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OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF GHANA  BY MAJOR MOHAMMED BOGOBIRI (RTD)  14 March 2022 Dear Mr President of Republic of Ghana,  Mr President, in line with your clarion call that we the citizenries should not be spectators but constructive citizens by speaking the truth to National Power (Authority). The…

The Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has charged the newly appointed eight-member Board of the Irrigation Company of Upper Region (ICOUR) to make sure that the Tono Irrigation Scheme (TIS), which is currently undergoing rehabilitation, does not collapse because of the lack of vision and poor management.

Drought already plagues growing season The crop progress reports, issued weekly during the growing and harvest season by the National Agricultural Statistics Service, an arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, have resumed.. 2:25 pm, Apr. 6, 2021 × Grass from 2020 is most obvious in a Stutsman County pasture on March 31, 2021. New green grass had not yet pushed up. Many in the Upper Midwest are concerned about pasture and hay conditions given little rain or snow in rec...

The Failed Nkrumah War Against The Monster Of Tribal Politics In Ghana-Episode 1 It is a fact that when Ghana gained political independence on 6 th March 1957, it was not a monolithic entity. This is because there was a tapestry of four major artificial political components at the time and these were: The Gold Coast Colony comprising the coastal areas, Akyem and Akwamu, which became part of the British Colony due to the Bond of 1844. The Ashanti Kingdom, annexed by the British following the Ya...

Winner Takes All: Gyimah-Boadi Calls For Restructuring Of 1992 Constitution

Prof. Gyimah-Boadi: Amend 1992 Constitution to curb president’s powers March 5, 2021 Professor Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi, Executive Director of Afrobarometre, a non-profit organisation, has advocated the amendment of Ghana’s 1992 Constitution to reduce the executive powers of the president, as part of efforts to address the “Winner Takes All” syndrome. He said this at the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development’s (CDD-Ghana) in Accra recently, during a  roundtable discussion on former Pr...

705 The Executive Director of Afrobarometer, Professor Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi, has advocated the amendment of Ghana’s 1992 Constitution to reduce the executive powers of the President, as part of efforts to address the “Winner-takes- all” syndrome. “And we are not going to get rid of crazy partisanship and winner-takes-all, unless we do a fundamental restructuring  of our politics and particularly the constitution; so that it does not concentrate power in the hands of the President and ...

NPP members in the Upper West Region are kicking against the re-appointment of their Regional Minister, Hon.

Ghana-Press-Review December 29, 2020 to 10:51 421 APA - Accra (Ghana) The information on the new coronavirus variant in Nigeria and the caution by the leading scientist against comparisons with new strains found in South Africa and the UK and the commemoration of the 39th anniversary of the 31st December Revolution on Thursday December 31, 2020 are some of the leading stories in the Ghanaian pres...

705 One hundred members of the Irrigation Company of the Upper Region (ICOUR) Women Farmers Association based in the Tono Irrigation area in the Upper East Region have paid back all the credit facilities they received from the Akuafo Nketewa Company Limited, a subsidiary of the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG). The beneficiary women farmers were expected to pay back over GH¢ 20,000 worth of NPK fertilizers they were provided with by the Company in the form of loans to support their ...