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Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has announced that Government has outlined some immediate plans to help arrest the free fall of the Ghana cedi. According to him, Governor of Bank of Ghana (BoG), Dr. Ernest Addison has scheduled a crunch meeting tomorrow, Tuesday, October 25, 2022, with all CEOs of …

Ghana has to show proof that its debt levels are sustainable before the International Monetary Fund (IMF) can approve an economic support programme for the country. That is according to the Director of IMF’s African Department, Abebe Aemro Selassie. Mr. Selassie told the media in Washington on October 14, that …

Ghana’s President Akufo-Addo says there are “powerful forces” in the society hoping for his government’s flagship Free Senior High School (SHS) programme to fail. “Already there are some who are eager to curtail some of the important initiatives such as the Free SHS policy. “There are powerful forces in society …

Deputy Majority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin has said that the electronic transaction levy (E-levy) will be reduced from 1.75% to at least 1.5%. According to him, the reduced charge was captured in the revised version of the 2022 budget submitted by the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta on Tuesday. Speaking on PM …

A Kumasi High Court has slapped government with a $15.3 million judgment debt for the unlawful seizure of excavators. It has also ordered that government pays the mining company, Heritage Imperial Limited an amount of ¢600,000. This amount was awarded to the mining firm prospecting for gold in the Apamprama …

Government has revealed that it will spend more than ¢1.5 billion to end the controversial double-track system by 2024. According to the Education Minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, the said amount will be spent on infrastructure in senior high schools nationwide. The double-track system was introduced in the wake of …

  Government has extended its free water and electricity for lifeline consumers to June 2021, caretaker Minister for Finance, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, on Friday announced.     Presenting the 2021 budget statement and economic policies of government in Parliament on the theme: “Completion, Consolidation and Continuation”, Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu said the decision to …

  A pressure group affiliated with the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Patriotic Reform Movement says it has sampled the views of 2,500 party supporters nationwide and have come up with a list of officials who need to be kicked out of government in order to keep the prospect of …