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President Nana Akufo-Addo's office said wednesday that Ofori-Atta would be replaced by Mohammed Amin Adam, currently the minister of state at the finance ministry and previously deputy energy minister responsible for the petroleum sector.
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— Nana Akufo-Addo (@NAkufoAddo) November 12, 2020
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Defeaning vuvuzelas and party songs took over Ghana's capital Accra on Saturday, the final day of campaigning ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections.
Twelve candidates, including three women, are vying for the west African nation's top job, but Monday's vote is essentially a fight between President Nana Akufo-Addo, 76, and former head of state John Mahama.
The city centre was plastered with billboards and posters and flags at every corner.
Akufo-Addo, running for a second term, drove through the shanty town of Nima, making whistle stops to acknowledge mammoth crowds clad in T-shirts of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP).
\"It’s a done deal. It’s clear. The crowd says it all. Four more (years) for Nana,\" a party supporter, Dauda Faisal said.
Defying all COVID-19 protocols -– with just a handful wearing face masks -- the ecstatic crowd waved miniature flags as the president headed towards the rally grounds where he was due to address supporters.
Opposition leader John Mahama meanwhile kicked off his final day of campaigning by meeting local chiefs and labour union leaders, assuring them of more jobs if he won the December 7 election.
Mahama, 62, who has been campaigning hard for months, was expected later in the evening at a rally organised by his party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
More than 17 million people are registered to vote in the nation's eighth poll since it returned to democracy nearly 30 years ago.
This is the third time that Akufo-Addo and Mahama are running against each other, and the race is expected to be very close.
Results could be announced within 24 hours after the polls close.
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It has to be pondered how one finance minister can prepare and present the biggest budget ever with no tax increases, in fact reversing several such measures from previous budgets, while another finance minister increased and included several burdensome tax measures in past budgets.
The article No tax increases appeared first on Stabroek News.
\"This is time for action. We’re sitting on a time-bomb. Our forest cover is depleting as a result of galamsey and harvesting of trees for different purposes,\" said lands and natural resources minister Samuel Abu Jinapor on Friday.
BY VANESSA GUZHA THE Finance ministry yesterday denied social media rumours that it had partnered international financers to provide grants to businesses.
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The Labour Appeal Court has dismissed an application from public sector servants unions challenging government's renegement on a three-year wage deal.
The $750 million disbursement is part of World Bank's Development Policy Operations (DPO), which lends cash for budget support instead of financing sp
By Paidamoyo Muzulu ZIMBABWEANS for the past two weeks have had a hectic life, most of the events being externally influenced and
The post Where is the mid-term fiscal policy? appeared first on NewsDay Zimbabwe.
A resurgence of coronavirus cases in West Africa is hitting the region hard, inundating cemeteries where funeral numbers are rising... View Article
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[New Zimbabwe] Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa has been dragged to court for enacting a Statutory Instrument (SI), which permits monitoring, recording, and storing of communications data between persons where at least one of the communicators is using a Zimbabwe number.
KENYA IS the last country in East Africa to reopen schools for students after closing...
The post Schools in Kenya reopen after nine-month COVID-19 closure appeared first on Voice Online.
[New Zimbabwe] The Finance Ministry has ordered the Confederation of Zimbabwe Retailers (CZR) not to allow any money changers who coerce shoppers to swipe goods and services in return for US dollars inside their members' retail shops.
[FrontPageAfrica] Washington D.c. -- Liberian President Dr. George Manneh Weah will deliver a special statement at the second Annual Liberian Business and Investment Forum slated for Wednesday, June 30th. Dr. Weah is expected to woo international businesses to take advantage of the many investments opportunities in Liberia and invest substantially in the country. Pundits predict the President will pay homage and encourage local and international businesses that remained operational in Liberia during the Ebola epidemic and Covid-19 pandemic fo
The DA are furious with Tito Mboweni, and have issued him with a legal notice. The party believe he will sanction a multi-billion rand bailout for SAA.
The opposition, People's National Party (PNP), has called for the finance minister and health minister to intervene in a situation at the South Eastern Regional Health Authority (SERHA) that has resulted in employees' personal statutory...
Nationwide - Meet Gabriella Carter, a 22-year-old woman from New York City who graduated debt-free from Princeton University and now teaches others how to achieve financial success through scholarships and […]
The post 22-Year-Old Black Woman Awarded $2M in Scholarships Now Teaching Others How She Did It first appeared on BlackNews.com.
