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...
A fraudulent payment made for the placement of a student into a category “A” school in 2022 was traced to the login access of the Education Minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum. This is contained in a testimony given by Prof. Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, who was the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES) at the time...
Former Finance Minister Seth Terkper has told the government to show remorse for the bad decisions that were taken leading the country to the current economic problems. In the view of Mr Terkper, the current challenges which he said did not start today cannot be solved through pleas from the government. In a tweet, Mr...
The sister of Shadrach Arloo, who met his untimely death after a clash with police at the West Hills Mall, has disputed the account of the Ghana Police Service over the post-mortem report released on Tuesday, February 7. According to Perpetual Didier, the police may have planted the black polythene bag in the throat of...
The Municipal Chief Executive of La Nkwantanang-Madina, Jennifer Dede Adjabeng has commissioned an adolescent reproductive Center at the premises of LANMMA office in the Greater Accra Region. On 22 November, 2021, Hon Dede performed the sod-cutting for the construction first phase of the single-storey facility which has a counselling unit, a laboratory, a social welfare...
Three senior members of the Clergy who are members of the Board of Trustees of the National Cathedral have resigned. The pastors, Mensa Otabil, General Overseer of International Central Gospel Church; Dag Heward-Mills, founder and leader of the Lighthouse Chapel International; and Cephas Omenyo, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church. They cited reasons for stepping down from the board. Work...