Nuanced Life, Nuanced National Issues
You know what, if not for the fact that I intend to set up a fake church should the unfortunate event happen that I become bankrupt, I would have named this column ‘The Nuances of Life’ or something to that effect, instead of ‘Attempted Prophecies’....
Parliament and judiciary increases by only 48.71% and 18.49% respectively
A case of betrayal and lack of commitment to effective separation of powers and good governance principles
Critical analysis of the 2021 budgetary allocations as against previous provisions reveal that, over the last five years, allocations to the...
Professor Douglas Boateng column
Board of directors as rightly pointed out by Charan R. Holcomb J.M. Useem M. are supposed to monitor and not manage. The role can be rewarding, challenging and also risky. Today, the relationship between board level risks and rewards especially in publicly quoted companies and state...
Managing Director of the Agricultural Development Bank, Dr. John Kofi Mensah, has said that reforms introduced by the regulator in the past few years have strengthened the banking sector; hence, the industry can absorb the 5 percent levy recently introduced by government.
Government has said it spent some GH¢21billion on...
describes new taxes in 2021 budget as regressive
Despite government’s assertion that it has achieved adequate food supply through its flagship programme ‘Planting for Food and Jobs’ (PFJ), the Director of Research at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) - Dr. John Kwakye - has stated that cost...
Government is fully committed to ensuring that the disaster of June 3, 2015 does not repeat itself, the Minister of Works and Housing, Francis Asenso-Boakye, has assured.
According to him, this is the reason the Akufo-Addo administration has since of that national disaster been frequently dredging and desilting drains in...
Senior Industrial Relations Officer of the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU), Abass Ibrahim Moro, has warned Ghanaians to be on the lookout for price increments in transportation fares.
According to him, the increase in tariffs by government has left the various driver unions with no choice than to increase...
… anti-tobacco advocates push for higher rates to discourage child use
Research conducted by the Vision for Alternative Development (VALD) has revealed that despite the many efforts geared at discouraging tobacco use, especially among children through high tax rates, the commodity is very cheap on the market as the...
The economy loses between US$14.4million and US$23.7million yearly in fishing licence fees and fines for trawlers, a new report by the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) has revealed.
The losses, the report said, are as a result of the country issuing licence fees and fines far lower and insignificant to trawlers...
The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor, has said the government is keen on seeing that Ghanaians benefit appropriately from mining while pursuing policies to enhance the transformation of the mining sector into a catalyst for industrial transformation.
This also includes an effort to improve transparency and...