POLITICS

The Member of Parliament for Abetifi, Bryan Acheampong, has called on the National Security Minister to classify President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s foreign travels as highly confidential. Mr. Acheampong who was also a former Minister of State at the Ministry of Interior explained that keeping the president’s trips as top-secret will prevent him from being easily tracked. President Akufo-Addo’s recent ...

Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, says the 2022 budget statement and economic policy responds to concerns of youth unemployment in the country. According to him, the spate of youth unemployment in the country brought on by the coronavirus global pandemic has compelled government to propose policies that will create avenues for young men and women to find descent jobs ...

Minister of State at the Ministry of Interior who is also the Member of Parliament of Abetifi constituency, Mr Bryan Acheampong, has said he advised the Minister of National Security Albert Kan Dapaah not to release information on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s trips outside Ghana. He said during the debate on the 2022 budget statement on Tuesday November 23 ...

Chief Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah has said he is unable to release some documents regarding a probe into the admission of some unmeritorious law students in the past as demanded by South Dayi MP Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor. In a letter to the GLC, the opposition MP said he learnt of the admission of some students into the Ghana School Law last year ...

In what has become a rare case, a founding member of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is rallying support for the Ashanti Region Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako popularly known as Chairman Wontumi. Alhaji Saani Senior described Chairman Wontumi as the best candidate for the NPP. “NDC supports Wontumi because he gave a ...

The Chief Executive Officer for the Africa Energy Consortium Kwame Jantuah, has taken a thinly-veiled swipe against the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta, saying Ghana’s economy must not be handled by people who grew up rich, a term locally referred to as ‘Dada Bee’. According to him, such people who were born with a silver spoon in their mouths are ...

Ghana’s former High Commissioner to Canada Nii Ayikoi Otoo has suggested that Ghana’s legal education be reformed to allow experienced lawyers teach the professional law course to law graduates at accredited institutions after which they all sit one law exam and those who pass be called to the Bar. There have been calls for reforms in legal education after so ...

The Prime Minister of Denmark Mrs. Mette Frederiksen pays an official visit to Ghana tomorrow Wednesday, 24 and Thursday 25 November to mark 60 years of diplomatic relations between Denmark and Ghana. She will be received by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources, Madam Cecilia Abena Dapaah. The Prime Minister will be accompanied ...

Private legal practitioner, Samson Lardy Anyenini, has celebrated the former Auditor-General Daniel Domelevo for exercising the powers given to him by the Supreme Court to surcharge and disallow when malfeasance occurred in institutions. Mr Anyenini believed that the power to surcharge and disallow was best in the fight against corruption however, Mr Domelevo who ensured that this was done was ...

Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia on Monday, 22 November 2021 opened the first annual ‘Ghana Digital Innovation Week’ celebration in Accra. The Digital Innovation Week is designed to bring together all stakeholders in the digitalization ecosystem and provide a common platform for wide-reaching conversations on fostering innovation and turning ideas into practical solutions for societal problems. Dr Bawumia noted that with ...