The Supreme Court yesterday dismissed an application filed by Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu that sought to compel the Attorney General (AG) to enforce the judgment of the court and retrieve the €47 million fraudulently paid to Waterville Holdings (BVI) Limited, a company belonging to businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome and others. The five-member panel presided over by Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie and ...

The President of National Association of Local Authorities of Ghana (NALAG), Bismark Baise Nkum, has stated emphatically that the December 17 Referendum is not going to pave way for the election of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives contrary to widely held public perception. “Let me use this opportunity to clear a certain misconception that the referendum is meant to ...

As part of the Year of Return and the visit of H.E, the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to Barbados in June this year, the Prime Minister of Barbados, H.E. Mia Mottley, arrives in Ghana today for a 3-day visit. The visit also forms part of the bilateral discussions started during the President’s visit to Barbados. She will be in ...

The love that existed between Afrobeats artiste, Kelvyn Boy and his former boss, Stonebwoy, was so deep that when news of their separation broke about two months ago, it did not go down well with their fans. The matter generated a lot of discussion with some industry players suggesting the two could work through their issues but for Kelvyn Boy’s ...

Following concerns over the absence of road projects for the Volta Region in the 2020 budget, Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo-Maafo says there was a mistake in the document. “It was obviously a mistake,” the Minister explained on the Citi Breakfast Show on Thursday noting that he was also taken aback by the omission. A Deputy Finance Minister, Charles Adu Boahen, ...

As the dust begins to settle over the 2020 budget, critical questions are being asked of the government’s expenditure document, which was submitted to Parliament for approval Wednesday by the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta. National Democratic Congress’ Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, is questioning the equitable distribution of the national cake over the 16 administrative regions in ...

Ghanaians woke up to a brand new single from versatile actress Emelia Brobbey titled, Fame Ko on Tuesday, November 12, leaving many wondering whether she had quit acting for music. Graphic Showbiz contacted Emelia Brobbey and she said she strongly believed in versatility, “I believe in versatility, I am just following my passion. I want to be called an artiste, ...

Some aggrieved customers of collapsed financial institutions in Ghana who are yet to retrieve their funds have threatened to destabilize the country even if part of their funds are paid. They are demanding full payment of their locked-up funds. Anything short of that, they note, will leave them with no other option than to turn the country upside down even ...

A senior economist and research fellow with the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) Dr John Kwakye has bemoaned the cost of government’s flagship programs on the economy. According to him, programs such as the Free SHS, ‘One village, one dam’ among others have become major financial constraints on the state. Reacting to the budget statement read by the Finance minister ...

Ghanaians on social media have taken a swipe at the finance minister, Ken Ofori-Atta for his ‘880,000 million farmers’ blunder at the recent 2020 budget presentation in parliament. The quoted figure as contained in the full budget statement dubbed “Nkosuo ne Nkabom budget, was released by the finance ministry Wednesday, November 13, 2019 after the minister read to the house ...