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Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta is expected before parliament today June 21, 2022, to answer q uestions mostly relating to the state of the Ghanaian economy which is said to be in dire straits. Below are the full list of questions the Minister is said to have been running away from until the speaker issued a warning of throwing out government business if he fails to appear. (a) Mr. Godfred Seidu Jasaw (Wa East)(NDC): When will the government clear the large debt owed partners and suppliers to ensure the availability of subsidized fertilizer in this farming season? Agriculture (b) Ms. Sheila Bartels (Ablekuma North)(NPP): What is the current status of funding for the construction of Phase Two of the Tema Motorway? Infrastructure (Roads) (c) Mr. Sylvester Tetteh (Bortianor-Ngleshie Amanfro)(NPP): What are the interventions the Ministry is employing to clamp the rising price of fuel? Energy/Cost of Living (d) Mr. Edward Abambire Bawa (Bongo)(NDC): What the Ministry is doing abo...

Various economists and experts have been piling presssure on the government to go to the International Monetary Fund IMF if it must survive. Various experts believe the government is shying away from IMF because their solution could affect its key flagship programs such as Free SHS, Planting for Food and Jobs among others. The opposition also warns that the situation could be dire if government didn’t “humbly” submit itself to the IMF. The various experts from industry and academia, including think tank IMANI Africa want the government to take that option before it’s too late. University of Ghana’s Professor Godfred Bokpin said the government must shed all its pride and approach the IMF. The economist and professor of finance explained that the country since independence had had successive governments with different ideologies and governance approaches that relied on the IMF for assistance to address economic challenges. “I agree going to the IMF is a political decision. But it ...

Authorities of the University of Ghana, Legon have brought back “No Mask, No Entry” policy after COVID-19 following the increasing number of cases. The University in a statement ahead of its reopening said it has noted with great concern the rise in the numbers of COVID-19, especially in the Greater Accra Region. Therefore students and other members of the University Community are expected to adhere to all protocols which have been lagging for some time now. These protocols include “No Mask, No Entry”, Social Distancing, and washing of hands under running water among others. The University also reminded students who have not been vaccinated to take advantage of the vaccination centre on the campus to get vaccinated in order to keep them safe. It would be recalled that the President in one of his “Fellow Ghanaians ” encounter indicated that it’s no more compulsory for Ghanaians to put on Facemasks. “From tomorrow, Monday, 28th March, the wearing of facemasks is no longer mandator...

Many Ghanaians have been told about how President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo made a pledge to build a National Cathedral for Ghana when he gets a chance to be President of Ghana but many people do n0t know where or how he made the promise to God. According to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana National Cathedral on GTV, the vow was made by Akufo-Addo as a Foreign Minister in the year 2005 at the Washington National Cathedral on June of that year. It was revealed that President Akufo-Addo, then a Foreign Minister had represented the Kufour government at the funeral of the late US President Ronald Reagan which was held at the Washington National Cathedral where about 4,000 people gathered at the cathedral for the service; including then President and Mrs. Bush, former presidents George H. W. and Barbara Bush, Gerald and Betty Ford, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, and Bill and Hillary Clinton. Members of Congress a...

Former Deputy Minister for Transport and a member of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) Daniel Nii Kwartei Titus Glover has admitted there is hardship in the country. “When you ask me about the economic situation, I will tell you the truth that we are suffering. Things are not going on well; things are hard”. Mr. Titus Glover, NPP National Organizer hopeful admitted in an interview with Kumasi-based Nhyira FM. Ghana after the pandemic has experienced rare hardship crumbling numerous economic activities amidst the rising cost of fuel. This also comes at a time the country’s currency Cedi has hugely depreciated against the dollar and other major foreign currencies. The government in a series of attempts has blamed the current economic hardship on both the COVID-19 pandemic and the war between Russia and Ukraine; a claim most economists and political analysts have rubbished. However, speaking in his interview with Nhyira FM, Mr Titus Glover further indicated that, as a member of t...

President Akufo-Addo has lamented to the European Union how the Russia-Ukraine war is hurting the economies of African countries in a scale never seen before, leading to increased cost of borrowing as a result of investor “tantrum”. The President was addressing a cross section of European and world leaders at the 2022 European Union Development Days Conference in Brussels, Belgium, where Akufo-Addo joined calls to end the war as soon as possible.  Just last month, the president expressed concerns over the impact the crises in Ukraine is having on food security in Ghana and on the continent, saying the Ukrainian crisis has compromised the food security of Africa, causing a disruption of commodity imports and shortages in fertilisers for crops. “Growing concerns of fertiliser shortages in most African countries including Ghana are worrying. “Ghana’s maize and soya production could be affected and our poultry industry could suffer greater shocks,” he said at this Annual Conferenc...

Sad news coming in from the West African Nation of Mali led by Colonel Assimi Goitta indicates one hundred and thirty-two (132) civilians were killed by a terrorist group in an operation in a village yesterday, sending shockwaves not only in Mali but across West Africa.  The terrorist group behind the killings have been identified as Macina Liberation Front, an Islamist group founded in 2015. According to reports culled by MyNewsGh.com, on the night of June 18th to 19 th , the group attacked several villages in the Bankass circle in the Bandiagara region in the center of the country killing the civilians who were defenseless and unarmed, the Malian government said in a press release. “The government of the Republic of Mali has the deep regret to inform that the peaceful populations of the villages of Diallassagou, Dianweli, Deguessagou and surroundings in the circle of Bankass were the object of cowardly and barbaric terrorist attacks, in the night from June 18 to 19, 2022,” sa...