Industrialists, investors and Ghanaians alike await in anticipation as Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta reads the budget statement and financial policies for the third year in office of the Akufo-Addo administration. Key among what Ghanaians expect to hear are tariff reductions in electricity and water as well as price cuts in fuel considering assurances earlier averred by President Akufo-Addo to ...

Vice Chairperson of the National Democratic Congress and National Chairperson aspirant, Betty Mould-Iddrisu has described anti-northerners allegations made against her by Joseph Yammin as frivolous and lacking substance. The former Ashanti Regional Secretary, Joseph Yammin speaking at a Kumasi-based radio station described Betty Mould-Iddrisu as someone who has strong hatred for people of northern descent. According to Yammin, voting for ...

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta presented the 2019 Budget statement to Parliament amidst boos and skepticism from especially minority members in Parliament. As expected, Mr. Ofori-Atta was clad in his all white apparel as has become custom of the Finance Minister. The budget, themed; “A Stronger Economy, for Jobs and Prosperity” highlighted key achievements of the Akufo-Addo administration in the past ...

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta, is hopeful the railway sector will begin to show signs of recovery after several years of setback. According to him, development of railway infrastructure across the country is nearing completion for the sector to be relaunched. “We are confident, 2019 will witness the relaunch of the railway system in Ghana after some 50 years of ...

The Special Prosecutor’s Office will receive ¢180 million in 2019 to fight corruption, the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has disclosed. He said the move is in line with the government’s promise to fight corruption and the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, remains committed to seeing it through. “In this budget, the Special Prosecutor’s Office has been allocated an amount of ...

It has therefore warned registrants and staff of the Authority to desist from the act. The Authority warned that an applicant will be liable to prosecution in accordance with Section 40 of the National Identity Register Act, 2008 (Act 750) when she/he is found to have provided false or incorrect information. The Authority was reacting to a publication by The ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has asked Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives who are nursing their Parliamentary ambitions to resign voluntarily. According to him, the era MMDCEs neglected their core mandate and campaigned for votes ahead of Parliamentary primaries should be a thing of the past. The Ghanaian leader was addressing a workshop in Tamale organized by the Ministry ...

The High Court in Accra has ordered that an action brought against the General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Johnson Asiedu Nketia, be served on him via the media and on notice boards of the court for 14 days. This follows the difficulty of the plaintiff, Prof. Edward Dua Agyeman, to locate Mr Asiedu-Nketiah in order to ...

Owusu Afriyie Akoto, Minister for Food and Agriculture, has cut the sod for the construction of a $50million food processing plant in the Jasikan District of the Volta Region under the One District One Factory (1D1F) initiative. The construction and machinery installation of the plant sited on a 50-acre plot would be executed with German engineering and expected to provide ...

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has indicated that efforts of the current New Patriotic Party administration led by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to put the economy back onto the right track, is attracting lots of Foreign Head of States into the country “because they see Ghana as the future.” According to him, the implementation of social interventions and other pragmatic ...