POLITICS

President Akufo-Addo has nominated Justice Gertrude Araba Esaaba Torkornoo as the new Chief Justice. The President in a letter to the Council of State on Tuesday, April 25, said her nomination is to avoid any vacuum that would occur following the retirement of the current Chief Justice Kwasi Anin Yeboah on May 24. “Chief Justice Kwasi Anin Yeboah is due ...

Businessman Senyo Hosi says the Akufo-Addo administration is pushing a chunk of Ghana’s financial liabilities to a future government through the new Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP) that has been presented to labour. Speaking on the Business Focus with Paa Kwasi Asare on TV3 Monday April 17, he said “You actually have a government now who is deffering a lot ...

Renowned US Professor of Economics, Steve Hanke has chastised Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta for mismanaging the Ghanaian economy. Professor Hanke who is a hard critic of Ghanaian authorities in a tweet was surprised about Mr Ofori-Atta’s position that he’s disappointed foreign lenders have been slow to act in supporting Ghana’s quest to get a programme from the International Monetary Fund. ...

Former Deputy Employment Minister Austin Akufo Gamey says the approach the Minister of Finance, Kenneth Nana Yaw Ofori-Atta, and the government, by extension, are using to implement the new debt restructuring programme “is not good enough”. “If I were the Minister of Finance, my approach will be 100 percent different from what they are doing now,” he said on Midday ...

Health Minister, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu is unhappy at what he describes as extortion by some service providers under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). He says poor subscribers who should be benefitting from the scheme are rather being overburdened and denied essential services they have already paid for under the scheme. “From the end-user point of view, it looks like the ...

Government Spokesperson on Governance and Security Palgrave Boakye-Danquah has apologised to the Ghana Union of Traders’ Association (GUTA) for the seeming snub by government in the rollout of the three new tax bills. GUTA’s President Dr Joseph Obeng had complained bitterly on TV3‘s New Day on Wednesday, April 19 about the neglect of them by government in the introduction of ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has written to the Council of State to reconsider its advice to the President concerning two of the three recently sworn-in members of the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC). The NDC adduced evidence that Dr Peter Appiahene and Hajia Salima Ahmed Tijani have deep roots within the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and cannot guarantee the neutrality ...

Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has assured the newly Enskinned Overlord of the Gonja State, Yagbonwura Bii-Kunuto Jawu Soale of the government’s commitment and support to his kingdom to ensure that the Savannah region is developed. “ I want to assure you that government will give you the utmost support for development in the region and this is why we ...

Vice President Dr Mahamud Bawumia and former President John Dramani Mahama say they are happy for the peace and unity in the Gonja Traditional Kingdom. The duo made these comments at the outdooring of the new King of Gonja in Damongo in the Savannah Region. The new monarch, Bikunuto Jewu Soale becomes the 34th Yagbonwura at Nyanget, the ancient capital ...

Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta has left Accra for China to have negotiations on debt restructuring with officials of that country. Sources say the Minister left over the weekend via Addis Ababa where he is attending the UNECA High-Level Ministers meeting on Global Financial Architecture. After that meeting, Mr Ofori-Atta is expected to head to China, possibly on March 22, ...