We will accept the 43 cars Mahama ordered - Mustapha Hamid

The Minister for Information, Mustapha Hamid has hinted government may have to accept the 43 vehicles ordered by the erstwhile Mahama regime, if it is established that there was a proper contract.

Currently in transit in Dubai, the vehicles were ordered a few days before the then government left office.

Speaking on the Point Blank segment of Eyewitness News, Mr. Hamid said government will accept the vehicles if it discovers the contract was transparent enough.

“The last time I spoke with National Security, they were in talks with the importer. I think that if the contract to buy these cars was awarded transparently, nothing wrong with the transaction, and they have been bought with state money I think in my view, we will have to take them,” said Mr. Hamid.



Mr. Hamid also clarified that the said moratorium placed on the purchase of vehicles by

Securing the loans was necessary to retire mature debts the NPP government inherited - Hon. Kwaku Kwarteng

A Deputy Minister of Finance Kweku Kwarteng has defended government’s decision to borrow exceedingly more than the previous government six months into office.

He said government has been compelled to borrow more in order to defray the debt the Mahama government left behind.

Dr. Mahammudu Bawumia at Monday’s press interaction justified government’s quest to borrow more

We want Nana Addo to sack Charlotte Osei - EC Staff petition the president

Some aggrieved employees of the Electoral Commission (EC) have petitioned President Nana Akufo-Addo to dismiss the Chairperson of the Commission, Charlotte Osei.

The employees in a statement insisted Mrs. Osei should be impeached for among others, bringing the “Commission’s name into disrepute by single highhandedly petitioning EOCO on an alleged misappropriation of staff endowment fund for malicious reasons.

They further revealed that following her appointment as

I’m gonna look very foolish in the eyes of people If couldn't do Free SHS - Prez Akufo Addo

President Akufo-Addo yesterday had his first encounter with the Ghanaian media after taking office as president, with a barrage of questions fired at him.

He took time to walk the journalists through some of the measures he and his government have been putting in place to restore the country to normalcy after what he called a shocking revelation about the state of affairs.

After giving an introductory speech which lasted for almost 35 minutes, addressing a wide range of issues from the

President media encounter, Akufo Addo did excellent delivery - Allotey Jacobs

Central Regional Chairman for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Allotey Jacobs has lauded President Akufo-Addo for his ‘excellent delivery’ at the media encounter yesterday.

The President had his maiden meeting with the media at the Flagstaff House on Tuesday, 18th July, 2017.




Allotey Jacobs contributing

I enjoyed fighting for the media freedom - President Akufu Addo

President Akufo-Addo has said that he does not regret his role in getting criminal libel law repealed.

According to him, he prefers the media’s role of checking government and criticizing its activities rather than a praise-singing one.

Speaking at his first special interaction with the media at the Flagstaff House in Accra, Akufo-Addo said although he has been one of the most victimized persons by the media, he believes it was important that the media had the ability to do so.

Nana Akufo-Addo, who served as Attorney General

We want IMF programme to be extended - CSOP

The civil society organisations platform is advocating an extension of Ghana’s IMF programme, saying the package will best serve the nation’s interest since it will allow for better implementation of the structural reforms.

Dr. Godfred Alufar Bokpin, a Lecturer at the University of Ghana Business School, said there was the need to extend the agreement in order to drive the much needed reform to improve the fiscal governance framework.

He was speaking at the Fourth National Civil Society Forum on Ghana’s International Monetary Fund Programme in Accra on Thursday on the theme: “Three Years into the IMF-Supported Extended Credit Facility Arrangement: Is the Ghanaian economy on the right path?"

He explained that, the programme had