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...

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...

The Coalition for Democratic Accountability and Inclusive Governance has been pressuring the government for action on theft and leakage from the public purse of up to $3bn a year ever since it came to the defence of Asiedu's predecessor as AG Daniel Domelevo who was constructively sacked by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in March last year...

This year at the UN the demand was reiterated by several presidents such as Ghana's President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Gabon's Ali Bongo Ondimba Nigeria's Muhammadu Buhari Kenya's William Ruto and Congo-Kinshasa's Félix Tshisekedi...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo described the project to build a National Cathedral in Accra as ‘an opportunity to redeem a pledge I made to [God] before I became President' but the blueprint is beset by controversy about cost overruns and the links between the President and some Christian groups...

Along with the tough spending cuts to be negotiated President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo faces high political costs...