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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 Parliament in 2001 unanimously repealed the Criminal Libel and Seditious Laws.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 ...

President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says having assumed office on January 7, 2017, the least he expected from his own political party members were acts that will impugn the integrity of the government and the New Patriotic Party (NPP). But to his utmost surprise, he was hard-hit with bad publicity by the media following some ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is set to meet journalists today to render an account of his stewardship within the past six months. However, reports rife indicate that Radio Gold, a media house affiliated to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) was not invited. Responding to these reports, Perry Okudzeto, Deputy Information Minister said it was not only Radio Gold that ...