President Akufo-Addo has said he is not worried about the size of his government despite criticisms that having 110 Ministers and deputies will drain the coffers of the state. “I’m not worried about the size of government because I think that first of all the overwhelming majority of people in the government are MPs, who are already on the public ...

The vice president Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has said he is not in a position to update Ghanaians about the status of his official residence which commenced during the John Mahama administration. The official residence of the Vice President of the Republic of Ghana became a subject of controversy when the new administration of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) took over. ...

President Akufo-Addo has said attacks against his government by the Assin Central MP Kennedy Agyapong do not bother him. According to him, having been in the same political party with the maverick politician, he is aware of his nature and has gotten used to it. “Regarding Kennedy Agyapong’s comments, I am not surprised at where he is going. I have ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated that he is unsure if his name will be on the ballot paper in the 2020 elections. Addressing Journalists at the Flagstaff House in Accra Tuesday, President Akufo-Addo said he has heard claims of illegal miners threatening to vote him out if he continued the fight against galamsey. He, however, stated that no ...

President Akufo-Addo’s encounter with the media will deepen political accountability in the country, a senior Political Science lecturer at the University of Ghana, Prof. Ransford Gyampo has said. “Democracies thrive when we try at all times to evolve proactive conventions beyond the formal-legal rules and blue prints and so I think it is very innovative and will help us deepen ...

The bribery claim made against the Appointment Committee of Parliament by the MP for Bawku Central is “Bizzare”, president Akufo-Addo has noted. Mahama Ayariga in January this year alleged that Energy minister, Boakye Agyarko, attempted to bribe the minority members of the committee, to clear him following his edgy vetting – but they rejected it. According to him, the alleged ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said he prefers having a “noisy, boisterous sometimes scandalous media of today to the monotonous praise-singing sycophantic one of yesteryear.” Addressing journalists at the Flagstaff House on Tuesday, 18 July vis-à-vis his first six months in office, the president said although the media has been criticised for overstepping its freedom of expression limit following the repeal ...

President Akufo-Addo has stated that he did not regret one bit his role in repealing what he described as “the old discredited” criminal libel law which had been used to incarcerate a number of journalists in the past. Parliament in 2001 unanimously repealed the Criminal Libel and Seditious Laws. It followed the passage of the Criminal Code (Repeal of the ...

A man, who betrayed the trust of his fiancée by allegedly swindling her of her cash of GH¢165,000, has been arrested to face the law. Evangelist Solomon Yidana was on Monday put before a Kumasi Circuit Court, presided over by Ekow Mensah, to answer a charge of defrauding by false pretence. He pleaded not guilty and was granted bail in ...

President Akufo-Addo has stated that he did not regret one bit his role in repealing what he described as “the old discredited” criminal libel law which had been used to incarcerate a number of journalists in the past. Parliament in 2001 unanimously repealed the Criminal Libel and Seditious Laws. It followed the passage of the Criminal Code (Repeal of the ...