POLITICS

Pollster Ben Ephson has warned that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) will be doomed if its proposal to elect a presidential candidate two years ahead of an election while in office is adopted. The Managing Editor of Daily Dispatch newspaper said “it will be worse off” for the NPP because it will create cracks within the party ahead of the ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appealed to Ghana’s diplomat, Mohamed Ibn Chambas to assist the Authority of Heads of States of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to restore Guinea to constitutional rule. Mr Akufo-Addo who is also Chair of the ECOWAS admitted that the task to restore Guinea to democratic path is a sensitive one that ...

Parliament has adopted modifications to the 2022 budget statement and economic policy presented by Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta. The minister in a letter to parliament made some concessions such as GHC10 million provision for the Keta sea defence project, revision of Aker Energy, AGM Petroleum GNPC deal, withdrawal of the reviewed Agyapa deal from the budget among others. The minister ...

The Minority Leader in Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu has insisted that his side in the House will not support the introduction of the E-levy in the 2022 budget statement. Contributing to a debate on the floor of the House Tuesday December 7, he said “We are unable to support government and we will continue to oppose it.” His comments came just ...

North Tongu Member of Parliament Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has commended Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta for the measures that have been introduced in the budget statement to deal with tidal waves in Keta and other coastal areas. Mr Ofori-Atta has made budgetary allocations to complete feasibility studies for the coastal communities that have been affected by the tidal waves. Announcing adjustments to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...