POLITICS

On September 1, 2022, the National Builder’s Corps (NaBCo) program, the government’s flagship initiative, will terminate. During his presentation of the 2022 Mid-Year Budget Review speech on Monday, July 25, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta confirmed this. According to him, NABCO’s four-year operation, which saw it help 100,000 recent graduates, would …

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has stressed that the government has no plans to revisit the Free Senior High School program in response to rumors that it may. On July 25, 2022, Mr. Ofori-Atta underlined the government’s interest in human capital development when delivering the Mid-Year Review of the Budget Statement …

On Friday, July 22, Hon. Nicholas Amankwah, the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Western Region’s Wassa Amenfi East Constituency, called the Minister of Roads and Highways to account for the lack of bridge development projects in his district. He claims that the circumstances for traveling across rivers have gotten …

John Boadu, the former General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has vowed to assist the recently chosen national executives in order to make sure the party “breaks the 8.” In a statement released over the weekend in Accra, “General,” as he is called in the elephant party, claimed …

Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, vice president, has officially broke the ground for the development of Ghana’s first inland marine port and an associated industrial park at Debre in the Savannah Region. LMI Holdings is developing the Trans-Volta Logistics Corridor, a multimodal transportation route that will use the Volta Lake to convey …

To tackle crime, the newly constructed police station in the Wassa Afransie community has received considerable donations from Hon. Nicholas Amankwah, the Member of Parliament for the Western Region’s Wassa Amenfi East Constituency. On Thursday, July 21, 2022, the presentation was made during a brief ceremony to commission a new …

The Supreme Court’s errors in the 2020 Presidential Election Petition and other issues, the Chief Justice’s behaviour, and the current practice of not providing justification for decisions and judgements have all been points of contention for the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC). According to the NDC, if the judiciary, …

The former deputy finance minister Cassiel Ato Forson has been charged by the health minister Kwaku Agyemang-Manu of allowing payments to an ambulance supplier in violation of the contract’s explicit provisions. According to Mr. Manu, the contract’s provisions mandated that payment not be made until the delivery of the vehicles. …

Only 1% of employees in Ghana’s private sector pay into the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), according to Dr. John Ofori-Tenkorang, Director-General of SSNIT. Only 1.7 million of Ghana’s 11.5 million workers, he claims, are active SSNIT donors. He claimed that while 36% of workers are in the …

Assin North Member of Parliament (MP) James Gyakye Quayson’s criminal case hearing has been postponed by the High Court until Tuesday, October 18, 2022. The criminal charges hearing has been postponed to make room for the Supreme Court’s upcoming application to be heard. According to the lawyer for the troubled …