Ghana Toll booth workers have lauded Parliament especially the minority side for boldly rejecting the 2022 Budget Statement and Economic Policy by the government. They have described the position taken by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Members of Parliament against the government policy statement as reasonable which reflects on the interest of the masses. Any attempt by the government to ...

In 2009, President Mills turned to Dr. Kwabena Duffuor to lead Ghana’s economic renaissance, recovery and rebuilding. His main task was to make the economy work for the middle class, lower class and the ordinary Ghanaian. Dr. Duffuor’s sound economic policies as Finance Minister yielded results and the economy was rescued and placed on proper footing through creation of jobs ...

A former Finance Minister under the erstwhile President John Evans Mills administration, Dr Kwabena Duffuor has admonished the government to focus on Technical and Vocational Training (TVET) as it is the only effective solution to rising youth unemployment in Ghana. “The neglect of technical and vocational training over the years might have contributed to the high unemployment and rising poverty ...

Ghana Premier League side, Berekum Chelsea have announced the appointment of Benard Amofa Jantuah and Gifty Oware Mensah as President and Vice President of the club respectively. The club announced the appointments on their social media handles today. “ ‘ . .” A statement on the club’s official handle read. Football administrator, Nana Kwame Nketiah was the President of the ...

The Ghana Premier League had some exciting and mouthwatering games this weekend. Records were set and broken this weekend as the various teams were in the quest to grab all three points. WAFA have picked up their first win of the Ghana Premier League this season, in what was their 5th game. In their first four games, they played against; ...

The former Minister of Finance, Dr Kwabena Duffuor has revealed that more than half of Ghanaians in employment are earning a very low income. According to him, a low rate of formal employment would affect the government’s revenue generation, particularly with taxes adding that there is a high incidence of underemployment affecting 21.4% of the employed population. “Among the employed ...

Some private security men guarding the newly built Kumasi-Kejetia market in the Ashanti region have threatened to lock up the entire market over unpaid salaries. The scores of aggrieved workers of Lesbena Security Company say they have not been paid for the past four months, making life unbearable for them. Speaking to the media, the leader of the group, Mr ...

Former Finance Minister Dr Kwabena Duffuor has said he was able to assist the late Professor John Evans Atta Mills to reduce unemployment rate from the time Prof Mills became President in 2009 to 2012. But, he said, the rate started increasing from 2013 to 2015, the period that Former President John Dramani Mahama was in office. Delivering a public ...

Chelsea’s Senegalese goalkeeper Edouard Mendy is confident he can win the Lev Yashin award for Europe’s best goalkeeper when the Ballon d’Or gala takes place on Monday night. The 29-year-old is one of the ten goalkeepers in contention for the prize, with only Paris Saint-Germain’s European Championship-winner Gianluigi Donnarumma up for the main Ballon d’Or trophy itself. Nonetheless, Mendy – ...

Former Finance Minister, Dr Kwabena Duffuor, has rejected the proposed E-levy in the 2022 budget statement. Apart from this levy destroying the digitalization agenda, he said, it will also be characterized by serious implementation challenges. Delivering a public lectyuer in Accra on Monday November 29, he said “It is now well known that Ghana is facing a large infrastructure deficit ...