A former chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Dr Afari Gyan, has been honoured for emerging as the ‘Best District Fish Farmer’. Dr Gyan beat his compatriots to the award at the 32nd...
Robert Crentsil, 42, from Ejumako Enyan Essiem in the Central Region, has been adjudged the 2016 National Best Farmer. He has several plantations comprising cocoa (12 acres), rubber (80 acres),...
President John Mahama has refuted claims by the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) that agriculture has been declining under his administration. “The impression created in the media is...
There is a sharp decline in agricultural growth from 7.4 per cent in 2008 and 7.2 percent in 2009 to 5.3 percent in 2010 and 0.8 percent in 2011, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, Minority spokesperson on...
Parliament has approved a 60 million dollar loan being procured by the government of Ghana for the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG). The Agreement was passed amidst opposition from the Minority on...
Four loans sent to Parliament by government have been approved by the 275-member body. Parliament, which is expected to break on Thursday, November 3, 2016 for the December 7 polls is said to have...
Ghana’s Parliament has approved a loan agreement worth ¥11billion for the construction of a bridge at Volivo across the Volta River on the Eastern Corridor road within the Volta Region. The...
The Minority Spokesperson on Food, Agriculture and Cocoa Affairs, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has made an allegation against the Mahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) government that the latter...
A Deputy Minister of state, Sampson Ahi has defended the Mahama-led government for pegging the producer price of cocoa at 11.76 percent describing calls for a further increment as “irrational.”...
The Minority in Parliament has accused the government of fixing a low cocoa producer price for the 2016/2017 crop year. It said the low producer price of GH¢475 per bag announced recently was a...
The Minority New Patriotic Party in Parliament has entreated cocoa farmers to dismiss vile propaganda being perpetuated by the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) against the NPP’s...
The Minority in Parliament has accused government of engaging in fraudulent and corrupt practices that have resulted in low prices for cocoa. Addressing a press conference on Tuesday, October 18, the...
The Minority Spokesperson on Finance, Dr. Athony Akoto Osei, has described as petty, President Mahama’s request for the disclosure of the cost of the cedi redenomination exercise undertaken in 2007...
The minority in Parliament has accused the government of collapsing the agriculture sector through poor policies and excessive importation of food products. It again attacked the agriculture...
The Minority Spokesperson on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, Joe Osei Owusu, has described John Mahama’s claims of frustration about the delay in passage of the Right to...
The Minority New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Parliament has revealed that the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) government has within the first seven months of this year spent GHC598.6 million...
The Minority spokesperson on Finance, Dr. Anthony Akoto Osei has described as unfounded claims by the NDC’s Forum for setting the record straight that the NPP handled the economy incompetently when...
The Minority Spokesperson on Finance, Anthony Akoto Osei has described as unfounded, claims by the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) mismanaged the...
Host of Metro TV’s Good Evening Ghana show, Paul Adom-Otchere has described the Flagbearer of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo Addo as a ‘master brain’ in Parliament when he...
The General Agricultural Workers’ Union (GAWU) has cast doubts over the NDC’s manifesto promise to provide every district with a farming mechanization center when elected into power. Not only do...
