POLITICS

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Tuesday, 5th October 2021, commissioned ‘MaaGrace Company Ltd’, a garment manufacturing company, operating under Government’s 1-District-1-Factory initiative. The company specialises in the production of utility clothing, uniforms for security forces, hospital scrubs, uniforms for hotels, uniforms for schools and the production of standardised uniforms. Equipped with 600 industrial machines, and with the support from ...

President Akufo-Addo says he has no favourite in the impending flagbearership race of the New Patriotic Party. According to him, his job is to hold the balance and provide a level playing field for all individuals seeking to contest. “My duty is to hold the balance, to make sure that there is a level playing field for all inside our ...

The DCE nominees for the Adaklu District and Agotime-Ziope Districts in the Volta region, have been rejected by members of their respective Assemblies during a confirmation exercise held on Monday. The two nominees, Phanuel Kadey Donkor for Adaklu and Emelia Emefa Adziamah for the Agotime-Ziope District failed to secure the 2/3 majority threshold needed to have them confirmed as the ...

After immediately ending his tour of the Ashanti Region, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is beginning one in the Eastern Region. The tour of his home region will take three days – from Tuesday to Thursday, October 7. President Akufo-Addo is expected to tour some sites of ongoing government projects and commission completed ones. Just like previous tours, he will ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said he has no favourite in the flag bearer race of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP). “My duty is in two folds: one is; first of all, to hold a balance to make sure there is a level playing field for all of them [flag bearer hopefuls] because the decision has to be the decision ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has dismissed claims that his government has abandoned the Ashanti Region which is tagged as NPP’s electoral “world bank”. The NPP since the fourth Republic in 1992 has won both in the Presidential and Parliamentary elections in the region. President Akufo-Addo has been slammed by his critics for failing to embark on any major development in the ...

President of Imani Africa Mr Franklin Cudjoe, has raised concerns against the use of the National Identification Card as the only form of identify in the SIM card re-registration exercise. The six-month exercise is scheduled to begin today, Friday, October 1. It is expected to take data from all SIM card users across the country. The National ID card, the Ghana Card, ...

Special Prosecutor (SP), Kissi Agyebeng, has hinted of a bitter relationship between him and his predecessor, Martin Alamisi Burnes Kaiser Amidu. Martin Amidu resigned as Special Prosecutor after accusing the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of interfering with his job and also made several claims of corruption against his administration. In a letter issued on Monday, November 16, ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has replied the Ranking Member of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, over the usage of Ghana’s presidential jet by other heads of state. The Ministry said it was a “proactive” gesture that undergirds the tenets of Ghana’s foreign policy. Mr Okudzeto Ablakwa, who is also the Member of ...

More than seven in 10 Ghanaians (76%) favour election of MMDCEs, a survey by the Centre for Democratic Governance has found. “Only 20% want them to be appointed by the President”, the findings said. It noted that while over two-thirds of the respondents (71%) say they prefer MMDCEs elected on nonpartisan election format similar to that used in local government ...