General News of Saturday, 27 August 2022Source: www.ghanaweb.comErnest Owusu Bempah, the Head of Corporate Communications at Ghana National Gas Company, has been appointed a deputy Communications Director of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP). His appointment was announced by the party's General Secretary, Justin Kodua Frimpong. Owusu Bempah will be the deputy of Richard Ahiagbah, who is a former Executive Director of the Danquah Institute (DI) and also served as Deputy Director of Research at the Office of the President. According to JFK, as he is known popularly, the appointments were made “Pursuant to Articles 10 and 15 of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) constitution, the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party, at its meeting held on Friday, August 26, 2022, appointed the following persons to serve as Deputy National Executives of the party.”Ernest Owusu Bempah was the former Communications Director of the National Democratic Party (NDP). See the full list of appointees below:PEN/SARA

YEN.com.gh breaks down how a currency board operates and if it is Ghana's answer to rising inflation and depreciating cedi. His popular "Hanke Inflation Dashboard" usually gives a measure for a country that is always higher than official figures. For Ghana, he has consistently proposed that the country get rids of its central bank, the Bank of Ghana, and install a currency board. Will A Currency Board Help Ghana's Falling Cedi? "Establishing a currency board with the likelihood of the same interference will yield the same result.

Sports News of Thursday, 25 August 2022Source: www.ghanaweb.comThe FIFA World Cup trophy will arrive in Ghana on September 3, 2022, for a day tour as part of creating awareness for the forthcoming 2022 FIFA World Cup tournament in Qatar. The main purpose of the trophy tour is to raise awareness in the countries that will participate in the tournament. Therefore, all the 32 qualified countries for the World Cup will be visited. Ghana have been drawn in Group H World Cup alongside Portugal, Uruguay, and South Korea. The 2022 FIFA World Cup tournament is scheduled to kick start from November 21 to December 18.

General News of Thursday, 25 August 2022Source: www.ghanaweb.comProfessor Nii Ashie Kotey, a Supreme Court nominee in August 2018 charged authorities in charge of Ghana's legal education to ensure that students being churned out of law school are equipped with knowledge in law. The nominee, who has over 30 years of higher education development, observed the country’s “legal education is at a crossroads”, noting “issues that we are confronting are very serious”. Supreme Court nominee to push for the Court’s powers to be reduced“We have had very good judges and judgements and decisions in the fourth republic Supreme Court and this would be both from those who came unto the Supreme Court bench from the academia and those who did not,” he observed. Prof. Ashie Kotey contended If there were some concern about quality, “it is at lower [courts] levels than the Supreme Court. “I think with that, the key to improvement is continuous legal education and ensuring that the magistrates and judges are continually improving themselves,” he said.

Ghanaian model and entrepreneur, Gifty Boakye has disclosed that there is no bad blood between herself and her former boyfriend, Thomas Teye Partey. The beauty queen who represented Ghana at this year's Miss Supranational beauty pageant in Poland listed some circumstances that led to the breaks in her past relationship with Thomas. Gifty Boakye also denied rumours that she was 'smuggled' into the hotel of Thomas Partey during the 2019 AFCON. "Thomas and I's relationship was very public, against my wishes. Please report any inappropriate content to us, and we will evaluate it as a matter of priority.

General News of Wednesday, 24 August 2022Source: www.ghanaweb.comOn August 24, 2021, GhanaWeb made a publication about a revelation Otiko Afisa Djaba made about her father, including having 10 wives. So, he had a stroke with all the stress and he lived with stroke for 30 years. He became impoverished.”According to Otiko Djaba, the experience rather toughened her. How she joined politicsConsidering that politics caused the woes of her father, Otiko Djaba in the interview monitored by GhanaWeb, said she had “no inclination of being in politics”. So I came to Accra being enveloped in self misery, crying and wondering what to do with my life,” Otiko Djaba, 59, disclosed how she felt.

Fufu pounders in the Central Region have threatened to embark on strike if their wages are not increased. Members of the Central Regional Fufu Pounders Association stated that the GH¢15 they receive as payment for work done daily is “very bad”. “The work is hard but the pay is not good. If we were working in Accra, we would be getting GH¢50 or GH¢70 every day but here, we are paid GH¢15. We want them to increase it to GH¢60 or GH¢70,” members of the association told journalists in Twi.

US-based Economics Professor Steve Hanke has criticised Akufo-Addo for failing to temporarily stop the Bank of Ghana from determining the cedi's value against major trading currencies. Ghana must mothball its central bank and install a currency board!" How A Currency Board WorksA currency board takes away the management of the exchange rate and money supply from a nation's central bank and institutes an extreme form of a pegged exchange rate. Apart from fixing the exchange rate, a currency board becomes important for maintaining reserves of the underlying foreign currency. “When it comes to the source of Ghana’s economic problems, VP Bawumia plays the BLAME GAME.

