POLITICS

General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) John Boadu has pleaded with all assembly members to confirm the persons nominated for the position of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs). Mr Boadu said the swift confirmation of these nominees will ensure timely implementation of development projects in the communities across the country. Local Government Minister Mr Dan Botwe officially ...

The National Peace Council is not a fire service to be killing fire. We try to do our work by peaceful engagement behind closed doors, it is not everything that we come to the open and say that ‘we are talking to this person’”, the Chairperson of the Greater Accra Regional Peace Council and Accra Diocese Bishop of the Methodist ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has urged the African Diaspora to follow in the footsteps of W. E Dubois by making Africa their home, and contributing to the development of the continent. The President made these remarks, on Monday, 20th September 2021, at the signing of a historic partnership arrangement between the Du Bois Museum Foundation Ghana, an affiliate of ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in his latest trip to the United States of America for the 6th Session of the United Nations General Assembly has once again chartered the same ultra-luxury aircraft he used to the UK and Germany — the Luxembourg-based luxury jet registered LX-DIO, operated by Global Jet Luxembourg, Member of Parliament for North Tongu Samuel Okudzeto ...

Former Chief of Staff under the John Kuffuor administration, Mr Kwadwo Okyere Mpiani has said it is possible for his party, the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) to break the 8-year cycle. He however, said this will depend on how members of the NPP conduct themselves from now to 2024 and also how the government of President Akufo-Addo works. Asked ...

2020 National Campaign Manager of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Professor Joshua Alabi has called on the Convention Peoples Party (CPP) to reposition itself and keep government on its toes instead of criticising the NDC. He made the comment when he joined the CPP in commemoration of Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day in Accra on Tuesday, 21 September 2021 on ...

Former Chief of Staff under the John Kuffuor administration, Mr Kwadwo Okyere Mpiani has said claims that President Akufo-Addo has hired his family and friends to work for him in government may be true but he has not done his research on that to enable him come to this conclusion. The main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) had accused President ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has donated some 500 bags of cement to victims of the recent tidal wave incidents in some communities in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta region. The donation which was done on behalf of Mr. Mahama on Thursday, 16 September 2021 was in fulfillment of a promise he made to the affected persons when ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, ECOWAS Chair, on Friday, September 17, 2021, left Accra for Guinea to meet its military leaders a day after the regional bloc imposed travel and financial sanctions on the junta and their families.   The development is a follow-up on the recommendations West African leaders made at the regional body’s Accra Extraordinary meeting to firm ...

The committe mandated to assess persons whose names came up for the position of Metropolitan, Municipal and Distrcit Chief Executives(MMDCEs) have released their report which has since been submitted to the President. The list is expected to be announced by the Minister of Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development. These were disclosed by the Director of Communications at the Jubilee House, ...