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In 2020 the Ministry of Aviation will engage domestic airlines in a bid to get them to extend operations to the Ho Airport, Ken Ofori-Atta, Minister of Finance has told Ghana’s parliament. During the reading of the 2020 government budget statement in parliament on Wednesday November 13, he said: “In …

Ghana’s dream of having a meat factory that meets health and nutritional standards appears to have been reignited with the setting up of the first meat factory in the Ashanti region. This comes after several failed attempts to revamp the good old Zuarungu; Pwalugu and Bolga meat factories that went …

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A 31-year-old herbalist, Hassan Talha, popularly known as Alhassan, has been jailed for defrauding a couple to the tune of GH¢94,000 on the pretext of helping them retrieve a pot of gold buried in their family house. The couple, Charles Addai and Emelia Oppong, told the police that the convict …

The proposed Kumasi International airport will have an airplane maintenance hub that will serve airplanes from over 35 countries as well as create jobs for about 400,000 Ghanaians, the project leader has said. The hub will allow planes to fix mechanical faults, maintain avionics instruments and re-fuel amongst others. The …

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, …

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 …

Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Maafo has explained that government did not deliberately leave out Volta Region out of the 2020 budget roads allocation. In an interview on MyNewsGh.com’s sister platform Citi, Mr. Osafo Maafo said he has cross-checked with the Minister of roads who is currently in Japan and the …

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’ …