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The increase in commodity prices has been exacerbated by the Russia-Ukraine conflict–Dr.Bawumia

The Vice President of the Republic of Ghana Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has revealed that Russian-Ukraine war has a direct effect on Ghana economy. The Vice President made the revelation when speaking on the state of the economy at the TESCON Conference 2022 which was organized organised in collaboration with the Danquah Institute at the Pentecost Conference Centre at the Millennium City in Kasoa in the Central Region, today, Thursday, 7 April 2022, Dr Bawumia bemoaned that it is unfortunate no one knows when the war will be over. Dr. Bawumia said “The increase in commodity prices has been exacerbated by the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Russia and Ukraine together account for 30 per cent of the global wheat export. The longer the conflict the greater will be the disruptions to global food supply. The conflict is also likely to slow global growth. “According to the AfDB the price of wheat has shot up by 62 per cent since the war begun. The price of fertilizer is up by 300 per cent, the price of maize is up by 36 per cent since the war begin. Here in Ghana 60 per cent of our total imports of iron ore and steel are from Ukraine. “Russia accounts for some 30 per cent of Ghana’s imported grains, 50 per cent of flour and 39 per cent of fertilizer. So we are directly affected by the Russia-Ukraine war. Unfortunately, we do not know when it will be over.” “The global increase in fuel prices is causing hardship.” Apexnewsgh.com

Opinion, Politics

Mahama’s administration has never witnessed fuel shortage–Peter Otokunor

The National Deputy General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Peter Otokunor has revealed that never under President John Mahama was the country experienced a fuel shortage. Apexnewsgh.com report According to Mr. Otokunor, ” … in the actual fact, when we are leaving office a gallon of fuel was Ghc 14.00 and now a gallon of fuel is about Ghc 52.00. In fact in the remote areas where it is even very difficult to reach, they are even paying more. Some are paying as high as Ghc 60.00 for a gallon of fuel. So, the fact does not lie. He stressed He said: “ Any government worker’s salary in 2016, you will realize that accumulatively they have not gone up for even 15 to 20 percent, at most 20 percent. But look at the prices of all these items on the market. So, if the expenditure is a function of your income and prices on the market, clearly people are going through a difficult time”. “In fact, Ghanaians are magicians. How even those who are taking a salary of Ghc 5000.00 are able to manage under these conditions only God knows. He stressed Ghanaians are magicians. So, you see everyone want to cut corner in their business. Because if you don’t cut the corner you are in trouble” he pointed “Light bill and water bill have gone up, people are paying almost about 60 percent more than they paid under President Mahama. 1KW of energy what you are spending now, in fact, the same house, the same equipment see how much credit you are buying under President Mahama and how much credit you are buying under Akufo-Addo- Bawumia government”. “You are buying 14 kilograms of LPG at Ghc50.00 and some areas Ghc 47.00 and now you are buying it at Ghc 195.00 cedis. Your salary is the same”. He said The NDC Deputy Secretary made the pronouncement during an interview on A1 radio a local radio in the Upper East Regional capital Bolgatanga monitored by apexnewsgh.com. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your adverts and credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093

Opinion, Politics

No teacher was unemployed under John Mahama—Peter Otokunor

The National Deputy General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Peter Otokunor has said, no qualified teacher was unemployed during NDC Mahama’s administration. Apexnewsgh.com report According to Mr. Otokunor, “If you are a trained teacher, you get a job immediately, if you are a trained nurse, you will get a job immediately, maybe a few of them because we were building those hospitals so that we can absorb those nurses. They were few nurses who were on backlog but what we are experiencing today, we have nurses and teachers who finished school”. Meanwhile, Ironically Mr. Otokunor added: “Well, there was unemployment under president Mahama and we were doing everything…. Talking about the NABCO initiative, the Deputy Secretary said: “Those on NABCO, during the time of President Mahama were not unemployed, most of them were in school. In fact, go and look at those on NABCO most of them are graduates of 2017/18”. The NDC Deputy Secretary made the pronouncement during an interview on A1 radio a local radio in the Upper East Regional capital Bolgatanga monitored by apexnewsgh.com. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your adverts and credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093

