The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has released GH₵200 million in claims payments to health facilities nationwide as part of the rollout of its free dialysis treatment program, which began on December 1, 2024. This move is part of NHIA’s ongoing efforts to maintain a prompt payment system, which was introduced earlier this year and has helped keep the Authority debt-free for 2024. The initiative ensures timely reimbursements to healthcare providers across Ghana.
This latest payment brings the total disbursement by the NHIA over the past two months to GH₵1 billion, demonstrating the Authority’s strong commitment to supporting healthcare providers and ensuring the long-term sustainability of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). Dr. Aboagye, NHIA’s Director-General, highlighted the scheme’s financial growth, noting that its budget has increased by GH₵2 million annually since 2017.
Starting today, 20 health facilities across the country will offer free dialysis treatment to patients suffering from kidney-related conditions. This follows the successful pilot program implemented over the last six months. The facilities providing the free treatment include Hart Adventist Hospital, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, and Firstcare Hospital in the Ashanti Region; Holy Family Hospital in the Bono Region; Cape Coast Teaching Hospital in the Central Region; the Eastern Regional Hospital and Upper West Regional Hospital.
Additionally, several hospitals in the Greater Accra Region will participate, including Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, 37 Military Hospital, Accra Newtown Islamic Hospital Ltd, Ghana Police Hospital, Trust Hospital Premium Centre, Ridge Hospital, and the International Maritime Hospital. The Tamale Teaching Hospital in the Northern Region and the Upper East Regional Hospital in Bolgatanga will also be part of the program, along with the Ho Teaching Hospital and Volta Regional Hospital in the Volta Region, and the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital and Takoradi Hospital in the Western Region.
Kwesi Appiah has temporarily stepped down from his role on the Ghana Football Association’s Executive Council to focus on his duties as head coach of Sudan ahead of the crucial 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers. The former Black Stars coach announced on Monday that he would temporarily leave the powerful Executive Council (ExCo), which makes key decisions about Ghana football, including those affecting the Black Stars. Appiah had won a seat on the ExCo during last year’s Ghana FA elective congress, but he has been compelled to step aside until November due to a conflict of interest.
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) sent Appiah a letter requesting that he resolve the issue, as his role with both the Ghana FA and Sudan’s national team presented a conflict, particularly with Sudan facing Ghana in crucial qualifiers this month. The letter, signed by CAF’s Director of Legal Affairs, Felix Majani, stated that Appiah’s dual roles violated CAF Statutes and the FIFA Code of Ethics. Despite previous calls for Appiah to step down after the qualifiers draw, he initially chose to stay on. However, the CAF directive has led him to make the difficult decision. Ghana will face Sudan at the Accra Sports Stadium on Thursday, October 11, with the return leg in Libya on October 14. Ghana, without a win after two games, must secure victories in both matches to boost their chances of qualifying. Sudan, with three points, currently sits second in the group behind leaders Angola, who have six points after defeating both Ghana and Sudan.
An Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) programme has been launched at Nkrankwanta in the Bono Region to fight against malaria in two districts. Rolled out in the Dormaa West and Banda districts, the initiative is targeted at ensuring the health and well-being of the people in the areas. The districts were selected to benefit from the intervention because they fall within the high malaria burden classified districts. The IRS project intends to kill mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite, to prevent its transmission or reduce mosquito populations in areas with high malaria burden.
The initiative, a proven vector control intervention, involves spraying the inner walls of houses where mosquito vectors are known to rest, with an effective residual insecticide. Funded by the government, the exercise will be conducted by Kill-pest Services, a private organisation. At the launch last Tuesday, the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, said despite the GHS’s commitment to eliminate malaria, the disease continued to pose a significant threat to public health, particularly among vulnerable populations.
He called on stakeholders, particularly the private sector, to invest in proven interventions such as the IRS to protect the health and well-being of citizens. Dr Kuma-Aboagye said a malaria-free Ghana could be created by strengthening interventions, improving delivery and fostering community engagement. He said the IRS initiative marked a significant milestone in the country’s unwavering commitment to eliminate malaria.
He said the government was implementing the National Malaria Elimination Strategic Plan (2024-2028) launched in January by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to accelerate efforts towards malaria elimination. Dr Kuma-Aboagye said the plan outlined a set of ambitious goals and strategies to ensure that 100 per cent of the population was protected by at least one malaria preventive intervention.
