Author Archives: larryehu

NPP bans T-shirts, billboards at confab grounds

The Ashanti Regional branch of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has served notice that billboards and paraphernalia advertising some personalities seeking to lead the party in the 2024 general elections, will not be tolerated at the party’s delegates’ conference slated for 17 to 20 December 2021. The party has warned that the wearing of T-shirts bearing the portraits of ...

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A Year On: ‘Wannabe dictator’ Akufo-Addo won 2020 polls on ‘bloody alter of violence’ – NDC

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has described President Akufo-Addo’s style of governance as one dominated by intolerance, violence and machoism. In a message to commemorate the first anniversary of the 2020 election, the NDC said it recalls, with sadness and sorrow that eight Ghanaians were needlessly murdered by agents of the state under the ultimate control of the presidency during ...

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We’ll block attempts to evade E-levy – Ofori-Atta

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta says government will take measures to block attempts by individuals to evade the E-levy proposed in the 2022 budget. According to him, E-levy is currently the best option to draw in more people into the tax bracket. “On the matter of the E-levy, having regard to its serious fiscal implications, we will continue our consultations with ...

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E/R: ECG shuts down Somanya office, runs to Juapong for safety

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has shut down its office in Somanya in the Yilo Krobo District of the Eastern Region due to safety concerns. This was announced by the Managing Director of ECG, Mr Kwame Agyemang, on Monday, 6 December 2021, at a press conference in Tema. The office, which was shut down on Wednesday, 1 December 2021, ...

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Minority ‘shamelessly sold out’ in ‘unholy compromise’ with Majority under ‘consensus-building smokescreen’– Amidu

The Minority Caucus in parliament, in the view of ex-special prosecutor Martin Amidu, “has now specialised in Orwellian doublespeak deceptions” and “shamelessly compromised” itself and “sold out on the rejected 2022 budget”. In his latest article on the budget stalemate – rejection by a Minority Caucus-alone parliament and subsequent approval by a Majority Caucus-alone parliament – the former attorney general ...

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Full details: Ofori-Atta’s modification to the 2022 budget

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has revealed he has written to the Speaker of Parliament over his modifications of portions of the controversial 2022 budget following public reaction. Below are details of the letter: “Mr. Speaker, I hereby write to confirm the details of these modifications: i. with regards to Agyapa Royalties Ltd, we shall amend paragraphs 442 and 443 to ...

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Minority’s ‘budget fight’ forces gov’t to allot GHS10m to sea defence project

The government of Ghana has apportioned GHS10 million cedis for feasibility studies on the sea defence project in coastal areas affected most by erosion, including the coastal belt of the Volta Region, where some 6,000 locals were recently displaced by tidal waves. At a press conference on Monday, 6 December 2021, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta said the government is exploring ...

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Park your car if you don’t want to be vaccinated – Nsia Asare to drivers

Presidential Advisor on Health, Dr Anthony Nsia Asare, has justified the mandatory vaccination exercise introduced by the Ministry of Health and the Ghana Heath Service. He said the government is determined to the lives of Ghanaian against the dreaded coronavirus hence the scaling up of the vaccination exercise. Healthcare workers, security personnel, staffs of schools and all staffs of government ...

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Standoff in Parliament a failure of leadership – Agyeman-Duah

A former Senior Governance Adviser at the United Nations, Prof. Baffour Agyeman-Duah says the ongoing impasse between the Majority and Minority in Parliament over the 2022 Budget is preventable. Speaking to Francis Abban on Morning Starr Thursday, Prof. Agyeman-Duah stated that the current composition of Parliament should inform the government on how to deal with issues in the House. According ...

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$1m Police emergency fund coming – Dampare assures officers

The Inspector General of Police Dr. George Akuffo Dampare has disclosed to personnel of the Service plans to introduce a one million dollar Police emergency fund to cater for officers who sustain injuries in the line of duty. According to the IGP, the fund was triggered by his own experiences with officers who were injured in the line of duty ...

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