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Award-winning Ghanaian actress, Lydia Forson, has urged the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) to apologise to Ghanaians, amidst the current economic difficulties. Her call follows a decision by government to resort to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for economic assistance. According to her, an apology from government will show ‘honest …

It appears that calls for Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta’s head over Ghana’s current economic misfortunes may have come to naught. Government spokesperson, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah says justifications so far for Ken Ofori-Atta to step down are neither here nor there. Many critics including former President John Mahama have called for …

A  cabinet minister and also Minister of  Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto says Ghana will soon praise the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for engaging the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to support its economic programs.   Dr Afriyie Akoto rather wants Ghanaians to be concerned with the conditionalities that …

A political science lecturer at the University of Ghana, Prof Ransford Gyampo, has warned that the country will be ‘ungovernable’ if government accepts any IMF conditionality that freezes wage increment. In a Facebook post on Saturday, he stated that labour unions would be opposed to any policy, that does not …

On Friday, the Information Ministry announced that President Akufo-Addo has directed the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, to begin formal engagements with the International Monetary Fund. The decision has taken many Ghanaians by surprise. This is because before approaching IMF, the government, on numerous occasions, insisted that a bailout from the …

President Akufo-Addo has directed the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, to begin formal engagements with the International Monetary Fund, for economic support, MyGhanaMedia.com can authoritatively confirm. A statement signed by the Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, and dated July 1st, 2022 indicated that there had already been a conversation between the …

The former District Chief Executive of Sekyere Afram Plains District, Honorable Fuseini Donkor charges the president, H.E Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to sack the Finance Minister Ken. Ofori-Atta from office.   Mr. Fuseini said ‘From 2017 up to date, the finance minister, Ken. Ofori-Atta can not boast of introducing something …

Fertilizer suppliers under the Planting for Food and Jobs programme are calling on the Finance Minister to clarify his claim of clearing some outstanding debts owed to the Agric Ministry. They are questioning Ken Ofori-Atta’s claim to have released ¢278.57 million to the Agric Ministry as part of ¢485.90 million …

The 2020 Parliamentary candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Oforikrom Constituency of the Ashanti Region, Hon. Henry Osei Akoto, has indicated that, the next NDC government which will be headed by John Dramani Mahama as President will retrieve every single penny from Akufo-Addo-led NPP adminstration on the …

The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has announced that a total of ¢12.04 billion has been expended so far on Covid-19. According to figures put out by the Finance Minister in his address to Parliament on Wednesday, June 22, an amount of ¢11.16 billion was allocated for expenditures related to Covid-19. …