He explained that the plan focused on expanding the coverage of existing interventions, improving delivery and introducing new approaches. He mentioned scaling up insecticide-treated nets, strengthening and expanding IRS coverage, promoting preventive chemotherapy and strengthening surveillance and monitoring as some of the key priorities being taken to control malaria. He urged residents at the beneficiary districts to embrace the initiative and work closely with health officials to ensure its effective implementation.
Dr Kuma-Aboagye thanked the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), AngloGold Ashanti and the Innovative Vector Control Consortium (IVCC) for their contributions to the Kill-pest project. The Director of Public Health, Dr Franklin Asiedu-Bekoe, said deaths due to malaria had plummeted from 2,799 in 2012 to 146 in 2023. He explained that malaria prevalence had declined from 27.5 per cent in 2011 to 8.6 per cent in 2022, reflecting the effectiveness of the preventive measures.
Information reaching MSTV Gh has that a young married man is missing and all search to no avail. The young man’s wife reached out our reporter Mike Owusu to for public announcement on the media.
Salia Osuman is a young muslim married man with six children, Salia has gone missing for months and cannot be found after several family search team went searching.
Salia is accused of being bisexual who was caught with another having affair. Accra New Town is a Muslim community hence issue of LGBTQ+ is treated with anger and hatred. Upon the community realizing that Salia is a bisexual who is married, has six children with his with Khadija. The accused is often seen with a male friend called Hamid, not knowing to the public the two friends are bisexual and having affair hence their strong relationship.
A man young saw them kissing when passing behind Hamid’s room and informed the community youth who planned to monitor their movement. Unlucky for the suspect they caught again kissing again when Salia visited Hamid. The youth group attacked them, beat, and threatened them with death fortunately for them elders for the came for their rescue. Though Salia and Hamid were freed but life became unbearable in the community as the community starting shaming them, banned from entering mosque, vendors do not sell anything to them. On a bad day children will be stoning them in public and public shaming them. Salia became jobless, was in the room until a day he went out never return and family has search virtually everywhere to no avail. Life is hard me and the children after my husband gone missing…wife said.
NB: It is no secret that the Ghanaian people does not support or entertain such act, hence anytime they suspect you of such behavior, they will attack you which might lead to death or disability, they described LGBTQ+ activist as evil and indecent people. This is the holy Quran stands on the issue: The Quran mentions sex between men several times, almost all of them in the context of the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, in which some city inhabitants demand sexual access to the messengers sent by God to the prophet Lot (or Lut). The Quranic story is almost the same as the version in the Bible. Later explanations of the Quran agreed that the “abomination” alluded to by the Quranic passages was attempted sodomy (specifically anal intercourse) between men. The sins of the people of Lut later became proverbial and the Arabic words for the act of anal sex between men such as “liwat” and for a person who performs such acts “Luti”; both derive from the name Lut, although Lut was not the one demanding sex.
The Constitution of Ghana: Section 104 (b) of the Ghanaian Criminal Code of 1960, criminalizes “unnatural carnal knowledge”, as a misdemeanor. Section 104 defines “unnatural carnal knowledge” as “sexual intercourse with a person in an unnatural manner or with an animal”. Due to the definition contained in Section 99 of the code, which stipulates “penetration”, an “unnatural manner” is taken to refer to sex acts between men–not between women–and oral and anal sex between people of different sexes. Misdemeanors carry a penalty of up to three years imprisonment under Article 296 of the Criminal Procedural Code.
The Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and its traditional interpretations in Judaism and Christianity have historically affirmed and endorsed a patriarchal and heteronormative approach towards human sexuality, favoring exclusively penetrative vaginal intercourse between men and women within the boundaries of marriage over all other forms of human sexual activity, including autoeroticism, masturbation, oral sex, non-penetrative and non-heterosexual sexual intercourse, believing and teaching that such behaviors are forbidden because they are considered to be sinful, and further compared to or derived from the behavior of the alleged residents of Sodom and Gomorrah.
The Africa traditional believers does not favor the act in no equal terms hence it is very hard for anyone to safely practice LGBTQ+ in Africa which Ghana is no exception, there is a bill in parliament of Ghana to criminalize the act.
