Former President John Dramani Mahama also told Ghanaians that his administration was not going to seek support from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) but he made a U-Turn to seek a bailout from the Fund, a Deputy Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Abdul Kamal Deen, has said. He made this comment on the Big Issue with Roland ...

Former President John Dramani Maama has visited the National Chairman of his party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to commiserate with him and his family on the loss of their mother, Madam Mary Gyawubea Badu. Accompanied by a former Chief of Staff Julius Debrah, Mr. Mahama expressed his condolences to the bereaved family and signed a book of condolence opened ...

The immediate past Ghana Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia under the erstwhile National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration, Alhaji Said Sinare, has announced his decision to withdraw from the party’s upcoming national vice chairmanship contest. His aide, Mr. Japhet Festus Gbede announced this in a Facebook post which has subsequently been confirmed by Alhaji Sinare in an interview with ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has indicated that Ghana’s economy has, in the past few years, moved from one crisis to the other. This, he said, has resulted in the most debilitating living conditions in several decades. Within a space of ten months, he indicated, the currency has depreciated by over 62% against the US$, which he said, is the highest ...

The delay in the 2023 budget presentation by the Finance Minister is not surprising, Deputy Director of International Affairs of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Fred Agbenyo, has said. In his view, the government is clueless and bereft of ideas therefore, has nothing to present to Ghanaians. On Thursday November 3 the Majority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu announced to journalists that ...

All the MPs in the New Patriotic Party Caucus in Parliament want Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta out of office, according to Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu. After a recent meeting, the Suame MP said the whole caucus now supports calls for the Finance Minister to resign or be sacked. “Even though the issue started with a group of 80-plus, the caucus ...

The Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations has invited to a meeting teacher unions threatening to embark on a strike if the appointment of the new Director-General for the Ghana Education Service (GES) is not reversed. Three teacher unions had vowed to lay down their tools following the appointment of Dr. Eric Nkansah as the Director-General of the GES. They ...

Programmes Director of the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana, Dr Charles Nyaaba has expressed doubt that food prices will go down in December. This is due to the challenges farmers are going through including high cost of doing business, he said. Dr Nyaaba told TV3’s Roland Walker on the Big Issue, Friday November 4 that “depending on the commodities, food ...

A former Director General of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) Dr Nii Moi Thompson has called for the amendment of the Bank of Ghana Act in order to make economic growth and job creation the main objectives of the monetary policy. In his view, the current approach to monetary policy is anti-growth and anti-jobs therefore, the Act must be ...

Mr Ken Ofori-Atta has assured Ghanaians that they have a Finance Minister who has gone through the aches and pains and nobody can really come and say the team managing the economy does not know what they are doing. Speaking at a meeting with the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) in Accra on Thursday November 3, he assured businesses that ...