GENERAL NEWS

The Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery, has said attempts to increase inmates’ feeding fee to ¢5 have been delayed by the Finance Ministry. Addressing Parliament on the state of prisons in the country, he said the Finance Ministry’s approval has lingered despite all necessary steps taken to get the increment approved. …

The Minister for Defence, has made a passionate appeal to striking teachers, asking them to be patient with the government over their demands. Dominic Nitiwul, who was speaking on the July 6, 2022 edition of Joy News’ PM Express said, since President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo-led government came into office, it …

Aduman Senior High School students have been attacked and one seriously butchered on his forehead and other parts of the body by unidentified hooligans. The incident occurred on Tuesday, 5th July 2022, in the evening at around 7:15 pm there about at Aduman in the Afigya Kwabre District of the …

“For the first time in history, an oil-rich country, some five years into oil production, is seeking a bailout from the IMF” (Akufo-Addo 2015). The current president tweeted this in April 2015, shortly after his predecessor, former president John Dramani Mahama, engaged the IMF under a working program. In what …

Member of Parliament for Ayawaso Central and Greater Accra Regional Minister, Henry Quartey, on Wednesday, 6 July 2022, appeared before the Privileges Committee of parliament, to respond to queries on his absence from Parliament without permission for 15 sitting days in the First Meeting of the Second Session of the …

Initial visual assessment by the Environmental Protection Agency, suggests, that the substance discovered at Apremudu may be bitumen and not crude oil. A video which has since gone viral shows some persons collecting portions of a thick dark substance from underground at Apremdu, in the Effia Kwesimintsim Municipality of the …

Bernard Allotey-Jacobs, a social commentator, is calling for the Finance Ministry to be placed under Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia. Allotey believes the Vice President has become the cynosure of critique in the wake of the government’s decision to approach the International Monetary Fund for an economic rescue programme. He …

The Public Procurement Authority has confirmed not having any information relating to the construction of the National Cathedral of Ghana. This was contained in a letter responding to a Right To Information, RTI, request filed by Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa. Ablakwa who had been at …

The member of parliament (MP) for Jaman North, Hon. Frederick Ahenkwah, has said he is excited about the decision of the Akufo-Addo government ton seek financial assistance from the International Monetary fund (IMF). Speaking on Inside Politics on Power 97.9 FM Tuesday, the legislator observed that fiscal discipline and accountability …

Dr. Anthony Akoto Osei, former Member of Parliament for the Old Tafo Constituency, has allegedly lambasted the government for mismanagement of the economy. In a viral allegedly leaked audio tape, someone purporting to be the one-time Minister of State at the Finance and Economic Planning under the Kufuor government laments …