POLITICS

The sum charged in road tolls may increase, according to a proposal made by Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta. This is one of the measures the government is taking as it thinks about reinstating the tax policy. Schedules of the fees and charges (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2022, have been modified by …

Pensioners who purchased bonds from the government but have yet to receive their coupons have vowed to protest the ministry of finance once more if they are not paid within 48 hours. “We have our choices, plenty of them, including the picketing, so, when it comes that we have to …

Mr. Ernest Norgbe, the member of parliament for Ashaiman, has requested that a nonpartisan committee in Parliament look into the abuse of his people by Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) soldiers. On March 7, 2023, soldiers who are thought to have arrived from Michel and Burma Camp stormed Taifa, where the …

The government has been set a 48-hour deadline by the Coalition of Individual Bondholders to pay all matured capital and unpaid coupons on their current bonds. This follows the government’s’ more loud silence,’ in the Coalition’s words, regarding the payment of their matured debt and unpaid coupons. The Coalition claims …

From March 25 to April 2, US Vice President Kamala Harris will visit Accra, Ghana; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; and Lusaka, Zambia. Douglas Emhoff, her spouse, will go with her. The trip will expand on the recently concluded U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, which President Biden held in Washington, D.C., in December …

The immunizations Ghana received over the weekend were allegedly from Nigeria, according to Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the member of parliament representing the North Tongu constituency. He claimed it was a gesture of goodwill in response to Ghana’s present immunization problems, but it will be replaced. On Saturday, March 11, Ghana …

The six suspected individuals who were detained in connection with the murder of a 21-year-old soldier named Imoro Sherrif in Ashaiman on March 4, 2023, have all been held by the Circuit Court there. The defendants, Safianu Musah alias Dayorgu and Ibrahim Abdul Rakib, Samuel Tetteh alias Wiper and Abubakar …

The second day of former president John Dramani Mahama’s visit of the Bono Region has started. He will visit the Dormaa West, Dormaa Central, Dormaa East, Sunyani West, and Sunyani East districts today to campaign. On his first day, Mr. Mahama traveled to Wenchi, Tain, Banda, Jaman North and South, …

Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, a former minister of food and agriculture and potential flagbearer for the New Patriotic Party, is emphatic that prioritizing agriculture is the best way to guarantee the rapid development required in other economic sectors and to generate employment for young people. Delivering a public lecture on …

According to former president John Dramani Mahama, the National Democratic Congress will take no chances in its quest to retake control following the general elections of 2024. During his campaign trip for the party’s flagbearer contest, he assured party supporters in the Tain and Banda constituencies in the Bono East …