Ghana’s President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Tuesday January 10, announced the first batch of 13 people to fill various ministerial positions pending parliamentary approval. While announcing his nominees at the Flagstaff House, Akufo-Addo further urged the Speaker of Parliament, Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye, to expedite the approval of his appointees to enable government to … Read more
Ghana’s President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Tuesday January 10, announced the first batch of 13 people to fill various ministerial positions pending parliamentary approval. While announcing his nominees at the Flagstaff House, Akufo-Addo further urged the Speaker of Parliament, Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye, to expedite the approval of his appointees to enable government to … Read more
President Akufo-Addo on the second day of work in office announced to the public, the first batch of his ministerial appointees. Names of the 13-appointee designates mostly consisting of ministers under the Erstwhile Kuffuor government have been presented before Parliament for vetting and approval. The President expressed confidence in his choice of appointees, indicating that … Read more
President-elect Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and his vice Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia are said to be putting final touches to names of those to be appointed ministers of state in the incoming New Patriotic Party (NPP) government. Some prominent members of the party have been considered for ministerial positions while a number of them would be … Read more
The Japanese government will fund the construction a new bridge over the Volta River on the Eastern Corridor Road Development Project. This follows the signing of a loan agreement amounting to 11.239 billion Yen (about $100 million) between Ghana and that country under the Japanese Official Development Assistance (ODA, popularly referred to as the Yen … Read more
OccupyGhana says its evaluation of some documents on the contract government signed with Alfred Agbesi Woyome has revealed government officials either connived with the businessman to defraud the state of millions or were just naïve. The pressure group last Thursday brought to light a Framework Agreement between the government and Anator Holding Company Limited owned … Read more
Watching President John Dramani Mahama on television on the campaign trail, the Head of State cut a forlorn picture of a man at his wits end. He appears to be out of touch with the reality on the ground, and making promises, which he knows too well that the people he has been addressing do … Read more
President John Dramani Mahama, and his National Democratic Congress, appear to have already created the Ghanaian political version of what George Orwell described as double-speak in his political satire -NINETEEN EIGHT-FOUR. In one breath, the Head of State, and the whole of his government machinery, is in the campaign trenches, convincing Ghanaians to buy into … Read more
The Government is making efforts to address the persistent structural weakness in the fiscal formulation that relates especially to commitment control and contracts to ensure effective fiscal discipline in the management of public resources. Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Seth Terkper, said part of the efforts was the introduction of the Public Financial Management … Read more
The late Dr Nikoi, was born on 19th January 1930 at La, Accra and died on Thursday, 5 September. He had Bsc in Economics at the Amherst College in USA in 1953, a Fellow of Harvard University, USA 1953-55 and honorary M. A. Amherst in 1963. Between 1957-1960, he joined the Ghana Foreign Service and … Read more
Dr. Kwabena Duffuor, an economist by profession is a native of Kumawu in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. He is married with five children. Education He attended Prempeh College where he obtained his Ordinary Level and Advanced Level Certificates in 1962 and 1964 respectively. He studied at the University of Ghana, graduating with a Bachelor … Read more