POLITICS

A Professor at the University of Ghana Business School, Lord Mensah has asked the government to give Ghanaians tax incentives in the mid-year budget review following the rising rate of inflation which currently stands at 29.8 per cent in June 2022, up from the 27.6 per cent recorded in May same year. Prof Lord Mensah said he also expects that ...

Vice President of Imani Africa, Mr Bright Simons has said, ahead of the mid year budget review by the Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta today Monday, July 25, the Minister must admit failings with some of the policies that were resisted in Parliament especially the e-levy. Speaking in an interview with TV3 ahead of the budget review, on Thursday July ...

The government will use the mid-year budget review (MYBR) to be presented Monday, July 25 to rally the nation behind a prospective programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that is intended to improve upon the country’s balance of payment (BOP) and fast track the economic recovery. It would also use the opportunity to call for a non-partisan support for ...

A leading member of the National Democratic Congress, Ambassador Daniel Ohene Agyekum, says the government has no justification for tampering with the tomb of the late former President Prof. John Evan Atta Mills. According to him, the government has committed sacrilege in altering portions of the tomb without the express authority of the late President’s family. A renovation exercise executed ...

Former Speaker of Parliament Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye has challenged the government to focus on saving and investing in local industries as a solution to challenges in the economic situation in the country. Speaking as a guest of honour at the 60th anniversary launch of the University of Ghana Political Science Department Friday, July 22, the statesman noted that it ...

The Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta will be presenting the 2022 mid-year budget review in Parliament today, Monday July 25. The presentation will take place at 1PM. The budget review is expected to centre on the move to go to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other issues. Ahead of the budget review, analyst including the Vice President of Imani Africa, ...

The Minority Leader of Parliament, Hon. Haruna Iddrisu has revealed that the minority group in Parliament is working together with the President Akufo-Addo to salvage and save the Ghanaian economy and more importantly to avoid Ghana sinking into a Sri Lanka situation. Haruna Iddrisu who was speaking at the end of a recent workshop by the Minority Caucus in the ...

Former General Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party Kwabena Agyapong has called on Ken Ofori-Atta to quit his job for taking Ghana to the IMF. According to him, it is untenable for the Finance Minister to continue to hold office all he said about the IMF and the decision of the previous government to enter a program with the ...

Politics has been said to be “a game of finding out where the procession is going, and getting at the head of the line” (Lovett, 1926). Politics is also an adventure of a bewildering array of surprises and requires an extraordinary capacity to handle a rollercoaster of emotions largely associated with electoral victories and defeat. The New Patriotic Party’s National ...

Prophet Kumchacha questions why the government does not turn to these “spiritual” men (voodoo) who claim to provide financial relief for money. Prophet Nicholas Osei, known as Prophet Kumchahca, rued the frequency with which these con men under the disguise of juju (voodoo) swindle gullible Ghanaians out of their hard-earned money. He held our leaders and authorities responsible for the ...