POLITICS

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) government led President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is only interested in winning the 2024 elections instead of focusing on the development of the nation, ranking member for the Transport Committee of Parliament, Governs Agbodza has said. According to the Adaklu MP, the government has failed to develop the road network in the country contrary to ...

Executive Regional Director/ Regional Head for IBM North East and West Africa, Angela Kyerematen-Jimoh, has been sworn in by President Nana Akufo-Addo, as a member of the newly constituted board of the Bank of Ghana. Chaired by Dr Ernest Addison, Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Angela becomes the newest member of the board, joining Economic Professor, Eric Osei Assibey, ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama destroyed what he inherited from his former boss the late President John Evansa Atta Mills in July 2012 and handed over the running of Ghana’s oil-rich economy to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) when there was no crisis,  a leading member of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Gabby Otchere Darko has said in a ...

A former Deputy General Secretary of the biggest opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Samuel Koku Anyidoho, has given the General Secretary of the party, Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia, and its other leaders, a 72-hour ultimatum to retract a notice of his expulsion from the party or face him in court. Mr Anyidoho also wants Mr Nketia to set aside ...

Former Chair of the Electoral Commission, Charlotte Osei has said that she did not vote in last year’s elections. She said she was at the beach on the 7th of December 2020 which was the voting day and also on 8th and 9th. Asked why she didn’t monitor and vote during the polls, she said: “Why should I? “I was ...

Former Chair of the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) Charlotte Osei has said that any reforms or policy that seek to widen the space for inclusiveness should be accepted by all Ghanaians. She added that policies that also seek to make the people feel a sense of ownership of Ghanaian institutions should also be embraced. She said these when asked ...

The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, says an opposition leader does not need to fight the one in power to portray his party as a credible alternative government. According to him, some people have the mindset that the noble art of opposition is to fight the ruling government for electoral advantage, saying an opposing leader does not “oppose ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has described the current state of the E-blocks his government was constructing nationwide under a community day school project before he lost power in 2016 as “a disgrace” to Ghana’s reputation. He told eminent traditional chiefs in a meeting held on Tuesday in the Upper East Region that the unfinished buildings had been abandoned by ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has disclosed that his attempt to get President Nana Akufo-Addo to organise a stakeholder dialogue where suggestions will be taken from him (John Mahama) and other stakeholders to salvage the economy, has proven futile because Akufo-Addo does not seem interested. According to Mr Mahama, the economy is in a crisis but the president is not ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has expressed his disappointment with the Electoral Commission’s refusal to receive the post-2020 electoral reform proposals submitted by the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC). Speaking in an interview on URA Radio in Bolgatanga, Mr Mahama said the Commission, in refusing to receive the proposals, asked the NDC to rather send the document to the ...