POLITICS

        The deputy ranking member of Parliament’s Finance Committee, Isaac Adongo says the Akufo-Addo government was engaging in deception when it announced the various COVID-19 relief packages including free water and free electricity for Ghanaians in 2020.   According to him, it is now apparent that the …

Majority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has indicated that the Speaker of Parliament does not have any power under the law to reject the budget. Speaker Alban Bagbin has threatened to reject the budget because there has been a slash in the budget for the Legislative and Judicial arms of government.   …

  Businessman and politician Kennedy Agyapong has said most Ghanaian workers steal from their employers to create unimaginable wealth for themselves. The Assin Central Lawmaker said on his television station Wednesday, March 17 that most of these workers rather turn to accuse politicians of stealing from the state whereas they do worse. …

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has described the 2021 budget as a battle cry with a call on all Ghanaians to share the burden The covid-19 pandemic has ravaged global economies with Ghana as no exception, as the coronavirus pandemic increased the cost of government expenditure by about GH¢25 billion.   …

Member of Parliament for Yapei-Kusawgu Constituency has debunked claims by government that recent economic hardships are a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. According to John Jinapor the problem is a result of mismanagement of state funds, as well as incessant borrowing by the current administration. “There’s been an attempt to …

Muntaka Mubarak, the Chief Whip for the Minority in Parliament has reminded Sammy Gyamfi, the National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress that national interest must always take precedence over that of the party’s.       “I don’t want to go into the merit or demerit of the …

The campaign by some persons in the creative arts industry to have Mark Okraku Mantey appointed as Deputy Minister for Tourism, Arts and Culture appears to have paid off if a report by pro-government newspaper, The Chronicle, is to be taken on face value. The newspaper reported on Monday, March …

  The CEO for Center for Leadership and Democratic Governance (CLDG) Mr. Apatsea Isaac Kwasi has stated that failure for NDC hierarchy to solve the NDC grassroot members and Minority members of parliament differences will result in producing more independent candidates in NDC come 2024.     He said as …

The Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, who has been nurturing a presidential ambition on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has openly told some party executives in the Ashanti Region that the governing party has failed to construct roads in the region which happens …

NDC Ashanti regional Communication team member Jerry James Sukah well-known as Papa Jay has stated that, Akufo-Addo’s free electricity and water is conspicuously a hoax and need not jubilate over it. “You can’t continuously cripple the economy by constant borrowing and increase the cost of living of ghanaians and consequently …