Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin has admitted a motion of censure filed by Minority Members of Parliament to remove embattled Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta.

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Some New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentarians are demanding the sacking of Ken Ofori-Atta as Finance Minister. The MPs, numbering about 80, held a press conference on Tuesday to impress on the President to relieve his cousin of the responsibility of managing the national purse or risk losing their support for government business going forward.

An Economist at the University of Ghana Business School, Prof. Lord Mensah has proffered a solution to deal with the speculation of high rates of the cedi to the dollar. Prof. Lord Mensah wants the Central Bank to control the circulation of the dollar as part of measures to control the Cedi’s depreciation.

A survey by Accra-based Global InfoAnalytics shows that 70% of eligible voters doubt the ability of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to win the 2024 general elections. Its October 2022 report indicates that majority of the voters have ruled out the possibility of the NPP ‘breaking the eight’.

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Members of the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA), has temporarily closed their shops at the Accra Central Business District and Abosey Okain in Accra. Their decision to close down their shops is in protest against current economic hardships in Ghana.

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The Electoral Commission of Ghana has listed 17 political parties whose registration it intends to revoke for failure to establish national and regional offices in the country.

Assistant Commissioner of the VAT Administration wing of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Philip Acquah says 16 businesses have been closed for non-compliance with the E-VAT invoicing regime.