POLITICS

Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has disagreed with critics of the government who say there is a culture of silence under President Nana Akufo-Addo. At the opening of the office for the Coordinated Mechanism on the Safety of Journalists at a ceremony in Accra on Tuesday, 4 May 2021, Mr Oppong Nkrumah said: “This is part of the many layers ...

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Dormaa East, Mr Paul Apraku Twum Barimah, has described the allegations made by the Minority in Parliament on load shedding as calculated to tarnish the image of the government. In an interview with the media, the communication and energy specialist said there was no nationwide load shedding and that the government ...

Fuel prices at the pumps have been reduced by 8 pesewas per litre effective Wednesday, May 5, 2021. This means that the recent 17 pesewas per litre increase announced by the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has been reduced to 9 pesewas per litre. It takes effect from Wednesday, May 5, 2021. This was made known in a communique issued on ...

The Wenchi High Court has slapped both the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and National Democratic Congress (NDC) with cost charges amounting to GHS 1,500.00. This was after the court at its sitting on Thursday granted the petitioner’s application for direction but declined the petitioner’s motion to amend his suit, including changing the title and adding other reliefs. Both the NDC ...

The National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Freddy Blay, has asked the rank and file of the party to desist from projecting anybody who wishes to contest the presidential slot for the 2024 general election. He explained that such an attitude would divide the attention of the President in focusing on the NPP’s development agenda that would ...

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has advised Ghanaians who intend to travel to countries with exceedingly high Covid infection rates to postpone or cancel their trip. This, according to the ministry, is in view of the alarming rate of Covid cases in some parts of the world including Asia and South America. The ministry in a statement ...

The Electoral Commission (EC) has described the 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections as the most successful, well-coordinated, efficient and seamless elections organised in the history of Ghana. It noted that the many systems deployed before, during and after the elections enabled the commission to deliver successful elections compared to previous ones. Speaking at a three-day high-level stakeholder post-election review workshop ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has authorised the Ghana Armed Forces to deploy 200 soldiers to go after all persons involved in illegal mining popularly known as galamsey. A release from the Information Ministry stated that the move is to ensure that mining within water bodies are immediately stopped. This latest action to fight galamsey comes after the Stakeholder Dialogue ...

A group calling itself the Concerned Youth of Atewa West in the Eastern Region is demanding an apology from the National Women’s Organizer of the party Kate Gyamfua to the Minister of Roads and Highways who is also Member of Parliament for Atewa West for berating the minister over tarring of roads in the Constituency. The National Women’s Organizer of ...

Minister for Works and Housing Francis Asenso-Boakye says about US$32million is needed to complete the Saglemi Housing project. He however says his ministry is taking all necessary measures to get the facility completed for us. The abandoned facility has been brought to the spotlight and to the chagrin of Ghanaians following the filming of the neglected near-completed homes by politician ...