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The convener of the Individual Bond Holders Association of Ghana (IBHAG) has commended former Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo for participating in the Debt Exchange Programme protest. Martin Kpebu says the action of the former Chief Justice shows her love for the public good. According to him, Ghana will become a better country if more statesmen and women speak up against ...

The Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta has been told to sound appealing to pensioners to accept their inclusion in the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP). A Finacial analyst, Mr Joe Jackson said although the government is caught in a difficult situation as it seeks to close a deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), it must also take actions to ...

A former Deputy Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Thomas Manu has asked Fidelity Bank to officially states its position on GH¢10 billion ESLA PLC bonds. In a letter written to the bond trustees of the Fidelity Bank by his lawyer, Martin Kpebu on Monday, February 6, he wondered why the trustees did not object to the inclusion of the said bond ...

A former New Patriotic Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Shama Constituency, Dr Ato Panford has died. It is not immediately known the cause of his death but MyJoyOnline.com sources say he died this morning. The source said “Uncle Ato”, as he is otherwise called, died at the GPHA Hospital in Takoradi. Dr Panford was the MP for Shama in ...

Executive Director of Education Watch, Kofi Asare, says he does not see government actively working to change the narrative of inadequate furniture in rural classrooms. According to him, it feels like government did not prioritise the foundation of basic education. The educationist does not see the rationale behind the government’s provision of free books and uniforms to students in secondary ...

Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) Dr Ernest Addison has said that there is enough gold to ensure the success of the Gold-for-Crude initiative. Addressing the 110th Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) press conference in Accra on Monday, January 30, he explained that “we started this whole programme to build reserves with the purchases of gold. Since the beginning we ...

Ghana recorded four deaths and 116 confirmed cases of the Monkeypox disease in 2022, in 14 out of the 16 regions. Two deaths were recorded in Upper East and one each in the Greater Accra and Central regions. The Savannah and Ahafo regions did not record any cases, Dr Farida Abdulai, the Deputy Director, Ghana Health Service (GHS), disclosed during ...

Private legal practitioner Mr Kofi Bentil has told the Special Prosecutor Mr Kissi Agyebeng to retrieve funds meant for the fight against Covid but were diverted. In his view, the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) will prove its usefulness by acting to retrieve the cash and jailing the culprits. “This will be the truest test of the OSP. If ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has told African countries to collectively institute measures to fight illicit financial flows out of the continent. The president said this while speaking during the closing session of the maiden African Prosperity Dialogues dubbed, ‘the Kwahu Summit’,. “We need to pay serious attention to and arrest illicit financial flow out of the continent which is ...

The Institute for Energy Security (IES) is predicting between 7% and 13% jump in the prices of petrol, diesel and Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), from February 1, 2023, for the next two weeks. This means petrol will sell at about ¢15 per litre, whilst diesel will go for over ¢17 per litre. According to the IES, the rise in domestic ...