Politics

1,730  The Member of Parliament for Pru East, Dr. Kwabena Donkor has threatened to take legal action against the Ghana Highways Authority over the poor state of the Ejura-Yeji highway. The lawmaker contends that the stretch is riddled with deep potholes threatening the lives of commuters and creating discomfort due to the long hours spent […]

1,649  The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) has secured a court order to seize vehicles suspected to have been stolen and smuggled into the country. The freezing order from the court, according to EOCO, would enable it to seize 95 more vehicles in addition to 41 others seized earlier in collaboration with the US […]

1,885  The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has distanced himself from a letter written in his name by James Keck Osei, a Director of Administration in his office over a request for clearance of some 15 containers loaded with bags of rice from the Tema Port. Per a letter from the Vice President’s Secretariat signed […]

1,796  Convener of the Individual Bondholders Forum, Senyo Hosi, has called on Ghanaians to be more patriotic and selfless towards national issues. Speaking in relation to the government’s domestic debt exchange programme and the consequent pushback it suffered from primarily middle class individuals in the country, he noted that the unionizing of the middle class […]

4,628  The Ministry of Finance has revealed that it has successfully swapped GH₵‎82,994,510,128 worth of old bonds from a possible GH₵‎ 97,749,624,691 under the domestic debt exchange programme. The amount represents an 84.91% success rate exceeding the Finance Ministry’s intended target of an 80 percent participation rate. Meanwhile, the government has extended the settlement date […]

1,891  Convener of the Individual Bondholders Forum, Martin Kpebu, says the government’s domestic debt exchange programme has been a rude political awakening to most middle class Ghanaians. According to him, the middle class – who are fond of staying on the fence in issues of national discourse – have had no choice but to take […]

1,930  The spokesperson of the National Democratic Congress, Sammy Gyamfi, has blamed the country’s economic misfortunes on the leadership of the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia. According to him, the Veep is the ‘chief architect of Ghana’s economic woes’. Sammy Gyamfi said this in reaction to excerpts from a video which shows the senior minister, […]

1,702  Former Chief Justice Sophia Akufo has fired back at the President’s cousin, Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, describing him as a “disturbance.” The former CJ who picketed the Finance Ministry again on Tuesday said she is busy with life and “I don’t have time for things like that. People like that are not important to me […]

1,723  The attention of the Minority in Parliament has been drawn to a statement issued by the Ministry of Energy, which seeks to vilify former President John Dramani Mahama and denigrate his contribution to the upstream petroleum sub-sector of the Country. For a government that has supervised the worst era in Ghana’s oil and gas […]