POLITICS

“Let me also indicate to you my commitment to establishing a Committee, God willing, early next year, to take a comprehensive look at the issue to do with the compulsory acquisition of lands by Government, its consequences and the possible restoration of lands to their allodial owners.” These were the words of the President of Akufo-Addo, on Thursday, 29th October ...

Social media commentator, Kevin Taylor has ridiculed a court charge of one million cedis against him for defamatory statements he made about Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, a cousin to the President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. An Accra High Court (Commercial Court 10) presided over by Justice Jennifer Abena Dadzie awarded damages against the controversial commentator. Kevin Taylor has finally taken ...

Independent Presidential candidate in the upcoming elections Alfred Asiedu Walker has described the controversial Agyapa mineral royalties deal as a fraud. According to him, it is not appropriate for the government of Ghana to do business in a tax haven country. “We have sold our assets, with the hope that somebody will give us something but we should stop doing ...

Managers of Ghana’s economy cannot run away from borrowing due to the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, Economist with the Institute of Chartered Economists Gideon Amissah has indicated. In 2018, the national debt of Ghana amounted to approximately 59.29 percent of the GDP. A figure that currently stands at over 65%. Finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta on Wednesday requested parliament ...

Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has described media reports that suggest Kennedy Agyapong, the Assin Central MP, has won an appeal against him as a classic case of “premature ejaculation”. According to him, the report by Pinax TV, an online TV station that streams on YouTube, is “uninformed, totally illiterate, uneducated understanding of what happened in court”. He explained that the lawyers ...

Two of Europe’s biggest economies are reinstating some form of national lockdown, as the continent confronts a surge in coronavirus cases and deaths. From Friday people in France will only be allowed to leave home for essential work or medical reasons. President Emmanuel Macron said the country risked being “overwhelmed by a second wave that no doubt will be harder ...

The Presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Mahama, has advised traders and beneficiaries of the state’s Covid-19 stimulus package to ignore false claims by pro-government propagandists that the next NDC government will require them to pay back. Describing the claims as “lies” and “cheap politicking”, Mr Mahama said no trader will pay back the Covid-19 stimulus package ...

Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu has called on former President John Mahama to desist from “dragging” his name into politics. According to him, some utterances of the NDC flagbearer appear to entangle the Office of the Special Prosecutor with politics. “I have read with dismay the deliberate efforts by certain Presidential candidates for the 2020 Elections to drag the Office of ...

Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has quashed attempts to draw similarities between the 2020 US and Ghana Presidential elections. According to him, attempts by some to suggest that a win by Republicans in the US will lead to a win by the NPP in Ghana, are unfounded. Mr Trump in the US has no similarity as a candidate to President ...

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has requested parliament to approve an amount of GHc27,434,180,520 as expenditure in advance for the first quarter of 2021. This amount will be incorporated by any future finance minister in next year’s full budget. Addressing Parliament Wednesday, October 28, the minister said “I humbly request this august house to by decision approve an amount of GHC27,434,180,520 ...