Business News of Sunday, 28 August 2022 The British High Commissioner to Ghana, Harriet Thompson, has stated that for government to employ cost-cutting measures, ruling out refreshments from meetings will be “an important place to start”. According to her, it is one measure that her country adopted when it had to tighten its budget. She also stated that this will ...

General News of Monday, 29 August 2022   UK High Commissioner, Harriet Thompson, has downplayed the possibility of a coup d’état in the country amid an economic crunch. In an interview on Accra-based Joy News on Sunday, August 28, she said she will be surprised if a military takeover should happen, adding that Ghana like other countries the world over ...

General News of Monday, 29 August 2022 Source: www.ghanaweb.com Perception of Supreme Court being ‘Unanimous FC,’ threat to democracy – Mahama warns John Dramani Mahama, former president and 2020 flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress, NDC, has cautioned against a rife perception of the Judiciary being politically biased. He holds that there is an urgent need for the judiciary – especially ...

Members of the Council of State are not happy about the current state of the economy and the difficulties being experienced by Ghanaians but has however expressed optimism after a meeting with officials from the Bank of Ghana and finance ministry, the Council’s Chair, Nana Otuo Siriboe II, has said. The meeting, which was held behind closed doors, had Minister of ...

Hopeson Adorye, a member of the governing New Patriotic Party, has lambasted a sitting Member of Parliament, over comments the latter has made relative to the party’s upcoming presidential flagbearership contest. The MP in the line of fire is Abuakwa South lawmaker, Samuel Atta Akyea, who has in recent times advocated that the NPP needed not to hold a contest ...

There are hardly any doubts in Ghana today about the unbearable hardships that citizens are facing and the many calls on the leadership of the country to help ameliorate these economic downturns. The situation has heightened so much that practices that hitherto were more prevalent in election years, or periods close to general polls, have become the “norm’ in some ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has commissioned the Volta River Authority’s 13 megawatt (13MW) Solar Power Project, a project whose sod he cut in February 2020. According to President Akufo-Addo, the Project, which is the first phase of what will, eventually, be a 28 megawatt (28MW) plant at Kaleo, and reiterates Government’s commitment to diversify further the country’s energy generation ...

Last week, the founder and leader of the United Progressive Party, Akwasi Addai alias ‘Odike’, incurred the wrath of the Manhyia Palace. Manhyia performed rituals to banish Odike, claiming he sought to wage a rebellion against Otumfuo Osei Tutu II and the entire Ashanti Kingdom. The rituals, which included the slaughtering of a live ram and the pouring of libation, were also ...

Nana Fredua says Ghanaians should stop pointing fingers at President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and his government when expressing concerns about the economic challenges in Ghana. According to him, Ghanaians are their own problems. This, he explained, citing incidents of Ghanaian employees who instead of focusing on working to better their lives and the country, rather resort ...

A leading member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Volta Region, Mawutor Agbavitor, has entreated the party’s supporters who have not yet acquired the Ghana Card to do so without any further delay. “This is to ensure the total absence of obstacles in our path to victory in the 2024 elections,” he said. Mr Agbavitor said in an ...