Young NPP MP Makes History
He made political history in the Yagaba/Kubori Constituency of the Northern Region which has traditionally been voting for the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) by winning the seat for the...
Tag: oil revenue
Debate On The Petroleum Exploration And Production Bill Does It Guarantee Ghana A Fair Share Of Oil Revenue And Protect The Interest Of Ghana?
On Friday 19th August, 2016, the Ghana Institute of Governance and Security locked horns with the Africa Centre for Energy Policy represented by Dr. Adam Amin, Natural Resource Governance Institute...
Bawumia Exploiting the Economy’s Weaknesses
Faced with deepening economic malaise, most Ghanaians aren’t easily impressed these days, and whether Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, NPP’s presidential running mate, was right or wrong, he provided an...
No Cash For Salaries
The Government of Ghana does not have money to pay salaries of its workers across the country for September 2016; and has therefore, decided to use part of the budget already allocated to run some 23...
Oil Cash Projects Missing
The Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) has discovered that oil revenue allocated to three projects in Upper West and Northern regions might have gone into private pockets as a visit...
Sue GNPC To Publish Audited Accounts
The head of Policy Unit at the Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP), Dr. Ishmael Ackah is calling for a legal action that will force the Ghana National Petroleum Authority, GNPC to publish its...
‘When Bawumia Speaks, NDC Shivers’
Speeches by the vice-presidential nominee of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) always send “shivers within the NDC”, Sydney Casely-Hayford, a member of OccupyGhana, has claimed. For him, the...
Bawumia Carefully Selects Theories That Favours NPP
Presidential Staffer, Kojo Adu Asare says Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia skewed the facts on the state of Ghana's economy to favour his party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and excite his party faithfuls....
NDC’s Performance In Western Region Is ‘spectacular Failure’
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Takoradi Constituency says the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) has done next to nothing to improve the lives of residents in the Western Region. Kwabena...
Infrastructural Development Dipped Under Mahama
Contrary to claims by President John Mahama that the country has seen massive infrastructural development under his government, data in the past years indicate a decline, vice presidential nominee of...
Bawumia ‘cleverly Exaggerated’ GHC248bn NDC Revenue – IMANI
Dr Mahamudu Bawumia’s claim that the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) has since 2009 amassed and spent 12 times the nominal resources that the NPP had over its eight years of leadership...
Ghana Spends On Interest Payments Than On Infrastructure
Ghana is today dolling out more to pay interest payments than it spends on infrastructural or capital projects annually, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has said. Speaking during a public lecture on the state...
Minimum Wage, Per Capita Income Declining Under Mahama – Bawumia
Ghana’s minimum wage, in dollar terms, has declined from $2.12 in 2008 to $2.02 in 2016 under President John Mahama, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has said. Again, the NPP’s running mate says while the...
Mills Govt Better Than Mahama’s – Bawumia
The 2016 running mate of the opposition New Patriotic Party Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has said Ghana’s economy performed much better under the late President John Mills than it is doing currently, under...
66% of Ghana’s Debt Accumulated Under Mahama
About 66% of Ghana’s total debt is accumulated under President John Mahama, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) running mate for the 2016 general election has said. He said as a...
Ghana’s Problems Down To Misuse of Resources – Bawumia
The country’s economic challenges are not about a lack of resources but the inefficient management of such resources, the vice-presidential nominee of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr...
What Are Their Business Plansfor Ghana?
The question explicit in the title of this article is directed at the political parties aspiring to govern this country. We are by no means ignorant of the fact that nations are infinitely more...
Ghana Oil Revenue Hall Of Infamy Under John Mahama!
"... Would Dr. Kwame Nkrumah kowtow to that predatory, oil racket of a contract that has thus far siphoned over $6 billion from hungry and desperate mouth and brains in Ghana?...They all have had the...
Add Value To Crude
Energy analyst Kwame Jantuah has called for the expansion of the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) in order to refine crude from Ghanaian production fields for local consumption. According to Mr Jantuah, the...
Nigeria ‘terror Mastermind’ Appeals Conviction By S.Africa Court
Johannesburg (AFP) - A Nigerian jailed in Johannesburg for a series of terror attacks in his homeland on Wednesday appealed his conviction, challenging South Africa's right to try him, his lawyer...