The government has put in place incentive packages for investors and real estate developers who are ready to partner it to deliver low income affordable housing to the people of Ghana, the Minister of Water Resources Works and Housing, Alhaji Collins Dauda, has said.

In principle, I support the call by the Parliamentary Speaker, Edward Doe Adjaho, for the Chairman of the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Kwaku Agyeman Manu, to be investigated for allegedly soliciting the sponsorship of a private Internet Technology

The assembly member for the Nandom Kpee Electoral Area, Mr Aasoglenang Thaddeus Akum, has lauded the leadership role of the Nandom District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr Cutbert Kunkpiel and requested that he must be retained.

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, has promised a do-or-die fight to win polls, as Zimbabweans face an uncertain future with elections three weeks away.  

The Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2012 general election, Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo and his running mate, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, were given a rousing welcome when they arrived at Akyem Oda to attend two funerals.The funerals were of Madam Mary Kumiwaa Attafuah, mother  of Mr Larry Kwaku Attafuah, a special assistant to the Minister of Education during the Kufuor administration and Mrs Victoria Amoah, aka Madam Afia Amoah, wife of Mr Robert Kwasi Amoah, Member of Parliament (MP) for Akyem Achiase Constituency and her son, Augustine Nana Boakye.Both human and vehicular traffic came to a halt for hours when the two leading personalities and a large group of leading members of the NPP and their supporters reached the outskirts of Oda. From reliable sources, the traffic started at Winneba Junction, through Agona Swedru, Akyem Akroso, Akyem Manso, Asene and peaked at Oda.It was hectic for the police personnel, led by the Municipal Police Commander, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Issah Mohammed Cantona, to control the traffic for Nana Akufo-Addo and his entourage to get access to the Oda Emmanuel Presbyterian Church to attend the burial service of the late Madam Attafuah. When Nana Akufo-Addo and Dr Bawumia got down from the four-wheeled vehicle, it was difficult for them to get access to the church building as everybody wanted to either shake hands with them or catch a glimpse of them. Some of the people were heard shouting loudly: “Nana- Addo is the next president”, “Nana Addo come and rescue us from our economic hardships”, “Nana Akufo-Addo, we thank you for your patience and tolerance”, “Nana Akufo-Addo, you are the man of peace, “Dr Bawumia is an excellent scholar and economist.”In the midst of the burial service, hell nearly broke loose when lawyer Philip Addison emerged at the ceremony, with the old and young shouting, “Pink sheets, pink sheets, pink sheets,” a situation which brought the service to a temporary halt.When the burial service was over and Nana Akufo-Addo, Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia and their entourage, which included Mr Yaw Osafo-Marfo, Prof. Christopher Ameyaw-Akumfi, Mr Boakye Agyarko, Madam Otiko Afisah Djaba and a host of MPs, were leaving the church building to join their vehicles, the human traffic situation became very difficult as those who were waiting outside struggled to shake hands with them.From the church, a large number of people followed Nana Akufo-Addo and his entourage to the Ages Abba Hotel at Oda where they were refreshed before they continued their journey to Achiase to sympathise with Mr Amoah.Story: Samuel Kyei-Boateng /Daily Graphic / Ghana

Allegations are rife on the streets of Ashaiman that the Member of Parliament of the Area, Honorable Alfred Agbesi is running a Motor Cycle Transport Business popularly known as ‘Okada’ in the metropolis but the MP who is also the Deputy Majority Leader in Parliament has categorically denied the allegations

Swansea are expected to sign Ivory Coast's Wilfried Bony from Dutch side Vitesse Arnhem.

Kotoko have reached an agreement with New Edubiase for the services of their captain Abeiku Ainooson, GHANAsoccernet.com can reveal.

Members of the Yilo Krobo Municipal Assembly have confirmed the President’s nominee, Mr Andrews Sodah, as the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of the assembly at an emergency meeting held at Somanya on Thursday.

Human Development International (HUDAI), the non-governmental organisation constructing the Kanda Mosque Complex, has resolved to speed up work and complete the project on time.

