POLITICS

The Offinso Paramount Chief, Nana Wiafe Akenten (lll) says the NDC party deserves commendation for the number of developmental projects executed in the area under the erstwhile governance of John Dramani Mahama. Addressing the NDC delegation led by the party’s running mate at his palace on Thursday, 15th October 2020, the Paramount Chief pronounced that almost all the infrastructural projects ...

Some Chiefs in Nzema have appealed to the National Democratic Congress Presidential Candidate to reactivate the botched Atuabo Free Port Project. The over 700 million dollar project which was contracted to Lonhro Port Limited would have been Ghana’s third port. The project was expected to be operational in 2017 and serve as a regional hub in promoting safe and efficient ...

The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh has disclosed that the Youth in Afforestation programme that was launched by the President Akufo-Addo in August 2018 has so far generated about 81,362 jobs. Addressing the media in Accra today, the Lands and Natural Resources Minister said the implementation of the programme is in line with government’s commitment to reforestation, ...

Former President and leader for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Dramani Mahama has given reasons his wife is conspicuously missing from the political space in recent times even as he seeks to return to government. He disclosed that the former first lady was traumatized by the lies told about her in 2016 and has decided to take a back ...

Vice Presidential Candidate for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang has justified the decision by the erstwhile Mahama administration to pay teachers three months’ salary despite the claim they worked for over a year. She indicates that affected teachers were not employees of government and as such could not have claimed salaries they were not entitled to. ...

The West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) says it expects Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo, who is also the leader of sub-regional block ECOWAS, to publicly comment on developments in Nigeria. According to the Executive Director of the group Dr Chukwuemeka B. Eze, a public statement on the chaos in the West African nation will assure the citizens that the regional ...

President Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appealed to the chiefs and people of the Afife Traditional Area, in the Ketu North constituency to vote and retain him as President at the December 7 polls to enable him continue with the development of the area and Ghana at large. President Akufo-Addo made the appeal when he addressed a durbar of Chiefs and ...

President Akufo-Addo has reiterated government’s commitment to assisting Ghanaian enterprises to take advantage of the coming into force of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). Speaking at the 2nd National Conference on the African Continental Free Trade Area, held on Tuesday, 20th October 2020, at the Accra International Conference Centre, President Akufo-Addo explained that the AfCFTA will ensure that ...

The vice-presidential candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang says President Akufo-Addo and the ruling NPP are being delusional on the state of roads hence their position on Okada in the country “I have travelled to several communities and if you see the kind of roads that we are driving on, you can only conclude that ...

NDC flagbearer John Mahama says he will warn his appointees not to take the office of the Special Prosecutor for granted if he wins the December polls. Mr Mahama also says he will give the Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu the space to do his work to the best of his abilities. Speaking to Accra-based Adom FM, the former President said ...