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ECONOMY-FINANCE

You Can Be The Reason Investors Will Not Give Ghana Money – NPP PhD Holder Tells Randy Abbey

Ghana’s economy has been downgraded by many leading financial rating agencies. Two of these are Fitch and Standard and Poor. According to these rating agencies the economy has reached a terrible level and at a junk state. This is certainly going to put investors away and prevent lending agencies from helping the country.

  7 months ago ago
You Can Be The Reason Investors Will Not Give Ghana Money – NPP PhD Holder Tells Randy Abbey

ECONOMY-FINANCE

Start Selling Your Dollars Because The Price Will Fall Soon – Oppong Nkrumah Tells Ghanaians

Ghana is currently in difficult times as the country seeks to rise from the ashes the economy has found itself in. After a lengthy wait, Ghana decided to seek financial bailout from the International Monetary Fund. However, before this helps comes, the country is in turmoil economically.

  6 months ago ago
Start Selling Your Dollars Because The Price Will Fall Soon – Oppong Nkrumah Tells Ghanaians

CAREER-JOBS

Here Is What You Need To Know About COLA - When And How It Is Paid

COLA stands for Cost of Living Allowance. It is given to government employees as short-term relief. When the government pays COLA, it stops as soon as a salary increase is made. The truth is that, given the state of the economy, the Ghanaian government would not be able to increase workers’ base salaries by 20% while still paying SSNIT and professional allowance.

  8 months ago ago
Here Is What You Need To Know About COLA - When And How It Is Paid

SOCIETY

Come Out And Speak The Truth Before It Is Too Late - Captain Smart Drops Another Message.

Captain Kwadwo Smart drops fresh document on Onua TV and he is demanding for the truth behind the document from Honorable Ken Ofori atta (ministry of finance) and the controller and accountant general. According to Captain Kwadwo Smart, the issue is very urgent and calls for immediate responds from the ministry of finance and controller and accountant general.

  8 months ago ago
Come Out And Speak The Truth Before It Is Too Late - Captain Smart Drops Another Message.

ECONOMY-FINANCE

Economic Hardships In The Country To Worsen With IMF Bail Out - Archbishop Charles Agyin-Asare

Archbishop Charles Agyin-Asare, founder and leader of Perez Chapel International is informing Ghanaians to hold on tight as the economic Hardships in the country are set to worsen. He attributed this to the government going to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to seek a financial breakthrough program and the continuous depreciating of the Ghana cedis to the US dollar.

  5 months ago ago
Economic Hardships In The Country To Worsen With IMF Bail Out - Archbishop Charles Agyin-Asare

ECONOMY-FINANCE

The Ruling Government Don't Need The IMF If they Could Be A Bit More Discipline - Nii Yarboi

The Financial Analyst, Michael Nii Yarboi Annan comments on the economic crisis and ended up serving a strong notice to the ruling government that if they could be a bit more discipline, then they don't need the International Monetary Fund (IMF). According to Michael Nii Yarboi Annan, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) can never be the solution to the economic crisis in Ghana and will never be because of the economy's balance of payments.

  6 months ago ago
The Ruling Government Don't Need The IMF If they Could Be A Bit More Discipline - Nii Yarboi

FOOD

Popular Tiktoker Demonstrates to Ghanaians How IMF Will Treat Us - This Will Make Your Day

A popular TikToker under the name "Timegh" has demonstrated to Ghanaians how he believes the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will treat us if we take a loan from them. The young man uses very simple terms to describe the consequences of taking a loan from the IMF and it is indeed very funny and at the same time educative.

  8 months ago ago
Popular Tiktoker Demonstrates to Ghanaians How IMF Will Treat Us - This Will Make Your Day

CULTURE

No More Shower In The Sky: Massive Reactions As Tilapia Predicts IMF's Bailout Structure

Tilapia the cartoonist is an awesome Ghanaian comic cartoon creator that picks trending subjects in the country and generates an awesome piece of art with an intended message. Tilapia today made a tremendous piece of cartoon art about the widely talked about controversial bailout agenda instituted by the ruling New Patriotic Party.

  8 months ago ago
No More Shower In The Sky: Massive Reactions As Tilapia Predicts IMF's Bailout Structure

POLITICS

Take a look at this funny picture from Tilapia.

Funny pictures are simply images that can make you laugh. I will share with you a funny picture about the current economic hardship and how our leaders blame it on the Russia and Ukraine War. Ghana is going through some form of economic downturn. This has necessitated the government to move to International Monetary Fund for a bailout.

  8 months ago ago
Take a look at this funny picture from Tilapia.

POLITICS

Akufo-Addo Is Finally ‘Admitting’ That Our Station Was Right On Free SHS – Joy News Reporter

One of the flagship programmes of the ruling New Patriotic Party has been the Free education programme. Indeed, it was one of the reasons why the government won the 2016 elections and some of the successes of the programme also ensured the 2020 elections victory. However, not has been well with the programme.

