POLITICS

African health ministers met on Tuesday August 24 to take stock of the continent’s fight against COVID-19 as the pandemic continues to stretch health systems to breaking point in some countries and just 2% of all Africans are fully vaccinated against the virus. Ministers assessed immediate actions needed to curb Africa’s third wave, which saw COVID-19 cases in Africa surpass ...

*Dr. Bawumia & NPP Government Never Promise Free Cars to Okada Riders in 2020: Razak Kojo Opoku Writes to Franklin Cudjoe/NDC Members* I have read a news item emanating from the camp of the Founding President of IMANI, Franklin Cudjoe and NDC Members, asking the whereabouts of the cars Dr. Bawumia proposed to the Okada riders during the 2020 general ...

Political pundit Ben Ephson has wondered whether the vetting and prior approval of the Electoral Commission Chair by parliament, as proposed by the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), as one of its plethora of electoral reform recommendations, will be the thing that ensures the EC Chair is not biased or partisan. The proposals were compiled by a team of ...

Former President of the Ghana Institute of Planners (GIP) Alfred Kwasi Opoku, has called on the government to come out in a transparent manner to inform the country about the source of funds for the completion of the Agenda 111 initiative outdoored by the government. He said every Ghanaian would wish that the Agenda 111 succeed before the end of ...

Private legal practitioner Samson Lardy Anyenini, has said it was not surprising that the impeachment petition filed against the Chief Justice by the Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA) was dismissed by the president. He wondered why the petition got this much attention from the key stakeholders. President Akufo-Addo on Monday August 23 dismissed a petition was filed ...

Two female Members of Parliament (MPs) whose constituencies stretch to Ghana’s borders with neighbouring Togo and Ivory Coast are billed to stage demonstrations against the closure of Ghana’s land borders due to COVID-19. MPs for Ketu South Constituency in the Volta Region, Abla Dzifa Gomashie and that of Jomoro in the Western Region, Dorcas Affo-Teffey will be protesting. While the ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said that Ghana encouraged by the fact that more and more German companies have expressed their willingness to set-up shop in the oil-producing West African nation. The President made this known on Monday, 23rd August 2021, when he delivered a speech in Dusseldorf, in the Federal Republic of Germany, as part at the 75th ...

A comment by former President John Dramani Mahama to the effect that they are ready to sit around the same table with the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) to discus the issue of job creation, is an indication he accepted that the NPP has superior records when it comes to creating jobs for the people of Ghana, Deputy National Communications ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s dismissal of the petition that was seeking the removal of the Chief Justice from office will create confusion because the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service is also investigating the same matter, Private legal practitioner and member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Gordon Edudzi Tameklo has said. President Akufo-Addo on Monday ...

According to the MP for Assin, Kennedy Agyapong, it is high time Ghanaians repurpose vocational training to aid national development. He cited the technical and vocational skillfulness of the Ewes as an essential national skill that needed to be adopted by all ethnicities in the country. Kennedy Agyapong mourned the steady erosion of the representation of technical and vocational skills ...