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Oliver Mawuse Barker-Vormawor, one of the conveners of #FixTheCountry Movement, has chastised Prof Steve Hanke, a Professor of Applied Economics at Johns Hopkins University, for claiming that the only option to fix Ghana’s economic mess is for the central bank to install a currency board. Describing the 79-year-old Professor as …

Former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Professor Emeritus Stephen Adei, has said that the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, resigned from Databank approximately four clear years before joining frontline politics. According to him, although Ken Ofori-Atta is the founder of the Databank, he has nothing to do with it …

Professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University-USA, Steve Hanke, has suggested that the country’s economic outlook does not look favourable. The academic in a Twitter post on August 6 pointed to the depreciating Cedi as the reason for his claim. In his view, the country needs a currency board …

Steve Hanke, a professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University in the United States, has for some time now been monitoring Ghana’s economic growth and putting a spotlight on it. In his latest #EconWatch diaries on his verified Twitter timeline, the academic stated that, since 2021, Ghana has lost …

Renowned Johns Hopkins University economist, Professor Steve Hanke, has again questioned the Akufo-Addo-led administration’s intention to enter an economic programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In a post shared on Twitter, he blamed government for imposing more hardships on Ghanaians by introducing more taxes in a move to salvage the economy. …

Dean of the University of Ghana School of Law, Prof. Raymond Atuguba, has asserted that the governing New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) quest to ‘break the 8’ is anchored on seven points. Speaking at the 4th Triennial Conference of the Ghana Studies Association (GSA) under the theme “Ghana at Crossroads” and held at …

Professor Stephen Adei, has described Paul Adom-Otchere, the host of Good Evening Ghana, GEG, on Metro TV, as being more political than being a journalist following recent comments on Togbe Afede’s rejection of the over GHC365,000 ex-gratia. According to him, he does not believe the broadcaster will be mounting the ‘touchscreen’ on …

There is good news for the nurses and midwifery community in Ghana as one of their own has just walked into the annals of history in the country by her appointment as the new Vice Chancellor of the University of Health and Allied Sciences at Ho. Until this appointment, Professor …

Prof. Kwamena Ahwoi has recounted how in 1979 he became the first person to interview then Chairman Jerry John Rawlings after the June 4 coup. When Rawlings took over the reins of political leadership, he specifically requested that Ahwoi, then a young lawyer, interviews him for his first media appearance …

Professor Aaron Michael Oquaye, former Speaker of Parliament, has called for reforms in the appointment and removal of judges in the 1992 Constitution to strengthen the country’s judicial system. Prof Oquaye recommended the appointment of two retired Supreme Court Judges nominated by the Roll of Retired Supreme Court Judges, two …