The 2020 budget statement presented before Parliament by Ghana’s Bible-chomping Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta was full of innuendoes and veiled insults targeted at the leadership of the erstwhile Mahama administration, a former Deputy Minister of Finance Mrs. Mona Quartey has said. She wondered how Mr Ofori-Atta could, with one tongue, …

An SOS from a ‘distressed’ Ghanaian woman in Lebanon has underscored once more the plight of domestic helps ‘exported’ to the Gulf States. A lady, whose name withheld, claimed to be distressed sent a voice message to a Ghanaian worker in Dubai calling for her agent in Ghana to have …

Today marks exactly five years when the Founder of the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC), Dr. Mensa Otabil advised the ex-president of Ghana and presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, to change his ways and attitude. According to him, Mahama will only win the 2016 …

The Consolidated Bank of Ghana (CBG), according to Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta, has “made considerable progress in term of paying depositors whose monies were locked up” with the seven individual local banks whose licences were revoked by the Bank of Ghana (BoG) and subsequently morphed into the bridge bank in …

The Electricity Company of Ghana(ECG) is to be listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange, Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has announced. Presenting the budget statement and financial policy of the government of Ghana for the year ending 31st December 2020, he said “Government will make every effort to avoid the pitfalls …

Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs And Regional Integration Minister, Mohammad Habibu Tijani (MP), says Nigeria will soon open its closed borders. Africa’s most populous nation unexpectedly closed its land borders to all movements of goods, banning both imports and exports through land. Speaking in an exclusive interview with Empire News’ …

Communications Officer for the National Democratic Congress, Sammy Gyamfi, has described the current administration as an insensitive, deceptive, corrupt and nepotistic government who only parade itself as righteous. According to him, the Akufo-Addo-led government through its deceptive ways is stealing from Ghanaians and perpetuating lies that the pockets of Ghanaians …

Bafana Bafana would love to earn at least a draw against Ghana at Cape Coast Stadium to get their 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying campaign off to a positive start. TimesLIVE looks at three key matchups as Molefi Ntseki’s Bafana take on a troubled Black Stars – whose coach‚ …

Ordinarily, Bafana Bafana might view a trip to Ghana for an Africa Cup of Nations qualifier with some trepidation. But right now, the fallout from a mediocre performance from the Black Stars at the Egypt 2019 Afcon in June and July would appear to make new Bafana coach Molefi Ntseki’s …

No-one has got married in a village in Kano state, Nigeria, in the past four months after its chief imposed a wedding tax. Ado Sa’id, the chief of Kera village in north-west Nigeria, wants grooms to pay 137,000 naira ($377, £294). This is instead of the current custom of the …