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Former Minister for Roads and Highways, Inusah Fuseini has charged Members of Parliament (MP) to summon the Roads and Highways Minister, Kwesi Amoako Atta, to the House to answer questions on his directives on the closure of tollbooths in the country. Alhaji Fuseini said the action constitutes a financial loss to the state and recklessness, and the Minister, according to ...

Anglogold Ashanti Ghana, Obuasi Mine has donated items worth GH¢122,120 to eight districts in the Ashanti Region in support of this year’s National Farmer’s Day celebrations. The beneficiary districts include the Obuasi Municipal, Obuasi East, Adansi Asokwa, Adansi North, Adansi South, Adansi Akrofuom,  Amansie West and Bekwai Municipal. In a short ceremony to present the items to Agric Directors of the ...

The perilous steel bridge on the Akyem Etwereso to Akyem Oda road in Akyemansa district in the Eastern region has been awarded to contract by the Department of feeder roads. The steel bridge constructed decades ago is on the verge of collapse hence shut down by the department of feeder roads to avert disaster. Commuters from Etwereso therefore use Ayirebi ...

The Chief Executive Officer of Afb Ghana, operators of Qwikloan services on MTN has hinted that it would cease to exist in a year if the proposed electronic transaction levy (e-levy) is implemented in its current form. The 1.75% tax on electronic financial transactions was proposed in the 2022 budget statement presented before Parliament by the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, ...

Professor Akwasi Osei, a member of the National Coalition for Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Values, has stated that homosexuality is an abnormal behaviour, mostly learned and not biologically determined. Prof Osei, who is also the Chief Executive Officer of the Mental Health Authority, said the argument that “homosexuality is normal” was, therefore, not tenable. Prof Osei stated this ...

Member of Parliament for Obuasi West, Kwaku Kwarteng, has said issues regarding the 2022 budget statement should be the topmost agenda for Parliament today Tuesday November 30. He said the budget is the most important issues at the moment hence it has tp be part of the business of parliament today as the Majority and Minority meet to deliberate on ...

The Office of the Speaker of Parliament has explained that the recent trip to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) by Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin for a routine medical check-up is part of his conditions of service. The trip was embarked upon just a day after he ruled to reject the 2022 budget statement and government’s economic policy under controversial circumstances. ...

Former Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu has said parliament’s rejection of the government’s 2022 budget was self-inflicted. According to Mr Amidu the Parliamentary vote of rejection of the 2022 budget demonstrates what the arrogance of power and impunity can do to any Government that takes the electorate for granted. He said the Akufo-Addo-led government has become infested with arrogance and impunity ...

Founder of now-defunct uniBank, Dr. Kwabena Duffuor, has opened up about his struggles with the revocation of his bank’s license. “It was a big blow but I was lucky and the family was behind me. [It was a] very painful experience but I understood it,” he said on Citi TV’s Point of View. Dr. Duffuor, a former Finance Minister and ...

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 ...