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Parliament will commence debate on the 2019 Budget Today, Tuesday, November 20. Members from the Majority and Minority will lock horns in the highly anticipated debate on the economic policy presented by the Minister of Finance, Mr. Ken Ofori–Atta last Thursday in Parliament. The Majority side will be represented by Chairman of the Finance Committee and MP for New Juaben ...

National Democratic Congress (NDC) delegates, who attended the 9thNational Delegates’ Congress of the party, struggled to decipher the speech of former President Jerry John Rawlings. Mr. Rawlings started the brief address at the Fantasy Dome of the Trade Fair Centre in Accra by first thanking God for safeguarding party members. The former president acknowledged the enthusiasm of the party members ...

The Universal Merchant Bank (UMB) has reported to the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) to investigate what is said to be a photoshopped written cheque book in the name of former President John Dramani Mahama. Two UMB cheques bearing the name of Mahama and issued to two candidates of the just ended National Democratic Congress, Joshua Akamba and Sammy Gyamfi, ...

Head of Grievance and Negotiations at the Fair wages Cornelius Yawson has cautioned government on the rolling out of policies in a ‘rush’, saying there is the need for adequate sensitization. He said this approach may stifle the country’s development, as so much money is invested into these policies, which end up unsustainable. Speaking to Starr Business he said “though ...

Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central the Honourable Kennedy Agyapong is alleging that a known big man in the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) is behind the land guard murder and beheading of an unknown man whose body has been deposited at the morgue, MyNewsGh.com can report. I am sad today, it has taken me the courage to come ...

Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo will hold a closed-door meeting with Asamoah Gyan and Andre Ayew over Black Stars captaincy row today (Tuesday), GHANAsoccernet.com understands. The crucial meeting will take place at the Jubilee House at 14:00GMT after the duo arrived in their native country following Ghana’s 2-0 win over Ethiopia in a 2019 AFCON qualifier. The Ghanaian leader is determined ...

Former Ghanaian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, James Emmanuel Kwegyir Aggrey-Orleans has died. He passed away at dawn on Monday, a statement from the Foreign Affairs Ministry confirmed. He was Ghana’s envoy to the UK from October 1997 to March 2001 J.E.K Aggrey-Orleans served in a number of other high-profile roles in his illustrious career including stints as Acting ...

The National Identification Authority (NIA) has dismissed claims by the General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia that the Authority has accepted the Voter ID card as one of the mandatory registration identity documents in the ongoing registration in the Adentan Municipality. Mr. Asiedu Nketia, who is being challenged by his deputy, Koku Anyidoho, for ...

Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta has promised that 2019 will be a take off year where government plans to execute projects to lift the nation to the next level. He said government would be able to raise enough resources to fund its ambitious programs in the 2019 Budget contrary to doubts by some analysts. He enumerated that government is expecting ...

The chances of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in winning the 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections do not depend on the new executives elected by the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) at its recently-held National Delegates Congress, Nana Obiri Boahen, Deputy General Secretary of the NPP, has said. According to him, whether or not the NPP will win ...