  6 months ago ago
Akufo-Addo Is Finally ‘Admitting’ That Our Station Was Right On Free SHS – Joy News Reporter

POLITICS

Government To Conclude IMF Negotiations And Incorporate Deal In 2023 Budget - Habib Iddrisu

The second Deputy Majority Chief Whip, Habib Iddrisu, says the government will conclude it’s ongoing negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) before the proposal of the 2023 budget to the parliament. Habib Iddrisu is really sure that the government will have in his possession a bailout for Ghana before the month of November, 15.

  4 months ago ago
Government To Conclude IMF Negotiations And Incorporate Deal In 2023 Budget - Habib Iddrisu

ECONOMY-FINANCE

Barely A Week After S&P Downgrade, Another International Agency Downgrades Ghana’s Economy

Ghana is currently in difficult times as the country seeks to rise from the ashes the economy has found itself in. After a lengthy wait, Ghana decided to seek financial bailout from the International Monetary Fund. However, before this helps comes, the country is in turmoil economically.

  7 months ago ago
Barely A Week After S&P Downgrade, Another International Agency Downgrades Ghana’s Economy

ECONOMY-FINANCE

The high inflation rate in Ghana makes life more difficult.

The highest inflation rate in the last 20 years has reached over 30% in Ghana, where people are bemoaning the soaring cost of living. Could the West African country find a solution from the International Monetary Fund? Due to the high cost of importing and clearing goods out of Ghanaian ports, businessmen in Accra are finding it difficult to stay in business.

  6 months ago ago
The high inflation rate in Ghana makes life more difficult.

ECONOMY-FINANCE

Ghana’s massively React after IMF finally spit out the bitter truth about economic debt saga

The International Monetary Fund( IMF ) has recently done the unexpected finally taking the privilege to finally “spit out “ the bitter truth about the current economic debt saga in the country under president Akuffo Addo’s administration..... after one -week observation and concluding the initial engagement in Ghana, the International Monetary Fund( IMF) team revealed that the covid pandemic has undoubtedly seen a worsening of the country’s fiscal and debt situation

  8 months ago ago
Ghana’s massively React after IMF finally spit out the bitter truth about economic debt saga

ECONOMY-FINANCE

If we started Cola demand today, we would have asked for more.

The General Secretary of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), Dr Titus Beyuo, says it is awkward for any administration official to say laborers are being coldhearted with their interest for a typical cost for most everyday items recompense (COLA) notwithstanding the ongoing financial circumstances, which has constrained a transition to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

  8 months ago ago
If we started Cola demand today, we would have asked for more.

POLITICS

Should the finance minister Ofori Atta be sacked?

The economic mess we have found ourselves in is very demoralising. The problem doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon. This current government has borrowed more than any other government in the 4th republic yet we don't have anything to show for it. This government told us we have the men to turn the fortunes of this country around.

  8 months ago ago
Should the finance minister Ofori Atta be sacked?

POLITICS

Why Ghana is going back to the IMF, explained

Last week, hundreds of people protested in Accra, the capital of Ghana, over the country's failing economy. Days later, the government declared it would start formal discussions with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for assistance. Despite several promises from finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta to never again request aid from the IMF, many observers have long believed that this decision was inevitable.

  8 months ago ago
Why Ghana is going back to the IMF, explained

ECONOMY-FINANCE

IMF Intervention Is For Repairs Of The Nation’s Finances In The Short Term - Akuffo-Addo Reveals

The country would be successful with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) program, according to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. According to him, the IMF's intervention is intended to make short-term improvements to the country's finances. According to him, the government would continue to work on structural improvements in the long run in order to develop a resilient, strong Ghanaian economy and move beyond dependence on aid.

  8 months ago ago
IMF Intervention Is For Repairs Of The Nation’s Finances In The Short Term - Akuffo-Addo Reveals

ECONOMY-FINANCE

IMF Mediation: We will Succeed, Everything Good Or Bad Shall Come To An End - Akufo-Addo

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has communicated idealism that the nation will prevail with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) program. He expressed that the IMF mediation is for fixes of the country's finances for the time being. In the long haul, he said, the nation will keep on dealing with primary changes as a feature of the objective to make the Ghana past guide, that is building a versatile, vigorous Ghanaian economy.

  8 months ago ago
IMF Mediation: We will Succeed, Everything Good Or Bad Shall Come To An End - Akufo-Addo

ECONOMY-FINANCE

Mid Year Budget Review- Finance Minister Set To Appear In Parliament Today.

In the later part of today, Monday, July 25, 2022, the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, is scheduled to deliver a presentation in Parliament regarding the Mid-Year Review of the Budget Statement and Economic Policy of the Government for the 2022 fiscal year. It is anticipated that he will, among other things, offer information regarding the performance of the government's revenue and expenditures during the first half of the year as well as the current budget deficit figures for the country.

  7 months ago ago
Mid Year Budget Review- Finance Minister Set To Appear In Parliament Today.