POLITICS

The Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper has expressed his disappointment in ECOWAS leaders after another coup d’état in Burkina Faso. “I’m so disappointed in the ECOWAS leaders…the coup leaders are even better than them. Currently, over 70 percent of Burkina Faso are now under the control of Islamic insurgents; were the ECOWAS leaders asleep when that was happening?” he queried ...

The Deputy General Secretary of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Obiri Boahen has berated claims by the opposition National Democratic Congress’ (NDC’s) General Secretary, Mr. Johnson Asiedu Nketia that the NDC MPs who engage in the brawl in Parliament over the passage of the controversial E-levy were defending the 1992 Constitution. According to him, what happened in Parliament ...

Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has launched a new digitalization measure to end the era of cash for travel in the public sector, with the aim of bringing further transparency and accountability in the use of public funds. Known as the e-Travel Card Project, the Card is designed to facilitate the cashless disbursement of travel allowance and other payments for ...

Moody’s Investors Service (Moody’s) has downgraded Ghana’s long-term issuer and senior unsecured debt ratings to Caa1 from B3 and changed the outlook to stable from negative. Moody’s said on Friday, 4 February 2022: “The downgrade to Caa1 reflects the increasingly difficult task the government faces addressing its intertwined liquidity and debt challenges”. “Weak revenue generation constrains government’s budget flexibility, and ...

A former member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Stephen Atubiga has noted shivers have been sent down the spines of his former political party over a possible Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh and Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia ticket for the 2024 elections. According to him, the NDC leadership have had sleepless nights mapping out strategies to neutralize the potency of the ...

One of the members of the NPP government communication team, Mr. Silas Kwabena Agyekum has declared his interest in the New Juaben South constituency Chairmanship position of the ruling New Patriotic Party. In a radio interview with Afeema FM on Thursday, 3, 2022, the New Patriotic Party Regional Government Spokesperson and a senior communicator said, he had what it takes ...

An application filed by Michael Ankomah Nimfah, a member of the New Patriotic Party at the Supreme Court seeking to injunct James Gyakye Quayson, the Member of Parliament for Assin North Constituency has been adjourned sine die. Mr Quayson, the MP for the National Democratic Congress has had his seat declared vacant by the High Court in Cape Coast but ...

Late President John Evans Atta Mills built the opposition National Democratic Congress’ sprawling Accra headquarters, Mr Koku Anyidoho has said. The four storey-building is located at Adabraka opposite the Trust Bank and the Total fuel station in the Klottey Korle Constituency. Speaking on Accra100.5FM’s morning show Ghana Yensom on Tuesday, 1 February 2022, the former Director of Communications at the ...

The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel A. Jinapor, MP, on Tuesday, 1st February 2022, received the Report of an Investigative Committee put together to independently investigate the circumstances leading to the Appiatse explosion incident, and the extent to which those involved, complied or failed to comply with regulations relating to the conveyance, storage, possession, manufacture and use of ...

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta must convince President Nana Akufo-Addo for Ghana to go back to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for help to fix the economy, a former New Patriotic Party Member of Parliament for New Juaben South Dr Mark Assibey Yeboah has suggested. In the view of the former Chair of the Finance Committee of Parliament, the e-levy, even ...