POLITICS

The Speaker of Parliament has been urged to call the Governor of the Bank of Ghana immediately to brief the House on the different activities of the central bank, according to the deputy ranking member of the parliament’s finance committee. The Ranking Member claims that the invitation will be focused …

The House of Legislators has been urged by John Jinapor, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Yapei Kusawgu in the Savannah Region, to vote a resolution compelling Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta to exclude pensioners from the government’s Domestic Debt Exchange Program (DDEP). Mr. Jinapor also urged the passage of a …

Ken Ofori-Atta, the finance minister, has repeated what he sees as the root of the current economic problem. The Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and the conflict between Russia and Ukraine were highlighted by the minister as the country’s problems. On Thursday, Mr. Ofori-Atta was before the House of Representatives to …

Members of the Ghanaian Parliament’s Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee, Judiciary Committee, Subsidiary Legislation Committee, and Foreign Affairs Committee were visited today by an eight-person delegation from the German Bundestag’s Committee on Legal Affairs. Hon. Kwame Anyimadu-Antwi, the chairman of the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee, welcomed the …

The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has been instructed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives not to touch pensioner funds. According to Alban Bagbin, the current financial problem may be resolved without using pensioner monies. The former Nadowli Kaleo MP concluded the House’s session on Thursday, February 16, by …

On Thursday, February 16, 2023, Alban Bagbin, Speaker of the House, warned Members of Parliament against using unparliamentary language. When Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta appeared in Parliament to inform the chamber on the government’s Domestic Debt Exchange Program, the Speaker made this statement (DDEP). Mr. Bagbin pleaded with the house …

According to confirmation from Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta, all pensioners who chose not to exchange their old bonds for new ones under the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP) have been spared from the program. On February 16, 2023, Ofori-Atta spoke to Parliament about the status of the Domestic Debt Exchange …

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has reconstituted the Hajj Board. The new composition is as follows: HAJJ BOARD 1.Alhaji Ben Abdallah Banda-           Chairman 2.Habib Iddrisu                       –           Member 3.Hajia Safia Mohammed      –           Member 4.Chief Saddique …

The three victims of the notorious shooting incident at Ejura in the Ashanti Region received a total of Gh1,218,897 from the Ghanaian government. Awal Mesbawu, 17, received Gh 678 519, Louis Ayikpa, 22, received Gh 347 953 and Nazif Nuhu, 31, received Gh 192 425 for each of the three …

Former Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo has advised that some ministries ought to be combined and underperforming ministers replaced. Ms. Akuffo, who has recently spoken out against the government’s decision to include pension funds in the ongoing domestic debt exchange program, said having too many ministries is proving to be counterproductive …