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Health Ministry responds to Auditor-General’s $81m Covid vaccine report

General News of Wednesday, 25 January 2023 Source: otecfmghana.com Kwaku Agyemang Manu, Health Minister The Ministry of Health has responded to the Auditor-General’s latest report on the government’s COVID-19 expenditure. In the report, the Auditor General noted that the Ministry of Health on behalf of the Government of Ghana paid an amount of $120,192,379.80 to UNICEF/VAT for the supply of vaccines, ...

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Government, GAB agreement reaffirms exclusion of individual bondholders from DDEP – Senyo Hosi

Senyo Hosi is a convener of the Individual Bondholders Forum The Individual Bondholders forum affirms the need to exclude individual bond holders from the debt exchange programme after an agreement was reached by the government and the Ghana Association of Bankers to offer some incentives to banks. According to a statement signed by their convener, Senyo Hosi, the bondholders stated ...

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Why Ato Forson is our new Minority Leader – Asiedu Nketiah explains

General News of Tuesday, 24 January 2023 Source: www.ghanaweb.com Haruna Iddrisu and Cassiel Ato Forson National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketiah has explained why the party has replaced key members of its leadership in Parliament. The NDC through its General Secretary Fifi Fiavi Kwetey wrote to the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, to announce replacement of ...

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FULL TEXT: Auditor-General’s report on government COVID-19 expenditure

Business News of Monday, 23 January 2023 Source: www.ghanaweb.com Johnson Akuamoah Asiedu, Auditor-General The Auditor-General has released a report on government’s expenditure made during the COVID-19 pandemic covering the period between March 2020 to June 2022. The special audit report has been prepared under Section 16 of the Audit Service Act, 2000 (Act 584) for submission to Parliament. It detailed the various expenditure made ...

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Test run on €125 million Kumasi Airport begins

Kumasi International Airport Test run for the €125 million newly-constructed Kumasi International Airport has begun, AviationGhana checks at the facility have revealed. The ongoing test run is imperative ahead of the operationalization of the facility for scheduled and charter flights sometime this year. The Kumasi Airport project comprises the extension of the runway from 1,981m to 2,300m that can accommodate ...

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Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu announces exit from parliament after 28 years

General News of Friday, 6 January 2023 Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, Majority Leader and MP for Suame Member of Parliament (MP) for the Suame constituency, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has announced that he will not be contest to return to the lawmaking chamber in the 2024 polls. The MP who is also the Majority Leader disclosed in an interview on Wontumi TV (January 3) ...

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