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Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has said the National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration under former President Jerry John Rawlings once lied to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), leading to Ghana being fined US$36 million. He said this was part of the monumental economic challenges that the NDC administration left for him to come and deal with after the 2000 elections. ...

John Agyekum Kufuor says he would have been a fool if he had not appointed some family members whom he can trust in his government. Speaking to Kwaku Sakyi-Addo on Asaase Radio on Sunday, the former president stated that his brother-in-law who was his Senior Minister in his government had been in Kwame Nkrumah’s government and had worked in the ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has condemned a reference to himself and his home townsfolk as ‘Akyem Mafia’ and ‘Sakawa’ people by opposition MP Isaac Adongo, which was amplified by former President John Dramani Mahama, who shared it on his Facebook timeline a few days ago. The Bolgatanga Central MP, in a statement relating to the controversial Agyapa Roylaties deal, ...

Results of the second wave of the Ghana Election Poll which ran online from July 1 to August 1, 2020, via the renowned market research firm MSI-ACI, has found that corruption is the most important factor that many Ghanaians will consider in deciding who to vote for on December 7, 2020. Out of the weighted sample of 2,055, 30% of ...

The Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives says the Nigerian delegation he led to Ghana for a two-day fact-finding mission has concluded that Ghana is not at fault in the trade impasse with his country. Addressing President Akufo-Addo and senior members of his administration including the Speaker of Ghana’s Parliament, Professor Aaron Mike Ocquye, Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila said “the ...

A Ghanaian technology entrepreneur, Charlette N’Guessan, has won this year’s Royal Academy of Engineering Africa prize for engineering innovation. She is the first ever woman to win the Africa Prize and the first winner from Ghana. The 26-year-old and her team’s invention, Bace API, uses facial recognition and artificial intelligence to verify identities remotely, the academy said. It uses live ...

The opposition National Democratic Congress has accused the ruling New Patriotic Party of plotting to resort to violence to win the 2020 polls. According to the party, the violence that characterised the voter’s registration exercise is a dress rehearsal of what the ruling intends to do during the elections. “These violence ridden registration exercise coming on the heels of an ...

Outspoken Ghanaian journalist, Afia Pokuaa, popularly known as Vim Lady has sent a solid warning to party footsoldiers and certain individuals who like to verbally attack journalists when they question them about politics. According to Afia Pokuaa, she’s had enough, and she is ready to face squarely anybody who insults her. Speaking during her show on Okay FM, Vim Lady ...

CLAIM: Ghana’s Deputy Health Minister Dr. Bernard Okoe-Boye said passengers who arrive in Togo pay 150 euros for the PCR COVID-19 test. He also claims that in Zimbabwe persons pay about 210 dollars for the COVID-19 test. VERDICT: OUTRIGHT LIE FULL TEXT: On Sunday, President Akufo Addo addressed the nation on measures taken to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

Veteran Ghanaian journalist and politician, Elizabeth Ohene, has taken a swipe at Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in Ghana for their inability to take criticisms. According to the respected journalist and member of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), while CSOs consider criticising governments as a democratic duty, they fail to accept that other players in the democratic space also have ...