By Mohammed Awal ([email protected]) John Dramani Mahama has pledged to implement an industrial policy aimed at transitioning the economy from dependence on imports to a focus on exports should he regain the presidency in 2025. According to the former President, this initiative will entail establishing agro-processing and industrial zones in every...
Politicians must refrain from politicising the country’s fight against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that is ravaging countries across the globe, Professor J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu, President of the Trinity Theological Seminary (TTS), Legon, has cautioned. Speaking to a cross-section of journalists during a disinfection and fumigation exercise by the Vector...
The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, has told the incoming Ambassador-Designate of the European Union (EU) to Ghana, Irchad Razaaly, that the nation is committed to fighting Money Laundering and Combatting the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT). She said the nation worked hard to be delisted from...
The Minority walked out from Parliament over the “cash for seat” Committee report following investigations into claims that the Trade Ministry extorted $100,000 from expatriates to allow them to sit close to the President during the Ghana Expatriates Business Awards in December 2017. They indicated that most of the MPs...
The global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic poses a fundamental question: Is this one of those historic moments when the world changes permanently, when the balance of political and economic power shifts decisively, and when, for most people, in most countries, life is never quite the same again? Put...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated that the macroeconomic strides made over the past twelve months indicate his government is very much on course to turn around the fortunes of a distressed economy inherited from the Mahama administration. Addressing the press in Accra on Wednesday, the president lauded work...
Members of Parliament (MPs) have registered their displeasure at the economy and the performance of Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta, as both sides of the divide are pushing for his impeachment MPs from both the Majority and Minority on Tuesday called for removal of the finance minister to save the economy...
Ghana’s number one urban radio station YFM, has introduced a new segment called the Y Leaderboard Series to the ‘Myd Morning Radio Show’. The ‘Y Leaderboard Series’ is a segment with the objective to develop the youth and provide inspiration to listeners by hosting leaders and achievers in various industries...
The Vice-President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has inspected works on the construction of a classroom block for the Kwaboanta Presbyterian Junior High School (JHS) in the Ayensuano District, in the Eastern Region. The project, which is nearing completion, is being sponsored by the Vice-President in fulfillment of his pledge to...
Work has begun in earnest to present a piece of legislation to Parliament by the middle of December to elevate the Ghana Association of Restructuring and Insolvency Advisors (GARIA) to a statutory body, President Akufo-Addo has revealed. This, he said, is consistent with Section 171 of the Corporate Restructuring and...