Month: July 2022

President Akufo-Addo Speaks On Ongoing Global Economic Turmoil

President Akufo-Addo Speaks On Ongoing Global Economic Turmoil

President Akufo-Addo in his capacity as the African Union Champion of Financial Institutions addressed the Boma of Africa (www.africaboma.com), at the invitation of the African Union and AfroChampions, on the ongoing global economic turmoil. He strongly urged the assembled leaders to prioritise and focus on collective actions to strengthen Africa's influence in the global economic order. He expressed concern that smaller economies, many of them in Africa, often suffer the harshest consequences during global downturns though they contribute the least to the causes of these upheavals. The international instruments for resolving these crises lack input from smaller economies. Africa therefore…
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I Don’t Hate Bawumia- Kwabena Agyapong Speaks (VIDEO)

I Don’t Hate Bawumia- Kwabena Agyapong Speaks (VIDEO)

Mr. Kwabena Agyapong has emphatically stated that he harbors no hatred in his heart for Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia. His comments comes come back of a statement he made on another TV network where he stated categorically that Vice President Bawumia should be grateful to the New Patriotic Party for making him their running mate when their constitution didn’t approve of it. Speaking on Wontumi TV, he reiterated that no one in NPP has used a northerner and dumped him or her. In 2008 Bawumia, Mr. Agyapong stated that Dr. Bawumia wasn’t a member of NPP but then General Secretary…
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Clap For Akufo-Addo, His IMF Comes With SWAG- Dr. Forkuo

Clap For Akufo-Addo, His IMF Comes With SWAG- Dr. Forkuo

There is some form of stylish confidence in the way President Akufo-Addo is seeking a bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Dr. Solomon Kwarteng Forkuo has said. The respected lecturer at the Kumasi Technical University stated on Wontumi TV that the conditionality attached to the IMF package President Akufo-Addo is seeking, is favorable to Ghana than what former President John Mahama got from the same institution. “This would be an IMF with swag and you will clap for President Akufo-Addo and his vice. You won’t see cancellation of programs like free SHS”, he said. VIDEO below… https://youtu.be/xLWV_gjceng
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Joy FM’s Evans Mensah Twisted My Fufu Story- Kwabena Agyapong (VIDEO)

Joy FM’s Evans Mensah Twisted My Fufu Story- Kwabena Agyapong (VIDEO)

Mr. Kwabena Agyapong has decried the unethical way Joy FM’s Evans Mensah twisted his ‘fufu’ story to create disaffection for him within the New Patriotic Party (NPP). The former NPP General Secretary told viewers of Wontumi TV that the interview he granted the journalist on that faithful day didn’t represent or tell the exact story he (Evans Mensah) published. Mr. Agyapong claimed he had no idea he was even being recorded by the journalist- a move he classifies as “unethical”. Joy FM’s Evans Mensah reached out to Mr. Agyapong during his time in office to ask him about a Steering…
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When I Was Riding My BMW, Ibrahim Mahama Was Coming To Work With A Motorbike- Kwabena Agyapong

When I Was Riding My BMW, Ibrahim Mahama Was Coming To Work With A Motorbike- Kwabena Agyapong

A former General Secretary for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. Kwabena Agyapong, has opened up on the pain caused him when stories were fabricated that Mr. Ibrahim Mahama bought him a 4x4 vehicle to influence him to sabotage the NPP. The story, coupled with other events led to Mr. Agyapong being forced to resign from office. Opening up on Wontumi TV, the former NPP chief scribe explained that he has personally built his fortune and didn’t need a 4x4 car from Ibrahim Mahama to make his life comfortable. He explained that he once shared an office space with Ibrahim…
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I do Not Believe In Jesus- Nana Kwaku Bonsam (VIDEO)

I do Not Believe In Jesus- Nana Kwaku Bonsam (VIDEO)

Popular Ghanaian fetish priest, Nana Kwaku Bonsam, has revealed that he does not believe in Jesus. He said this on Wontumi Nka Wakem a social program on Movement TV/Wontumi Radio. During the interview, Nana indicated that he strongly believes in his gods and can never believe in Jesus. ''I don’t believe in Jesus although I believe in God. He is someone’s child who was born on earth. Kofi oo Kofi the gods I worship is a spirit- and that tells he is authentic’’. He stated that God is merciful but too lenient with his children. ‘’Today people steal at church…
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Japan’s Ex-Leader Shinzo Abe Assassinated While Giving Speech

Japan’s Ex-Leader Shinzo Abe Assassinated While Giving Speech

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has died, according to Japan’s national broadcaster. Abe, 67, who remains Japan’s longest serving prime minister, was shot while giving a campaign speech. The suspected attacker – reported to be a man in his 40s – was tackled at the scene and arrested. Shinzo Abe died in the hospital where he was receiving medical treatment, near to the attack in Nara, a senior Liberal Democratic Party official has said, public broadcaster NHK reports.       Source: myjoyonline.com
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S&L Sub-Sector Contributes 35.1% Of Total Assets For Q1 Of 2022 – BoG

S&L Sub-Sector Contributes 35.1% Of Total Assets For Q1 Of 2022 – BoG

Second Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Elsie Addo Awadzi, has disclosed that the savings and loans sub-sector contributed 35.1 percent of the total assets of the specialized deposit-taking institutions sector in the first quarter of 2022. While commending the savings and loans sector for their significant role in the economy at the 12th Annual General Meeting of the Ghana Association of Savings and Loans Companies (GHASALC), Mrs. Addo Awadzi disclosed that “at the end of the first quarter of 2022, total assets of the specialized deposit taking institutions sector was about GHS16 billion. Of this, savings and loans…
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Help COCOBOD Develop A Robust Risk Management System – IAA Boss

Help COCOBOD Develop A Robust Risk Management System – IAA Boss

A five-member Audit Committee has been inaugurated by the Director-General of the Internal Audit Agency (IAA), Dr. Eric Oduro Osae at the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD). Dr. Oduro Osae charged the committee should help the organisation to develop a robust risk management policy to anticipate risks, ensure constant awareness of the organisation’s risk exposures and put in place mitigating measures. He asked the committee members to be guided by the Public Financial Management Act, 2016 (Act 921) to creditably perform their mandatory, supportive, and advisory roles, especially, in risk management. Dr. Oduro Osae said under the mandatory role of the…
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Blatter And Platini Found Not Guilty Following Fraud Trial

Blatter And Platini Found Not Guilty Following Fraud Trial

Former Fifa president Sepp Blatter and vice-president Michel Platini have both been found not guilty following their fraud trial in Switzerland. The pair stood trial over a payment of 2m Swiss francs (£1.6m) made by Blatter to Platini in 2011. Both men had denied wrongdoing and said the transfer was belated payment for Platini’s advisory work for Fifa. On his arrival at the court on Friday, Blatter said: “I am not innocent in my life but in this case I am innocent.” Blatter, 86, and former Uefa president Platini, 67, were banned from football in 2015 and indicted last November. I…
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