POLITICS

State prosecutors have brought fresh charges against a former Director-General of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), Mr Ernest Thompson and four others for causing financial loss to the state. This latest charge follows a Supreme Court ruling that the particulars the state had provided to support the charge of causing financial loss to the state against the ...

Political Scientist Dr. Kwame Asah Asante says he expected President Akufo-Addo to increase the number of women in his ministerial appointments. He said even though the numbers are better than in the past, more should have been done. President Akufo-Addo on Tuesday, April 21 announced his deputy Ministerial nominees for the various ministries. Out of the thirty-nine, nine were female ...

Former broadcaster Bridget Otoo has mentioned Effutu lawmaker Alexander Afenyo Markin and Communications Minister Ursula Owusu-Ekuful as her favourite lawmakers in Ghana. According to her, Mr Afenyo Markin is open-minded and receptive to new ideas regardless of the proponent of the idea. “He gets it, he gets what I’m trying to do. Despite my criticisms against the government and the ...

Popularly referred to as the “World Bank” of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the Ketu South constituency in the Volta Region is home to about 200,000 people. In the immediate past elections, the total registered voters in the constituency was over 130,000, making it one of the biggest constituencies in the country. The main occupation of the people of Ketu ...

An executive member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Central Region, Dr Joseph Kobina Essibu, has called on the rank and file of the party in the region to desist from misinformation and forge ahead in unity. That, he said, was to enable the party to remain solid to retain power in 2024. Dr Kobina Essibu’s call comes ...

The Minister of Energy, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has called for the need to generate more, not less, power as the country’s power needs grow in consonance with its growing population and urbanization. The Minister made this observation when he opened a four-day Energy Sector Work Programme Retreat for 2021 at Ada in the Greater Accra Region. Dr. Prempeh, who ...

The National Women’s Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr Hanna Louisa Bisiw, has ended her nationwide ‘thank you tour’ which began last month to energize the party’s women’s wing. The tour which the women’s leader embarked on to re-organize the base of the party’s women wing was themed “Post-election petition, the role of our women” and saw the ...

Sycophants within the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) are “inventing enemies” for former president John Mahama through their public clamour for his automatic selection as flag bearer for the 2024 polls, former Defence Minister Dr Benjamin Kunbuor has said. “You see, that is the problem of lack of scientific analyses”, he observed, explaining: “John Mahama is an individual and ...

Some stalwarts of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have called on the leadership of the party to revert to its core values and principles of participatory approach in dealing with issues. They said any attempt by the NDC to deviate from its core values and principles of probity, accountability and participatory democracy could keep the party out of political power ...

The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor, has served notice that no one will be spared in President Akufo-Addo’s quest to ensure all river bodies and forests are not destroyed by irresponsible mining. Speaking at Daboase waterworks treatment plant of the Ghana Water Company in the Western Region, Mr. Jinapor said the government’s renewed spirit against irresponsible ...