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It took the intervention of the Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, to convince the minority members to stay in the chamber on Saturday to approve the budget estimates of the Ministry of Regional Reorganisation and Development, after swearing to boycott the process. The ministry had been allocated GH¢122.9 million in the 2019 budget for its operations in 2019 ...

Over $10 billion worth of Gold shipped out of Ghana between 2014 and 2016 unaccounted for, a report by the Civil Society Platform on Oil and Gas has said. According to the Chairman of the Civil Society platform, Steve Manteaw, failure by the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) to track the actual amount of gold exported from Ghana resulted in the ...

The Ntrubo Paramount Chief, Nana Tidibom Odamba II has strongly cautioned Ntrubos and settlers in the traditional area who intend to vote against the proposed split of the Volta Region. According to him, any resident in the Ntrubo Traditional Area who votes against the creation of the Oti Region will be cursed by the gods of the land. “We will ...

Ace journalists Manasseh Awuni Azure has lashed out at President Nana Addo-Dankwah Akufo-Addo, accusing him of superintending over corruption – a bane against which he vehemently campaigned against to win 2016 general election According to the one time West Africa Journalist of the Year prize-winner, President Akufo-Addo offered what he (Manasseh) described as ‘false hopes’ portraying him as incorruptible and ...

There was a brawl between Foreign Affairs Minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey and North Tongu MP Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa within the premises of parliament on Monday, 17 December 2018. The raucous exchange between the two lawmakers from either side of the house, ensued after Mr Ablakwa accused the government of allegedly inflating the cost ($12 million) of a six-bedroom residence for ...

Prices of petroleum products are expected to decline this week following the stability of the cedi against the major international trading currencies and reduction of world prices of fuel. Mr Pius Enam Hadzide, a Deputy Minister of Information, addressing journalists in a news briefing, in Accra on Sunday, said the prices of petrol would drop averagely by 5.8 percent, diesel ...

Government is awaiting validated macro-indicators or indices from the Statistical Service before it can fully wean itself from the IMF’s three-year extended credit facility programme, a parliamentary report has revealed. The country is in its final year of the US$918m credit deal signed in April 2015 to fix its economy dogged by high deficit, inflation and a troubling public debt. ...

It is very interesting the pattern of events in this country, Investigative Journalist, Manasseh Azure Awuni has noted. That drones will be a prioritized option for optimizing health delivery when ambulances are unavailable, that there will readily be available for the President and his Vice, ambulances for lunch purposes when some pregnant persons in labour have to virtually be rushed ...

Parliament has finally approved the drones for medical delivery deal after three failed attempts. The Ghana Health Service (GHS) introduced the deal to help deliver blood and essential medicines across the country, especially to rural communities. 102 MPs voted for the deal while 58 dissented. The GHS recently described the deal as extremely useful and called on all Ghanaians to ...

A lawyer and governance expert, Dr Eric Oduro Osae, has said his reading of the law makes it clear to him that ex-Presidents John Mahama, John Kufuor and John Rawlings can all contest for the high office of the land. Dr Oduro Osae says the six months administration led by Mr Mahama prior to contesting in the 2012 general elections ...