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Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has sarcastically made a case for a solution to Ghana’s economic woes. According to him, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta must be encouraged to seek financial bailout from the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Bernard Antwi Boasiako, also known as Chairman Wontumi. The …

Some angry residents of an unidentified town in the Akim Abuakwa South area have chased out their Member of Parliament, Samuel Atta Akyea. In a video shared on Facebook, the MP is seen taking steps towards a pick-up vehicle, as scores of people hooted and booed at him, sending him away …

Mr Ken Ofori Atta, the Minister of Finance, has bemoaned the swirling deep-seated misinformation on the proposed electronic transaction Levy (E-levy) and said it affected recognition and passage. He said widespread distortion of facts caused many to reject the levy in reflex and that the situation threatened to deny the …

Lawyer and social commentator Kwame Jantuah has urged President Akufo-Addo to reshuffle some of his ministers. Mr. Jantuah says some ministers of the President have not proven to be competent. He mentioned Finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta, Roads and Highways Minister Kwasi Amoako-atta, the Minister of Health, and a few others as …

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has admitted publicly that teachers and civil servants in Ghana are paid “indecent” salaries. At a recent town hall meeting in Wa, Upper West Region, to sensitise Ghanaians to the e-levy and why the government needs it passed urgently, President Nana Akufo-Addo’s cousin told his audience on Monday, …

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta is one of those against the e-levy, Prof Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang has said. In the reasoning of the 2020 vice-presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), a recent comment by President Nana Akufo-Addo’s cousin that there is no money means he is hostile to the e-levy, a …

Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, has admitted to the dire economic challenges Ghana is faced with. According to him, the nation currently is unable to undertake or continue developmental projects, implement salary increments due to a lack of funds. Making his submission at a Government Town Hall meeting in Wa …

The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, expressed optimism that the E-levy policy will be approved but, in the event, it does not go through, he said, the government will turn to the petroleum sector for revenue. According to him, he is still surprised at the dissenting voices in relation to the proposed …

The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, is still surprised at the dissenting voices in relation to the proposed E-levy in the 2022 budget statement. He, however, expressed optimism that the policy will be approved but, in the event, it does not go through, he said, the government will turn to the …

A former Director of State Protocol, Kwame Tenkorang, has clarified the widely popular claims that on the day the late former President of Ghana, John Evans Atta Mills, died, he was conveyed to the hospital in the bucket of a pick-up vehicle. He also categorically stated that it is untrue …