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National | Top Story Ofori-Atta has more integrity than 99% of politicians – Prof. Stephen Adei Source :  Connielove Mawutornyo Dzodzegbe      30 November 2022 9:41pm Former Board Chairman of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Professor Stephen Adei has expressed his displeasure over the manner in which MPs demanded the dismissal of Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta. Some 98 Majority NPP MPs earlier this month held a press conference in Parliament and demanded that President Akufo-Addo relieves his cousin of his post for what they described as mismanagement of the economy. The Minority in Parliament subsequently filed a censure motion to seek to remove the Minister from office. But Prof. Adei is unhappy with the turn of events concerning the calls for Ofori-Atta’s dismissal. According to him, there are better ways to handle issues relating to his impeachment rather than tarnish the hard-earned reputation of Mr. Ofori-Atta. “Our leaders [Members of Parliament] must be very careful when t

  General News I gave Yendi MP GH¢100,000 towards NPP N/R Chair’s election – Ken Agyapong slams ‘ingrate’   December 1, 2022 0  1 minute read           Assin Central Member of Parliament, Kennedy Agyapong, has alleged that he financially supported the chairmanship bid of the Northern Regional chairman of the governing  New Patriotic Party , (NPP). Agyapong said in a recent interview that he had supported Chairman Mohammed A. Baantima Samba’s election bid months back with an amount of GH¢100,000 cedis. He said that the amount had been donated after MP for Yendi, Farouk Aliu Mahama, had called on him whiles he was in the US to support Samba’s bid. He added, that despite giving an amount of GH¢100,000 cedis, only GH¢40,000 cedis was acknowledged by Samba. “I was in America. Farouk came to my house. He said I should support Samba. I gave him 100 thousand cedis. After that Samba texted me saying, ‘thank you. I got 40 thousand from Farouk.’ Now the same man is dirtying me,” Agyapong is quote

  Organised Labour rejects 18% salary increment Source :  MyJoyOnline.com      30 November 2022 5:33pm File Photo Organised Labour has rejected government’s proposal for 18% increment in the base pay of public sector workers. At a negotiation meeting on Wednesday, Organised Labour maintained that they cannot accept anything less than 60% increment. In an interview with a representative of the Civil and Local Government Staff Association, Ghana (CLOGSAG), he noted that they have changed their initial demand from 60% to 65%. He indicated though that they are going to consult on government’s offer. “As you are aware, we have read the budget and there is an indication that there will be an increase in VAT of 2.5 … so this is fresh information that they have brought to that table. Because the budget has indicated certain issues in relation to VAT and the tax bracket to increase our burden,” the representative of CLOSAG said. Also, President of Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT),

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  VIDEO: Using gold to buy crude oil not de-dollarisation policy - VP Bawumia Date: Nov - 28 - 2022 , 08:31 BY: GraphicOnline VIDEO: Using gold to buy crude oil not de-dollarisation policy - VP Bawumia Vice-President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has stated that some analysts and commentators have misinterpreted Ghana’s policy of using gold reserves to pay for oil as an attempt by the country to move away from using the US dollar for international transactions. Speaking at the 2022 AGI Awards in Accra, Dr. Bawumia noted that to the contrary, Ghana's gold for oil program will give Ghana the space to accumulate more international reserves as the country will save the $3 billion it spends on oil imports. He added that the use of gold was specifically for oil imports in the face of declining foreign exchange reserves. “Unfortunately some people have misinterpreted this as Ghana being against the use of the US dollar in international transactions. Far from it. We want to accumulate more US doll

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