The former chief executive of South Africa's state-owned power utility was sworn in as a member of parliament Thursday in a move that could deepen a power struggle within the ruling ANC party. Brian...
The South African government on Thursday called for calm after a wave of xenophobic violence in which dozens of shops and houses owned by immigrants have been torched and looted. Attacks against...
The majority of Ghanaians, who are financially distressed and impoverished by a sustained period of economic mismanagement, need to be given hope, having lost it and wondering what awaits them...
South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has targeted the rich in his annual budget, announcing a new top tax rate of 45% in his 2017 budget. It will apply to annual incomes of more than 1.5m...
The President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government is engaged in ‘gymnastics’ (playing games) with the energy sector levy introduced by the previous government, a former Deputy Power Minister,...
Ghana’s minority members of parliament have described as “lofty rhetoric,” President Akufo-Addo’s maiden State of the Nation Address, arguing it fell short of solutions to fix the so-called...
Despite assurances from President Akufo Addo to grant some tax cuts in the power sector, the Institute of Energy and Climate Change Policy (IECP) has cautioned that any attempt to review the energy...
I haven’t even set eyes on the man before but I pretty much have a fair idea what style he gravitates towards. It is his style and it tickles my senses in ways that my senses have not tickled in a...
The Minority in Parliament has passed a scathingly damning verdict on President Akufo-Addo’s maiden State of the Nation Address, describing it as “high on platitudes and short of substance.”...
The government of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has sacked 525 national security operatives, Haruna Iddrisu, Minority Leader and Member of Parliament for Tamale South, has said. According to...
One major campaign promise of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in 2016 was the payment of deposits to victims to DKM customers. The President in November 2016 promised customers that he will retrieve...
South Africa's finance minister warned Wednesday of "growing impatience and ferment" over post-apartheid inequality and slow growth as he presented a budget that raised taxes on the wealthy. Pravin...
Listening to the long recount of the never-done-wells of the past administration as presented in Nana Addo’s first SONA, one may begin to wonder if the President mounted the platform to weep and...
Nana Addo’s 1st SONA was delivered on the floor of Ghana’s Parliament on Tuesday, 21st February, 2017. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo delivered his maiden State of the Nation Address...
NPP Director of Communications Nana Akomea says the failure of President Akufo-Addo to highlight the Bimbilla conflict in his State of the Nation Address does not belittle government's commitment to...
Between 1977 and 1979, the economic conditions in Ghana had created a huge imbalance in the Ghanaian society leading to serious corruption that was nick named “Kalabule” which virtually replaced...
By Frederick K. Kofi Tse “Our political class introduced something they call free education that is free indeed?free of knowledge. It is because they are so suspicious of those institutions that...
South Africa's Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan delivers the annual budget in parliament Wednesday as he battles to revive the economy and head off loyalists of the president who seek to oust him....
With the incessant calls on President Akufo-Addo to hurriedly implement and prove ways his administration would sustain the free Senior High School (SHS) promise that catapulted him into power, the...
The Ex-deputy Power Minister John Jinapor has said the erstwhile National Democratic Congress was on track to clear the energy sector debt which stood at $2 billion just before they handed over...