The Minister for National Security, Mr Albert Kan-Dapaah has urged staff and management of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) to address revenue leakages, particularly at key revenue generating points in the country to help safeguard Ghana’s economic security.
Revenue leakages, he said, occur with the complicity of some staff of the GRA who he described as the “few bad nuts.”
The actions of these “fee bad nuts tend to obscure and negate the numerous positive works of the Authority. Now more than ever, the GRA and for that matter, Ghana, need men and women of integrity to block leakages in the system. To succeed in doing this, the Authority must do all it can to root out those bad nuts,” said Mr Kan-Dapaah.
National Security Strategy The National Security Minster was speaking on Wednesday, December 29, 2021 at a sensitisation workshop on the National Security Strategy for Commissioners of the GRA in Accra.
The government, he said, had implemented measures such as the Immediate Tax Force (ITF) and the Revenue, Assurance and Compliance (RACE) Initiative to complement the efforts of the GRA in blocking revenue leakages, yet the leakages have persisted due to limited cooperation and collaboration between the GRA and security agencies.
“The coming into force of the National Security Strategy, would avert this problem by promoting multi-agency cooperation toward safeguarding the economic security of the State,” he said.
That, he explained was because the strategy would “place the work of the GRA at the very heart of all security considerations of the State, implying an enhanced cooperation between State Security and Intelligence Agencies and the GRA in preventing leakages.”
He said it would also open new channels of communication among actors tasked with the duty of enhancing domestic revenue mobilization and remove barriers that militate against efficient revenue collection.
The failure of the GRA to mobilize the needed revenues for government, he pointed out, would serve as the catalyst to plunge the nation into an age of discord and possibly truncate Ghana’s long years of relative peace and stability in the West African sub-region.
He said developments which were recorded in the country such as increased agitations for the improvement in the living conditions of citizens leading to the emergence of pressure groups, and the recent gridlock in Parliament over the introduction of the E-levy, shed light on the magnitude of the economic security threats that confronted the country.
Mr Dapaah said these economic security threats were tightly connected to the ability of the State to generate revenues and tackle the socio-economic problems facing the country.
“In pre-pandemic times, it was prudent for developing countries including Ghana to rely on external borrowings to augment shortfalls in domestic revenues generated for development.”
Today, he said, that alternative was no longer attractive due to rising debt levels and the ballooning of deficits occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic.
He said many countries in sub-Saharan Africa were exploring ways to widen the tax net and increase domestic revenue mobilization as the only potent means to restore their economies to normalcy and that Ghana was no exception, even though these measures sometimes imposed a certain degree of discomfort on the citizenry.
Commitment President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in June, 2021 launched the National Security Strategy blueprint to enable stakeholders in the security sphere to deal effectively with existing, new and emerging threats to the country.
The Commissioner of the Customs Division of the GRA, Colonel Kwadwo Damoah (Retd), speaking on behalf of the Commissioner-General of the GRA, Rev Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah, indicated the commitment of the GRA to mobilise adequate revenue for the economic development of the nation.
He said the workshop would offer the GRA the opportunity to appreciate the National Security strategy better and help them address any threats that would impede their work.
The factory will produce 60 metric tonnes of food-grade tapioca starch at full operational capacity daily and it is expected to create, at least, 5,000 jobs.
Mr Evans Ayim, the Manager of the Company, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA), said the resuscitation of the factory would help transform the rural economy as about GHC25 million would be spent annually to buy cassava.
“We are now buying a tonne of cassava at GHC350.00. If one supplies one acre worth of cassava, which is about 10 tonnes, then the supplier will be earning GHC3,500 revenue.
In the rural community, that is significant. If you can do that for 10 months, you are more than an income earner in many fields of work in the country,” he said.
He explained that the factory needed 7,200 acres of improved variety of cassava, which translated into 72,000 metric tonnes, to operate all year round.
In line with this, Mr Ayim said the company had rolled out an out-growers scheme, which was currently recruiting and empowering some 1,000 farmers from various districts and municipalities to feed the factory.
He said the purpose was to offer the farmers the opportunity to turn agriculture into a full-time job, adding that the response from the farmers had been encouraging so far.