HEALTH and development have a symbiotic relationship, thus a healthy nation has high potential to develop. Johannes Marisa In 2007, the World Health Organisation (WHO) proposed a framework describing health systems in terms of six building blocks which include health workforce, service delivery, health information systems, essential medicines, financing and leadership. A robust health system should always strive to make sure that the building blocks are in order. A well-trained health workforce is a pride of the nation. Zimbabwe has trained some of the finest medical personnel who have traversed the world today. In 1963, Zimbabwe, then Rhodesia, became one of the most respected countries in Africa when the School of Medicine was opened. Among our neighbours, Zimbabwe was the second to open a medical school after South Africa which started in 1918. Zambia started in 1970, Malawi (1991), Botswana (1999) and Namibia (2009). Sadc has benefited from the health workforce coming from Zimbabwe. The health delivery system was strengthened in our country but brain drain creeped in, leaving many hospitals unmanned. During our days at medical school, we used to get payouts. It was of course government money which many students never came to pay back until today. Government was investing in health. The question today remains: What then went wrong resulting in a mass exodus of the cadres that government trained? In 2020, the University of Zimbabwe churned out about 183 medical graduates with National University of Science and Technology (Nust) sending out about 24. It is a pity today that the 2013 job freeze is haunting new graduates who are forced to hustle on the streets. Some of the graduates were absorbed into the system. Each central hospital received about 16 graduates who are working as junior resident medical officers. The numbers are significantly low considering the important roles that the junior doctors play. If the country is not to compromise the quality of healthcare, especially at central hospitals, junior doctors should be in good numbers considering that they are the ones who man the casualty and outpatients departments. All procedures surrounding the admission of a patient are done by these cadres, including taking blood to the laboratory and following up of results in order to expedite patient treatment. I understand that there is a job freeze, nevertheless, the medical industry is a delicate one, hence it ought to have staffing levels that are prepared for any catastrophes. In the midst of COVID-19, it is prudent for the country to have enough critical staff to avoid a quandary if things become worse. The third wave is threatening to attack everyone in the world and Brazil is one country that has lost hope of COVID-19 victory as both morbidity and mortality are increasing everyday. The monstrous virus is ravaging that country at an alarming rate, culminating in virtually all aspects of life being in tatters. If medical graduates are allowed to roam the streets in a country like Zimbabwe where both the doctor-
[ANGOP] Luanda -- The Angolan government has requested its sovereign partners of the G20 to put on hold the service of non-guaranteed bilateral debt, from 1 July to 31 December 2021, which allows for a saving of US$3 billion, until 2023, ANGOP learnt today from a source at the the Finance Ministry.
In 1972, Kaunda outlawed all opposition political parties. The world copper market collapsed in 1975. The Zambian economy was devastated—it had been the third-largest miner of copper in the world after the United States and Soviet Union. With a soaring debt and inflation rate in 1991, riots took place in Lusaka, resulting in a number of killings. Mounting domestic pressure forced Kaunda to move Zambia toward multiparty democracy. National elections on Oct. 31, 1991, brought a stunning defeat to Kaunda. The new president, Frederick Chiluba, called for sweeping economic reforms, including privatization and the establishment of a stock market. He was reelected in Nov. 1996. Chiluba declared martial law in 1997 and arrested Kaunda following a failed coup attempt. The 1999 slump in world copper prices again depressed the economy because copper provides 80% of Zambias export earnings.
In 2001, Chiluba contemplated changing the constitution to allow him to run for another presidential term. After protests he relented and selected Levy Mwanawasa, a former vice president with whom he had fallen out, as his successor. Mwanawasa became president in Jan. 2002; opposition parties protested over alleged fraud. In June 2002, Mwanawasa, once seen as a pawn of Chiluba, accused the former president of stealing millions from the government while in office. Chiluba was arrested and charged in Feb. 2003.
Although the country faced the threat of famine in 2002, the president refused to accept any international donations of food that had been genetically modified, which Mwanawasa considered “poison.” In Aug. 2003, impeachment proceedings against the president for corruption were rejected by parliament. In April 2005, the World Bank approved a $3.8 billion debt relief package for the country.
In Sept. 2006 presidential elections, incumbent Levy Mwanawasa was reelected. President Mwanawasa suffered a stroke in June 2008 and died in Paris in September. Vice President Rupiah Banda took over as acting president and was elected president
The government is to undertake a $60 billion programme to help boost the economy as well as the health sector, including pursuing a COVID-19 vaccination initiative. The initiative is called the Social and Economic Recovery and Vaccine (SERVE...
FINANCE Minister Colm Imbert, Works and Transport Minister Rohan Sinanan and Leader of Government Business Camille Robinson-Regis on Monday went into painstaking detail about how different grants are administered to the people who need them.
Imbert, Sinanan and Robinson-Regis were each responding to questions in the House of Representatives.
Imbert told Pointe-a-Pierre MP David Lee it was not possible to say what is the minimum time in which people who applied for the salary relief grant (SRG) would receive their SRGs.
He explained the process involves things such as a review of the documentation submitted, a determination of the person's eligibility for the SRG and determination as to whether the applicant has \"an active and functional bank account.\"
But Imbert said, \"I can say, however, that if a person meets all of the criteria...has an active bank account..is eligible...the payment should be made between three to four weeks after application.\"
At a news conference on May 21, Imbert said the total number of SRGs paid out by the ministry as of that date was 86,196.
\"So that of the total of approximately 93,000, we had paid out (to) over 90 per cent of those persons who applied and were deemed/found to be eligible.\"
Sinanan said discussions are taking place between his ministry and the Finance Ministry about providing a fuel relief grant to taxi and maxi taxi operators under the extension of the public health regulations.
At a news conference at the Diplomatic Centre in St Ann's, the Prime Minister said these new public health regulations which were implemented on May 6 and originally supposed to end on May 23 would be extended to July 4.
When Lee observed this grant had been given before and asked why was discussion taking place about it now.,Sinanan replied, \" I don't know that if the grant was given before automatically means that it will be given again. That's my answer to that.\"
The Works and Transport and Finance Ministries first announced the issuance of one-time fuel relief grants to taxi owners last July.
This grant was applicable only to owners of operational H-taxis. The deadline for submission of applications for it was August 28, 2020.
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That hairy Supreme Court matter�I refuse to join those bashing the Supreme Court which ruled last week that a young lady's constitutional rights were not breached in the everlasting saga of the Kensington Primary School hairstyle matter.
