The Attorney General, Gloria Akuffo has disclosed that cabinet in 2013 gave approval for the payment of GHC67m judgement debt to a private company, Construction Pioneers contrary to claims that payment was made without cabinet’s approval. In a 2016 auditor general report, it was purported that former Attorney General, Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong in 2015 paid an amount of GHC67,380,718.20 to ...

Joy News has responded to government’s statement on its latest documentary detailing the operation and training of a pro-government militia group at the Osu Castle. In a press statement to respond to the content of the documentary which was aired on Joy News on Thursday, Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah rubbished the findings. But JoyNews has a response. On Joy ...

Out of Twenty Three oil fields discovered in Ghana in the last 12 years, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) under John Agyekum Kufuor and Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo administrations combined, discovered just two though the party made the first discovery in 2007. On the other hand, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) under Professor John Evans Atta Mills and John Dramani ...

The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has dissociated itself from a militia group called De-Eye, which is alleged to be affiliated to the party. The NPP, in a statement, said it has no connection to the militia group. The statement comes on the heels of an exposé by investigative journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni on how the Osu Castle, a former ...

The Minority in Parliament is demanding the immediate resignation of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo over the Osu Castle Militia exposé arguing that he has lost every moral right to lead the country. Addressing the media following the exposé by Journalist Manesseh Awuni, the deputy minority leader, James Klutse Avedzi, charged the Inspector General of Police to arrest all the ...

The National Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo has admonished government to focus on arresting the cedi from further depreciating against dollar instead of him. According to him, the ongoing investigation into comments attributed to him in a leaked tape is deliberate to divert attention from President Akufo-Addo’s bad governance style. “These are diversionary tactics. We ...

The Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL), a state-owned company responsible for managing all airport facilities in the country, is financially constrained due to the high cost of the funds secured for constructing the state-of-the-art Terminal 3 at Kotoka International Airport (KIA). The B&FT on August 12, 2015 reported that the GACL had secured an amount of US$250million from a consortium ...

The Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Mike Oquaye has directed the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta to be in Parliament himself to answer questions filed by Members of the House. Prof. Mike Oquaye’s ruling follows the Minority’s insistence that the Minister and not his deputies be present to answer questions which mainly concern mobile money transactions and other details about the banking ...

Ghana’s Aviation Minister Joseph Kofi Adda has described the interest rate for the loan secured for the construction of the Terminal 3 at Kotoka International Airport as too much. In 2015, Ghana Airports Company Limited m interest rate of Libor plus 8.5%. The loan was approved by a consortium of banks led by Ecobank Capital. The Terminal 3 project at ...

The Speaker of Parliament, Prof.Mike Oquaye, has expressed concern about the posture of businesses in the informal sector which fail to pay taxes; maintaining that they are making life difficult for successive governments. Statistics from the GRA indicate that only 1.5 million of the expected six million taxpayers honour their tax responsibilities to the state, with 200,000 being from the ...