The Minority in Parliament has filed a private members’ motion for a resolution on the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP). The caucus has sent a notice to the Speaker of Parliament requesting that the full government’s debt restructuring proposal be laid before the House by Ken Ofori-Atta, the Minister of Finance, for discussion. Since the government announced the debt restructuring ...

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has promised to meet with President Akufo-Addo to deliberate on the exemption demand of members of the Pensioner Bondholders Forum. The decision was arrived at in a crunch meeting between the Minister and the group on day 8 of their protest for exemption. According to the convener of the forum, Dr Adu Anane Antwi, the Finance ...

The government has described as illegal the enskinment of a new Bawku Naba at Nalerigu. “The Government condemns developments in Nalerigu today February 15, 2023, concerning the purported enskinment of a new Bawku Naba as illegal and a threat to National Security,” the government said in a statement issued by the Ministry of Information. The government in the statement also ...

Ghana’s inflation has dropped marginally for the first time in 19 months. Figures released by the Ghana Statistical Service revealed that for the month of January 2023, inflation dropped to 53.6% from the 54.1% recorded in December 2022. Inflation has been on an upward trajectory since May 2021. This means that in the month of January 2023, the general price ...

Women leaders called for swift, concerted action to advance gender rights at the first International Conference on Women’s Transformational Leadership, in Juba, South Sudan on Tuesday. Almost 400 women leaders from 15 African countries joined the UN-backed three-day conference, which opened on Monday, including former and current presidents. The goal is to advance progress, tackle pressing concerns and find sustainable solutions to issues affecting ...

Deputy Ranking Member of Parliament’s Finance Committee, Isaac Adongo has blamed the country’s economic woes on the reckless spending of the government during the COVID-19 outbreak. The Bolgatanga Central legislator accused the government of loosely throwing money the way of its appointees in the name of cushioning Ghanaians during the pandemic. Speaking on Face to Face on Citi TV, Mr. Adongo said the ...

The Police arrested 18 people for their involvement in a scuffle on the campus of the University of Ghana on Tuesday. The Police in a statement noted that the “18 suspects were together with about 200 others believed to be former members of the Commonwealth Hall of the University.” The Police stated that the 18 suspects are in custody and ...

The Deputy Minister in charge of General Education, Rev. John Ntim Fordjour, has advised parents not to deny their children access to education no matter the circumstances they may find themselves in. He explained that irrespective of the kind of work they did and the kind of conditions they might find themselves in there was no way they should use ...

Introduction On May 25, 2021, the website of Ghana’s Parliament published the following: “The Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon Alban S. K. Bagbin has today opened the Second Meeting of the First Session of the Eighth Parliament with a firm commitment to see to the passage of the Affirmative Action Bill into law.” Fast-forward to 2023, the first item under ...

The government is said to have achieved more than the 80% target needed for the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP). The programme is part of the requirements before Ghana can secure an economic bailout of about $3 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Some persons close to the team who worked on the programme told Joy Business the target ...