POLITICS

The Electoral Commission has described as erroneous and unfortunate comments by the Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, which sought to attack the integrity of the commission. According to the EC, claims that it has received Personal protective equipment from the government are completely false. EC’s response comes after Haruna Iddrisu questioned the commitment and competence of the Chairperson of the Electoral ...

During the lockdown in parts of Ghana some weeks ago, there were numerous reports accusing the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) of sharing hot meals meant for vulnerable persons along political party lines. Dr Zenator Rawlings a member of the opposition National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) who is also a Member of Parliament (MP) for Korle Klottey accused the government of ...

Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has said government has taken the rebuttal from the opposition NDC addressing the President’s comments that critics of governments Covid-19 fight are doing so for ‘Political Survival, in good faith. The Chairman of the NDC’s COVID-19 team Prosper Bani described as unfortunate claims by the President that critics of government’s efforts at controlling the spread ...

The Country Representative of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to Ghana Dr. Albert Touna Mama has said that economic figures are generated from reports and that one needs to read full reports to understand different economic figures which have been presented. Speaking on Joy FM’s news analysis programme News File on Saturday to clarify allegations of falsification of figures to ...

The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), in a unanimous decision, has picked the Constituency Chairman, Dr. Emmanuel Okumi Andoh as the party parliamentary candidate for Ahanta West in the Western Region. The party in the Ahanta West elected late the George Kwame Aboagye as their 2020 parliamentary candidate in 2019 but he unfortunately met ...

The data published by the IMF on the macro-fiscal situation of Ghana is the true state of the Ghanaian economy, Business School Lecturer, Professor John Gatsi has said. According to him, whiles Ghanaians know the fiscal deficit to Gross Domestic Product in 2019 to be 4.5%, the Fund knows the true state of the budget deficit in 2019 as 7.5%. ...

The Ministry of Finance has said widespread reports that it shared different figures with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and to Parliament in the process of contracting the US$1 billion rapid loan facility are false and misleading. In a statement issued by the official website of the ministry, www.mofep.gov.gh said, “Our attention has been drawn to a publication by fact-checkghana.com ...

Popular Communications strategist and social media influencer Raymond Ablorh has praised the appointment of Mr Peter Mac Manu as campaign manager of the governing New Patriotic Party(NPP)2020 Elections Campaign, noting that he understands elections and how to steal them. Reacting to news that Mr Mac Manu has been reappointed manager of the NPP 2020 Elections Campaign, Mr Ablorh( known widely ...

Majority Leader has expressed fear for parliament over the lack of quality of persons who get the opportunity to be parliamentarians. Out of the 275 MPs we have in parliament, only 20 of them are keen on the legislative work of the House. “We don’t have more than 20 MPs who follow the legislative work of parliament. This is troubling.” ...

More than 200,000 Micro, small and medium Enterprises are expected to benefit from the GH¢600 million COVID-19 Alleviation Programme (CAP) Business Support Scheme. Mrs Kosi Yankey-Ayeh, the Executive Director of the National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI), who announced this at a briefing at the Ministry of Information, on Thursday, said steps were being taken to operationalise the scheme ...