More "Ministers of State at ministries" Created!
The Group of 8 cabinet ministers - a.k.a the G8 - in the Kufuor Administration, who have been pushed out of office to pursue their presidential aspirations/ambitions have finally been replaced.

The Chief of Staff and Minister of Presidential Affairs, Kwadwo Mpianim, presented a list of the first batch of their replacements to the Speaker of Parliament on Wednesday. They are:

• Foreign Affairs: Akwasi Osei-Agyei (now Deputy)

• Information and National Orientation: Ms Oboshie Sai-Coffie (pictured; now Deputy)

• Communications: Dr. Benjamin Aggrey-Ntim (current Deputy)

• Manpower, Youth and Employment: Nana Akomea (ex-minister)

• Minister of State in-charge of Public Sector Reforms: Samuel Owusu-Adjei (former deputy Minister of Health)

• Trade, Industries and President’s Special Initiatives: Mr Joe Baidoo-Ansah (now Deputy Minister of Tourism)

• Minister of State at the Ministry of Finance: Dr Akoto Osei

• Minister of State at the Attorney Generals Dept.: Ambrose Dery (now Upper West Regional Minister)

• Minister of State at the Interior Ministry: Nana Obiri-Boahen (B/A Reg. Chairman of NPP)

• Minister of State at the Ministry of Water Resources, Works and Housing: Madam Cecilia Dapaah (current deputy)

• Upper West Regional Minister: George Benson

• Eastern Region: Kwadwo Affram-Asiedu (now Deputy Minister of Trade & PSI)

• Upper East Region: Alhassah Sumari

Empty Portfolios

• Education, Science and Sports: ?

• Parliamentary Affairs: ?

• Defence: ?

• Tourism and Diasporan Relations: ?

Speculation

• Defence: Albert Kan-Dapaah

• Interior: Hon. Kwamena Bartels

• Education, Science and Sports: Prof Dominic Fobih

• Parliamentary Affairs: Abraham Ossei Aidoo (MP for Tema West and deputy Majority Leader)

• Information and National Orientation(Deputy): Frank Agyekum (now Spokesperson on Governance)

• Tourism and Diasporan Relations: Hon. Stephen Asamoah-Boateng