POLITICS

The Majority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has questioned the decision to elect a national treasurer for the New Patriotic Party (NPP). He wondered why that office should be an elected office for which anyone seeking to occupy it must spend money campaigning to be elected. The leader of Government Business, speaking at a Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs engagement with ...

National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Samuel Ofosu Ampofo has bemoaned the hardship President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addoand Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia have plunged the country into, saying it is “unbearable and unimaginable”. He said fuel prices increase almost every week while farmers are crying for lack of fertilisers, which were provided free under the erstwhile John Mahama ...

The Eastern Regional Correspondent for Daily Guide, Daniel Bampoe, has become the latest journalist to be attacked by a politician after he was attacked and slapped by the Eastern Regional Organizer of the New Patriotic Party, Kwame Appiah Kodua. The impact of the slap sent the Journalist into a state of confusion hence started wandering and whining in embarrassment and ...

The 26 members of the Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly (CCMA) who allegedly returned the ‘gift’ of GH¢500 each to the retained mayor have accused the Electoral Commission (EC) of “manufacturing” their own results in Saturday’s confirmation elections. They claim they, together with some Members of Parliament (MPs) and the Paramount Chief of Cape Coast, were prevented from observing the sorting ...

Former President John Dramanihas re-stated his opposition to the Agyapa deal. The deal, he says, will be bad for the youth because it will invariably mean “mortgaging the future of the youth”. According to the former president, the Agyapa deal is inconsiderate because it is a plan to mortgage the future of the country and Ghana’s youth to fund Akufo-Addo’s ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has said he and everyone else will be ready to support the Special Prosecutor if he fights corruption. Speaking on Koforidua-based Sunrise FM during his thank-you tour of the Eastern Region on Tuesday, 12 October 2021, Mr Mahama said: “If President Akufo-Addo keeps exonerating his appointees engaged in corruption, the act will never stop”. He ...

The main opposition National Democratic Congress has distanced itself from a membership drive video widely circulated on some social and traditional media platforms in the country. The National Organiser of the party, Mr Joshua Akamba, told the st of the ‘Epa Hoa Daben’ socio-political show, Don Prah, on Accra-based Happy FM that the said advert was not sanctioned by the ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has expressed optimism that the Special Prosecutor Mr Kissi Agyebeng will be able to fight corruption. Mr Mahama called for support for Mr Agyebeng to enable him deliver on his mandate. “If President Akufo-Addo keeps exonerating his appointees engaged in corruption, the act will never stop. The government must take steps to stem corruption in ...

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has inaugurated the newly-constituted board of the Minerals Income Investment Fund. He inaugurated the board in Accra on Tuesday October 12. With a three-year mandate, the reconstituted board has been charged to consolidate gains and also deliver solutions to Ghana’s infrastructural sector. “There is a gap of literally over two billion dollars that we must be ...

Ningo Prampram Lawmaker, Samuel Nartey George who is also a Ranking Member on the parliamentary select committee on communications, has thanked the former Chairman of the Committee Mr Kennedy Agyapong, the Minister of Communications, Madam Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, the Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu, Ranking Member on the committee ABA Fuseini for the role they played in getting the closed radio stations ...