The Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has stated that government’s initiatives, were not slogans but policies implemented to benefit Ghanaians. He said the programmes, such as the One District One Factory (1D1F), Planting for Food and Jobs and Free Senior High School, were all policies put in place to protect the vulnerable and the poor in the deprived communities. Dr ...

An Accra High Court has thrown out an application by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service to search the phone records of the National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi. The court has also denied the police access to Mr Gyamfi’s Facebook records. In his ruling, the Judge described the CID’s application ...

Musician and satirist A Plus is mad at Barclays Bank, accusing the financial institution which is changing its name to Absa of trying to “take advantage” of budding artiste Bosom P-Yung. A Plus’s fury was triggered after he sighted a video of actor Kwadwo Nkansah (Liwin) performing Bosom P-Yung’s monster hit song ‘Attaa Adwoa”. The said video had the logo ...

The First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joseph Osei-Owusu, the Majority Leader Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu as well as the Education Minister Matthew Opoku Prempeh and seven others could go unopposed in the NPP parliamentary primaries. Those seeking to contest them are facing growing challenges in acquiring the nomination forms. One of them, Akwasi Amofa Agyemang who is seeking to unseat ...

The Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association (GIBA) has sued the National Communication Authority (NCA) and the Attorney General’s (AG’s) Department over the NCA’s decision to introduce conditional access to free-to-air TV broadcast as a breach of the right to free press enshrined in the 1992 Constitution. In a writ filed at the Supreme Court last Tuesday, GIBA seeks a number of ...

The Majority in Parliament has refuted claims from across the aisle that enough preparations have not been made to deal with the deadly coronavirus in event of an outbreak in Ghana. MP for Nabdam, Dr Mark Kurt Nawaane had claimed that while measures put in place by authorities to prevent an outbreak of the virus in Ghana are in the right direction, these ...

The trial of the National Chairman of the Opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo and the Communications Officer of the NDC, Anthony Kwaku Boahen, has begun amidst multiple controversies. The State led by the Director of Public Prosecutions, Yvonne Atakora Obuabisa today the 29th of January 2020 called their first witness. The witness who identified himself to the Court ...

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Although the incumbent New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Cape Coast North (CCN) constituency, Barbara Asher Ayisi, has not picked forms yet to contest in the party’s upcoming primaries, she seems to be getting more competitors as a formal Assembly member of the Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly (CCMA ) picks nomination form to contest. Lawrence Ampah popularly ...

A former member of parliament for the NPP Francis Addai-Nimoh has written to the party leadership expressing concerns over the difficulties he is facing in buying the party’s parliamentary nominations forms. According to him, executives in the Mampong Constituency are making it difficult for him to procure the forms in order to contest in the upcoming primaries. In a letter ...