By Kwabena Adu Koranteng The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori Atta, yesterday presented the 2018 budget statement to Parliament with the assertion that the New Patriotic Party government has returned Ghana to a robust economic growth intheir  firstyear  in office despite the hugechallenges  inherited.   From a ballooning debt stock, strangling fiscal deficit it inherited in 2016, the Finance Minister, …

By Frank Amponsah The National Democratic Congress (NDC) which has been running away from its own shadows with the leadership trying very hard to downplay the Kwesi Botchwey report is in disarray.   Leadership of the party instead of facing realities have been in state of self-denial, attacking the government, the President, and the Vice president as though they were …

By Adu Koranteng The Chief Executive of Cocobod, Joseph Boahene Aidoo has described minority comments on their operations as reckless and irrational. He regarded the call by the minority in parliament, demanding answers to the utilization of proceeds relating to cocoa production above the 850,000 metric tonnes cocoa production projected for the 2016/2017 crop year as thoughtless.   Speaking at …

…Scaring Away Investors To Frustrate Akufo-Addo’s Private Sector Agenda @ Civil Aviation By Frank Amponsah Concerns have been raised by some genuine Ghanaian investors over what appears tobe attempts by some civil servants operating as agents of the opposition, to stifle the efforts of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s government at encouraging the progress of the private sector at Civil …

The outspoken politician, Dr. Tony Aidoo, says former President John Mahama and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) failed the country’s accountability test. the former Ghana’s Ambassador to the Netherlands observed the Mahama administration failed to counteract the numerous corruption scandals against his government. This, he argued, contributed to the party’s defeat in the December 2016 elections, which he said, was …

Former Attorney general Martin Amidu has described the letter addressed to former President JJ Rawlings by Valerie Sawyerr as lying, incoherent, disjointed and drunken-like diatribes.   According to him, he will not be cowed by former President John Mahama and his surrogates. Responding to calls for his suspension from the NDC by some members of the umbrella family, Mr. Amidu …

Like a  crocodile crooking to indicate its inability to take in any more water, former Deputy Chief of Staff, Valarie Sawyerr, has teed of what is perhaps going to open the floodgate for open attacks and insults on former President and founder of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Jerry John Rawlings, and former Attorney General, Martin Amidu. She has inferred …

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta has stated that government’s maiden budget statement has brought relief to Ghanaians, by stabilizing and putting the economy on the right track for development. Presenting the midyear review of the 2017 budget statement yesterday , the Minister recalled that : “ on the 2nd of March, 2017, I stood before this honourable house to present …

…In Educational Projects, Set To Pay For Teacher Motivation By Frank Amponsah Government has indicated its preparedness to ensure quality education under the Free SHS Policy by paying for teacher motivation so as not to compromise the success of the programme. Government is also prepared to reserve 30% of placement allocation for students from deprived and less endowed schools into …

Former Attorney General, Martin Amidu has warned President  Nana Akufo-Addo to beware of  some faceless who he accused of smuggling some clauses into the special prosecutor’s Bill to limit the prosecutor from investigating certain kinds of corruption and also removing corruption from the jurisdiction of the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO). He is of the view that the President …