The Ayensu Starch Company was commissioned around 2004 under the former President John Agyekum Kufuor’s “President’s Special Initiative’ (PSI) programme to produce food-grade tapioca starch at an initial capacity of 72 metric tonnes per day but it was shut down in 2006 for lack of raw material, among other reasons.
It resumed work in 2008 with many more challenges until 2016 when the government entered into a Public-Private Partnership and offloaded 70 per cent of shares to Tiberias–the current managers of the company.
Owing to technical and mechanical challenges which caused the company to run at a loss, the company had to shut down again to make way for total refurbishment in 2019 and had eventually been completed in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mr Ayim said challenges such as uninterrupted power supply, dysfunctional waste management system and inadequate water supply had all been resolved.
The other challenges, he, however, admitted was with transportation, inadequate logistics and poor roads, leading to the factory, which he indicated were being tackled.
“We have registered under the One District One Factory (1D1F) policy and we are lobbying the government to fix the roads. In fact, it has been given out for contract and so that is being done,” he stated.
Underscoring the importance of starch to the Ghanaian economy, the manager reiterated that the “invisible commodity” was a commercially viable venture worth $30 billion globally.
The factory will produce 60 metric tonnes of food-grade tapioca starch at full operational capacity daily and it is expected to create, at least, 5,000 jobs.
Mr Evans Ayim, the Manager of the Company, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA), said the resuscitation of the factory would help transform the rural economy as about GHC25 million would be spent annually to buy cassava.
“We are now buying a tonne of cassava at GHC350.00. If one supplies one acre worth of cassava, which is about 10 tonnes, then the supplier will be earning GHC3,500 revenue.
In the rural community, that is significant. If you can do that for 10 months, you are more than an income earner in many fields of work in the country,” he said.
He explained that the factory needed 7,200 acres of improved variety of cassava, which translated into 72,000 metric tonnes, to operate all year round.
In line with this, Mr Ayim said the company had rolled out an out-growers scheme, which was currently recruiting and empowering some 1,000 farmers from various districts and municipalities to feed the factory.
He said the purpose was to offer the farmers the opportunity to turn agriculture into a full-time job, adding that the response from the farmers had been encouraging so far.
The Ayensu Starch Company was commissioned around 2004 under the former President John Agyekum Kufuor’s “President’s Special Initiative’ (PSI) programme to produce food-grade tapioca starch at an initial capacity of 72 metric tonnes per day but it was shut down in 2006 for lack of raw material, among other reasons.
It resumed work in 2008 with many more challenges until 2016 when the government entered into a Public-Private Partnership and offloaded 70 per cent of shares to Tiberias–the current managers of the company.
Owing to technical and mechanical challenges which caused the company to run at a loss, the company had to shut down again to make way for total refurbishment in 2019 and had eventually been completed in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mr Ayim said challenges such as uninterrupted power supply, dysfunctional waste management system and inadequate water supply had all been resolved.
The other challenges, he, however, admitted was with transportation, inadequate logistics and poor roads, leading to the factory, which he indicated were being tackled.
“We have registered under the One District One Factory (1D1F) policy and we are lobbying the government to fix the roads. In fact, it has been given out for contract and so that is being done,” he stated.
Underscoring the importance of starch to the Ghanaian economy, the manager reiterated that the “invisible commodity” was a commercially viable venture worth $30 billion globally.
He said starch was used in many manufacturing industries such as textiles, paper, food and pharmaceuticals, adding that revamping the factory would cut importation and save Ghana some foreign exchange.
“If we can contribute from Africa and Ghana leads in that direction, I believe that we can easily tap into that market and turn it into, maybe, a one-billion-dollar industry. We are the pacesetters and we want to show that it is commercially viable,” he said.
In the meantime, Mr Ayim hinted that the company was focusing on only the domestic market until it was able to expand its operations and production to take advantage of the global economy, especially the African Continental Free Trade Area.
He said starch was used in many manufacturing industries such as textiles, paper, food and pharmaceuticals, adding that revamping the factory would cut importation and save Ghana some foreign exchange.
“If we can contribute from Africa and Ghana leads in that direction, I believe that we can easily tap into that market and turn it into, maybe, a one-billion-dollar industry. We are the pacesetters and we want to show that it is commercially viable,” he said.
