POLITICS

The Akufo-Addo-led government has managed to fix the economic challenges that were bedeviling the country, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has said. According to him, the policies and programmes put in place by the government have started yielding results to bring relief to Ghanaians. “In March when I presented the ‘Asempa’ budget, I indicated to this House our commitment to take ...

President Akufo-Addo ended his tour of the Greater Accra Region on Monday with a call on Ghanaians to keep hope alive. His reason was evident in an assurance he gave to the people: “Something good is coming.” That was when he addressed a durbar of chiefs and people of Ogbojo, near Adenta. It followed a request by the chiefs and ...

President Akufo-Addo has told the story of the stress he went through to eventually become the President of the Republic. This was when some chiefs in the Brong-Ahafo Region, led by the President of the BA Regional House of Chiefs, Pimampim Yaw Kagbresse V, paid a courtesy call on him at the Flagstaff House yesterday. Their mission was to, among ...

Education Minister Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh yesterday lambasted his predecessor, Professor Naana Jane Opoku Agyemang, describing her as an embarrassment and disgrace for piling up debts for the ministry. According to the current Minister of Education, “Her four-year tenure under John Mahama was an embarrassment.” Dr Opoku Prempeh, popularly called Napo, was livid about the conduct of the former minister. ...

Finance Minister Mr. Ken Ofori Atta will today [Wednesday], November 15, 2017, present the 2018 budget to lawmakers. The budget will be the second for the Akufo-Addo administration since it took over the administration of the country in January 2016. The Government has so far released a document titled The Key Policy Initiative Performance which spells out the various achievements ...

The Brong Ahafo Regional Youth Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Kwame Baffoe, popularly known as Abronye DC, has petitioned President Akufo-Addo to remove the Brong Ahafo Regional Minister, Mr Kwaku Asomah Cheremeh. In a petition, Mr Baffoe accused Mr Cheremeh of engaging in various corrupt activities which makes him unfit to occupy the ministerial position. He alleged ...

Parliament has passed the Special Prosecutor Bill making it an Act of Parliament. The bill was passed today, Thursday, November 14, after going through the various stages of the House. The Office of the Special Prosecutor is aimed at helping the government handle corruption-related issues among state officials in a nonpartisan manner. Per the Act, an independent prosecutor will head ...

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has left Ghana for a three-day official visit to Qatar. Whilst there, President Akufo-Addo, as co-Chair of the Group of Advocates of Eminent Persons of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, will attend the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), and deliver the keynote address on the theme “Asset over Burden ...

The Education Minister, Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh has descended heavily on his predecessor Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang describing her as an “embarrassment” and one who didn’t understand education. “Her four-year tenure under John Mahama was an embarrassment,” Dr. Opoku Prempeh told Kwadwo Asare-Baffuor Acheampong popularly known as KABA on Asempa FM on Tuesday, 14 November. According to the Manhyia South ...

Finance Minister Mr. Ken Ofori Atta will today [Wednesday], November 15, 2017, present the 2018 budget to lawmakers. The budget will be second the for the Akufo-Addo administration since it took over the administration of the country in January 2016. The budget is expected to focus on about 10 key areas including infrastructure, macroeconomic stability, job creation, agriculture, entrepreneurship, business ...