POLITICS

The newly installed paramount queen mother of Sunyani Nana Akosua Dua Asor Sika Brayie II has led a delegation to pay a courtesy call on former President John Dramani Mahama. Nana Brayie II succeeded the late Nana Nyamaa Poduo II who passed away in 2019. The visit was to introduce the new queen mother and formally extend the delegation’s condolences ...

Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has said the Government of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo took the best decision to go to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for support given the circumstances the nation finds itself. He stated that the President has acted prudently to get the country out of the economic challenges. Speaking at the #3businesscolloquium organized by Media ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is chairing the task force for the engagement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has said. The Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta and his team are leading the data-sharing exercise during the engagements, he added. The data-sharing, he explained, will determine what Ghana is qualified for and what it is ...

Government has given the assurance that its flagship programmes including the Free Senior High School will not be canceled as the country goes to the International Monetary Fund for a bailout in its economic crisis. “Government assures Ghanaians that #FreeSHS and other important flagship programmes would not be canceled despite the state’s application for IMF support,” a statement on the ...

Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has said the government cannot admit that it has mismanaged the economy because that is not true. He said available data between 2017 and 2019 clearly indicate that the economy was doing well. Asked why it is difficult for managers of the economy to admit that there has been some level of mismanagement, while speaking ...

The Director of Communications for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Yaw Buaben Asamoa has said the decision to go to the International Monetary Find (IMF) will not lead to cancelation of the e-levy. He said the IMF programme will not replace Ghana’s revenue flows. Following the announcement that Ghana was seeking support from the IMF, some analysts including the Executive ...

The Akufo-Addo administration has mismanaged the economy hence, the challenges Ghanaians are facing at the moment, a private legal practitioner, Mr Gordon Edudzi Tameklo has said. He stated that the government has received ¢500billion in taxes, grants and loan however has very little projects to show for. Speaking on the New Day s with Johnnie Hughes on TV3, while contributing ...

The conditions that have compelled the Akufo-Addo administration to go to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for support are completely different from the situation that existed previously when Ghana went to the Fund in 2014/15, Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has said. He explained that it is not about the domestic economic management rather, it is about an international crisis-induced phenomena that ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo’s cousin, Mr Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, has said the minority caucus in parliament is to blame for the government’s resort to the International monetary fund for a bailout. “We had a major way of raising revenue which had been frustrated for six months. The point is: yes, there were challenges, but the government came up with its policies ...

Pressure Group, Arise Ghana has said Ghana’s resolve to seek economic bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) would not yield any positive results if the President and his government does not cut down on its profligate spending. “It is important to remind the government that until and unless, the President and his government makes a conscious effort to cut ...