POLITICS

The implementation of the Free Senior High School policy has saved and will continue to save the parents of beneficiary students thousands of Ghana cedis, Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia said. Speaking at the ongoing 4th National Policy Summit at Tamale on Monday 24th September, 2018, he said apart from making senior high school education accessible to several thousand more Ghanaian ...

A former minister of Finance Seth Terkper has said he saw prices of fuel going up moments when the New Patriotic Party government abolished the strategic stock policy. According to him, the policy was established by the previous administration to cushion the prices in times of shocks on the global market. Prices of fuel have ballooned to GhC5 per litre ...

Banda MP Ahmed Ibrahim has said President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s admission that Ghana is going through rough times is a vindication of claims by his critics that the economy is in a bad state. The Deputy Minority Whip told Katakyie Obeng Mensah on Accra100.5FM’s Ghana Yensom on Tuesday, 25 September that all aspects of the Ghanaian economy under the ...

Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta Monday laid six financial agreements in Parliament after the house was recalled for a 5-day sitting. They are; $40million financing agreement between government of Ghana (GoG) and International Development Association (IDA) of the World Bank Group to finance the proposed Tourism Development Project, $50million from the same institution to finance the Ghana Commercial Agriculture Project ...

International donors do not heavily invest in Ghana because they love us, former President Kufuor has said. Speaking at the graduation of the first batch of students of the Kufuor Scholars programme, the former President said the donors do what they do in a bid to promote their personal interests. He, therefore, emphasized the need for Ghana to strategically position ...

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has described as scary the performance of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) whilst in office, urging Ghanaians to reject them in election 2020 and subsequent polls. “The NDC in government after 8 years in office is one that Ghanaians could and should no longer tolerate,” Dr Bawumia said Monday at the ongoing National Policy ...

Four assemblies in the Upper East region have caused financial loss to the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) to an amount the agency is yet to reveal but says is “huge put together”. The four accused local government authorities include the Bawku West District, the Pusiga District, the Bawku Municipality and the Builsa North District. The UNICEF put ...

The Minister of Communication, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has taken a dig at the Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association (GIBA) for claiming that government intends to hand over Ghana’s Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) infrastructure to Chinese broadcasting firm, StarTimes to manage. Ursula said she has however pardoned members of GIBA. “There was a bit of confusion on their minds on what we were ...

Mr Daniel Kodjo Agboka Dzegede, Volta Regional Treasurer, National Democratic Congress (NDC), has stated the determination of the Party to “chart a new course” with the media to rebrand the NDC ahead of the 2020 general elections. “We are ready for a new relationship with the media. We want the media to work with us. We want the cordial relationship ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has described the depreciation of the cedi against the U.S. dollar and other major currencies, as well as the prevailing harsh economic environment, as a difficult situation requiring some degree of fortitude and firm action to deal with. The local currency has neared the GHS5: US$1 mark. The frequent increase in the price of fuel ...