200,000 and persons with disability aspiring to the same position are to pay GHS150,000. The nomination form for the flag bearer slot is going for GHS20,000. Also, the parliamentary aspiran...

John Mahama The security official attached to former president John Mahama’s campaign team who slapped a Joy News journalist ,   has been identified and suspended, a member of the campaign team has revealed. Nii Lantey Vanderpuye told the AM Show on the Joy News channel Thursday that, the fellow has been removed from the pack and also hinted that he will face legal action soon. “The person who assaulted Kwesi Parker Wilson has been dealt with. He’s no more around the campaign…he has been suspended and the office is coordinating with the police very well on this issue…,” the legislator said. He added that “whenever they [police] are ready to take action, the person will be handed to them”. The Odododiodoo MP further told host, Mamavi Owusu Aboagye that the Mahama campaign “would not support attacks on any journalists”. The news is welcoming Executive Director for the Media Foundation of West Africa (MFWA), Sulemana Braimah who spoke to the matter the AM Show noted that t...

There was drama on Wednesday, November 28, 2018 at the Ghana Law School between Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong and a member of the Disciplinary Committee of the General Legal Council (GLC), Lawyer Sam Okudzeto over a case filed by the former against ace investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas. Mr Kennedy Agyapong Kennedy Agyapong who was at the place which happens to be the offices of the GLC to hear the outcome of his petition filed against the journalist who is also a lawyer had vowed to remove the mask of Anas by force but was told in the face by lawyer Sam Okudzeto he would be arrested and charged for assault if he dared. Unsatisfied with the response and the fact he was being shouted at, he accused the General Legal Council of shielding Anas indicating that he was not afraid of him and stormed out of the meeting fuming with rage. “I am not afraid of Anas…I will remove that mask on his face”, he was overheard saying as he came out to move awa...

The General Secretary of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Johnson Asiedu Nketia has said nothing is free in an economy with a high cost of living, for which reason NDC is fixing its filing fees at Gh¢400,000, MyNewsGh.com has filed . “The cost of living is high but somebody must pay the cost of running the elections; who is going to pay?” he asked sarcastically. He was defending the party’s decision to charge a huge filing fee for aspirants for 2020 presidential candidate which many say is too exorbitant. He said a headache of how to pay for the filing should be left for the aspirants who weighed themselves and thought they were capable of running. ”I have not declared to be a presidential candidate so those who have declared to be presidential candidates must pay the cost”, he told journalists in Accra Thursday. He rubbished reference to NDC’s social Democratic credentials as against what they are taking from aspirants. “Social democracy is not poverty,” h...

A Ghanaian Police Officer was captured on CCTV stealing a mobile phone while on duty at the Marina Shopping Mall in Accra. A customer mistakenly left his mobile phone at one of the shop at the Mall. Somehow the Police officer saw the mobile phone on a desk at the shop and then pretended as if he was doing his normal routine security checks. Instead of drawing the shop owner’s attention to the phone on the desk, he quickly took it and went away. Watch the video below: Kokonsa: TAGS: Africa News Ghana News News From Ghana News in Ghana