INTRODUCTION Right Honourable Speaker, Honourable Members of Parliament, I stand before you, on the authority of His Excellency, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to present the Mid-Year Fiscal Policy Review of the Budget Statement and Economic Policy of the Government of Ghana for the 2023 Financial Year. Today’s presentation is in fulfilment of Section 28 […] The post Full

The Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, has said that the arrears owed caterers under the Ghana School Feeding programme have been paid. According to the minister, the payment covered the arrears owed to caterers for the third term of the 2022 academic year and the first term of this year. He made the announcement on […] The post School feeding arrears paid -Finance Minister appeared

The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, ruled against the minority’s preliminary issue raised ahead of the presentation of the mid-year budget review by the Minister for Finance. Though the minority had opined that the Finance Minister presenting the fiscal policy review as a statement instead of a motion was against Section 28 of […] The post Bagbin

The minority in parliament has cautioned the House against what it describes as “bad precedent” on the part of the government to present the mid-year review as a statement instead of a motion. According to the Minority Leader, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, who raised the concern even before the Minister for Finance was invited by […] The post Mid-Year

Former Minister for Finance Seth Terkpe has advised the government to channel considerable attention to tax administration and compliance. According to him, measures have been put in place to enable the finance ministry to be successful in that endeavour, he told JoyNews. He cited the introduction of the Integrated Customs Management System (ICUMS) to make […] The post Focus on tax compliance

The Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, will present a review of the 2023 budget to Parliament today, in accordance with the law. The presentation will fulfill Section 28 of the Public Financial Management Act, 2016 (Act 921) and Regulation 24 of the Public Financial Management Regulations (L.I. 2378). The review comes after some postponements, a […] The post Finance Minister reviews

The government, through the ministry of Education, has released a whopping GHS300 million to the various educational institutions and the Ghana Buffer Stock to ensure smooth running of the schools. It is on record that suppliers of food to the Senior High Schools recently picketed at the National Food Buffer Stock offices in Accra, demanding […] The post Gov’t

Obuasi-based anti-galamsey crusader, Mr. Kwasi Aboagye, has revealed how the Municipal Chief Executive Officer of the Bekwai Municipality in the Ashanti Region, Kwaku Kyei Baffour, flared up over the arrest of three Chinese nationals involved in illegal mining at Achiase, near Bekwai. Mr. Aboagye told listeners of Angel FM in Kumasi that on Friday July 21, 2023 he undertook […] The post Bekwai

New Patriotic Party (NPP) Delegates in the Assin Central Constituency, who were ordered not to accept and wear the T-shirts of Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, have resisted the orders,after a marathon meeting to deliberate on the issue. The Delegates reportedly defied the orders given to them by the Constituency Chairman not to wear T-shirts with Dr […] The post Assin Central

The Parliament of Ghana has passed two critical bills to repeal the long-anticipated death penalty and also made witchcraft accusations criminal. The law that abolishes the death penalty for life sentences was passed on Tuesday, July 25, 2023, and the other proscribing the law against witchcraft accusations passed on Thursday, July 27, 2023. Both laws, […] The post Parliament

The 39th Annual Conference and Retreat of Spouses of Baptist Ministers has been held at Ejura in the Ashanti region, with a call on them to advise and inspire their husbands to do the needful, in line with serving their ministries and the dying world. The Conference, held under the theme: “Growing to make Jesus known”, afforded […] The post Baptist Ministers’

Dr. Adu Gyamfi, Chief Executive Officer of Medimafo Herbal Center, has donated food items worth thousands of Ghana Cedis to inmates at the Kumasi Central Prisons. The items included toiletries, bags of rice, cartons of mackerel and sardines, gallons of cooking oil and boxes of mosquito spray. The gesture comes under the Herbal Centre’s corporate […] The post CEO

The Corpus Christi Catholic Church at New-Tafo, a suburb of Kumasi, has launched a Homecoming programme, which would set up an Educational and Vocational Fund. The proposed Fund is aimed at supporting the youth in the church, especially brilliant but needy students among the youth. The President of Corpus Christi Catholic Church, Mr. Job Senkyere, […] The post Corpus

The Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) has built and commissioned an imposing Nightingale Education Complex in Kumasi. The facility, built through the contributions of members of the Association through a Public Private Partnership (PPP), comprises a computer laboratory, office of the staff common room, stores and library and classrooms from the Kindergarten to […] The post Registered

Former Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani, has urged Senators of the 10th Assembly not to confirm the former governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai as Minister. In a statement he issued on Sunday and made to journalists, the ex-lawmaker expressed surprise that El-Rufai’s name reflected on the list as a ministerial […] The post Ministerial

The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, in a landmark judgment, has “ordered the disclosure of the spending details of over N200bn public funds collected by the government of former Delta State governor Ifeanyi Okowa from the Universal Basic Education Commission [UBEC] fund and allocations from the Federation Accounts.” The court ordered the Delta State […] The post Court

The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has rejected a 25 per cent basic salary increase offered by the government. The association also rejected the N25,000 peculiar allowance approved for medical and dental doctors in the federal public service. The Bola Tinubu administration, on Wednesday, approved the rate as peculiar allowance for health workers, few hours after […] The post Striking

President Bola Tinubu will on Sunday host a special meeting of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) over the political impasse in Mali. Armed presidential guards seized power in Niger Republic on Wednesday, detaining President Mohamed Bazoum. The situation has sparked condemnation from the United Nations, the African Union, the European Union, ECOWAS […] The post Tinubu

The General Assembly of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has, by resolution, called on the government to consider restoring the responsibility of collecting property rates back to the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs). The resolution was passed last Friday during the 2nd Ordinary Meeting of the 4th Session of the 8th Assembly. The position […] The post KMA

Majority of landlords in the Ashanti Region have refused to pay the Rent Taxes to the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) as provided by law which has remained a challenge to the Rent Control Department and the government. By the provision of the Rent Act 220 of 1963, anybody who lets out or leases a property […] The post Most landlords are evading Rent income taxes –