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Prez. Mahama orders fuel tax cuts, cheaper transport
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President John Dramani Mahama has ordered immediate interventions to shield Ghanaians from surging fuel prices, as global tensions in the Middle East continue to disrupt oil supplies and push up costs. The directive was issued following a Cabinet meeting in … Read more →
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Parliament divided over $300M loan facility
Posted on | CommentThere were renewed partisan debate between Minority and Majority MPs in Parliament on Tuesday after a contentious 300 million dollar loan facility thought by the Minority group to be fraudulent was considered and approved in Parliament. The loan will be … Read more →
Reshuffle: Ekwow Spio-Garbrah is now Minister for Trade and Industry and more
Posted on | CommentPresident John Dramani Mahama has nominated a former Chief Executive of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO), Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, as Minister for Trade and Industry. Mr. Spio-Grabrah will be taking over from Haruna Iddrissu (MP), who has been moved to the … Read more →
We need lottery to raise funds for sports – Minister of Youth and Sports
Posted on | 1 CommentThe Minister of Youth and Sports, Mahama Ayariga has requested the National Lotteries Authority (NLA) to support the Ministry to establish a Youth & Sports Lottery to raise funds for sports infrastructure development. A post on his Facebook page on … Read more →
Ministers run away, as confusion hits Flagstaff House
Posted on | CommentPresidential staffers at the Flagstaff House have been overawed and compelled to maintain tight-lips over the recent ‘Green Letter’ issued to them by President John Dramani Mahama, about their exit from government, DAILY GUIDE has gathered. Sources indicate that the topic has … Read more →
Prof. Mills’ “slow motion” far better than Prez Mahama’s “no notion” – Sammy Awuku
Posted on | CommentNational Youth Organizer of the opposition New Patriotic Party [NPP], Sammy Awuku, says it will be of great importance to many Ghanaians if President John Mahama rather steps down from the presidency in his attempt to restructure his government rather … Read more →
Finance Minister to present mid-year budget review tomorrow
Posted on | CommentFinance Minister Seth Terkper will this Wednesday present to Parliament a midyear review of the 2014 budget. Majority Leader Benjamin Kunbour announced this in Parliament last Friday as part of business for next week. The review could see government revise its macro-economic targets … Read more →
Speaker of Parliament blasts Mahama for displaying ‘bad faith’
Posted on | CommentIn what some Minority MPs have called a disappointing Presidential attempt to “stifle debate” in Ghana’s Parliament, Youth And Sports Minister, Mahama Ayariga, announced today that President John Dramani Mahama has issued a Constitutional Instrument, seeking to set up a … Read more →
Major shake-up in gov’t; Prez. Mahama signals
Posted on | CommentPresident John Mahama has alerted all his appointees, from the mighty to the minion, to brace themselves for “certain changes and/or re-assignments of portfolios in the Office of the President”. In letters signed by the Presidenthimself and given to the appointees including … Read more →
Governor of the Bank of Ghana says Ghanaians are unwilling to pay tax
Posted on | CommentThe Governor of the Bank of Ghana Dr. Kofi Wampah has blamed the country’s increasing public debt on Ghanaians unwillingness to pay tax. Addressing the journalists in Accra, he observed that “people are not willing to pay tax”. Meanwhile Ghana’s … Read more →
Ghana’s debt profile reaches GH¢58.4 billion
Posted on | CommentGhana’s debt profile reached GH¢58.4 billion, from GH¢52.1 billion at the end of March 2014. Between March and June this year alone, a total of GH¢6.3 billion was borrowed by the Mahama government. The current National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration … Read more →
Full text: Prez Mahama’s speech at 45th ordinary session of ECOWAS
Posted on | CommentHIS EXCELLENCY JOHH DRAMANI MAHAMAPRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF GHANA& CHAIRMAN OF THE AUTHORITY OF HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT OF ECOWASWELCOME ADDRESS45™ ORDINARY SESSION OF ECOWASMovenpick Hotel, AccraThursday, 10th July, 2014Excellencies Heads of States and Government.Excellency, the Vice President … Read more →
1st lady reacts to pestering Ministers & 5 cabinet members to resign story
Posted on | CommentHours after the Informer Newspaper, an Accra daily, published that it is reliably informed Ghana’s 1st Lady, Mrs. Lordina Mahama is involved in some negative activities; her office has come out to flatly deny the allegation. Hajia Zenab, spokesperson to … Read more →
K.T. Hammond says Asa B, other NPP presidential hopefuls are wasting their time
Posted on | CommentKobina Tahir Hammond, MP for Adansi Fomena in the Ashanti Region, has asked four New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential hopefuls to stop wasting their time. He is certain the four presidential office seekers, Stephen Asamoah Boateng (Asa B), Kofi Konadu … Read more →
Let’s pull resources together to fight Ebola – Prez. Mahama to ECOWAS leaders
Posted on | CommentPresident John Mahama has called on colleague Presidents in the West African sub-region to as a matter of urgency, pull resources together to fight the Ebola virus. The deadly virus has claimed the lives of about 500 people in three … Read more →
Prez Mahama should check his wife, otherwise… – Editor of the Informer Newspaper
Posted on | CommentBehind every successful man is a woman; and behind the actions that are going to bring President John Dramani Mahama’s government down, is a woman he is married to, so claims a self-confessed sympatizer of the ruling party.This observation made … Read more →
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