The Chair of the Appointments Committee of Parliament, Joe Osei Wusu (Joewise) blocked lawmaker for Madina Francis-Xavier Sosu from asking Finance Minister-designate Ken Ofori Atta questions relating to the banking sector cleanup up. According to Mr Joewise, the matters are currently before the court. Also, he said, Parliament has set up a committee to investigate […]
Finance Minister-designate Ken Ofori-Atta has rejected conflict of interest accusation against him following the involvement of Databank, a bank he founded in the Agyapa deal. He said he had nothing to do with Databank when the deal was being put together. He further criticized the former Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu over the corruption risk assessment […]
Finance Minister-designate Ken Ofori-Atta has taken a swipe at the former Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu over the corruption risk assessment done on the Agyapa Royalties agreement. He told the Appointments Committee of Parliament during his vetting that he did no wrong in the transaction yet the Mr Amidu failed to give him the opportunity to […]
Finance Minister-designate Ken Ofori Atta has justified the introduction of the new taxes in the budget statement for the 2021 fiscal year. Answering questions relating to the introduction of the new taxes during his vetting by the Appointments Committee of Parliament on Thursday March 25, Mr Ofori-Atta said “Not everything is gone up. We need […]
Finance Minister-designate Ken Ofori Atta has said that the government is aware of the impact of judgment debt payment on the local economy. He said during his vetting by the Appointments Committee of Parliament Thursday March 25 that the this is a leakage that the government is working to deal with. Asked by Tamale South […]
Finance Minister-designate Ken ofori Atta has said that he hopes the entire nation will come to terms with the reality of diversifying the country’s natural resources and leverage them into equity. It is for this reason that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has asked that the Agyapa Royalties agreement be resubmitted to Parliament, he told […]
Issues surrounding the Agyada deal will feature strongly during the vetting of Finance Minister-designate Ken Ofori-Atta by the Appointments Committee of Parliament, Dean of the University of Cape Coast Business School, Professor John Gatsi, has said. He stated that the Agyapa deal is a national issue hence “I do expect that issues of Agyapa will […]
Dean of the University of Cape Coast Business School, Professor John Gatsi has asked members of the Appointments Committee of Parliament not to use the vetting of Finance Minister-designate Ken Ofori-Atta as a platform to examine the just approved budget statement for the 2021 fiscal year. Professor Gatsi told TV3’s Etornam Sey ahead of the […]
Mr Courage Martey, a Senior Researcher at the Databank has said he expects issues of the financial sector clean up to dominate the vetting of Finance Minister-designate Ken Ofori-Atta today Thursday March 25. Mr Martey told TV3’s Etornam Sey ahead of the vetting that he will be very surprised if these issues do not dominate […]
Education Minister Dr Yaw Osei Aduwtum has said that Ghanaians are wasting precious time discussing hair-related issues following the refusal of the Achimota School to admit students with dreadlocks. TV3’s Parliamentary Correspondent, Komla Kluste reported on Wednesday March 24 that “So, I approached the Minister of Education yesterday for his opinion on the Achimota Rastafarian […]
Management of the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) is expected to hold a crunch meeting this morning to decide on the fate of students who have been deferred for paying their school fees late. The school in a Tuesday notice to the students instructed all those who failed to meet the deadlines for payment of […]
Ajax Midfielder, Kudus Mohammed has stated that Ghana’s main target is to book a ticket to AFCON 2021 in Cameroon. Ghana find themselves in a much tighter group with three teams having 9 points each but the target for the Black Stars still remains – to qualify for AFCON. “The goal is to qualify for […]
Management of the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) is going back to meet the Executive Management with whom the decision to direct students who paid their fees late for the 2020/2021 academic year to defer their programmes was taken. This followed a meeting with the Concerned Tertiary Students of GIJ (CTSG) on Wednesday, March 24. […]
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appealed to the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC), in its publications, to help provide the general public with a better understanding of how petroleum resources are managed, and clarify swiftly its position on matters should it be misconstrued in the media space. Touching on the relations between PIAC […]
India has placed a temporary hold on all exports of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, foreign ministry sources have told the BBC. They said rising cases meant domestic demand was expected to pick up in the coming weeks, and so the doses were needed for India’s own rollout. The move – described as a “temporary squeeze” […]
Government intends to fight illegal mining through the expansion of the community mining scheme. Lands and Natural Resources Minister Samuel Abu Jinapor, who hinted this, warned illegal mining will not be countenanced by Akufo-Addo-led administration. “It is very evident that the way forward to resolving the issue of illegal small scale mining is community mining. […]
The Finance Minister-designate Ken Ofori Atta will be appearing before the Appointments Committee of Parliament today March 25 for his vetting. The Minister of Finance in President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s first term was scheduled to be vetted on Tuesday, February 16 but was taken ill. He had to be flown to the US, where he […]
An economist Kwame Pianim has urged the government to be a more serious in getting a sustainable and verifiable Identification system in the country. He has asked the government to resource the birth and death registry to ensure that all persons in the country are given proper identification. His comments come after President Nana Addo […]
Ghana Football Association President Kurt Okraku has denied having any rift with head coach of the Black Stars, CK Akonnor. The two were reportedly not in talking terms but that has been denied by the Football Association Capo; stating that he trusts the later. “If I don’t believe in CK Akonnor, as the head trainer […]
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