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The apparent rejection of the 2022 budget, despite being challenged by the Majority, has become the first time a budget has not been approved in the history of the Fourth Republic. It is, however, not the first in the history of Ghana. In the preceding Republic, headed by Dr Hilla Limann, …

The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, has given the clearest indication yet that the state has no intention of rescinding its decision to introduce the levy on electronic financial transactions (e-levy), citing the application of revenue generated from the levy to areas such as employment creation as crucial. Nicknamed the …

The Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta and Wife Prof Lamendorf Ofori-Atta through the Ken and Angela Foundation under the auspices of Okyenhene Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin have built and handed over a 6-unit bedroom edifice to the Kyebi Government Hospital in the Eastern Region. At a brief handing over ceremony …

While some cross-section of Ghanaians remain on the case of Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu for his role in government’s payment of over $2 million for overpriced Sputnik V vaccines, others have extended the list of culprits in the botched contract to include the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta. The health minister …

Opposition lawmaker for Builsa South, Dr Clement Apaak, has called for Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta‘s prosecution for making payments in the botched Sputnik V contract. Dr Apaak stated that Health Minister Kwaku Agyemang-Manu and Mr Ofori Atta should both be made to answer questions in court because they worked hand-in-hand on …

Minister of Finance Kenneth Nana Yaw Ofori-Atta has finally answered Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa on his urgent question regarding the cost of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s recent three-nation travel to France, Belgium, and South Africa. According to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP, who is the …

In his resignation letter to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, former Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu, directly told the Commander-in-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces that he could not direct him about as far as his handling of the corruption and anti-corruption assessment report of the controversial Agyapa Royalties deal was …

Information filtering in from the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) claims that, the company is carrying out a compulsory premium medical insurance cover for all staff at a whopping GHC52 million cost to the state-owned institution in a transaction heavily ridden with suspicion. The Herald’s information is that, the management …

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has quickly presented a memorandum to Parliament that reveals a grand cover-up by close associates of President Akufo Addo caught pants down using Asaase Royalties to hijack Ghana’s multi-billion-dollar mineral royalties from mining activities in the country. After stories of the conspiracy broke, the “family and friends” at …

The minority in Parliament wants the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta out of office for breaching the Fiscal Responsibility Act that he established. According to them, they will activate the clause in that law that requires the finance minister to be sanctioned by pushing him out of office. They claim that …