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The Bolgatanga Central MP, Isaac Adongo appears to have had enough of the Finance Minister’s incessant biblical quotations during every address to the nation. Ken Ofori-Atta appeared before Parliament on Thursday to brief the legislators about the government’s Domestic Debt Exchange Programme and as has become the norm, he concluded his statement with a quotation...

The Ghana Police Service has completed investigations into the killing of Georgina Asor Botwe, a 25-year-old prospective student nurse at Mankessim. The police are however awaiting further directions from the Attorney General’s Office, where the docket on the case has been sent. Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Daniel Gadzo, the prosecutor, updated the Cape Coast...

The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has tagged the continuous picketing by pensioner bondholders for an exemption from the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme as unnecessary. He maintains that the voluntary exercise has concluded and that the government will honour its obligations to bondholders, including retirees who voluntarily opted not to participate in the programme. For the...

Leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and former Member of Parliament for Tema East, Daniel Nii Kwartei Titus Glover has debunked allegation that politicians are fueling the Bawku conflict. Titus Glover admitted in an interview with Johnnie Hughes on 3FM Sunrise Morning Show that it is a fact that in Bawku, the Mamprusies...

The Ghana Education Service (GES) and the Ghana TVET Service on Wednesday released this year’s Computerized School Placement exercise with a total of 372,780 out of the 538,399 candidates who qualified to be placed successfully placed, representing 69.24 percent. However, 165,619 qualified candidates, representing 30.76 per cent, who could not be matched with any of...

Former Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo has wondered why the Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta has failed to respond to their letter requesting for exemption of pensioners from the domestic debt exchange programme when he has done so for other groups. She says it is becoming worrying that their concerns have not been addressed by the Minister. Speaking to journalists...

Former Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, has hit back at New Patriotic Party stalwart Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko over his criticism of her decision to picket at the Ministry of Finance. Mr Otchere-Darko on Sunday criticised Sophia Akuffo for joining pensioner bondholders to picket to demand the total exclusion of their funds from the Domestic Debt Exchange...

Between 2021 and last year, 27 pregnant women in need of critical medical attention died in the Bawku municipality, a senior health officer at the Upper East Regional Directorate of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Majeed Sulemana, has disclosed. Whereas 20 of the pregnant women died in 2021, seven had died by the end of...

The Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta has been told to sound appealing to pensioners to accept their inclusion in the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP).  A Finacial analyst, Mr Joe Jackson said although the government is caught in a difficult situation as it seeks to close a deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), it must also take actions to deal...

The National Youth Organiser of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Mark Ewusi, has lauded investigative journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni for his recent exposé but indicated that pointing fingers at the sector minister as directly complicit is “absurd” and “untrue”. Mr Ewusi insists that findings of such works should be based on truthfulness rather than destroying...