In the meantime, Mr Ayim hinted that the company was focusing on only the domestic market until it was able to expand its operations and production to take advantage of the global economy, especially the African Continental Free Trade Area.
Economist and New Patriotic Party (NPP) stalwart, Kwame Pianim has advised government to abandon its decision to introduce an electronic transaction levy (E-levy) as an innovative way to generate revenue.
According to him, the Finance Ministry should take advantage of the ongoing protests against the 2022 budget to consult and reflect on the fiscal policy.
“This is not the time for jerky manoeuvres,” he told the national newspaper Daily Graphic.
The incumbent Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, while delivering the 2022 Budget, proposed a 1.75% levy on all electronic transactions effective January 1, 2022.
However, a section of Ghanaians, including the Minority in Parliament and some economists, have kicked against this proposal, arguing that it will intensify the hardships of the average Ghanaian.
Concurring to the position of the opposers, Mr Pianim said the Akufo-Addo government should not seek to stress further people struggling to survive.
He advised that government should instead focus on “expenditure cuts and husbanding our scarce resources.”
“Kindly restore the toll booths to protect the fresh foodstuff markets that have developed around them,” he counselled the Finance Ministry,
“If not restored quickly, we may do damage to the rural economy and especially the women traders there,” he continued.
The economist who believed that the Finance Ministry should forget about the proposed e-levy also mentioned that the tax “is anti-technology progress and may undermine the significant progress being achieved in financial inclusion for the unbanked.”
He, however, noted that if the government needs money, it should engage the Bank of Ghana to receive the interest on MoMo wallets that do not benefit the average MoMo user.
He also asked the government to “take a step back from the brink, listen creatively to the pain of our people and focus on providing a caring administration and preserving national cohesion and keeping the economy on an even keel in these stormy weathers!”
He recalled President Akufo-Addo’s words of caution that government’s priority in the pandemic is to keep Ghanaians alive by growing the economy instead of trying the impossible of bringing back the dead to life.
The editor-in-chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper says the recent indecorous behavior and agitations in Parliament is undermining its legislative authority.
Abdul Malik Kweku Baako Jnr reacting to Tuesday’s chaos and near fisticuffs over the approval of the 2022 Budget, said the dishonourable behaviour by the MPs taints Ghana’s image on the international stage.
He said as honourable men and women; they should know better than act in such a manner.
“The institutional integrity and the corporate integrity of Parliament is at the brink. What happened on January 6, and what happened recently is completely unpardonable. Legislative hooliganism if you like is completely unacceptable.
“It affects Parliament itself, its moral authority, its legislative authority and Ghana’s international image. So, to be honest with you, it’s a bad sign; one cannot be happy as a Ghanaian,” he told host of Newsfile Samson Lardy Anyenini on Saturday.data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==
According to Kweku Baako, the events on the midnight of January 6, 2021, where confusion and chaos erupted in Parliament over the election of a Speaker, should have served as a lesson for them.
However, senior vice-president of IMANI-Africa, Kofi Bentil believes that actions that led to the approval of the budget is best for Parliament as it changes the ‘winner-takes-all’ narrative in the House.
“Much as there seems to be quite a lot of chaos, and we are not happy with the kind of indecorous and dishonorable behavior we see in Parliament, we need to bear in mind that this is not a bad thing. It is not a bad thing for Parliament to scrutinise and hold the Executive to account and the ultimate test of holding somebody to account is to look in the person’s face and say ‘no’.”
“When you have a situation like this when the Minority effectively is going to have a say and determine somehow what happens in the Executive’s budget, then you cannot claim that you have a winner takes all so I’d like us to keep in mind that this is not a bad thing and indeed we should improve on it,” the private legal practitioner said.
Mr Bentil further called for an amendment of the constitution to exempt some Executive members from becoming legislators to ensure the independence of Parliament.
“I am one of the people who believe that we should we should stop connecting Parliament to the Executive and have a Parliament which is purely about legislation and oversight and make sure that our Parliament is capable and actually act to be a check on the Executive, failure to do that create a lot of problems.”
