The National Coordinator of the 2016 NDC Campaign, Kofi Adams has said there’s nothing wrong with President Mahama sharing money–just as ordinary Ghanaians have the right to do.
He told Kasapa Fm that, “The President is just like any other person and a Ghanaian so he’s free to give gifts to people. There is nothing wrong with him doling out money to people, if indeed he did that.”
President John Dramani Mahama has today announced that his government has approved a $700 annual leave package for military officers on external peace keeping operations.
The President made this announcement when he attended the 2016 Ghana Military Academy graduation parade at Teshie in Accra.
He said: “I have approved a recommendation from the military high command and the Armed Forces Council for the introduction of a Ghana government paid leave allowance of 700 US dollars for all ranks on external peace keeping operations.”
President Mahama added that, all civilians who work with the military would also get a GHC 40 increment in their allowances.
“Rationed allowances for all uniformed personnel have also been increased to GHC 120 and clothing allowances for civilian employees has also been increased to GHC40. These adjustments take effect from 3rd September 2016 and we shall continue to upwardly review other allowances at the appropriate time,” he said.
This new annual leave package comes just weeks after the President was “forced” to increase the the salary of Ghanaian peacekeepers from 31 dollars to 35 dollars.
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President Mahama ended his Central region campaign on Friday with a message to the NPP–that they cannot win the 2016 elections with LIES.
The President’s message suggests that the NPP is selling lies–hoping to score electoral votes with them.
Mahama also said he has a lot of faith in Ghanaians and know that they wouldn’t fall for NPP’s cheap lies–and that they will be able to seperate the lies from the truth, and base on that re-elect him.
The 1st Vice Chairman of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) F.F Anto has said president Mahama deserves to be hanged or killed at the shooting range just for seeking a second term as president.
F.F Anto says he cannot understand why after 8 years of NDC’s poor performance which has totally collapsed the country, President Mahama still has the audacity and zeal to ask for a second term.
He compared President Mahama to I. K. Acheampong, saying, ‘Acheampong embarked on massive infrastructural development, he built Kumasi Sports Stadium, Komfo Anokye Polyclinic, but when he mismanaged the economy and inflation shot up, he was overthrown, do you remember what happened to him, he was shot to death, the way and manner Mahama has mismanaged the economy, if not for civilisation and democracy, he should have been killed by now.”
President John Dramani Mahama says he’s a man of principles, at least on this particular issue and therefore he would rather lose the upcoming elections than to restore the scrapped teacher trainee allowance.
Mahama says his opponents are playing a dirty political game with the teacher trainee allowance issue and for him, he’s just going to do what’s good for Ghana even if it will cost him a win.
According to Mahama, the decision to scrap the allowance was carefully thought out and is in the larger interest of the students.
“I believe this is equitable, it is a matter of social justice, and it opens more opportunities to young Ghanaians who want to change the profession,” he said.
The United Kingdom has increased its tuition fees to about 9000 pounds a year for British citizens–and countries like Finland which offered free tuition fees have announced an end to this, starting next year.
Yet, Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama has promised that with time and under his administration, Ghana will soon witness “progressively free tertiary education.”
Addressing students of the University of Cape Coast on Wednesday as part of his five-day tour of the Central Region, President Mahama stated that his government is investing heavily in tertiary education in order to make teaching and learning easier.
Evidently Mzbel has rightfully earned the right score with the president— that is the only way to explain this. It is not everyday that the president randomly sends a shout out to people. We can all attest that, the Legelege singer deserves this one.
Afia Schwarzenegger wherever she is better sit up as someone may be earning higher scores than she ever could make in a lifetime.
This may sound like a joke; an increase from 30 dollars to 31 dollars, the first since 2009 for Ghanaian peacekeepers was made by President Mahama a few week ago.
Since the small increase, the President has been pressured to add something more as the dollar increase wouldn’t do anything for the men and women who put their lives at risk for global peace.
And President Mahama has succumbed to pressure from the Ghana Armed Forces over their peacekeeping allowance, which he has now increased from $31 to $35, according to DailyGuide.
NPP Deputy Communications Director-Mike Oquaye Jnr has condemned the fact that President Mahama in the last two weeks has been campaigning in Northern Ghana by flying around in helicopters–suggesting that the President does not want to use the roads because they are really bad. Speaking on Peace Fm, Mike Oquaye Jnr said: “If you’re in the sky, … Read more
The flagbearer of the opposition New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo-Addo, says it is the dream of President John Dramani Mahama to see him pass on so he and the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) can cling on to power for a third time since that will be the only way to help turn things around for the NDC administration after eight years of failure in government
Nana Addo said this on Sunday, when he was addressing party supporters at a rally in the Upper East Regional capital, Bolgatanga.
“First they said I was a drug addict, it didn’t work. They said I was sick. It didn’t work. They said I was too old. It didn’t work. They said I was a hunchback. It didn’t work. They said I was a dwarf. It didn’t work. They said I was in a wheelchair. I didn’t work. They said I am a murderer. It didn’t work. They said I will die in June. It didn’t work. They said I was a dictator. It didn’t work. They said I was intolerant. It didn’t work. They said I was violent. It didn’t work. They said I had a secret agenda to destabilize the country. It didn’t work. Now, they say I have cancer. It will not work,” Nana Addo said.
Ghana’s President-John Dramani Mahama has stated that the economy of Ghana is about to take off–certainly admitting that it’s been really slow.
According to President Mahama, his administration has created the needed economically improved atmosphere and now “the right climate for take-off is here.”
Mahama added that, if re-elected as the President of Ghana, he will implement Economic Transformation and Livelihood Empowerment Programme (ETLEP), which will create numerous employment opportunities, especially for the youth.
“The environment is getting better and better,” President Mahama wrote on his Facebook Wall on Sunday.
President Mahama has increased the allowances of Ghanaian peacekeepers by 1 dollar–from the current 30 dollars a day to 31 dollars.
“Together with the armed forces council and the high command, we have decided to increase by one dollar a day the rate that is paid to peace keeping soldiers who go out,” President Mahama said yesterday-Thursday at the Burma camp in Accra.
This increase will benefit every UN mission peacekeeper–and it comes at a time when peacekeepers have been complaining about how little their allowances are and how long it even takes for them to receive payment.
President Mahama is looking young in a military uniform–taking his position as the Commander In Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces.
Earlier today, President Mahama arrived at the newly built Naval Headquarters in Burma camp, Accra in his military regalia to commission the headquarters.
Apart from taking salutes, he mentioned that his government has over the years provided the needed resources for the effective performance of the Ghana Armed Forces.
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President Mahama says he’s innocent and that CHRAJ should dismiss all the allegations levelled against him in relation to the Ford expedition saga.
Currently, three separate petitions have been sent to CHRAJ against the President as a result of a gift he received from a Burkinabe contractor which the petitioners deem as inappropriate.
Two of these petitions are from the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) and the Youth Wing of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), while one is from the Minority in Parliament.
Responding to these allegations through his lawyer-Mr Tony Lithur, the president has stated that he is innocent.
The petitioners asked CHRAJ to hold that President Mahama in violation of Article 284 of the 1992 Constitution which states: “A public officer shall not put himself in a position where his personal interest conflicts or is likely to conflict with the performance of the functions of his office.”
But his lawyer says, the facts presented did not support the allegations of conflict of interest made against the President.
President Mahama visited Fumbisi Senior High Agric School in Upper East region and instantly assumed a foetus position to chillax on a student mattress.
That’s a new mattress inside a new boys’ hostel he is chilling on—and apparently authorities of the school were shocked with President Mahama’s “down to earthness” even though he was just making a statement out with his action.
