Political scientist at the University of Ghana, Prof. Ransford Gyampo says the Akufo-Addo-led government failed to show “democratic maturity” in its handling of Ghana’s controversial military agreement with the United States. In his estimation, processes leading to the ratification of the agreement by parliament, which has widely been criticized, smacks of “intransigent politics,” a practice he argued, has become the ...

Under the laws of Ghana, can a man who is legally married in Ghana, with his wife in the United States, marry another woman in Ghana? That question is the subject of a suit filed by Opanyin Joseph Agyenim Boateng to stop his son, Charles Boateng from taking on another wife, Henrietta Ofosu Darkwah, when his marriage to his first ...

President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has commended the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) for bringing relief to Ghanaian electricity consumers and the industry, with the reduction of electricity tariffs which took effective April 1, 2018. He noted it was heartening that the PURC had taken forward the proposal by the government for a review of the tariff setting methodology and cost ...

Outspoken Political Scientist Prof. Ransford Gyampo has described as unnecessary President Akufo-Addo’s emotionally fiery defense of the controversial military agreement between Ghana and the United States of America. According to him, even though he subscribed to the President’s unflinching resolve to expose the hypocrisy of the opposition regarding the agreement, he erred in his choice of language. “The president in ...

The Institute for Energy Security (IES) has projected fuel price increases between 1 and 2 percent in the first pricing window of April barring any intervention from government. The energy think tank believes the imminent increase of fuel prices is as a result of international indicators as well as a slight depreciation of the local currency. According to Standard and ...

The Dean of Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College Vladmir Antwi-Danso has dismissed fears of a possible replication of the Arab Spring in Ghana over increasing spate of unemployment. More than 1.2 million persons from 15 years and older are estimated to be unemployed, representing the total unemployment rate of 11.9%, according to a 2015 Ghana Labour Force Survey ...

A section of social media users has criticised Dancehall artiste Stonebwoy for wearing an NDC hat in his latest photos. Stonebwoy has been trending on social media since Wednesday when photos of him selling on the streets hit the internet. Initially, fans had raised concerns over what Stonebwoy was up to. But it turned out that the viral photos were ...

The Ministry of Energy has entered into a rental agreement with Trojan Power Limited (TPL), a local independent power producer, to use parts of government’s diesel generator units to generate power for off-take by the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) for further distribution to customers. This was contained in the Finance Committee report on the request for waiver of import ...

The Vice President of policy think tank, IMANI, Kofi Bentil, has said President Akufo-Addo did not specifically deal with nagging issues in the Ghana-US military co-operation agreement in his Thursday night address. “I agree that honestly the President is within his rights to do these things. My initial problems still remains,” Mr Bentil said in a radio interview with Joy ...

The Minister of Information, Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, says the government has paid more than GH¢40 million of the arrears it owes members of the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT). The government currently owes NAGRAT members more than GH?50 million in salary arrears, vehicle maintenance allowances, transfer grants and transport and travel allowances since 2013. Confirming the payment to the ...