POLITICS

As President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo travels to Atlanta, USA, video footage of the US$14,000-an-hour LX-DIO aircraft which he [Akufo-Addo] has been using for his foreign trips has surfaced on social media. The blue and white ultra-luxury aircraft was captured by an unknown source at the Kotoka International Airport on …

The General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party , John Boadu has questioned why the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin  did not assume the role of a road toll collection personnel after directing the Roads and Highways Minister to withdraw a statement announcing the cessation of collection of road tolls. …

Information available to Asaase News has it that government may be considering the removal of the proposed electronic levy (E-Levy) in the 2022 budget statement and economic policy of the Akufo-Addo administration on sum of money sent by foreign worker to individual in the country which is better known as …

The former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Venture Capital Trust Fund (VCTF), Daniel Kofi Duku, and three others who entered into settlement agreements with the State to pay GH¢20.11 million fraud. Duku, an appointee of John Mahama and the three others had admitted to the offences of fraud and …

Dela Coffie a supporter of Former Minister of Finance, Dr Kwabena Duffuor,  believes that some elements in the National Democratic Congress (NDC) are obstructing him due to his yet-to-be-announced presidential bid. A statement issued by Dela Coffie on Thursday November 25 accused persons close to former President John Dramani Mahama …

General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) John Boadu is convinced the Electronic Transactions Levy, popularly known as e-levy, has come to stay.   He said just like the Communications Service Tax, popularly known as Talk Tax, innovative ways will be found in making deductions for the e-levy without …

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has extended the contract of the Executive Secretary of the National Identification Authority (NIA), Prof. Kenneth Agyemang Attafuah, by two years. The extension took effect from November 11, 2021. This was contained in an internal memo circulated among staff of the authority and sighted …

Works and Housing Minister and member of parliament for Bantema Constituency, Francis Asenso-Boakye is disappointed that the Keta Sea defence project did not find expression in the 2022 budget presented by Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta on November 17, 2021.   The Minister, acknowledging the urgent need for the construction of …

The Member of Parliament for Adaklu, Governs Kwame Agbodza, has urged Parliament to haul General Secretary of the governing NPP,  John Boadu before the privileges over his insulting comments against the Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Alban Bagbin. John Boadu in addressing party members at Mankesim stated the speaker is …

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has said observed there is a gap between what students learn in the universities and what industry requires of them when they graduate. He said while employers are looking for people to fill certain positions in their companies, they are unable to find graduates with the …