POLITICS

The District Chief Executive nominee for Achiase in the Eastern Region has been rejected by the Assembly. The renominated DCE, Richmond Kofi Amponsah polled 13 out of 22 valid votes cast in a confirmation election conducted by the Electoral Commission on Monday, September 27, 2021. The renomination of the DCE who is Dean of Municipal and District Chief Executives in ...

The government has announced that it has started the process of procuring a new bigger presidential jet. Communications Director at the Presidency, Eugene Arhin speaking to Journalists on Monday revealed that the Interior Minister has already commenced the process to acquire the new jet to save the country from costs. “You would recollect that when the government of President Kufuor ...

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) will hold its 102nd press briefing on Monday September 27. This was announced by the central bank on Friday September 24. The MPC started its 102nd meeting on September 22, 2021 and concluded Friday September 24. The Monetary policy Committee is responsible for initiating proposals for the formulation of the monetary policies of the ...

The International Labour Organization (IL0) is partnering the Ghana Federation(GFL) and its affiliates to develop strategies for the protection of the welfare of Ghanaian workers. The 4-year partnership which will kick start with a capacity building workshop for the GFL and its affiliates is expected to end with a strong resolution to revive trade unionism in the country. This outstanding ...

Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has signed a US$1.5billion Pre-export Syndicated Finance agreement with a consortium of local and international financial institutions to finance cocoa purchases for the 2021/2022 Cocoa Season. The facility, which was contracted at a competitive interest rate plus LIBOR of 1.10%, a marked improvement upon last year’s 1.75%, will also be used to finance operational activities within ...

The Paramount Chief of the Kumawu Traditional Area, Barima Safo Tweneboah Kodua, has lamented the delay in the completion of the Sekyere Afram Plains district hospital. He said the failure to complete the facility is denying his subjects quality health care. Barima Safo Tweneboah Kodua at the visit of the minority group on the health committee in parliament on a nationwide inspection of the ...

Government has announced plans to assign Spokespersons and Press Secretaries for Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Chief Executives across the country. According to information minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, this will enable MMDCEs to focus on their core job and also help them provide timely and adequate information to the public. The information minister made this known when he met journalists in ...

A former Chairman of the Electoral Commission (EC), Dr Kwadwo Afari-Gyan is concerned that if the Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) is made a statutory body with its functions backed by law, it will amount to an interference with the commission’s work. This, he said, will be in contravention of the constitutional provision which guarantees the independence of the Electoral Commission. He made ...

Former National Organizer of the largest opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Yaw Boateng Gyan, has hit back at those who believe he has personal scores to settle with the twice-defeated Presidential Candidate of the NDC, John Dramani Mahama, asking his critics to first find out if the former president is “pro-Yaw Gyan”. Mr Boateng Gyan, who confess his support for ...

Since 2017, we have argued against the change of fiscal accounting by the current government in treating ‘exceptional’ expenditure items and arrears as a footnote. In particular, it has used this approach to account for the banking and energy sector bailout costs. In fact, in the case of the energy sector costs it has even skipped the footnote treatment and ...