POLITICS

The National Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketiah has called on Ghanaians not to sit aloof on the bad governance by this current administration. His comment comes on the back of damning revelations from the 2022 Auditor General’s Report on COVID-19. According to the A-G, a total of ¢21,844,189,185.24 was mobilised for the fight against ...

The Executive Director of the Alliance For Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA), Mensah Thompson, wants government to apologize to Ghanaians for the mismanagement of the economy under the guise of the ravages of Covid-19 pandemic. “Of course there’s no doubt about the impact of Covid-19 on the private sector as a lot of the Covid measures brought about major ...

The Bishop of Koforidua Diocese of the Catholic, Most Rev. Joseph Afrifa Agyekum is upset about the continuous involvement of Chinese in illegal mining in Ghana despite government’s assurance of fighting the menace. The Bishop was visibly angry when he referenced recent news report that over seventy acres of cocoa farms as well as water bodies at Adum Dominase in ...

North Tongu Member of Parliament Samuel kudzeto Ablakwa has said Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the National Cathedral Rev. Victor Kusi Boateng’s “new insurance company registered only last week under the ever flagitious Kwabena Adu Gyamfi exposed.” In a tweet, he said “Conflict of interest vehicle — JNS has never paid taxes neither have they ever filed annual ...

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has expressed condolences to the family of “long-standing” and “staunch” member Alhaji Mohammed Nuru Deen Jawula, who died in the US after a short-illness on Saturday, January 21. In a statement signed by the ruling party’s General Secretary, Justin Frimpong Kodua, Alhaji Jawula was in 2008 shortlisted to be running mate for Nana Addo Dankwa ...

The Auditor-General has disclosed that the government spent ¢10 billion of monies mobilised for Covid-19 activities on budget support. According to the A-G, a total of ¢21,844,189,185.24 was mobilised for the fight against the pandemic. However, out of this amount, only ¢11,750,683,059.11 was spent on curbing the spread of the virus. The A-G said the rest, per its records, was ...

The Vice President of policy think tank, IMANI Africa, has lambasted government over its handling of the debt exchange programme. Kofi Bentil said government has been arrogant in its approach to the exercise and must be called out. In a Facebook post on Saturday, Mr Bentil said the bondholders have a right to their monies and must be respected. According ...

The Individual bondholders resisting government’s Domestic Debt Exchange (DDE) programme are optimistic that the Joint Technical Committee set up by the Finance Minister to find solutions to the current stand-off between government and the group will successfully deliver on its mandate. The Individual bondholders have been asking government to completely exempt them from the programme and find money in the ...

North Tongu Member of Parliament Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has said that the statement which was issued by the National Cathedral Secretariat responding to his revelation on an alleged illegal payments totaling GHC 2.6m to a company called JNS actually confirms his revelation that Rev. Victor Kusi Boateng is indeed Kwabena Adu Gyamfi despite the different dates of birth, multiple TINs ...

Vice President Dr Mahamdud Bawumai has said that the gold for crude initiative is working effectively after Ghana received the first delivery on Sunday, August 15. The 40,000 metric tons of oil arrived at the Tema port on Sunday, January 15, 2023. This was announced by the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources. The Energy Ministry, the Bulk Oil Storage, ...