POLITICS

The Finance Minister, Mr Ken Ofori Atta is expected to present the budget statement for the 2022 fiscal year in Parliament, today Wednesday November 17. The budget is expected to outline job creation measures and efforts to support the teeming youth of this country. Financial analysts including the Dean of the Business School at the University of Cape Coast, Professor ...

The Finance Minister Mr Ofori Atta is expected to present the budget statement for the 2022 fiscal year in Parliament today Wednesday November 17. Earlier, he assured new graduates from the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA) and all Ghanaians youths across the country that the budget statement of the government will prioritize programmes that will support the youth become ...

Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has said the budget statement for the 2022 fiscal year will announce measures to support local industries. He also said there will be good news for road vehicle users as well. The Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta is expected to present the budget to Parliament today Wednesday November 17. In a Facebook post regarding this ...

North Tongu Member of Parliament, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has eulogized the late former Minister of Transport, Dzifa Aku Attivor. Madam Attivor died in the early hours of Tuesday, November 16 after a short illness, family sources said. She was first appointed into public office by the late Professor John Evans Atta Mills as a Deputy Minister of Transport in his government. She was promoted ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has made a cash donation of GH¢20,000 to families of 20 victims from Daboya who died in a road accident at Offinso-Aboffour in the Ashanti Region. The donation was made on behalf of the former president by former Agric Minister Alhaji Limuna Muniru. Seventeen people died on the spot in the accident that occured Monday, November ...

There was another no show at the Kaneshie District Court on Tuesday when the case between the Republic and Madina Member of Parliament, Francis Xavier Sosu, was called. The legislator failed to show up in court as he is still out of the jurisdiction on parliamentary duties. Magistrate of the Court, Oheneba Kuffour citing another letter from Speaker Alban Bagbin ...

Private legal practitioner and member of the communications team of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Gordon Edudzi Tameklo, has stated that for the benefit of hindsight the majority caucus in parliament should retract and render an apology to the people of Keta for the alleged picture of sand winning activities in the area that has resulted in the tidal wave. ...

The Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has described as falsehood claims by a section of Ghanaians that food prices have skyrocketed in the country. The Minister said statistics compiled by his office do not support such claims. “That is the wrong perception. The statistics that we compiled in this Ministry do not support that,” he said ...

A political analyst and lecturer at the Cape Coast University in the Central Region has given thumps up for the call for the leadership of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to prevail on the wife of the late former President Jerry John Rawlings to return to the fold of the party. Last week the daughter of the late former ...

The Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame, says it is surprising that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) would petition the police over allegations of vote pudding. According to him, the allegations of pudding involved only 6,000 votes, an issue which has been thrashed out by the Supreme Court. The NDC last week petitioned the police to investigate ...