The Member of Parliament for Bibiani-Anwhiaso-Bekwai, Alfred Obeng Boateng, has accused Ghanaians of betraying the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo-led administration.  According to him, after the government got the Electronic Transfer Levy (E-Levy) passed, Ghanaians stopped patronizing Mobile Money transactions. This, he believes, has contributed to the government’s unfulfilled promise of constructing more roads this year, he said in an interview ...

General News of Wednesday, 31 August 2022   The Minister for Roads and Highways, Kwasi Amoako-Attah, has stated that the electronic transaction levy would have aided the construction of roads in the country if the due support was given. The minister bemoaned the lack of funds as a contributing factor to the sector’s inability to embark on construction projects. According ...

General News of Wednesday, 31 August 2022 Lawyer Sam Okudzeto Lawyer Sam Okudzeto has defended embattled owner of Labianca Company, Eunice Jacqueline Buah Asomah-Hinneh, amid an Office of Special Prosecutor, OSP, report about her complicity in tax evasion transactions. In his defense, Okudzeto explained that Madam Asomah-Hinneh, was a Ghanaian first and foremost and had the right to engage in ...

General News of Monday, 29 August 2022 President Akufo-Addo has asked the Commissioner of the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Colonel Kwadwo Damoah (rtd), to hand over his duties to the acting deputy commissioner. In a letter signed by the Secretary to the president, Nana Bediatuo Asante, the notice of handing over is due to the expiration ...

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 ...