GENERAL NEWS

The 61st Ordinary Session of the Authority of ECOWAS heads of state and government will be held in Accra on 3 July 2022, at the Kempinski Gold Coast Hotel to commemorate the end of Ghana’s President,  Nana Akufo-Addo second year as chair of the bloc.   Akufo-Addo will host his …

A leading member of the governing new Patriotic Party (NPP) Gabby Otchere-Darko has reacted to calls made by Former President John Dramani Mahama that Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta should be sacked. Gabby said even when calls were made to Mr Mahama when he was in office to sack his Finance …

The Vice President of the Republic , Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has cautioned State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) who default to present their audited financial account reports will be sanctioned. Speaking at the maiden edition of the Public Enterprises League Table (PELT) Awards, Dr Bawumia said the move is to help government generate …

The President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo’s Senior Advisor, Mr Yaw Osafo-Maafo, has apologised for saying Asantes were not part of Ghana’s independence struggle, which, he noted, was led by the Akyems. The apology follows the leakage of a tape on which he is heard making the ethnocentric …

Toll collectors who lost their jobs due to the government’s decision to stop collecting road tolls across the country are asking the government to reintroduce the tolls. They say reversing the decision will help them regain their jobs.   The collectors, under the Ghana Toll Workers Union, made this known …

The Minister for Energy and Member of Parliament Manhyia South Constituency in the Ashanti Region,  Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh, says the government has nothing to hide in the contract to relocate the Ameri Plant from Daboase in the Western Region to Kumasi in the Ashanti Region. According to him, justification …

Information gathered  indicates that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Savannah Regional Secretary hopeful, Adam Abdul Nasser has been beaten to a pulp over alleged fraud at Tamale. According to reports, he was attacked by some people who claimed he had allegedly defrauded them.     The victim, a Surveyor by …

A leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Gabby Otchere-Darko, says it is unfortunate the government has been forced to seek economic refuge from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). According to him, no government, in this current situation, could have avoided going to the Fund for support especially when …

Director of the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) of the University of Ghana, Professor Peter Quartey, has asked the government to consider reviewing the e-levy rate downgrades as a way of making it easier for more people to pay.   He said this when asked whether the …

The former President of Ghana,  John Dramani Mahama has said the Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia must be removed as head of the Economic Management Team (EMT) because he has failed. Mr Mahama also said that the Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has supervised disastrous collapse of the economy therefore cannot …