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10 Jan

#FillGPLCenters: Low Attendance In The Local League Financially Affecting NSA – Ashanti NSA Boss

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Ashanti Regional Director of the National Sports Authority (NSA), Emmanuel Kojo Appiah, is lamenting the low patronage of Ghana’s top flight league is having serious financial implications on the Authority. He wants stakeholders including the GFA, NSA, Sports Ministry, the media and the clubs to, as a matter of urgency, do something about this occurrence to remedy the situation. Ghana’s top tier league is witnessing poor turnout in terms of supporters who throng the various match centers to patronize the local league, a development that is rendering the local clubs financially handicapped. Luv FM and Nhyira FM have launched a…

10 Jan

Debt Exchange: 3 Groups Representing Individual Bondholders To File Legal Suits Against Government – Bright Simons

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Vice President of IMANI Ghana, Bright Simons, has revealed that three groups representing individual bondholders have commenced mobilisation to file legal suits against the government for including individual bondholders in the Debt Exchange Programme. According to him, one of such groups is led by a former boss of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The Finance Ministry had earlier cautioned individual holders of eligible bonds who refuse to take the Amended and Restated Exchange Memorandum under the Debt Exchange Programme provided by the State that they will find it difficult to obtain a judgement against the Government of Ghana. Under…

10 Jan

IMF Increases Interest Rate On SDR To 2.99%; Ghana To Pay More For Fund-backed Loans

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Ghana and other countries seeking loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will pay additional lending rate, as the Bretton Wood institution has increased the yield on its Special Drawing Rights (SDR) by some 210 basis points (2.1%). This took effect on January 6, 2022. Now, the rate of interest on SDR stands at 2.999%, from the previous 0.89%. One US dollar is also equivalent to 0.75983. The increase in the interest rate of the SDR indicates that member countries of the IMF will pay more for loans from the Fund. Ghana is seeking an IMF-support programme to the tune…

09 Jan

Asoma Banda Is The Cause Of His Own Downfall- Lawyer Maurice Ampaw

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09 Jan

“Villager”! Shatta Wales Blasts Okudzeto Ablakwa And Co Over Meek Mill

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Shatta Wale has fired salvos at the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC’s) Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa over his uncouth statements about the pictures and videos Meek Mill took at the Jubilee House. According to Shatta Wale, it feels sad to know some Ghanaians are unhappy Meek Mill participated in the Year of Return to Ghana and used the opportunity to capture his time at the seat of government. He continued that the same Ghanaians flogging Meek Mill, would be the same people who are yearning to go to the White House and take countless photos and…

09 Jan

Kennedy Agyapong Is Ghana’s “Second JJ”- Lawyer William Kusi

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A senior Lawyer with Dominion Chambers, William Kusi, has advised the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to settle on Hon. Kennedy Agyapong as their next flagbearer. His reason for the advice stems from the similar character traits the Member of Parliament for Assin Central shares with the late former President Jerry John Rawlings whose appeal cut across the masses. Speaking on Wontumi TV on Monday, January 9, 2023, lawyer Kusi Boafo maintained that the NPP is faced with settling on Hon. Kennedy Agyapong as their flagbearer or risking going to opposition. According to him, “NPP has only one candidate, it is…

09 Jan

You Used A Wrong Criteria To Rank MPs- Majority Leader Hits Back At Jubilee House Researcher

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Hon. Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has hit back at Dr. Isaac Owusu Mensah over the criteria he used to rank Members of Parliament (MPs) stating that it was wrong. The Director of Research at Jubilee house recently released table ranking Members of Parliament based on the number of times they visited their respective constituents and the development they brought. Addressing the issue on Wontumi TV monitored by Wontumionline.com, Hon. Mensah-Bonsu stated that it was a wrong research approach to use by Dr. Owusu Mensah. “I totally disagree with the criteria used. He is a research officer for this government and a university…

09 Jan

Majority Leader Rates Speaker of Parliament

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The Majority leader in Parliament, Hon. Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has praised the Speaker of Parliament for performing a decent job in the house ever since he was voted into office. Hon. Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu who is the Member of Parliament for Suame constituency stated on Wontumi TV that he can credit Rt. Hon. Alban Bagbin for doing a lot of things that has benefitted Parliament. He however added that there were other things that the Speaker needs to sit up and work on to improve his performance in Parliament.

08 Jan

PHOTO: 23 Years Ago When Kufour Swore in Asenso Boakye As TESCON President

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Exactly twenty three (23) years ago today, then candidate John Agyekum Kufuor graced a TESCON event to swear-in Chief Asenso Boakye as the first President of the confederacy. TESCON (Tertiary Students Confederacy) is the student wing of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) of Ghana founded on 8 January 2000. Since its formation, TESCON has been one of the most important wing of the NPPs student and political activism and grass-root mobilization. Today, the first President of TESCON, Hon. Chief Asenso Boakye is Member of Parliament for the Bantama Constituency in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Prior to that, he was the…

08 Jan

Ken Must Go MPs “Tricked” Me- Majority Leader (VIDEO)

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The majority leader in Parliament, Hon. Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has opened up on how he was “tricked” by some of his own colleagues who staged the 'Ken Must Go' protest. Speaking on Wontumi TV which was monitored by Wontumionline.com, the Member of Parliament for Suame, stated that he was taken by surprise by their action and would have talked them out of the protest if he was aware of it. The over 80 New Patriotic Party(NPP) MPs also knew he would have stopped them from registering their protest and for that reason, Hon. Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu stated that they planted an MP on…