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DUALIZATION OF GHANA’s HO MAIN ROAD SET FOR COMPLETION IN DECEMBER THIS YEAR

Posted on July 18, 2022 by Gambeta News

The dualization of the Ho main road and Civic Centre-Sokode Gbogame road is 60% complete. The 10.5km road is progressing steadily and is expected to be completed at the end of this year. The Minister for Roads and Highways, Kwasi Amoako-Atta said this in response to a question posed by the Member of Parliament for Ho Central, Mr. Benjamin Komla Kpodo, on the floor of Parliament concerning road infrastructure in the Volta Region. He said…

GHANA AND JAPAN GOVT. SIGN PHASE TWO CONSTRUCTION OF TEMA MOTORWAY ROUNDABOUT

Posted on July 4, 2022 by Gambeta News

The construction of the Tema Motorway Roundabout Phase Two is expected to commence in September this year following the signing of a 3.359 billion yen grant facility between the government and Japan, acting through the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The Phase II of the project will see the construction of a third-tier flyover, which will be a composite bridge structure, from Harbour Road to Ashaiman on the N2. This will bring to completion the…

JUKWA-TWIFO PRASO ROAD NETWORK OPENED TO THE PUBLIC IN GHANA

Posted on June 21, 2022 by Gambeta News

The Jukwa-Twifo Praso road which was washed out by torrential rain in the area and the overflow of the Surowi River has been opened for the movement of vehicles and individuals. Authorities would continue with measures to ensure that the work being done on the road was completed. This follows the reinstatement of the embankment of the road by the Ministry of Roads and Highways when that stretch of the road was washed out. The…

GHANA VP CUT SOD FOR CONSTRUCTION OF TAMALE-WALEWALE HIGHWAY

Posted on June 16, 2022 by Gambeta News

The project is being financed by the Indian Exim Bank and the Indian High Commissioner to Ghana H.E. Sugandh Rajaram was among the dignitaries present at the ceremony in Walewale in the North East Region. The reconstruction of the international highway, which connects the southern part of the country to major parts of the north, and Ghana’s northern West African neighbors, will start with the 83km Savelugu-Walewale stretch of the highway in phase one, before…

HOW CONSTRUCTION OF GHANA NATIONAL CATHEDRAL PROJECT WILL HELP THE NATION

Posted on June 15, 2022 by Gambeta News

The Minister of Finance, Mr. Ken Ofori-Atta, has assured the nation that expenditure on the National Cathedral will pay off in the future as the project was designed to double as an investment. Beyond serving the spiritual needs of the country, Mr Ofori-Atta said on Sunday that the project was well crafted to double as a tourist attraction to Christians in Ghana, Africa, and the world at large. He mentioned the planned Bible museum and…

CONSTRUCTION OF TEMA-MPAKADAN RAILWAY LINE TO BE COMPLETED IN DECEMBER

Posted on June 14, 2022 by Gambeta News

The construction of railway lines from Tema to Mpakadan will be completed by the end of December 2022. The Minister for Railway Development, John-Peter Amewu, who gave this assurance when he toured the construction site from Tema to Mpakadan, said although the 97-kilometer project was delayed due to several setbacks, including COVID-19, it would be completed as scheduled. He noted that the traffic condition on the Tema-Afienya highway would reduce if the project is completed….

GHANA GOVT. INAUGURATE NEW PURC OFFICE BUILDING

Posted on May 31, 2022 by Gambeta News

The Chief of Staff, Mrs. Akosua Frema Osei Opare, has inaugurated a new Public Utility Regulatory Commission (PURC) office building in Koforiduain the Eastern region. The office building has a reception, offices, conference hall, and washrooms, among other facilities. The edifice would facilitate stakeholder engagements, monitoring of performances of the utility providers at the district and regional levels, and ensure the resolution of complaints by clients. Mrs. Opare also launched the 25th Anniversary of the…

GHANA PRESIDENT CUT SOD FOR CONSTRUCTION OF UEAS

Posted on May 24, 2022May 24, 2022 by Gambeta News

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo cut the sod for the commencement of construction for the University of Engineering and Agricultural Sciences (UEAS) in Bunso in the Eastern Region. It is expected to be completed in 24 months. President Akufo-Addo in this year’s Message on the State of the Nation to Parliament on 30th March 2022, announced the government’s plans to turn the Bunso campus of the University of Environment and Sustainable Development into an independent…

FIVE KILOMETERE PRAMPRAM COASTAL PROJECT AT 50% COMPLETE IN GHANA

Posted on May 11, 2022 by Gambeta News

Work on the five-kilometer Ningo-Prampram Coastal Protection project is almost 50% complete. According to Osei Sarpong, Project Manager, 24 groynes out of the planned 48 had been constructed so far to reduce, and divert tidal currents which hitherto were destroying property along the coastline. A groyne is a rigid hydraulic structure built perpendicularly from an ocean shore or a riverbank, interrupting water flow and limiting the movement of sediment. He was speaking at Prampram in…

