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This holiday season, be prepared to spend extra for chicken as the Ghana Poultry Farmers Association predicts an increase in the cost of your preferred protein. Two weeks ago, poultry was being sold on the market for GH55. Today, it is being sold for GH70. However, Victor Oppong Owusu Adjei, …

A 27-year-old man who shot a motorbike rider (Okada) he hired and fled with his goods, including the bike, has been detained by police in Sehwi in the Western North Region. According to reports, the suspect, named as Prince Yoma, hired Charles Bosompim, a motorbike rider, to bring him to …

John Dramani Mahama, a former president, is remembering the eight Ghanaians who died during the 2016 elections. Mr. Mahama lamented in a Facebook post that “two years ago, for the first time in the history of our country, a President and Government unleashed armed men who ruthlessly massacred eight innocent …

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta would face hostility in parliament from his side, according to deputy minority whip Ahmed Ibrahim, if he continues in office in spite of public outcry in Ghana. According to him, if the administration wants smooth operations in the House’s business, it should take a lesson from …

Li Yu Zhen, a 54-year-old Chinese businesswoman, was shot at Caprice on the Circle-Nsawam Highway by alleged armed robbers. On Friday, December 9, 2022, at precisely 12:15 PM, the occurrence took place. Li Yu Zhen, the victim, said that she went to deposit a sizable sum of money at the …

Less than 183 MPs voted to oust the beleaguered Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, in response to the Minority in Parliament’s Censure resolution. On Thursday, 136 members of the National Democratic Congress voted in favor of Mr. Ofori-dismissal, Atta’s but this number fell short of the constitutional threshold of two-thirds needed …

On December 8th, the majority in parliament staged a walkout in order to skip the secret vote on the censure motion against Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta. The procedure came to a sudden halt when the majority leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, washed his hands and those of his fellow members of Parliament. …

According to Ghana’s former president John Dramani Mahama, this is the country’s worst time since the Fourth Republic began. Mr. Mahama said that the events in the most recent elections were the first to take place under the present administration as he described the alleged brutalities that marked the 2020 …

The nation “would not be in this situation economic crisis but for the government’s failed, risky economic strategy that borrowed heavily from the international market to fund expenditures, pay maturing debt, support the cedi and possibly control the effect of the depreciation on inflation,” according to a statement released by …

Given that Ghana is experiencing an economic crisis, OccupyGhana has advised the government to halt all public spending on the projected National Cathedral. The organization stated in a statement that “any justifications there may have been to warrant investing now non-existent money on the projected National Cathedral, have been destroyed …