At least 40 people have been killed in a shooting incident in Cairo, amid ongoing unrest over the removal of Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi.

The Dompoase engineered landfill site in Kumasi constructed by the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly in 2004 to address the challenges of dumping of solid and liquid waste seems to have consigned the problem of dumping sites to history, at least for the next 25 to 30 years.

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A plane carrying the Somali president is forced to make an emergency landing in Mogadishu after one of its engines reportedly caught fire.

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The State rightly went into the hotel and allied businesses after independence.  Ghanaians placed in charge of institutions did not all however perform up to expectation.  Our premier hotel, “The Ambassador” Hotel, collapsed and eventually foreign “partnership” was sought to manage the State hotels and generally to promote the hospitality industry.  We have since made satisfactory progress.

The petitioners in the ongoing Presidential Election Petition have filed a motion with the Supreme Court, to be heard on Tuesday, requesting the referee appointed to do a count of the pink sheets filed by the petitioners, KPMG, to conclude the task assigned by the Court to establish a total unique count of pink sheets from the available evidence filed by the petitioners.The motion filed on Friday 5th July, is praying the court to request KPMG to do the followingi. to determine the polling station names and codes of the 1,545 pink sheets with incomplete data and determine the unique count thereof with the aid of:a. the further and better particulars filed by Petitioners; and/orb. the official list of 26,002 polling stations established by the 2nd Respondent for the 2012 general elections to be supplied to the Referee by the 2nd Respondent.ii. to determine the unique count of the 2,876 pink sheets that the Referee's report establishes as part of the set of the President of the panel but which are not contained in the set of the Court Registrar.iii. to determine and produce the full list of the unique count of the aggregate of the 8,675 unique pink sheets, the unique pink sheets in the 1,545 pink sheets described in the report as having unclear data, and the unique pink sheets in the 2,876 pink sheets of the set of the President of the panel which are not contained in the Registrar's set.The affidavit supporting the motion sworn to by Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, 2nd Petitioner, states that KPMG submitted its final report on 24th June, 2013. The affidavit notes that during the subsequent cross examination of the representative of KPMG, Mr. Amanoo Dodoo, by Counsel for the petitioners on 26th June, attention was drawn to several inconclusive portions of the report, including:a) the failure of the report to conduct and specify a unique count of the 1,545 pink sheets with remarks which according to the report were not clear or legible; andb) the failure of the report to conduct and specify a unique count of the 2,874 pink sheets that the report established were in the set of the President but not contained in the Registrar's set.The petitioners' further state in paragraph 6 of the affidavit that that even though the Referee stated in its report that it had been able to identify 34 out of the 1,545 pink sheets with incomplete data, the report fails to include these unique counts in the 8,675 unique counts set out in the report.The petitioners, as indicated in Court by its lead Counsel Philip Addison, note in their affidavit that they have since been able to identify the polling station names and codes of these 1,545 pink sheets. Out of these 1,545 pinksheets identified, the petitioners have identified 1,291 unique pinksheets and contend that each polling station can be uniquely identified by its polling code.With regard to the 2,876 pinksheets found in the set of Justice Atuguba but not in the Registrar's set, the petitioners indicate that no reason whatsoever has been given by the Referee for its failure to establish a unique count of the same, even though it can be identified by their polling station names, codes and exhibit numbers. The petitioners indicate that out of the 2,876 sheets found in the President's set but not in the registrar's set, they have been able to identify 871 unique pink sheets using information in contained in the KPMG report.Again, the petitioners in Paragraph 14 of the affidavit say 'that even though the report of the Referee notes that 8,675 pinksheets of the Registrar's set are unique, the report does not provide a list of these pinksheets with their polling station names, codes and exhibit numbers, if any. This renders this aspect of the report incomplete.'The affidavit notes that a grant of the application will facilitate a fair and speedy determination of the issues in controversy in this petition, as same would establish a comprehensive unique count of pinksheets filed by the Petitioners as well as make the report submitted by the referees more conclusive.Credit: NPP

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