{"id":283971,"date":"2017-01-11T19:56:35","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T19:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=283971"},"modified":"2017-01-11T19:56:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T19:56:35","slug":"ursula-atta-akyeakofi-adda-to-head-three-business-related-ministries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/01\/ursula-atta-akyeakofi-adda-to-head-three-business-related-ministries\/","title":{"rendered":"Ursula, Atta Akyea,Kofi Adda to head three business related ministries"},"content":{"rendered":"
President Nana Akufo-Addo has named six more nominees for business related ministries under his administration.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”kaNbkL06zK2KQvvXGaN3ynq37HdnBiGe”]They include; Joe Ghartey, Akoto Osei and Kwaku Ofori Asiamah.<\/p>\n
The three have been nominated for Railways development, Monitoring & Evaluation and Transport Ministries respectively.<\/p>\n
Other nominations include; Ursula Owusu Ekuful, Atta Akyea and Kofi Addah who have been tipped for Communications, Works and Housing and Water Resources and Sanitation Ministries respectively.<\/p>\n
Ursula Owusu Ekuful<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Member of Parliament for Ablekuma West has been nominated for the Communications Ministry.<\/p>\n Mrs.Ursula Owusu Ekuful served as Managing Consultant, N. U. Consult Legal, Governance and Gender Consultants.<\/p>\n She has also been Director of Vodafone Ghana Company Limited since October 1, 2004.<\/p>\n The Member of Parliament for Ablekuma West also serves as a member of Ghana Bar Association.<\/p>\n As a gender advocate, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful is \u00a0Executive Member of International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) Ghana; Member, Women in Law and Development in Africa (WILDAF) Ghana; Member of African Women Lawyers Association (AWLA), Ghana.<\/p>\n She is a Barrister\/Solicitor by profession.<\/p>\n She holds Bl; LLB.<\/p>\n Atta Akyea<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lawyer Samuel Atta Akyea is the Member of Parliament for Abuakwa South in the Eastern region.<\/p>\n He will be heading to the Works and Housing Ministry.<\/p>\n According to him, his focus will be to complete all the affordable housing units started by the NPP government.<\/p>\n In his view, there will also be the need to provide mortgages that will enable people with low end income access affordable housing.<\/p>\n Currently the country\u2019s housing deficit stands at about 1.7 billion.<\/p>\n Lawyer Samuel Atta Akyea holds a BA (Law and Philosophy), UG, 1989; BL (GSL), 1993.<\/p>\n Joseph Kofi Kowe Adda<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Joseph Kofi Adda has been named as the Minister nominee for the newly created Water Resources and Sanitation ministry.<\/p>\n He was a former Member of Parliament for Navrongo Central in the Upper East region.<\/p>\n Joseph Adda is a Financial Economist and a Management Consultant.<\/p>\n He worked as an Executive officer at the Ministry of Trade and Industry, Ghana in 1979.<\/p>\n Between 1983 and 1984, he worked as a Research Analyst intern at the Third World Trade Institute, New York, USA.<\/p>\n Over the next two years, he was an account Executive and Management trainee at the Equitable Financial Service, Inc., in\u00a0New Jersey, USA.<\/p>\n He was appointed the\u00a0Minister for Manpower Development and Employment\u00a0by President\u00a0John Kufuor\u00a0in 2005.<\/p>\n But subsequently moved to head the then Energy\u00a0Ministry in 2006.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Pius Amihere Eduku\/citibusinessnews.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President Nana Akufo-Addo has named six more nominees for business related ministries under his administration. [contextly_sidebar id=”kaNbkL06zK2KQvvXGaN3ynq37HdnBiGe”]They include; Joe Ghartey, Akoto Osei and Kwaku Ofori Asiamah. The three have been nominated for Railways development, Monitoring & Evaluation and Transport Ministries respectively. Other nominations include; Ursula Owusu Ekuful, Atta Akyea and Kofi Addah who have been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,171,11],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n