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The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has responded to recent allegations that its officials have been unfairly targeting business concerns belonging to Kennedy Agyapong, the Member of Parliament for Assin Central. A statement from the GRA’s Communications and Public Affairs department said the claims by the lawmaker including that his companies …

The government of Ghana will this week start actively engaging external debtors with the view to getting debt cancellation, especially from the Paris club of creditors. The first stop of a government delegation seeking debt restructuring will be in China with Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta will be leading the team expected …

Ghana’s finance minister, Ken Ofori-Atta was nominated by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in 2017 and was renominated after the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) retained power in the 2020 elections. Ofori-Atta assumed office as Minister of Finance on January 27, 2017, and has served in that capacity for almost seven years. …

Following calls for some exemptions from government’s Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP), Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has been summoned. The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, on Tuesday, February 7 endorsed a call from both sides of parliament for the minister to brief the House on the policy statement and issues emerging since its introduction. …

The family of slain Tiger Eye PI employee, Ahmed Hussein Suale, have responded to recent claims by Assin Central Member of Parliament, Kennedy Agyapong, that he paid university fees for their son. The family, via a February 1, 2023 statement available to GhanaWeb described the lawmaker’s claims as preposterous and …

New Patriotic Party flagbearer hopeful, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong has stated that Ghanaians cannot afford to offer former President John Dramani Mahama another opportunity at the presidency. According to Kennedy Agyapong, the presumptive flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress has not proven himself to be a good leader and does not merit any …

Anas Aremeyaw Anas, a well-known investigative journalist, has paid tribute to his colleague, investigative journalist Ahmed Suale, who was killed four years ago. In a tweet shared on Monday, January 16, 2023, Anas showed a video, which he described as the sequence of events that led to Ahmed’s murder. “Today …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has replaced Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta as caretaker minister of Trade Ministry with the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources Samuel Abu Jinapor. Mr. Jinapor is to assume responsibility for the Ministry of Trade and Industry with effect from Monday January 16, 2023 pending the …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has directed Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta to serve as the caretaker Minister of Trade and Industry. The development comes after the President accepted resignation of Trade and Industry Minister, Alan Kyerematen after reports emerged he tendered his resignation on Thursday 5, 2023. Although there are no clear reasons for Alan Kyerematen’s resignation, …

A New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament, Eugene Boakye Antwi, has wondered why the country is continuously entertaining the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta. Describing it as “nonsense,” the Subin MP said that if this was happening in another jurisdiction, such things would never have been allowed to fester. According to a …