Today's Front Pages

PORTUPHY THUMPS TWO
A near-house cleaning exercise craftly executed by more than 3,500 delegates of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) at dawn yesterday saw the party elect a mixture of old and new the party national executives to steer the affairs of the party for the next four years.

NDC EXPANDS DELEGATES LIST
The Constitutional Committee of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), led by Mr Ken Dzirash, a former Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, has successful steered a wide-ranging constitutional review of the party's constitution, expanding the highest decision making body of the party from the current less than 4,000 delegates to nearly 250,000.

PRESIDENT CHARGES NEW POWER MINISTRY TO END 'DUMSOR'

President John Dramani Mahama has tasked the new Minister of Power, Dr Kwabena Donkor, to act quickly to end the current load shedding and power outages affecting Ghanaians.

CARDINAL TURKSON EXTOLS RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE IN GHANA

The President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace at the Vatican, His Eminence Peter Cardinal Appiah Turkson, says the greatest test of inter-religious dialogue in Ghana.

CPP BLASTS MAHAMA; NOBODY FEELS YOUR BETTER GHANA!
Convention People's Party (CPP) General Secretary, Ivor Kobina Greenstreet,  stirred the hornet's  nest in Kumasi on Saturday when he told the National Democratic Congress (NDC) delegates, including President John Mahama, that Ghanaians were disappointed in the ruling party's style of governance.

PORTUPHY FLOORS KWABENA ADJEI
Coordinator of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), Kofi Portuphy, was on Sunday elected National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) by delegates that attended the party's historic congress at the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi.

SOLDIERS ON RAMPAGE AT APPOLONIA
The Kpone Katamanso District Engineer, Vincent Yeboah, has been accused of masterminding the abduction of a bulldozer operator at the Appolonia near Ashaiman in the Greater Accra Region last Friday.

NKETIA TO WORK WITH NDC “USELESS TEAM”
Johnson Asiedu Nketia, the once all-powerful General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), says he is now ready to work with the “useless team” the party's delegates elected at the national delegates congress held in Kumasi over the weekend.

NPP NOT PERTURBED ABOUT NEW NDC EXECUTIVES
The NPP is not perturbed in any way by the new executives elected by the NDC at its just ended national delegates' congress held in Kumasi at the weekend, according to the party's Communications Director.

GHȻ411M AGRIC BUDGET NOT ENOUGH - FOOD SECURITY AT RISK

Send – Ghana has criticized government's GHÈ»411 million planned spending on the agricultural sector next year, describing it as “inadequate” to guarantee food security in the country.

GT BANK DEPLOYS UGPAY FOR UNIVERSITY OF GHANA
Guaranty Trust Bank (Ghana) Limited, Ghana's best Bank in Product Innovation 2014, has deployed a web acquiring solution for the university of Ghana to enable it collect fees and payments for other services starting from the next semester in January, 2015.

BUSINESSES ON LIFE SUPPORT 
Akin to losing a vital organ in the body and relying on emergency treatment, businesses in the country say they are onlife support due to the chronic power crisis.

SELL ECG – OBED ASAMOAH
A former Attorney General, Dr Obed Asamoah says he sees nothing wrong in the privatization of the Electricity Company of Ghana; a company he describes as presently inefficient.

GOVERNMENT SAVES GHȻ22M ON XMAS HAMPERS
Though government is expected to save GHȻ22 million by banning government ministries, agencies and departments from using public funds to provide Christmas hampers in 2013 and 2014, the move has had dire percussions on traders in the Christmas hamper trade.

NEW GAS PLANT COULD SAVE GHANA $300M ON FUEL COSTS – OFFICIAL

Ghana has begun processing gas from its offshore Jubilee oil field through a pipeline project that could save the government #300 million a year on fuel costs even with the current steep drop in oil prices, state-owned Ghana Gas said last week.

GHANA MUST CUT PHANTOM WORKERS FOR EU TO RESUME BUDGET AID

The European Union suspended budget support to Ghana and said it won't resume the aid until the government eliminates so-called ghost workers from its payroll.

GHANA READY FOR ANGEL INVESTING
Potential angel investors, assembled at Stanford Seed in Accra to discuss the way forward with regard to angel investing in the country, an event organised by the Ghana Angel Investor Network (GAIN) as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week.