POLITICS

The Ranking Member of the Finance Committee of Parliament, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, has disclosed that Ghana’s current economic indicators are worse today than they were when the nation was declared HIPC in 2001. He said although the country has not been declared HIPC by the Bretton Woods Institutions, the current debt sustainability indicators show that Ghana is a Heavily ...

Play and Learn Foundation has received over 300 books from the Samira Empowerment and Humanitarian Projects (SEHP) through its Library-In-A-Box project. The donation was made by the SEHP team on July 25, 2021. The Library-In-A-Box Project is an initiative of the Second Lady of Ghana, Mrs. Samira Bawumia, which provides books in boxes to underserved public schools across Ghana. This ...

There is tension in all 33 districts and Municipalities in the Eastern region following the circulation of a list purported to be names of Municipal and District Chief Executives (MDCEs) nominated by President Akufo-Addo for the Eastern Region. Some aspiring MDCEs in the region whose names were found in the list were seen jubilating on the streets. The Municipal Chief ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama says the main opposition National Democratic Congress(NDC) must begin to restore the lost values and principles as a social democratic party so it could remain distinct from the ruling NPP. Speaking at the 9th wreath-laying ceremony for HE Prof. JEA Mills at the Asomdwee Park in Accra, Mr. Mahama intimated that it could only be ...

Former Member of Parliament for Kumbungu, Ras Mubarak, has slammed Madina lawmaker, Francis-Xavier Sosu, labelling him ‘foolishly courageous,’ over his stance on same-sex relationships. Mubarak was reacting to a story that reported Sosu’s comments about how a strong opposition of Speaker Alban Bagbin to the Lesbians, Gays, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer, LGBTQ+ community could best be described as his private ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama is lacing his boots to contest the 2024 presidential election, barring any hitch. He has, therefore, tasked Muslims in his hometown Bole in the Savannah Region, to pray for him, as he prepares to return into the contest once again after losing the 2016 and 2020 elections respectively to the NPP’s candidate Nana Akufo-Addo. Radio ...

Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram Sam George has said he and his colleague anti-LGBTQI+ legislators are ready to debate anyone who is opposing their anti-gay bill before parliament but their disagreement must be based on law, fact, and science and not emotions or thoughts. He said people have the right to disagree with the stand they have taken to criminalise ...

President Akufo-Addo has announced a ban on post-funeral receptions across the country in the wake of a third wave of COVID19 in Ghana. According to the President, all funerals must also be held in open spaces and there must be the observance of the one (1) metre social distancing rule by sympathisers. Delivering his update number 26 since the outbreak ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stressed that the wearing of masks in public places is mandatory and anyone who flouts this law will have him/herself to blame. He bemoaned and described as ‘troubling’ that the high compliance rate of mask-wearing had declined drastically. Failure to adhere to the Covid-19 protocols according to the President had led to the upsurge ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has announced that his government is committing some $25 million to the establishment of a National Vaccine Institute, as part of measures to shore up the country’s preparedness for vaccine production in cases such as the current festering COVID-19 pandemic. In his 26th address to the nation on the virus on Sunday, 25 July 2021, Mr Akufo-Addo ...