Chelsea defender and Captain John Terry’s house was burgled while he was away on a skiing trip to the French Alps with family. After receiving the shocking news, Terry and wife, Toni returned to the home in Surrey to find valuables worth millions of pounds missing! According to a statement released by Surrey Police, the … Read more
Jaw-dropping tax incentives and reliefs announced by the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, in the 2017 ‘Asempa’ budget statement yesterday which clearly defined policies to resuscitate the ailing economy and restore hope for Ghanaians, completely dazed the minority National Democratic Congress (NDC) Members of Parliament (MPs). The finance minister announced as promised by the New Patriotic … Read more
The planned free senior high school (SHS) programme scheduled to take off from September 2017 will be financed from the Annual Budget Funding Amount (ABFA), the Minister of Finance, Mr Ken Ofori-Atta has said. Presenting the 2017 Budget Statement and Economic Policy on Thursday, Mr Ofori-Atta said it will cost government GH¢400 million to implement … Read more
Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta is expected to announce the abolition of import levies and taxes among others on some financial services as he prepares to present the 2017 budget in Parliament Thursday. The Budget presentation, which will be the first of the Akufo-Addo administration would be also expected to spell out sources of funding … Read more
President Nana Akufo-Addo and ex-President J. A. Kufuor, Mike Ocquaye and a host of other political figures were in Kumasi to mourn with Trade Minister. Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen and his family were performing the final funeral rites of Bridget Kyerematen-Darko, a victim of the La gas explosion. Bridget Kyerematen-Darko, 58, a sister of the Minister, … Read more
New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Effutu Constituency, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has rubbished claims that President Nana Addo breached the law in the creation and realignment of some ministries. According to Afenyo-Markin, Nana Addo’s appointment of Ministers for new portfolios does not necessarily mean the creation of new Ministries. “The appointments that were made, … Read more
New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Effutu Constituency, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has rubbished claims that President Nana Addo breached the law in the creation and realignment of some ministries. According to Afenyo-Markin, Nana Addo’s appointment of Ministers for new portfolios does not necessarily mean the creation of new Ministries. “The appointments that were made, … Read more
National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for the Keta Constituency, Richard Quashigah, has accused President Akufo-Addo of breaching the law in his creation and realignment of ministries. According to him, the President was mandated to do so only by an Executive Instrument. Raising the issue on the floor of Parliament, the Keta legislator said, … Read more
National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for the Keta Constituency, Richard Quashigah, has accused President Akufo-Addo of breaching the law in his creation and realignment of ministries. According to him, the President was mandated to do so only by an Executive Instrument. Raising the issue on the floor of Parliament, the Keta legislator said, … Read more
Ghana’s minority members of parliament have described as “lofty rhetoric,” President Akufo-Addo’s maiden State of the Nation Address, arguing it fell short of solutions to fix the so-called ailing economy. According to the National Democratic Congress MPs, the President was best at stating problems than telling Ghanaians how he intends to fix the economy which … Read more
The Minority in Parliament has passed a scathingly damning verdict on President Akufo-Addo’s maiden State of the Nation Address, describing it as “high on platitudes and short of substance.” Addressing a press conference Wednesday, February 22, 2017, the Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu accused the president of hiding behind brevity in order to avoid touching on … Read more
The government of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has sacked 525 national security operatives, Haruna Iddrisu, Minority Leader and Member of Parliament for Tamale South, has said. According to him, this is a worrying occurrence since the dismissal of these operatives would aggravate the unemployment problem the country is saddled with. Speaking at a press … Read more
The Minority in Parliament has presented what they term, the true state of the nation address a day after President Akufo-Addo presented his maiden State of the Nation Address. Addressing the press conference today [ Wednesday] Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu said the presentation on the state of economy presented by President Nana Akufo-Addo were not … Read more
Founder and Leader of the Independent People’s Party (IPP) is calling on President Akufo Adoo to increase Value Added Tax from the current 17.5% to 20% in order to have a sustainable means of funding the much touted free senior high education. According to Kofi Akpaloo, increasing the VAT is the only reliable way to … Read more
By Frederick K. Kofi Tse “Our political class introduced something they call free education that is free indeed?free of knowledge. It is because they are so suspicious of those institutions that the typical African politicians will not dare take their children to those schools”?P. L.O. Lumumba The debate about the appropriate funding model for the … Read more
Former Member of Parliament for Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa and anti-graft crusader Paul Collins Appiah Ofori has shot down Mahama Ayariga’s bribery allegation, describing it as “unbelievable story”. The former MP who was speaking on Onua 95.1FM’s Morning show ‘Yen Nsem Pa’ with Bright Kwesi Asempa explained that “I don’t believe the whole story when he (Ayariga) started … Read more
It was a day of insistence on earlier allegations of bribery and denial of the allegations by members of the Appointments Committee of Parliament (ACP) and a minister of state when they appeared before the Joe Ghartey Ad hoc Committee of Parliament yesterday. The hearing began with the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bawku Central … Read more
A former deputy finance minister, Mrs Mona Helen Quartey, has cast doubt on government’s ability to fulfil the free SHS policy this year. The New Patriotic Party NPP) government’s flagship programme, according to President Akufo-Addo, will start from September 2017. However, there has been controversy over the funding of the free SHS policy after Senior … Read more
The National Democratic Party (NDP) wants the President to use tomorrow’s State of the Nation Address to state his position on contradictory statements made by two ministers on the use of the Heritage Fund to finance the free senior high school policy. The Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo Marfo had suggested that the government will use … Read more
With the perceived confusion over funding for the government’s free senior high school (SHS) education policy dominating the news, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government needs to outline to citizens its priority areas for development, the Operations Director of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Nana Ofori Owusu, has stated. There was a suggestion from the … Read more