Economist and Lecturer at the University of Ghana Business School, Godfred Alufa Bokpin says Government’s targets in the 2014 budget were dead on arrival. According to him it is obvious government was going to miss the budget target. ‘’Government’s mid-year review of the budget was expected;…Two months into the budget [2014 budget] life we knew ...

Kumasi Mayor, Kojo Bonsu, has assured traders of the Kumasi Central market that the first phase of the planned reconstruction of the burnt market will commence soon. According to him, parliament has already approved $172.5 million out of the projected $259 million to begin the project. “In all the total loan agreement for the project ...

The special representative of the United Nations and the African Union for Darfur, Dr. Mohammed Ibn Chambas, will address this year’s Atta Mills Memorial Lectures. The second in the series of memorial lectures will come off on Thursday July 24, 2014 at the Auditorium of the College of Physicians and Surgeons here in Accra. The ...

The Police Administration has given organized labour the green light to demonstrate on Thursday against the worsening economic conditions. The labour unions were given clearance to exercise a constitutional mandate after meeting the requirement of the Public Order Act. Speaking to an Accra based Joy News, Greater Accra Police PRO, DSP Freeman Tettey confirmed  it, ...

The Executive Director of IMANI Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe has described government’s decision to halve the $3 billion China Development Bank (CDB) loan as a signification of government’s unpreparedness to transform the economy. According to Mr. Cudjoe,” the fact that we have to change the fundamentals of making projections, going for loans, knowing the profitability and ...

A Labour Consultant, Austin Gamey is asking Organized Labour not to embark on its planned one-day protest. According to the Labour Analyst, the protest will grind the economy to a halt and threaten the peace of the nation. Organized labour at a press conference on Friday declared a one-day national protest and asked all workers ...

An English teacher who repeatedly had sex with a teenage student in her car threatened to fail him when he tried to end their affair, police have said. Danielle Watkins, who is married with two young children, repeatedly had sex in her car with the 18-year-old student during school hours, Stamford Police claim. And when ...

World-renowned Aids researchers and activists heading to an international conference in Australia were on board the downed Malaysian jet, it has emerged. The Australian newspaper reported that up to 108 researchers were aboard the flight heading for the conference. News of their deaths sparked an outpouring of grief across the global scientific community. The World Health ...

A presidential aspirant of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Alan John Kyeremanten, has made a claim that he is the best person to secure victory for the party in 2016. According to him, he is well positioned to attract floating voters to enable the party win the 2016 election if elected flagbearer of the party. ...

Nearly 40 years ago, a young Belgian scientist travelled to a remote part of the Congolese rainforest – his task was to help find out why so many people were dying from an unknown and terrifying disease. In September 1976, a package containing a shiny, blue thermos flask arrived at the Institute of Tropical Medicine ...