POLITICS

The Ghanaian economy is in a bad shape, former Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko has said. In his view, the country must admit that and then strategise to get out of the current situation. Mr Agyarko told Accra-based Asempa FM in an interview that: “The economy is not in a good place”. Lands For Sale In Acres at Aburi Amanfrom, Watch ...

Former Minister of Finance and Economic Planning Professor Kwesi Botchwey says Ghana’s current economy is showing semblance of what pertained in the early 1980s. That period witnessed one of the hardest times including a near famine in the country. Speaking at the launch of ‘The Children of House No. D13, South Suntreso Kumasi’, a book jointly authored by the Ahwois, ...

Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia on Wednesday, 15 June 2022, launched the GhanaPay mobile money service, the first bank-wide mobile money service by universal banks, rural banks, as well as savings and loans companies to individuals and businesses. The service, which operates like the existing mobile money service, also has additional banking services, and is opened to everyone with access to a ...

A former member of the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee of Parliament, Inusah Fuseini has appealed to Ghanaians to push for the establishment of a Public Vigilante Organization to ensure government officials comply with the asset declaration regime of the country. The former National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Tamale Central Constituency in the Northern Region was of ...

A survey indicates that 50 per cent of Dome Kwabenya constituents still prefer their embattled MP Sarah Adwoa Safo despite her protracted absence from parliament. The Global Info Analytics survey said 50.3 per cent of voters in Dome Kwabenya are ‘very likely or likely’ to vote for the incumbent MP. Some 30.6 per cent are ‘very unlikely or unlikely’ to ...

North Tongu Member of Parliament Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has said the Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has been running away from accountability. This comes after the planned address in Parliament by the Finance Minister on issues including the Covid expenditures was postponed on Thursday June 16. In a tweet reacting to this, Mr Ablakwa said “Anytime Ken Ofori-Atta must account to the Ghanaian ...

Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin has ruled that the House will not entertain any business from the Finance Ministry until the sector Minister Ken Ofori-Atta appears before the House to render an account on how the Covid-19 funds were utilized. Mr Bagbin said in the House on Thursday June 16 that a lot of questions have been asked about how ...

The Supreme Court has dismissed the review application of Member of Parliament for Assin North James Gyakye Quayson. The embattled lawmaker was seeking to have the apex court overturn restraining orders filed against him by private citizen Michael Ankomah Nimfah. Lead Counsel for the Assin North MP Tsatsu Tsikata prayed the court to “protect the judicial integrity of this court ...

An application by the embattled MP for Assin North, Mr James Gyakye Quayson, to have three of the five charges levelled against him dropped, has been dismissed by an Accra high court. The opposition legislator has Mr Tsatsu Tsikata as his lead counsel. The MP has been charged with “deceit of public officer” in contravention of section 251(b) of the ...

The British High Commissioner to Ghana Harriet Thompson says her tweet on the recent arrest of Oliver Barker-Vormawor over road traffic offense was not intended to incite Ghanaians as the Police response suggests. The Inspector General of Police in a strongly worded statement said the High Commissioner’s tweet amounted to interference in the internal security matters of Ghana. “We consider ...