POLITICS

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for North Tongu in the Volta Region, Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has called on all political parties to publicly declare a zero-tolerance policy for party financing from galamsey overlords at all levels. “This ought to be strictly enforced with appropriate sanctions,” he said. Speaking in an interview with the Daily Graphic, ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is in the process of considering nominees for appointment as Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives. In the five regions in the north alone, a total of 715 people have applied to be considered for nomination as MMDCEs in 55 districts. The five regions as Northern, Savanna, North East, Upper West and Upper East. Last ...

Road contractors in the country have urged Roads and Highways Minister Kwesi Amoako-Atta to resort to the same passion with which he condemns bad roads in paying contractors for jobs done. According to the contractors, getting paid for jobs done has become a difficult banter between them and the government leading to the death of some contractors. It comes on ...

The District Assemblies Common Fund (DACF) is financing the construction of infrastructure projects in some metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs) in the Ashanti, Greater Accra and Eastern regions. The projects involve the construction of new physical structures (mainly administration blocks and staff bungalows), as well as single court edifices. The fund is expending a total of GH¢94.7 million on ...

The National Coordinator of the Ghana School Feeding Programme has been reinstated barely 24 hours after she was sacked. Madam Gertrude Quashigah was dismissed by the Gender Ministry yesterday. But a letter issued by the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Sarah Adwoa Safo, said she has been reinstated. “This is to inform you of my decision to withdraw ...

Immediate-past Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Mr Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh has denied claims that he is involved in illegal small-scale mining (galamsey). Mr Asomah Cheremeh has been listed in a publication on some news portals as one of the many bigwigs of the ruling New Patriotic Party(NPP) engaged in illegal mining. However, Mr Asomah-Cheremeh who himself is a lawyer, through ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has rejected the Electoral Commission’s proposal to close polls at 3 pm in the 2024 general elections and other future elections. Addressing a press conference on Thursday, the director of elections for the party, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah said the move could disenfranchise many people especially “poor farmers” in rural areas who may want to go ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has in a letter to the Chairperson of the African Union Commission withdrawn his acceptance of the continental body’s appointment as its High Representative for Somalia. While thanking the AU for the confidence reposed in him, Mr. Mahama noted that, “the high political importance of the proposed assignment requires that the High Representative enjoy the ...

The Ministry of Finance and the European Investment Bank have signed an agreement for the provision of a one hundred- and seventy-million-euro (€170 million) facility for the establishment of a new national bank, the Development Bank Ghana (DBG). DBG is an integral feature of the GH¢100 billion Ghana Cares ‘Obaatampa’ Project, which will see the revitalization of the Ghanaian economy ...

The Minister for Communication and Digitisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has warned that all sim cards that are not re-registered by December will be blocked. In a Facebook post, Mrs Owusu-Ekuful said the decision to re-register sim cards is part of measures to clamp down on cyber criminals hiding behind the anonymity of digital systems to commit antisocial acts. She added that ...