POLITICS

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) is demanding the release of seed funds by the government to cocoa license buying companies. The Minority says it is appalled by the refusal of the Akufo-Addo government to release the funds for the purchase of cocoa for the 2020-2021 cocoa season. A statement signed by MP for Asunafo South Eric Opoku expressed worry that ...

Prophet Nigel Gaisie, Leader of the True Word Prophetic Fire Ministries says the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) should be thankful to him for rejuvenating the party’s spirit again for the 2020 election. According to him, the NDC’s spirit was dampened and dejected after the 2016 electoral defeat to the current New Patriotic Party (NPP) led by President Nana Addo ...

Former President John Mahama says he has been shocked by the underperformance of Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta. According to the NDC flagbearer, considering the amount of resources his administration bequeathed to the Akufo-Addo administration, the government should have done much better than they have done. “The IMF has been a bit hypocritical in all these issues, we complained that ...

Radio personality and Reggae musician, Blakk Rasta born Abubakar Ahmed, has asked former President John Dramani Mahama to rather chase the guinea fowls that fled Ghana for Burkina Faso under his watch as President and not Nana Appiah Mensah alias NAM 1. The former President has said that when he comes back to power, he will probe Nana Appiah Mensah’s ...

President Akufo-Addo has commissioned the sixty-four-kilometre (64km) Kete Krachi – Dodiokope Road Project, in the newly created Oti Region. This project was undertaken in three (3) phases by Messrs First Sky Limited, at a total cost of GH¢156 million, and was funded by COCOBOD, with the Ghana Highway Authority serving as the implementing agency and supervising consultant. The project was ...

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has urged the international community, especially those who have shared concerns about the protests in Nigeria, to know the facts before making judgements. Several days of protests to get the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (Sars) unit of the Nigerian police disbanded has degenerated into violence and shooting of peaceful protesters. This has seen the international community including ...

Former President John Mahama has promised to release all Galamsey operators and labourers who have been sentenced by the Akufo-Addo government if he wins the December polls. The former President says these illegal miners, popularly referred to as ‘galamseyers’ would be granted amnesty so they can return to their families and take up decent work. Speaking at Adum Banso of ...

Some Ghanaians are unhappy with the responses of some Nigerians to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s comment on the #EndSARS protests in Nigeria. Ghanaians have supported Nigerians on social media since the protests against police brutality in Nigeria started. A lot of them called on President Akufo-Addo, who is also the Chairman of ECOWAS, to speak on the protests after African ...

The independent parliamentary candidate for sefwi Wiawso, Hon Martin Bonye has yesterday remanded following the alleged pulling out a gun on some Npp party support and his resistance to appear before the honourable court when a letter was served to him. For his refusal to appear the court a bench warrant was served for his arrest the Sefwi Wiawso district ...

The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has reiterated that he will retrieve all confiscated excavators and concessions belonging to small scale miners reportedly given to New Patriotic Party sympathizers if he wins the 2020 elections. The NDC flagbearer also assured the cocoa farmers of a return of the cocoa-free fertilizer policy which the current administration ...