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A Deputy Finance Minister-designate, Abena Osei Asare, has defended the rate of borrowing by the Akufo-Addo administration since it assumed office in 2017. Ghana’s debt stock currently stands at GHS 300 billion at 70 percent of the country’s GDP.   However, answering questions at her vetting on Thursday, Abena Osei …

Some residents of Sakora Wonoo in the Kwabre East District of the Ashanti Region are furious over government’s delay to complete their road ahead of Sir John’s funeral. “They have disappointed residents of Sakora Wonoo; at least this road should have been constructed by the NPP government a week to …

  Source: MyGhanaMedia.com

The 2020 annual report issued by the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) has revealed that revenue realised from the sale of LPG decreased by 4.16 per cent at the end of the period compared with the same period in 2019. In spite of the implementation of the Cash Waterfall …

The National Tripartite Committee (NTC) on Thursday, June 3 concluded negotiations on the national daily minimum wage for the next couple of years. Constituted by representatives of government, the Ghana Employers Association and the Trades Union Congress (TUC), the Committee increased the 2021 minimum wage by 6 percent and increased …

President Akufo-Addo has acknowledged the unflinching support of the late former General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwadwo Owusu-Afriyie, when he sought to secure the presidential seat. Calling the late politician, an “Akufo-Addo loyalist”, the President recounted the moment when Sir John, as he is popularly called, expressed …

Edward Akufo-Addo, businessman and Managing Director of Amaadi Cold Stores Limited, who is a biological brother to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has sued Radio host of Accra FM, Kwabena Bobbie Ansah, the Class Media Group, and two others for defamation. The defendants are said to have claimed that the …

    A Young boy believed to be 9 years old has this morning met his untimely death after a tipper truck on a top speed knocked him down at Awutu Beraku in the Awutu Senya West District of the Central Region. Source indicates that, the deceased was on his …

Sakora Wonoo in the Kwabre East District of the Ashanti Region has been thrown into a state of mourning, as the former Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Commission, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, Sir John, is laid in state. The former General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party died at the …

Perhaps, it was a tad optimistic in hindsight, for supporters of the Free Senior High School policy to expect that the critics of the policy would be silenced by its successful implementation. When the policy took off in September 2017, many of us thought the whole nation would unite to …