RESIDENT COMPLAIN OVER ABANDON ROAD PROJECTS IN GHANA

Posted on May 9, 2022 by Gambeta News

Residents and road commuters in the Tempane District of the Upper East Region, have raised a red flag over abandoned road projects in the district by contractors. The residents feared the roads would deteriorate further if the rains set in. The residents described the broken culverts on the 10-kilometer stretch of the Bugri-Kulbore road as a death trap, arguing the situation could be dire as heavy downpours can begin any time soon, and that, it…

HO TEACHING HOSPITAL US$3.2M UPDGRADE CADIO CENTRE IN GHANA

Posted on May 3, 2022 by Gambeta News

An estimated amount of US$3.2 million is required to equip the cardiothoracic centre of the Ho Teaching Hospital, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the hospital, Dr John Tampuori, has said. Dr Tampuori, who was speaking at the centre’s fundraising meeting and press launch in Accra noted that equipping the centre would transform the Ho Teaching Hospital into a medical tourist centre in the Volta Region. The meeting and press launch were on the theme “Save…

ENRH TO REDEVELOP ULTRA-MODERN FACILITY IN GHANA

Posted on April 26, 2022 by Gambeta News

The Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital (ENRH) is to be redeveloped into an ultra-modern facility to make it the center of excellence in health delivery in the Western Region. The project would include a clinical and support services unit, renovation of catering (laundry and kitchen) building, administration block, and renovation of exterior façade of maternity and theatre blocks and ICT infrastructure as well as equipment to allow modern operations of the facility. The Medical Director of…

TWO CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS INAUGURATED IN GHANA

Posted on April 20, 2022 by Gambeta News

The Minister of Communications and Digitalisation, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, assisted by the Municipal Chief Executive of Ablekuma West Municipal Assembly, George Cyril Bray, on Tuesday inaugurated two newly constructed classroom blocks at Dansoman in Accra. The projects funded by the assembly were a two-storey nine-unit classroom block with a 10-seater water closet at Saint Margaret Mary Senior High School, and a seven-unit classroom block with facilities such as offices, store, and staff common room at…

GHANA TO BEGIN ROAD SAFETY ENHANCEMENT TO REDUCE ROAD CRASHES

Posted on April 13, 2022 by Gambeta News

The road safety enhancement works to be undertaken on the London market street at Jamestown a suburb of Accra as part of efforts to reduce road crashes and their related fatalities have commenced. The enhancement works are being undertaken by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) in collaboration with the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS) with support from the World Resources Institute (WRI) through its Tactical Urbanism Programme and are expected to be…

GHANA FIRST MANUFACTURING PLANT CONSTRUCTION SET TO BEGIN IN JULY

Posted on April 11, 2022April 11, 2022 by Gambeta News

The construction of Ghana’s first vaccine manufacturing plant is expected to begin in July this year, the Chairman of the Presidential Vaccine Manufacturing Committee (PVMC), Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, has said. Under a private led consortium; DEKS Vaccines Limited, the plant would be a “fill and finish” site that imports components of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines for processing, packaging and distribution nationwide and within the sub-region. With funding support of 5million Euros from the German Development Cooperation…

KUMASI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TO RESUME ACTIVITIES BY AUGUST

Posted on April 8, 2022 by Gambeta News

The Kumasi International Airport could start operating international flights from August this year, two clear months ahead of the expected time of completion. In December last year, the contractors working on the airport expansion project, Contracta Construction UK Ltd, told the Ashanti Regional Security Council (REGSEC) that the project would be completed in October 2022. However, during a tour of the project by the REGSEC, the Project Manager, Alan Frazeto, told the members that “by…

TENDER OPPORTUNITIES IN GHANA

Posted on April 5, 2022 by Gambeta News

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GHANA GOVT. TO DEVELOP POLICY FOR NATION’s AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY

Posted on April 4, 2022 by Gambeta News

Ghana President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced that the Government would develop a policy to ensure the sustainability of the automobile industry. He said the policy would involve a vehicle financing scheme to support the purchase of locally assembled vehicles by Ghanaians President Akufo-Addo said this at a commissioning ceremony of the Japan Motors state-of-the-art Nissan Assembly Plant in Tema Industrial enclave. He said the government’s policy in the automobile sector has attracted several…

GHANA PRESIDENT INAUGRATE FIRST TAMALE INTERCHANGE

Posted on March 31, 2022 by Gambeta News

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has inaugurated the first Tamale Interchange here in the Northern Region. The 1.7 kilometre-interchange which construction began in 2019, is part of the US$2 billion Sinohydro Master Project Support Agreement (MPSA) between the government of Ghana and the Peoples Republic of China through the Sinohydro Corporation. The project involves the construction of 1.1 kilometres of bridges and ramps, drainage works, streetlights and 10 kilometres of asphalt overlay around the project….

GHANA VP CUT SOD FOR 145 DIFFERENT ROADS CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

Posted on March 30, 2022 by Gambeta News

Ghana Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, spread a shovel of sand at Kwadaso in the Ashanti Region to signal the beginning of the construction of 145 different roads in the Region. The construction works which cover a total of 100km are under the Kumasi City Inner Roads project and would benefit Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies such as Asokwa, Kwadaso, Oforikrom, New Tafo, Suame, Mampongand Effiduase. Manhyia, Bantama, Nhyiaeso, and Subin, all sub-metros within the…

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