Tag Archives: Ken Ofori-Atta

The Minority in Parliament have threatened not to approve the budget statement for the 2022 fiscal year if the Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta fails to show how the 2021 budget was spent. Member of Parliament for Asawase, Muntaka Mubarak,...

Professor Ransford Yaw Gyampo, the Secretary of the University of Ghana branch of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), has sent a strict warning to Mr. Ken Ofori Atta, Ghana’s Finance Minister as he planned to present the 2022...

Member of Parliament for Buem, Mr Kofi Adams, has asked the Finance Minister Mr Ken Ofori-Atta to release funds to the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) to enable them pay contractors. According to him, the inability of GETFund to pay the contractors...

The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, has informed the 2021 graduating class of the University of Professional Studies-Accra (UPSA) that the government’s payroll is full – making it unsustainable to keep adding to employment figures in the public sector, hence the...

Over 6,000 Ghanaian lawyers and doctors are not paying taxes, this is according to Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta. The country’s purse holder made this revelation in an interview on Asaase Radio where he also disclosed that 60,000 business people have...

The government has outlined plans to create about one million jobs as part of a three-year strategy to address youth unemployment in the country. The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta made this known during his presentation of the mid-year fiscal policy review to...

Government says there is evidence to back its claim that the Ghanaian economy has started recovering from the shocks it suffered as a result of the Covid-19 global pandemic. Per the Mid- year budget read by Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta,...

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has said President Nana Akufo-Addo’s trips are a matter of national security and, thus, any questions regarding the cost of such trips should be directed at the Ministry of National Security. “Mr Speaker, the president’s domestic...

The Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, has said the government built a resilient economy before the country was hit by the deadly Covid-19 pandemic. “Ghana went through the headwinds and built a resilient economy which grew at an average 6%...

The Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning has stated that Databank and Black Star Brokerage form part of some nine firms that have been selected by the Bank of Ghana and Ministry of Finance as Bond Market Specialists. The seven...