Vice presidential nominee of the New Patriotic Party, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has laughed off President Mahama’s decision to restore the scrapped allowances for trainee nurses in the country, describing it as election gimmick. Government scraped the allowance for teacher and nursing trainees in the country to invest the monies into infrastructural development at the various … Read more
Philip Hammond has recruited Karen Ward, chief European economist at HSBC, as his key economic adviser, Sky News has learned. Ms Ward, a former Bank of England economist, has been appointed as Special Economic Adviser to the Chancellor – adding economic ballast to Mr Hammond’s team, most of whom came over from the Foreign Office. … Read more
Vice Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia celebrates his 53rd birthday today with a constituency campaign launch at Tano North in the Brong Ahafo Region. Dr Bawumia joins NPP Member of Parliament (MP) for Tano North Freda Prempeh, to launch her reelection campaign bid on today ahead of the party’s … Read more
The People’s National Convention (PNC) says it will not hold a huge campaign launch as other political parties have done. According to the party, it will not be swayed into busing supporters from across the country to attend a launch to create an impression that it has a huge following ahead of the December elections. … Read more
Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Vice Presidential Candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer, has given the assurance that if given the mandate to govern, the NPP will turn Ghana’s economy around to lift the people out of poverty. He said his party’s government led by Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo, would make sure that Ghana … Read more
Johnson Asiedu Nketia, General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), is on record to have called on supporters of the party to desist from the act of insulting the vice presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia. The NDC Chief Scribe called on the party supporters to rather pray for … Read more
Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Vice Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has given the assurance that, if given the mandate to govern, they turn the economy around to lift the people out of poverty. His party’s government led by Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo would make sure that Ghana worked for everybody but not a … Read more
The Minster for Employment and Labour Relations and the Member of Parliament for the Tamale South Constituency, Haruna Iddrisu, has debunked allegations by the Vice Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, that Ghana is a debt distress country. The Minister, who revealed that debt to GDP in Ghana is coming … Read more
When the three-time Vice-Presidential Candidate of Ghana’s main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, calls the unconscionable robber-barons of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) by their real name, the former Deputy-Governor of the nation’s central treasury, the Bank of Ghana, knows precisely what he is talking about. And so far, the Oxbridge- and … Read more
Today’s woman favors the less invasive approaches to life. She patronizes food that cooks in three minutes, a relationship without commitment and a frivolous life that is broadcast on Snapchat. True womanhood is nearing extinction. The next generation will be tempted to liken virtue to the existence of dinosaurs – both never existed. It is … Read more
Economist, Dr. Lord Mensah says the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had no choice but to approve the third tranche of funding under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF). According to the Dr. Mensah, Ghana had strictly and painfully adhered to the conditions set under the ECF which has seen rating agency Moody’s affirm Ghana’s ratings to … Read more
Running Mate to the flagnbearer of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has stated that it is clear the National Democratic Congress (NDC) cannot respond to what he calls 170 ‘facts’ he put out during a public lecture last month, on the state of the economy. Dr Bawumia said the NDC government … Read more
Chief of Staff Julius Debrah’s campaign tactics of wooing voters in the North to vote for John Mahama because the latter hails from the region makes it mandatory for him to vote for Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, who hails from the same region as Mr Debrah, the vice-presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), … Read more
Head of Economic Division at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), Dr. Charles Ackah, has observed that until government turns its focus on agriculture and manufacturing, it will never achieve the kind of development the country needs. According to him, Ghana’s oil find cannot be the saviour of a buoyant economy, given … Read more
European Missionaries had served the African Continent with a way to believe that is not of the Bible in its deepest reflection, but influenced by the desire to dominate less privileged and advanced people for their own benefit and make them dependent on far developed societies in Europe and beyond. Christianity is a Believe for … Read more
The New Patriotic Party running mate Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has reignited the debate of incompetence, describing President John Mahama as an “incompetent driver” leading Ghana nowhere. The Economist said Ghanaians do not need to be in the driving seat before knowing that the vehicle is headed the wrong direction or it is not moving at … Read more
Manifesto equivalence trying to outdo political equivalence. This is what our last week was all about. After launching their 2016 manifesto and pointing out how much bigger it was than the NPP document of last year, the NDC party then set out to go head to head with NPP’s Bawumia to paint a picture of … Read more
The Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) is cautioning cost of credit as well as inflation will shoot up in the coming months if there is a further delay in the release of the IMF bailout cash. ISSER argues, government’s decision to borrow more to meet expenditure like wages in an election year … Read more
An Economist with the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, (ISSER), Professor Robert Darko Osei, is cautioning of a further increase in interest and inflation rates over a further delay in the release of the IMF bailout cash. He argued that, government’s decision to borrow more to meet expenditure like wages in an election … Read more
The former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund has told the BBC a slowdown in China is the greatest threat to the global economy. Ken Rogoff said a calamitous “hard landing” for one of the main engines of global growth could not be ruled out. “China is going through a big political revolution,” he … Read more