Members of Parliament are demanding that President Akuffo-Addo makes available to the house a full list of Presidential Staffers immediately as required by law. They say it has taken too much time for the President to submit the list to parliament. Section 11 of the Presidential Office Act, 1993 (Act 463), requires that the President submits to parliament a report […]

President of the Ghana Institution of Engineers (GhIE), Ing. Mrs Carlien Bou-Chedid, says Ghana faces infrastructural hazards that threaten to derail the country’s development efforts. She said “some of the hazards that Ghana faces have caused considerable losses in other countries. They have set these countries back considerably in their development”. She made the call when she delivered an address […]

The Akufo-Addo led government can continue to blame the erstwhile Mahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration for siphoning billions of cedis from the Ghana Cocoa Board’s accounts indicating that the claims are untrue. “They can continue to blame us but the claims are baseless”, Finance Minister in the previous administration, Mr. Seth Terpker said. According to him, officials of the […]

Former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Volta River Authority (VRA), Dr. Charles Wereko-Brobby, has accused the government of trying to usurp the mandate of the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC), by announcing an average reduction of  between 13 and 21 percent in electricity tariffs for residential and industrial consumers. The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, stated that the government had revised the […]

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has ignored an appeal from the Ministry of Information against disconnecting power to the state broadcaster, the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), in Kumasi. The ECG on Thursday cut electricity supply to the state broadcaster’s transmission station at Asokwa for non-payment of accumulated bills to the tune of GHS 1.7 million. Luv FM’s Erastus Asare […]

The government is to spend GH¢700 million on its agriculture initiative, Planting for Food and Jobs (PFAJ) programme in 2018 to help empower over 500,000 farmers to increase food production and create more jobs for the youth. The government’s agriculture Marshall Plan is aimed at revamping the agriculture sector to lead efforts towards the economic transformation of the country. The […]

The NDC Minority in Parliament has challenged the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta’s claim that the Akufo- Addo government ended the erratic power crisis popularly known as ‘dumsor’. According to the Minority, this assertion is dishonest, to say the least, adding that the governing New Patriotic Party (NDC) cannot take credit where it didn’t labour. Ghana in about the past four […]

The government will allocate at least GhC2 million to each district, municipal or metropolitan assembly for the implementation of the one district, one factory programme, the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has said. During the presentation of the 2018 budget statement, the Minister said that 191 companies have been selected for implementation. “The Ministry of Trade and Industry completed technical, financial […]

The Dzodze Magistrate Court, presided over by Mr Lawrence Buernor Buer, on November 13, 2017, sentenced a Primary 4 pupil teacher, Mac-Billy Ani, to fines for assaulting a technical staff of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), and illegally tapping electricity. The accused, Mac-Billy Ani, who pleaded guilty to both offences, was sentenced to a fine of GH¢ 1,200.00 for […]

Finance Minister Mr. Ken Ofori Atta will today [Wednesday], November 15, 2017, present the 2018 budget to lawmakers. The budget will be second the for the Akufo-Addo administration since it took over the administration of the country in January 2016. The budget is expected to focus on about 10 key areas including infrastructure, macroeconomic stability, job creation, agriculture, entrepreneurship, business […]