POLITICS

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said the Agenda 111 Hospitals Project will provide 20,000 jobs for professional health workers when completed. He said 88 sites have been identified for the project and works on them begin today, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 concurrently. The president said the 250 domestic contractors who are to undertake the project, have 18 months to ...

Former President John Mahama today begins a tour of the sixteen administrative regions of Ghana to thank Ghanaians who voted for him in the 2020 polls. Mr. Mahama who will be accompanied by National Executive Members of the NDC will start the tour from the Upper East Regional capital, Bolgatanga, continue to Walewale in the North East Region and thence ...

Elements in the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) have taken to social media to pass heartless comments following the sad passing of Supreme Court judge, Justice Samuel Kofi Marful-Sau. Their hate and disdain for the judiciary was rekindled when news broke on Tuesday evening that the respected judge, who was on the panel that unanimously dismissed former President John Mahama’s ...

Attorney General Godfred Dame has told the media that he does not want to interfere in the work of parliament regarding the probe into the botched Sputnik V deal. “I gave an opinion on the matter and I believe parliament has not exhausted its processes and all those processes will be dealt with by parliament and, so, I do not ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo’s attitude toward corruption can best be described as “bipolar”, the Executive Director of the Africa Centre for Health Policy and Research Analysis, Dr Thomas Anaba has said in connection with the controversial and botched Sputnik V vaccine procurement saga. Speaking to Accra100.5FM’s mid-day news on Thursday, 12 August 2021, Dr Anaba told Ohenewaa Kesse Boahene (Gargantuan Lady) ...

The Chief of the Chiraa Traditional Area in the Sunyani West District of the Bono Region, Nana Afari Mintah, has told Ghanaians that Ghana can only be “fixed” if all the citizens come together to play their respective roles. Nana Afari Mintah expressed these sentiments on Wednesday, 11 August 2021, when President Akufo-Addo called on him at his palace, as ...

Political Science Lecturer at the University of Ghana, Professor Ransford Gyampo, has described the government’s negotiation team as abysmal and incompetent in their attempts to find a resolution to the strike by the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG). According to Professor Gyampo, the government has been negotiating with the leadership of UTAG for the last 10 years but has ...

President Akufo-Addo appears to have made light of the controversy surrounding the botched Sputnik V vaccine deal entered into by Health Minister Kwaku Agyeman Manu. Some Ghanaians including civil society groups have called for the resignation of the minister following the embarrassing controversy. Addressing a gathering in the Bono Region Tuesday, the president who did not comment on the controversy ...

The numerous strikes in the education sector can be put down to leadership failure, former deputy education minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has said. The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTA), Senior Staff Association Universities of Ghana (SSA-UoG) and the Federation of Universities Senior Staff Association (FUSSAG) declared simultaneous strike actions last week over their conditions of service. SSA-UoG and FUSSAG, ...

The Eastern Regional Secretariat of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has stopped a group led by the former Eastern Regional Minister Antwi Bosiako Sekyere from embarking on a tour in the region. A statement issued by the Regional Secretary Kudjo Adukpo stated that the regional executives have “become aware of a supposed tour of the region by a group ...