POLITICS

With immediate effect, Samuel Abu Jinapor, Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has directed the Forestry Commission to prohibit Akonta Mining Company from operating in the Tano Nimiri Forest Reserve. In accordance with a statement released by the Ministry’s Public Affairs on Friday, September 30, 2022, the Company controlled by …

This Friday, September 30, 2022, marks the expiration of the extended deadline for SIM card re-registration. The Communications and Digitalization Ministry has already created a list of sanctions against people who will miss the deadline, some of which started to take effect on September 5. If the subscribers do not …

If the government doesn’t raise the price of producing cocoa for the 2022–2023 growing season, cocoa farmers in Gyampokrom, in the Sefwi Juaboso District of the Western North Region, have threatened to “smuggle” their cocoa products to Ivory Coast. They want the price of a bag of cocoa, which is …

Judges and magistrates are being urged by Chief Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah not to let public criticisms affect how they carry out their responsibilities. The Chief Justice replied, “Your duty is to administer justice and preserve the rule of law regardless of public clamor.” President Akufo-Addo described the current criticism of …

Since the start of his second term in office, according to a former political science lecturer at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has been living in a fantasy world regarding his popularity. Dr. Richard Amoako Baah asserts that the president continues to …

Pressure Group Occupy Ghana says the biggest problem with illicit mining in Ghana is the government’s “sheer incapacity, absolute unpreparedness, and, or plain reluctance to police the law.” The government’s “absolute impotence, in the face of the brazen destruction of our lands and wanton poisoning of our water bodies,” according to Occupy Ghana, has left it speechless in an open letter to President Nana Akufo-Addo. In its eyes, the government has no justification for failing to successfully …

The government is still dedicated to its plan to convert major interstates from their current single-carriage status to dual carriageways, according to Minister of Roads and Highways Akwasi Amoako-Atta. As part of his working trip of the Western region, Mr. Akwasi Amoako-Atta made the comments while evaluating the ongoing road …

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) negotiations will be accelerated, according to Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta, so that major program elements are represented in the 2023 budget statement. At a press conference on Wednesday, the finance minister stated that so far, negotiations had gone well. He continued, “Negotiations will move quickly …

The booing of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo at the Global Citizen Festival, according to Adansi-Asokwa MP, was inappropriate. The incident, according to Kobina Tahir Hammond, was embarrassing and undemocratic. He asserted that there are more effective ways for Ghanaians to criticize the President. He claimed that in the nation’s …

The Bank of Ghana has provided advice to those who have obtained loans using mobile money platforms but have consciously chosen not to register their SIM cards as part of the ongoing national SIM Card registration drive in an effort to avoid making loan repayments. In a statement, the Central …