POLITICS

The 2020 Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, will this morning begin the second phase of his nationwide tour to thank Ghanaians for their support and votes in the December 2020 elections. This phase of the tour will take him to the Bono East, Bono, Ahafo, Western North and Ashanti Regions of the country. Former ...

The First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joseph Osei Owusu is leading a five-member delegation to Vienna, Austria to attend the Fifth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament to be held from today, Tuesday, 7th to Wednesday, 8th September 2021. The Conference, which is being jointly organised by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), the United Nations, (UN) and the Austrian Parliament, is ...

The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel A. Jinapor has called on public sector workers to support the vision and objectives of government for efficient attainment of national goals and development. He said “we cannot make progress, and realise our objectives if high calibre public sector workers don’t support what we seek to do.” The Minister said this when ...

Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has been adjudged by Initiators of Change Foundation, as an Outstanding Foreign Affairs Minister of the Decade. The award was presented to the Minister in Accra by a delegation from the Initiators of Change Foundation led by Reverend Dr. Abogye-Mensah, Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Other members of ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama says the Akufo-Addo led government’s reckless spending and the thirst for consumption expenditure is the cause of the country’s current economic crisis and not the impact of Covid-19. Speaking at the State of the Economy Forum organized by the NDC pro-forum on Monday, 6 September 2021, the former President said almost all of the country’s ...

Chinua Achebe stated in ‘Things fall apart’ that, “An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.” Aptly so because people may feel uneasy when someone mentions something that affects them personally; especially, if it is something related to their bad past. The quote is in reference to Okonkwo’s discomfort during a meeting. Nwakibie, Okonkwo’s ...

The President Akufo-Addo on Sunday, 5th September 2021, commissioned the newly constructed office complex for use by the Western-North Regional Co-ordinating Council building. Th administration block of the Western North Regional Co-ordinating Council is amongst six new administration structures being constructed for the six newly created Regions, and the first to be completed for use. The administration complex was constructed ...

Former President John Mahama has taken aim at the ruling New Patriotic Party saying “the problems facing our country and the solutions to them cannot be reduced to a handful of fancy slogans and poorly conceived and implemented half-measures aimed at obtaining short-lived political gratification”. Mr. Mahama who was speaking at an economic forum organised by the NDC in Accra ...

Former President John Mahama has reiterated his call for the NPP to be voted out by Ghanaians in 2024 saying it is the only way to protect the public purse from corruption and mismanagement. According to him, the latest Auditor General’s report is an indication that corruption and wastage in public administration is getting out of hand. “When I called ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has said that since the days of former President Jerry John Rawlings and even before then, economic shocks have cyclically derailed incremental progress made over the years. The older generation, he said, would recall how bush fires and droughts in the early 80s plunged the Ghanaian economy into crisis, leading to lengthy periods of negative ...