POLITICS

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 …

According to Hon. Haruna Iddrisu, the minority group in Parliament is collaborating with President Akufo-Addo to rescue and save the Ghanaian economy and, more crucially, to prevent Ghana from entering a situation similar to that of Sri Lanka. Speaking at the conclusion of a recent workshop held by the Minority …

President Akufo-Addo was a factor in Justin Frimpong Kodua’s (JFK) desire to become a lawyer, according to the NPP’s general secretary. He claimed that the President even urged him to pursue his interest in law in addition to his desire to become a politician. JFK, as he is commonly known, …

A study by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) found that both the public and commercial sectors received bribe payments totaling about Ghc5 billion. According to the “2021 Ghana Integrity of Public Services Survey” report, 26.7 percent of public sector employees and 9.1 percent of private sector employees engaged in bribery. …

Ing Kwabena Agyei Agyepong, the former General Secretary of the government’s New Patriotic Party (NPP), has urged Ken Ofori-Atta to resign from his position for bringing Ghana before the IMF. He asserts that the Finance Minister’s continued post is incompatible with what he has said against the IMF and the …