Covid-19 No Longer A “Bother”: What Now?
The World Health Organization declared on Friday that Covid-19 is no longer a global health emergency. During its 15th meeting on Covid-19, the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee of the…
CHINA AND OTHER WORLD ‘ENGINES’ WEAKENED: DOES THE WORLD ECONOMY STAND A CHANCE?
There hasn’t been a second recession in the same decade since more than 80 years ago, but the world economy is just one more blow away from it. This is…
GHANA’S INFLATION STRANGLING HOUSEHOLDS
Prof. Godfred A. Bokpin, an economics instructor at the University of Ghana Business School, has said that the high inflation rate for October is not as surprising as many Ghanaians…
DEBT CRISIS LOOMING IN 2023 FOR GHANA AND OTHER AFRICAN NATIONS
According to the United Nations, Ghana and some other African nations will have to take significant steps to reform the global financial system. Charles Abani, the UN Resident Coordinator in…
YOU DIPPED YOUR FILTHY HANDS IN STATE’S MONEY – IBRAHIM MURTALA TO OFORI-ATTA
Ibrahim Murtala Mohammed, a member of parliament for Tamale Central, claims that Ken Ofori-Atta, Ghana’s finance minister, mismanaged the country’s finances gravely, particularly at the height of the Covid-19 outbreak.…
AFRICAN EMANCIPATION: OVERCOMING COMMODITY DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN COUNTRIES
A report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) released on July 14, 2022 suggested that African countries, whose economies have been severely impacted by the COVID-19…
FINANCE MINISTER APPEARS BEFORE PARLIAMENT TO ANSWER 16 QUESTIONS – NEWS UPDATE
The finance minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, appears in front of the legislature today to respond to 16 inquiries that have been put out to his ministry by various members of the…
FINANCE MINISTER DODGING ACCOUNTABILITY?
The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has imposed a temporary block on all activity from the Ministry of Finance till the sector Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, appears before the house to…
COVID-19 CASES SURGING: IS THE HEALTH SECTOR EQUIPPED FOR ANOTHER WAVE?
The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, recently briefing the press in Accra, revealed that COVID-19 cases in Ghana have started increasing, with the active patients being…
COVID-19 CASES RISING: WHAT SHOULD WE EXPECT?
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Most people infected with the virus experience mild to moderate respiratory illness and recover without requiring special treatment. There…
MONKEYPOX: A ‘NEW’ ENEMY
We were nearly out of the woods from the pandemic that wrecked the whole world, COVID–19. Just when everything was returning to normalcy and restrictions had been relaxed, we are…