In a rowdy session in parliament on 8 March President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo used his state of the nation address to explain how the government planned to address the economic meltdown and payments crisis...
President Nana Addo Akufo-Addo's failure to address the issue during his state of the nation address in Parliament on 8 March prompted Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa an opposition lawmaker for the National Democratic Congress to demand an inquiry committee 'to probe the killing and the high-handedness meted out to the residents'...
Populist threatElected civilian presidents such as Ouattara Ghana's Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and Senegal's Macky Sall see the military regimes and their nationalistic rhetoric as a threat to the region's established governing class and its longstanding security and geopolitical alignment with Europe and the United States...
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In 2007 Kyerematen resigned from the same cabinet position under President John Kufuor for similar reasons but was defeated by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo the current President...
Lacking alternatives to the government's economic strategy the NDC calculates that blaming President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's team for the financial woes should suffice...
Rebels within the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) have tried to force out Ofori-Atta but were talked down by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo...
Ofori-Atta a long-time financier of the governing New Patriotic Party and a cousin of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo championed full-throated market economics and deregulation dropping what he called nuisance taxes and cutting the rate of value added tax when he took over the treasury in 2017...
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The chaos at the Treasury worsened after minister of state for finance Charles Adu Boahen was sacked by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on 14 November for telling undercover journalists that investors would have to pay a 20% bribe if they wanted an investment of US$500 million approved in Ghana...
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Then the buck is passed to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo who could ignore it or perhaps agree a date for Ofori-Atta's exit after he presents the budget this month and concludes negotiations with the IMF...
Under growing pressure from within and outside his New Patriotic Party (NPP) President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is trying to mollify critics of the government's economic strategy by assuring them it is about to agree a US$3 billion bailout with the International Monetary Fund...
The markets have turned against President Nana Akufo-Addo's New Patriotic Party (NPP) government pushing up bond yields and eroding the value of the cedi against the dollar by 45% this year...
The government's costly bailout of the financial sector during President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's first term was accompanied by banking licence revocations and the consolidation of several banks...