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Parliament’s Trades and Industry Committee has suspended the approval process for an amount of GH₵80 million allocated for the construction of the National Cathedral. The allocation, was the first time an amount had been explicitly made in lieu of the project, with previous disbursements made out of the Contingency Fund. …

The conditions that has been given by the IMF and surprisingly taken by the NPP deserves only one thing a REVOLT! Which one of those countries who manipulate the IMF will tell their finance minister to tax its citizens higher after admitting they are not in normal times and go …

Parliament on Tuesday, December 6, 2022, approved the Budget and Economic Statement for Ghana for the 2023 financial year. According to 3news.com, the budget was approved by the House after the conclusion of the debate on it by Members of Parliament. The leader of the minority caucus of the House, …

The minority has threatened to disapprove the 2023 budget estimates, and debt restructuring until some five conditions are met by government. According to Haruna Iddrisu, they will not accept the debt restructuring programme announced by the finance minister. This comes after Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta announced that Ghana is embarking …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has urged Ghanaians in these hard times to support the fiscal measures proposed in the 2023 budget for approval by parliament. The 2023 budget as presented among others is to address debt and fiscal operations to eliminate the structural bottlenecks bedevilling the economy. Parliament is …

The Minority Caucus in Parliament on Tuesday raised concerns about the non-attendance to the House of members on the Majority side of the House. The concern was anchored on the premise that the debate on the 2023 budget as presented by the Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta was expected to …

The majority side in parliament has failed to show up in their numbers for the commencement of the 2023 budget debate. At the time the Speaker gave the guidelines for the commencement of the debate, only 21 Members of Parliament were seated on the Majority side of the house. Even …

After months of public calls for the removal of the Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, the agitation for his dismissal hit the closest to home when on Tuesday, October 25, 2022, over 80 NPP MPs echoed the calls. The announcement by the MPs through a spokesperson, Andy Appiah-Kubi, who is the …

A pressure group calling itself, Coalition of National Youth Organizers has described the 2023 budget presented by the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori Atta as International Monetary Fund (IMF) conditionality. According to them, the budget is draconian and will impose more hardship on the already suffering Ghanaian which is inimical …

Lecturer at the University of Ghana, Prof. Godfred Bopkin has called for better particulars on the recent announcement of a freeze on usage of V8 within the capital for all government appointees. He is concerned that until clear guidelines are given, the directive contained in the 2023 Budget presented to …