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The Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation has announced that it has instituted plans of deactivating all SIM cards yet to be registered by November 30, 2022. The Ministry, in a statement issued on November 11, warned that “all SIM cards which have completed the first stage of the registration exercise but not done the second phase will be blocked from ...

President Akufo-Addo has asked rich countries to allow heavily indebted poor African countries to swap their debts with climate interventions.  The President has been addressing the world at this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP27 in Egypt.  Ghana is currently facing a crippling economic crisis fueled by huge debt.  The debt situation is proving to be a major stumbling block to getting an IMF deal in ...

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 ...

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, ...

A Justice nominee of the Supreme Court, Barbara Frances Ackah-Yensu, has proposed the use of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in handling cases involving illegal small-scale miners (Galamseyers). She said this during her vetting by the Appointments Committee of Parliament on Tuesday, October 18. Asked by Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu about the judicial response to the galamsey menace, she said “we will determine if ...