POLITICS

According to the Center for Democratic Development (CDD) – Ghana, the government’s inaction regarding the military’s abuse of Ashaiman residents will give military officials the confidence to intervene themselves whenever they see fit. This follows the apprehension of six important suspects in association with the death of a 22-year-old soldier …

Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia, vice president, has referred to the Gold-for-Oil policy as a game-changer that will lower fuel costs. He claims that beginning tomorrow, March 16, 2023, the cost of gasoline at the meter will decrease once more. Dr. Bawumia said during the opening of the Bulk Oil Storage and …

On bonds that matured on February 6 and 13, 2023, the government says it will settle the outstanding coupon and principal in two days. The procedures to resolve payments of the unpaid bonds began on Monday, March 13, 2023, according to a statement released by the Finance Ministry on behalf …

Contrary to claims made by President Akufo-Addo and his Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman Manu, 5 lives have been lost as a result of the lack of children immunizations, according to the minority in parliament. Ranking Member for the Committee on Health Kwabena Minta Akandoh cited the head pediatrician at the …

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 …