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£73m loan for Old Fadama relocation project missing - Zongo Minister

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Minister for Zongo and Inner City Development, has revealed that some monies allocated to the improvement of communities such as Old Fadama were misappropriated, a reason for the ill state of such communities. Alhaji Boniface Abubakar Saddique, who was then the Minister for Water Resources, Works and Housing said, he signed a loan of £73 million in 2007 to relocate the Zongo community at Old Fadama to a new settlement at Adjen Kotoku in Ga West Municipal District. Describing the funds as ‘missing’, Alhaji Boniface questions what the money was used for as it could not be identified with any project. “In 2007, I signed a loan for £73 million to change this place and move the whole of this place to Adjen Kotoku… Where is the loan? We can’t trace it,” he stated while addressing Zongo dwellers at Old Fadama in Accra Wednesday. The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Madina Constituency, decried how the Korle Lagoon Restoration project initiated under the Kufuor administra...
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The Black comedian who has become Japan’s ‘most unlikely’ star

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In a country like Japan where only about 1.3 percent of its population is made up of non-nationals and noted for “discriminating” against foreigners, every person of Black descent will undoubtedly struggle to survive. But a Black guy who finds himself in Japan has defied all odds to become one of the top rising comedy stars in the Japanese capital, Tokyo. 30-year-old Ike Nwala is a Nigerian-American who appears on TV almost every day. Just like all Japanese stars, Ike Nwala receives equal attention and treatment from fans and people he meets in his career as a comedian. As a member of popular comedy troupes, he performs live shows, does commercials and appears on variety shows as well. He recounts how his status as a Black makes him exceptional and how he eventually became a survivor among Japanese comedians. According to him, when he first started, it was little difficult but was encouraged to do more when he realised people were paying extra attention to him. He explains, “I wasn’...
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Rawlings, Atta Mills, Mahama are the only strong leaders after Nkrumah - Terkper

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                                                                                       F ormer Minister of Finance, Seth Terkper The only political party that has been able to produce strong and strategic leaders after Ghana’s first President Dr. Kwame Nkrumah is the National Democratic Congress (NDC), former Minister of Finance, Seth Terkper has posited. According to Mr. Terkper, all three former Presidents from the NDC namely; Jerry John Rawlings, John Evans Atta Mills and John Dramani Mahama have all proved to be strong and great leaders who have followed the footsteps of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. Mr. Terkper told ghanaweb.com in an interview after the party’s Founders’ Day solidarity march in Accra that Dr. Nkrumah, just like the NDC believed in socialism, thus ...
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