Yearly Archives: 2019

VIDEO: Minority disobeys Speaker

Members of the minority side in parliament on Wednesday went against an order by the Speaker as they displayed placards after Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, presented the budget statement and economic policy for 2020. The placards with the inscription ‘Bye Bye Budget’ seemed to be the minority’s way of telling …

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Police shoot and kill man who stabbed officer at Doboya

A 32-year-old man and a native of Daboya in the North Gonja District of Savannah Region, Abudulai Mustapha, is said to have been shot and killed by police personnel for allegedly stabbing another police officer with a knife. According to eyewitness accounts, a complaint was lodged at the Daboya Police …

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Amidu’s Waterville writ incompetent – Supreme Court rules

The Supreme Court has ruled that an application filed by the Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu seeking to compel the Attorney General to retrieve some €47 million from Waterville is incompetent. This follows an application by Deputy Attorney Godfred Yeboah Dame questioning the legality of the writ. The Special Prosecutor dragged …

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Tax expert urges govt to implement new tax regimes

Tax expert and Senior Associate at Ali-Nakyea and Associates, William Kofi Owusu Demitia, has urged the government to come up with new compliance rules for its tax regime to enable government raise the needed revenue to undertake developmental projects. To Mr Demetia, there is the need for a change in …

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Trump impeachment inquiry: New claims amid public hearing

A top US diplomat at an impeachment hearing has said that President Trump directly asked about a Ukrainian probe into his Democrat rival Joe Biden. In previously unheard testimony, Bill Taylor, the acting US ambassador to Ukraine, said a member of his staff was told Mr Trump was preoccupied with …

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Where are the roads in NDC’s Green Book? – Ofori-Atta taunts

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has said the unprecedented complaints about the poor state of roads across the country can be blamed on the previous administration. Presenting the 2020 Budget Statement and Economic Policy, he said today the cry everywhere in Ghana is about the poor state of our roads, adding, …

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