“This is the purpose of the Parliament and I am one of the people who believe we should stop taking Ministers from Parliament; if we amend our constitution, that’s the first thing to amend so you have a Parliament where people go in and stay in Parliament and they act as professional parliamentarians, representing their people and be a check on the government,” he noted.
The government is working towards establishing a Farmer Database Scheme to track the subsidised fertiliser distribution programme to halt smuggling.
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture will also take the biometric data of beneficiary farmers to aid in authentication.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo announced this at the 2021 National Farmers’ Day celebration at the Adisadel College Park in Cape Coast on Friday.
He said the number of farmers benefiting from the subsidised fertiliser distribution programme had increased from 597,662 in 2016 to 1.2 million as at October 2021.
President Akufo-Addo urged all stakeholders in the agriculture value-chain to support the sector policies and interventions to ensure sustainable livelihoods and an improved economy.
Government would strengthen linkages of the Planting for Food and Jobs and the Rural Industrialisation Agenda to improve livelihoods and empower Ghanaians, he said.
The investment in the agricultural sector, over the past five years, was yielding positive results, complemented by the efforts of the farmers and fishers to prevent food shortage during the COVID-19 pandemic, the President said.
The Ghana COVID-19 Revitalization of Enterprises Scheme, otherwise known as ‘Ghana-Cares’ or Obaatanpa programme, with GHc100 billion budget projection from both government and the private sector, had components for youth who wanted to enter into agro- processing and agribusiness, he said.
He, thus, urged the youth to take advantage of the Scheme to establish themselves in those areas to be self-sufficient and create jobs.
Alhaji Mashud Mohammed from the Mion District of the Northern Region was crowned the 2021 Overall Best National Farmer.
He received GHc600,000 from the Agricultural Development Bank, 500,000 worth of insurance cover from GLICO Insurance and a study trip to Israel, sponsored by Broadspectrum Limited.
Mr Suleman Yidaana from the East Mamprusi District of the North East Region was the First Runner-up and received a tractor, trailer, Disc Plough, a Boom Sprayer and Ghc300,000 worth of insurance cover by GLICO Insurance and a study trip to Israel.
Reverend Samuel Sida from the Asutifi North District of the Ahafo Region was the Second Runner-up and was presented a Nissan Navara Double Cabin Pick-Up and Ghc200,000 worth of insurance cover by GLICO Insurance.
Mr Kweku Ehun from the Gomoa West District of the Central Region was the Overall Best Fisherman and would receive a two-bedroom house built at his preferred location.
A total of 165 gallant farmers and fishers across the country were rewarded for their sterling efforts in sustaining the economy through the production of food and cash crops as well as fish over the period.
This year’s Farmers Day was celebrated on the theme: “Planting for Food and Jobs; Consolidating Food Systems in Ghana.,”
President Akufo-Addo was the Guest of Honour, and Odeefuo Amoakwa Buadu VIII, the Paramount Chief of Breman Asikuma Traditional Area and President of the Central Regional House of Chiefs, the Chairman.
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture, the Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development and the Ghana Cocoa Board jointly hosted the colorful and well attended programme to recognise the enormous contributions of Ghana’s gallant farmers and fishers.
ACCRA – Asma’u Bawa interviewed him live on television, where he explained the purpose of his visit and offered suggestions on how to improve journalism and the society as a whole.
From Hijira TV, Alhaji Aliyu Mustapha Sokoto’s team went to Marhaba 99.3 FM. Alhaji Aliyu also spoke to the station’s chairman, Alhaji Baba Shariff, about the progress of the radio program and how VOA is supporting the station and its programs on the station as well as its efforts to improve the relationship between VOA and Marhaba.
Picture; The head of VOA Aliu Mustapha Sakoto at HIJRA TV -Accra
In the interview with Alhaji Mustapha Sokoto on Marhaba 99.3 MHz, Alhaji Baba Sharif’s shows his appreciation with excitement of the meeting where their conversation reached to the goals and agenda of voa Hausa.
Finally, the audience was given the opportunity to express their appreciation for the visit of the head of Voice of America (VOA)Hausa.
He has since traveled to Kumasi, Ashanti Region, to the Northern Region, where he returned to Accra to meet with Hausa rulers, Sheikh Dr. Usman Sharubutu, and bid farewell to the people of Ghana.
