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Mahama Recruiting NDC Members While He Places a ‘Freeze’ on Employment

Contrary to the Finance Minister’s statement that the Mahama-led administration has put a freeze on new employment for the year 2025, Whispers Media Network can categorically state that a section of Ghanaians are immune from this recruitment freeze. Acting CEOs, WMN investigations have uncovered, are busily employing people to fill in vacant spaces created by the directive issued by the President of the Republic, John Dramani Mahama, through his Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah. Julius Debrah, in January 2025, issued a directive to all MMDAs and other government agencies to dismiss all those employed after December 7, 2024. However,…

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UPSA-IERPP Holds Post-Budget Dialogue on Friday, March 14, 2025.

The Institute of Economic Research and Public Policy, IERPP, in collaboration with the University of Professional Studies, Accra, UPSA, will, on Friday, March 14, 2025 hold a post-budget dialogue to delve into all the nuances of the 2025 budget under the theme: ‘Unpacking the 2025 budget; Implications for Economic Stability and Growth. The dialogue is being held at UPSA Conference Room, West Wing Auditorium, at 10 o’clock in the morning. The dialogue assembles mostly experts in academia from the various public institutions across the country. Some of them include: Dr. Kwadwo Opoku, UG, Dr. Leticia Bosu, UCC, Dr. Frank Bannor,…

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24-Economy, reduction in port charges missing in action in Mahama’s maiden budget

As Ghanaians looked forward for the much anticipated 2025 budgetary statement of the Mahama administration, many had high hopes of reading and seeing programs and policies that underpinned the manifesto of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the run-up to the 2024 general elections. Some key promises were anticipated to have featured in the budget read by Finance Minister, Cassiel Ato Forson, but much was not heard about them, leaving many Ghanaians dejected, disappointed and angry at the same time. The 24-hour economy policy, the fulcrum around which the entire 2024 campaign hinged on, was mentioned in passing by…

Sam Dzata George Takes ‘For the Records’ show off Air

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Sam Dzata George Takes ‘For the Records’ show off Air

The Minister for Communications, Samuel Nartey George, through a directive to the newly appointed NCA Director General, Edmund Yirenkyi Fianko, has taken Okatakyie Afrifa-Mensah's For The Records show off air. We have learnt, through sources familiar with the matter, that the Minister for Communications issued a stern warning to the acting NCA DG to take off the show or lose his job. "Rev. Ing. Yirenkyi, this show must not continue to be aired this evening. You either take it off air or you lose your job. I have the instructions of President John Dramani Mahama to halt this show…

Akufo-Addo Spent Only GHC 326M On Gov’t Machinery But Mahama To Spend GHC2.7Billion- Hon. Kojo Oppong Nkrumah

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Akufo-Addo Spent Only GHC 326M On Gov’t Machinery But Mahama To Spend GHC2.7Billion- Hon. Kojo Oppong Nkrumah

President Akufo-Addo spent GHC 326,000,000 on government machinery but his successor- John Mahama has increased spending and is posed to spend in the region of GHC3, 000,000,000, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has disclosed. It is becoming clearer that Akufo-Addo spent less on a government his opponent described as bloated compared to what John Mahama has allocated to spend on his self-acclaimed ‘lean’ government. The Member of Parliament (MP) for Ofoase/Ayirebi constituency has said that under the leadership of former President Nana Akufo-Addo, there were eight (8) agencies under government machinery and it had a compared salary of GHC326, 000,000. He however…