Opinion, Politics

The e-levy passage is ‘illegal’, they are not up to the 138– Navrongo MP

The NDC Member of Parliament for Navrongo Central Sampson Tangombu Chiragia has described the controversial 1.5 e-levy passage as an ‘illegality’. Speaking to Apexnewsgh.com, the Navrongo legislator said: “We are against the e-levy today we are against the e-levy tomorrow. What happened in parliament is an illegality. They are not up to the required 138 to guarantee them passing the e-levy”. He maintained “We staged a walkout because we know what this government wanted to do was a robbery. Is a robbery against the ordinary people of this country”. However, the Minority has filed a suit at the Supreme Court to prevent President Akufo-Addo from assenting to the bill. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your adverts and credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093

Politics

“We should all be thankful to God Almighty, be thankful to our colleagues–Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu

Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu Majority Leader has expressed his appreciation to the Minority Caucus for not being loud and disruptive in parliament during the passage of the e-levy after Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta moved the motion on Tuesday, 29 March 2022. Mr. Bonsu told the media at a press conference following the passage of the 1.5 per cent levy by a certificate of urgency that even though the opposite side later staged a walkout, they did not obstruct the process. “We should all be thankful to God Almighty, be thankful to our colleagues – the NPP Members of Parliament – and, I will say, to the extent that our colleagues NDC MPs were not raucous; they were in attendance and no such infractions came, I think we should also be thankful to them that we had a smooth conduct of business in the house and we are moving the agenda of national development forward”. “No, it was not a surprise because you were here last Friday when the business statement came to be presented and the house was informed that bills may be presented and this e-levy is a bill that was presented”. “And, don’t forget, this bill is not a new bill that is being introduced, it has been with us since December last year”, he pointed. Asked when the bill will be presented to President Nana Akufo-Addo for his approval, the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs replied: “As soon as possible; as soon as practicable”. However, Mr. Bonsu denied any quorum issue. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093

Politics

“When they cook figures, you would do your analysis based on the figures available—Murtala Mohammed

Ibrahim Murtala Muhammed opposition MP for Tamale Central has accused the Akufo-Addo led government of regularly cooking economic data to deceive intellectuals so that their analysis of the economy would be confusing. Speaking on the analysis by a Senior Lecturer on Economics at the University of Ghana, Dr. Agyapoma Gyeke-Dako that the economic data does not support claims that the economy was mismanaged prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Murtala said on Class91.3FM’s breakfast show on Thursday, 24 March 2022: “I agree that the Debt-to-GDP in 2019 was not as it is but you would agree with me that it was growing in an accelerated fashion, so, clearly the signals were very clear”. “If you read the World Bank Country Director’s verdict on this, he said the rate at which it was growing, even without COVID, we would have had this [economic crisis] because of the way the economy was abysmally managed”, Murtala Muhammed argued. “So, clearly it was going to be a factor and I can understand that some of the figures you Dr. Gyeke-Dako deal with, as an intellectual, are based on figures available”, he observed but added: “I can tell you for a fact that a lot of the figures churned out by this government are cooked figures and they were exposed big time in the budget statement which was presented in parliament”. “So, when they cook figures, you would do your analysis based on the figures available”, he insisted. “I’ll give you a classical example: even currently, this government is telling us that the Debt-to-GDP is about 80.1 percent when we know it’s not true”. “We know it’s not true because they haven’t added the GHS9.5 billion debt on ESLA. They haven’t also added the GHS2.4 billion GETfund bond. They haven’t added the GHS750 million Sinohydro debt and many others”, he claimed. “So, what they have strategically done”, in his view, is to use the “cooked figures” to “deceive intellectuals” to do “misleading” analyses of the economy. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093

Politics

Concerns of our branch and constituency executives is key to the NDC’s reorganization–Dr. Duffour

The leading member of the opposition party and former Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), Dr. Kwabena Duffuor is on the view that tackling NDC party grassroots members at some branches and constituencies is the way to go. Mr. Duffour, made the pronouncement during an outreach that forms part of the party’s reorganization efforts towards the 2024 general elections. “Addressing the concerns of our branch and constituency executives is key to the NDC’s reorganization. In view of this, I was once again in the Ashanti Region over the weekend to interact with some local executives, as part of the NDC’s outreach program to local branches and constituencies. It is always important to touch base with our grassroots” He posted. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: +2335555568093

