POLITICS

Private legal practitioner, Gordon Edudzi TamekLo has said the Akufo-Addo administration is gradually destroying Ghana’s educational system. Mr Tameklo who is also a member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) said the President will be leaving behind a bad legacy in the area of education. He was a commenting on the alleged leakage of examination papers in the ongoing West African Senior Secondary ...

A former Member of Parliament for Ledzokuku, Dr Bernard Okoe-Boye has said the decision to purchase the past questions is apt. He said parents were already buying the past questions for their children to enable them have a fair idea of what could come in their examinations. Hence the government’s decision was just to absorb that burden of the parents. ...

Businessman and founder of the United People’s Party (UPP), Akwasi Addai Odike, says his wife knows he has a girlfriend and has no problem with that. According to the presidential hopeful, his girlfriend and his wife respect each other and have both agreed on their positions. Speaking to Nana Aba Anamoah on Starr Chat, he said, “I’m married and I ...

Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said told members states in relation to the coup in Guinea that the regional body is required to take informed decisions on these matters that would have long term consequences to the stability and the defence of democratic values of the region. He said ...

A Former United Nation Senior Advisor, Professor Baffour Agyeman-Duah, has said that although he is not in support of coup d’ etats, he also does not support people who undermine democracy. The Chief Executive Officer of the John A. Kufuor Foundation made this comment in an interview with TV3’s Johnnie Hughes on Thursday September 16 while throwing more lights on ...

The Western Regional Coordinating Council (WRCC) has denied ever directing all the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in the region to contribute some amount of money to support the final funeral rites of the late father of the Western Regional Minister, Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah. A letter purported to have been issued by the WRCC and signed by its Coordinating ...

Assin Central Member of Parliament Kennedy Ohene Agyapong has disclosed that he will consider becoming a president if Ghanaians clamour for it. He, however, indicated that he is content with what he is doing as a lawmaker because one does not have to be a president to help people. “I have a personal belief that you don’t have to be ...

Energy Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh says the Government has demonstrated its commitment and support for industries with respect to providing and maintaining stable and cost effective energy through policies and strategies that promote the industrialisation drive of the Akufo-Addo government. Speaking at the inaugural Presidential Business Summit to dialogue on the role of the private sector in Ghana’s Post ...

Former President John Mahama says Ghanaians are incensed by what he describes as the shifting positions of economic experts in government over economic statistics between 2016 and 2021. According to him, while these experts downplayed positive data during his tenure, they seek to make them a point of achievement under the Akufo-Addo government. “Our people are galled by the hypocrisy ...

A member of the three-member committee that probed the disturbances in Ejura, over the killing of protesters after the death of social activist Macho Kaaka, Dr Vladimir Antwi-Danso has said former President John Dramani Mahama should have waited for the report to be published and know what it contains before asking for payment of compensation to the victims. Dr Antwi-Danso said the ...