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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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2019 Mid-year Review: Mobile tax to go up
Posted on | CommentPro-government newspaper, The Daily Statesman, has hinted that the Finance Minister will announce an increase in petroleum and mobile tax today. Ken Ofori-Atta, will address Parliament Monday morning to ask for more money to meet mainly urgent and priority infrastructural demands … Read more →
Assemblies squander Gh¢79.6m
Posted on | CommentMetropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) have squandered GH¢79.6million (GH¢79,637,897.24) of Common Fund money received in 2018. The amount represents 194.6 percent increase over the GH¢40.9 million (GH¢40,929,999.54) squandered in 2017. The findings bother on violations of rules, regulations, and … Read more →
Parliament to withdraw Vigilantism Act
Posted on | CommentParliament is to rescind the third reading and passage of the Vigilantism and Related Offences Bill, 2019 following the detection of an anomaly in the bill. Barely three days after the passage of the bill into law, the Chairman of … Read more →
Chief of Staff honoured as Model African Woman
Posted on | CommentGhana’s First Female Chief of Staff, Akosua Frema Osei-Opare, has been honoured as the Model African Woman of the Year 2019. She was presented with the award by the ExLA Group on Tuesday, July 23, 2019, in Accra, during the … Read more →
Prez. Akufo-Addo congratulates newly elected UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson
Posted on | CommentPresident Nana Akufo-Addo has congratulated the newly elected United Kingdom Prime Minister, Boris Johnson. He said his government looks forward to working with the new leader of the UK to strengthen the already existing ties between Ghana and the United … Read more →
Tension as angry Ashanti Region NDC supporters storm party office
Posted on | CommentHundreds of angry National Democratic Congress (NDC) supporters in the Asawase constituency on Thursday, besieged the party’s Ashanti Regional Office at Amakom in Kumasi, to vent their spleen on the regional executives. This followed accusations by the angry supporters that … Read more →
Your gov’t nearly crippled COCOBOD after blowing budget – Fiifi Boafo to Mahama
Posted on | CommentThe Ghana Cocoa Board has asked former President John Dramani Mahama to watch his comments about COCOBOD so as not to make the Industry regulator a “political management”. “This the umpteenth time the former leader is making such politically tainted … Read more →
Greater Accra NDC primaries record over 100 entries
Posted on | CommentThe Greater Accra regional parliamentary primaries of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has recorded a massive entry, with 118 aspirants picking nomination forms to contest at the various constituencies. The aspirants, comprising 20 women and 98 men, will be … Read more →
I feel sorry and sad for cocoa farmers – John Mahama
Posted on | CommentThe flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr John Dramani Mahama has described as sheer wickedness President Nana Akufo-Addo’s decision to stop the supply of free fertilisers to cocoa farmers and allow the fertilisers to expire and dispose … Read more →
NDC targets 170 seats in Parliament
Posted on | CommentThe opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is targeting majority seats in the next Parliament after the December 2020 general election. The plan, according to the Deputy General Secretary, Peter Boamah Otokunor, is to capture more parliamentary seats in the ruling … Read more →
1.2m new voters added to electoral roll
Posted on | CommentThe Electoral Commission says a total of about 1.2million new voters were registered under the limited voter registration exercise which ended last week. Out of that number, the registration of 8,500 new voters were challenged. According to the commission, the … Read more →
Veep leaves for Cuba, Canada
Posted on | CommentVice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, on Tuesday, July 16, 2019, left Ghana for Havana, Cuba. In Cuba, he is expected to be the Special Guest of Honour at the Graduation Ceremony of 232 Ghanaian doctors trained at the University of … Read more →
Heads of institutions making my work difficult – Martin Amidu
Posted on | CommentThe work of the Special Prosecutor is allegedly being hampered greatly by heads of some government institutions in the country. If such hindrances are not checked, the fight against corruption may not be won by the Akufo-Addo government and the … Read more →
Rawlings’ dispatch rider shot
Posted on | CommentSgt. Atsu Sekey, the regular police dispatch rider of former President Jerry John Rawlings narrowly escaped death at the hands of suspected robbers last Saturday night, when they shot at him severally at the Community 22 junction, Tema. Sgt. Atsu … Read more →
Big shots drop from NDC race
Posted on | CommentAlban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin, the longest-serving Member of Parliament (MP) in the 4th Republic, is bowing out of parliament. He has been representing the people of Nadowli-Kaleo in the Upper West Region since January 7, 1993 on the ticket of … Read more →
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