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The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has said a recent survey conducted among 360 medical doctors indicated that 90 percent of them considered leaving Ghana in search of greener pastures. President of the GMA, Dr Frank Serebuor at the just-ended 64th annual general conference of the Association in Bolgatanga said the doctors want a better service conditions, for which they are seeking to ...

Ghana’s Budget Statement and the Economic Policy for 2023 may not be read on November 15, as scheduled. Majority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has revealed that the current negotiation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) may delay the presentation. The Public Financial Management Act mandates that the budget is presented next two weeks. However, as negotiations between the Finance Minister and ...

One of Ghana’s foremost policy think tanks, SEND-Ghana has outdoored a  Report dubbed,  Monitoring Compliance of  Ghana’s National Deployment and Vaccination Plan (NDVP) and  Citizens’ COVID-19 Vaccination Experience. The Report, which emerged from a research conducted by SEND Ghana with support from the Partnership for Transparency Fund (PTF) assessed citizens’ experiences, opinions, and motivations for vaccination, and vaccination uptake among ...

The World Bank Group’s new Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) for Ghana estimates that at least one million more people could fall into poverty due to climate shocks if urgent climate actions are not taken. The Report also warned that if pre-emptive measures are not taken, incomes could reduce by up to 40% for poor households by 2050, further ...

The aspiring Youth Organiser for NDC West London Branch, Mr Awal Zibrim Zamuni has donated COVID-19 lateral flow test kits to the good people of Bawku in the Upper East Region on behalf of the NDC West London Group. The test kits were distributed to three hospitals in the Bawku Municipality. Mr Zibrim who visited the area recently met with some ...

Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has disclosed that the government has commenced plans to secure cheaper petroleum products for the Ghanaian market. The Minister made this revelation while speaking to Evans Mensah on PM Express on Monday. According to him, the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) and the Ministry of Energy will provide further details about the importation of fuel onto the Ghanaian ...

Former President, John Mahama has blamed the Finance Minister, Mr. Ken Ofori-Atta, for the country’s economic woes. According to him, the President’s seeming inability to remove Mr. Ofori-Atta from office is worsening the situation. “To be clear, we’re in this mess because of an untouchable Finance Minister relying on his Databank workers and neglecting the advice of seasoned experts at ...

North Tongu Member of Parliament, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has said the inordinate fall of the Cedi against the Dollar should be seen as a national security threat. He said the President must dissolve the Economic Management Team (EMT), sack the Finance Minister, and quickly convene a nonpartisan forum to rescue the local currency. In a tweet, Mr Ablakwa said “The ...

A survey by Global Info Analytics has found that 77 percent of Ghanaians believe the country is heading in the wrong direction as of October 2022.  According to the survey, 16 percent of Ghanaians believed the country was heading in the right direction. Meanwhile, seven percent of the persons polled had no opinion on the direction of the country. Excerpts ...

The World Bank Group President, David Malpass, has expressed disappointment over Ghana and Nigeria’s decision not to sign up for the Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI). Established in May 2020, the DSSI expired at the end of December 2021. The DSSI, put together by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank offered countries an opportunity to freeze debt servicing, ...