In an interview on Kumasi-based Oyerepa TV, Akwasi Addae reiterated what he believed was an already established statement. Unbeknownst to him, some subtle voices among the very people affected by this “truth” were displeased that he would want to take a bite at a fruit only reserved for the clout and pedigrees of the likes of the Asantehene. It would be recalled that in May 2021, the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, clearly called out some chiefs involved in the illegal practice of mining in the country. Akwasi Addai Odike must have felt that he was only rehashing an already stated fact over a year ago, and seeing how much more destruction galamsey was still causing to the environment, he took the bite. TWI NEWSBeyond the banishment, Akwasi Addai suffered another life-threatening incident.

The Ghana Civil Aviation Authority, GCAA, has banned a Delta Airlines aircraft with registration N195DN from flying to Ghana. "It was expected that after such a negative reportage, Delta Air Lines would have thoroughly investigated the issue to arrive at the root cause of the failure before dispatching the aircraft on flights. Therefore, with immediate effect, Delta Air Lines is being advised not to dispatch the B767-332 with registration number N195DN for flights to Accra. As your ageing 0767 fleets are of much concern to Ghanaian travellers, Delta Air Lines must put in place a plan to change the type of aircraft on the JFK-ACC-JFK route as soon as practicable. Recently, seven travellers, including an American and the Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress, Sammy Gyamfi, petitioned the Aviation Consumer Protection Office of the US Department of Transportation over the conduct of Delta Air Lines Incorporated.

US-based economics professor, Steve Hanke, has called out Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia for always shifting the blame about the true cause of Ghana’s current challenges. Source: TwitterProf Hanke, who regularly tweets his brief comments about economic and political happenings in countries around the world, said Monday, August 22, 2022, that Ghana's “economics wizard” has not been forthright about the cause of Ghana’s economic mess. “When it comes to the source of Ghana’s economic problems, VP Bawumia plays the BLAME GAME. “Without a currency board, GHA is going down the tubes,” he added. Apart from fixing the exchange rate, a currency board becomes important for maintaining reserves of the underlying foreign currency.

According to Mahama, there is no time in history that the dollar has been arrested, but that the prudent thing was to help the cedi keep pace with the dollar. “Under all previous presidents, I never heard anyone claim to have arrested the dollar, jailed it and locked the doors. No one can arrest the dollar, it is the cedi that must be helped to keep pace with the dollar,” he said while addressing some party faithful in Fante. When we investigated, it turned out that it was the cedi that had been jailed and the dollar had been bailed,” he added. The Ghana cedi recently maintained its spot as the worst performing currency in Africa, according to a Bloomberg report.

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu BawumiaA professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University has accused the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, of playing blame games with Ghana’s economic problems. Steven Hanke said he has noticed that the Veep likes to shift responsibility regarding the country’s economic woes. In a tweet on Monday, he added that based on his assessment of Ghana’s inflation, the country’s economic challenges are likely to take a further decline. “When it comes to the source of Ghana’s economic problems, VP Bawumia plays the BLAME GAME. When it comes to the source of Ghana’s economic problems, VP Bawumia plays the BLAME GAME.

That honour was bestowed on Erasmus Ransford Tawiah Madjitey (ERT Madjitey) who before then was deputy to the outgone commissioner, Arthur Lewin Alexander. Madjitey who was the fifth of seven children started his education at Obenyemi, where he lived with his uncle Mr. J. The failed assassination led to a removal of ERT Madjitey and the top six officers in the police hierarchy. With the ban imposed on several figures and political parties by the National Liberation Council, E.R.T. ERT Madjitey after being released from detention came to serve as a member of the Constitutional Drafting Commission which drew up the Constitution for Ghana's Third Republic between 1977 and 1978.

Politics of Sunday, 21 August 2022Source: www.ghanaweb.comAhead of the National Democratic Congress’ National Delegates Conference scheduled for November 2022, posters of the incumbent Deputy General Secretary, Peter Boamah Otokunor have emerged. The posters suggest Mr. Otokunor’s intentions to replace his Boss, Johnson Asiedu Nketia as General Secretary in the upcoming elections. Johnson Asiedu Nketia on the other hand has been tipped to be vying for the position of National Chairman against the incumbent, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo. Aside Dr Otokunor, the party’s Director of Elections, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, has also announced his intentions to be General Secretary. But unconfirmed information indicates that Mr. Otukonor’s ambitions are supported by Asiedu Nketia.