POLITICS

Parliament has adjourned sitting sine die to 18 January 2022. This means the controversial e-levy has not been passed and would be revisited in 2022 when the House reconvenes. Following a brawl in Parliament on Monday, 20 December 2021 over the e-levy, the Majority Leader, Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, today, Tuesday, 21 December 2021, prayed the sit-in Speaker, First Deputy Speaker ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has described President Akufo-Addo as a good campaigner but a poor leader. Mr Mahama added that the President must take his responsibilities seriously, rather than the rabble-rousing skits. Mr Mahama’s response comes after President Akufo-Addo dared the former President and the National Democratic Congress to show Ghanaians evidence of any thought-through policy while in opposition. ...

It was a sight to behold at the just ended New Patriotic Party (NPP) National Delegates Conference as hundreds of people trooped in at the Heroes Park in the Ashanti Region capital to catch a glimpse of the lead regional chairman contender, Odeneho Kwaku Appiah. Mainly because of the nature of the event and its accompanying directives, Mr Odeneho Appiah ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has told President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to concentrate on addressing the challenges Ghanaians are saddled with. He asked Mr Akufo-Addo to take the responsibility given to him by Ghanaians seriously and focus on the work. “I think the President must take his responsibilities seriously and focus on working to change the circumstances of our people, rather than ...

Founding President of Imani Africa, Mr Fraknlin Cudjoe, has called on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to let his records in government speak for him and the governing party as the New Patriotic Party (NPP) makes plans to choose who succeeds him as the next presidential candidate of the party. Mr Cudjoe noted that the making of a successor-King requires ...

National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Tamale Central Constituency Ibrahim Murtala Mohammed says the 2021 National Annual Delegates Conference of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) over the weekend was a Covid spreader. “What they did there was a Covid spreader,” he stressed, accusing the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, of leading the spread. He said it was disgraceful ...

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has said the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has an enviable economic track record despite the ravaging effect of the Corona-virus (COVID-19) pandemic. Addressing a teeming members of the NPP at the party’s National Delegates Conference in Kumasi on Sunday, the Vice President reiterated that COVID-19 has affected the cost of living virtually everywhere in ...

Pollster Ben Ephson has warned that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) will be doomed if its proposal to elect a presidential candidate two years ahead of an election while in office is adopted. The Managing Editor of Daily Dispatch newspaper said “it will be worse off” for the NPP because it will create cracks within the party ahead of the ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appealed to Ghana’s diplomat, Mohamed Ibn Chambas to assist the Authority of Heads of States of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to restore Guinea to constitutional rule. Mr Akufo-Addo who is also Chair of the ECOWAS admitted that the task to restore Guinea to democratic path is a sensitive one that ...

Parliament has adopted modifications to the 2022 budget statement and economic policy presented by Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta. The minister in a letter to parliament made some concessions such as GHC10 million provision for the Keta sea defence project, revision of Aker Energy, AGM Petroleum GNPC deal, withdrawal of the reviewed Agyapa deal from the budget among others. The minister ...