The Ranking Member on Parliament's Economy and Development Committee has called for the government to abandon the 24-Hour Economy policy and restore the One District, One Factory initiative, citing NDPC data that showed 150 factories operational under 1D1F before suspension, and arguing the replacement policy has yielded no tangible results nearly two years into the administration.
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The Ranking Member on Parliament's Economy and Development Committee has called for the government to abandon the 24-Hour Economy policy and restore the One District, One Factory initiative, citing NDPC data that showed 150 factories operational under 1D1F before suspension, and arguing the replacement policy has yielded no tangible results nearly two years into the administration.
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Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, Ranking Member on the Economy and Development Committee, told Parliament that despite GH¢650 billion approved over two years, the government cannot point to a single institution operating under its 24-Hour Economy programme, which promised one job, three people, three shifts but has failed to deliver.
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Oil rose on Wednesday as President Trump reimposed a naval blockade on Iranian ports and Iran launched retaliatory strikes on U.S. infrastructure. Brent crude closed at its highest since June 12 and WTI at its highest since June 15, with prices driven up by supply disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz, where one-fifth of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas transited before the war.
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Nine of eleven vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday were linked to Iranian trade, including oil tankers and cargo carriers exiting with Iranian exports, ahead of a U.S. naval blockade that took effect Wednesday.
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A Kathmandu district court has jailed two former government ministers—former Deputy Prime Minister and Energy Minister Top Bahadur Rayamajhi for four years and former Home Minister Bal Krishna Khand for two years—after finding them guilty of forging documents to enable Nepali nationals to be resettled in the U.S. as Bhutanese refugees. Fourteen other people, including a former top home ministry bureaucrat and a former Bhutanese refugee leader, were also sentenced to up to four years in jail.
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