GENERAL NEWS

“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 …

A young man who went viral after photos of him standing by a roadside and balancing a placard that had his peculiar challenge with joblessness inscribed on it, has shared some good news. According to Isaac Kwame Addae, a graduate of the University of Ghana where he read Bsc Marine …

Students Nurses and Midwives have cautioned the government not to cancel their payment allowance as the latter engages the International Monetary Fund, IMF, for economic bailout. In a press statement, they said “even though we have not received any allowance for almost a year now, we see any attempt to …

A woman believed to be in her 40s has been found dead floating on the river Kyina in Assin Sibinso in the Assin South District of the Central Region after going missing with her 12-year-old son since June 27, 2022. The Linquist for Council of Elders in the area, Nana …