Politics

“The dollar has rather arrested Vice President–Former President Mahama

Former President John Dramani Mahama has accused the Akufo-Addo- Bawumia led government of sinking the country into economic hardship despite the mouth-watering promises made to Ghanaians to transform the economy within the first 18 months of their first administration. Apexnewsgh.com report The former President noted that the current state of the country’s economy has never been witnessed in the history of Ghana. Addressing congregation at the launch of the TEIN APP on Monday, 21 March 2022, at the University for Professional Studies Accra (UPSA), Mr. Mahama said: “Daily price increases, fuel price adjustments and nose-diving currency has rather arrested the person who said he had arrested it”. “The dollar has rather arrested him. So, we are looking for him, we can’t find him. We will ask the IGP if he has the key so that we could find where our Vice-President was.” “We are gathered at the time when our country is facing economic and social hardship”. “The Akufo-Addo led government that came to power on the back of mouth-watering promises to make life better for Ghanaians and ensure rapid development of our country has so badly mismanaged the economy. We have been plunged into the most debilitating economic crisis in about four decades.” “Indeed, we all recollect those mouth-watering promises including one by the current President to transform this country, Ghana within 18 months…” Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: +2335555568093

Politics

“Adidi-gya” is the Bane of Ghana’s Underdevelopment – Chairman of Christian Council

The Chairman of the Christian Council of Ghana and the Moderator of the General Assembly of Presbyterian Church of Ghana, The Rt. Rev. Prof. Joseph Obiri Yeboah Mante has observed that Ghana’s problem of Underdevelopment is due to systemic greed popularly known in the local Twi language as “Adidi-gya” or “adige-monge” in the Frafra language, that has dangerously creeped into the social fiber of the country. Apexnewsgh.com report He stated that political greed has become so prevalent and seemingly socially acceptable that society sees nothing wrong when politicians amass wealth overnight. Prof. Joseph Obiri Yeboah Mante said, even though Ghana is 70 percent Christians, the increasing number of corruption and cases of stealing public resources leaves one to wonder whether people still value Christian morals. The theology Professor also chastised pastors who take a lot from their congregants and give them nothing in return. He maintained that due to greed and the desire to get rich quickly, some pastors have turned away from preaching salvation and repentance to prosperity and wealth. He, therefore, admonished Christians to make Christ their example and desist from acts of greed and corruption. He made this known when he delivered a sermon at the Penial Congregation of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana in the Bolgatanga District of the Upper Presbytery as part of his eight days pastoral visit to the Presbytery and to dedicate a new chapel for the Penial Congregation in Bolgatanga. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: +2335555568093

Politics

The decision of the Supreme Court of Ghana amounts to judicial interference–Haruna Iddrisu

The Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu said, the decision of the Supreme Court of Ghana amounts to judicial interference in a time-tested parliamentary practice and established conventions. Engaging the media in a press conference he said:“Everywhere in the world, in civilized democracies, including the United Kingdom, the presiding officer’s vote is discounted, so, it’s not for nothing that Article 102 provides that ‘A person presiding shall have no original nor casting vote’.” According to him, the Supreme Court ruling is just a “judicial support for e-levy and nothing more, judicial support for a struggling economy in distress and a judicial support for the restoration of a matter that they have said is constitutional; it’s repugnant to the provisions of Articles 102 and 104”. Mr. Iddrisu maintained “this is a travesty of parliamentary justice and a stab in the growth and development of multiparty constitutional democracy built on the spirit of checks and balances” Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093

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Talensi MP Hon. Daniel Dung Mahama Transforms Healthcare with Major Donation

Upper East Youth Demand Stronger Role in Peace and Security Governance

Civil Society Urges Coordinated, Inclusive Action to Eliminate Neglected Tropical Diseases in Ghana by 2030

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Bank of Ghana Secures Government Backing for Recapitalisation After Debt Programme Strain

President Mahama Urges Bold Economic Reforms for Africa’s Future

CSA Issues Alert Over Sophisticated Banking Malware Spreading via WhatsApp Web

Vice President Opoku-Agyemang Closes National Strategic Planning Retreat in Akosombo

The increase in commodity prices has been exacerbated by the Russia-Ukraine conflict–Dr.Bawumia

Mahama’s administration has never witnessed fuel shortage–Peter Otokunor

No teacher was unemployed under John Mahama—Peter Otokunor

The e-levy passage is ‘illegal’, they are not up to the 138– Navrongo MP

“We should all be thankful to God Almighty, be thankful to our colleagues–Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu

“When they cook figures, you would do your analysis based on the figures available—Murtala Mohammed

Concerns of our branch and constituency executives is key to the NDC’s reorganization–Dr. Duffour

“The dollar has rather arrested Vice President–Former President Mahama

“Adidi-gya” is the Bane of Ghana’s Underdevelopment – Chairman of Christian Council

The decision of the Supreme Court of Ghana amounts to judicial interference–Haruna Iddrisu

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