POLITICS

The Municipal Chief Executive for Ayawaso East Municipal Assembly, Hon.Hajia Salma Sani Mohammed Adams-Kuta has said the advent of the recent pandemic has prompted government on the need to process perishable food produce into dried products to increase their shelf lives and ensure their availability at all times of uncertainties. Furthermore, she said greater effort must be placed on the ...

Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has called on critics of Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta to credit him with Ghana’s recent economic recovery and growth rather than attack him. According to the Minister and Member of Parliament (MP) for Ofoase Ayirebi, Mr Ofori Atta’s ingenuity and excellence is what has fuelled the Akufo-Addo administration’s ability to mobilize resources for ...

President Akufo-Addo on Thursday, 5th November 2020, commissioned three hundred and twelve (312) completed units under the Asokore-Mampong Affordable Housing Project. The Asokore-Mampong Housing Unit, now referred to as Osei Tutu II Housing Estates, is part of six (6) housing projects started by the Kufuor administration in 2005, with the others situated at Borteyman, Kpone, Koforidua, Tamale, and Wa. It ...

Former President John Mahama says aside legalizing and regularizing commercial motorbike operations, an NDC government will facilitate the supply of motorbikes and protective equipment for Okada riders on hire purchase bases. Addressing separate gatherings in Akuapem Adawso, Nkyenoa, Klo Agogo Akateng, and Asesewa where hundreds of Okada riders mobbed him on the first day of his tour to the Eastern ...

Over hundred supporters of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Krachi East constituency of the Oti region have crossed carpet to join the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC). The defected members, an all-female group, announced their decision on Friday, 30th October, 2020 at Katanga, during a community engagement of the chiefs and people of the area with NDC’s ...

The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has called on the Electoral Commission to publish the details of over 30,000 voters whose names were deleted from the voters’ register for breaching registration regulations. The move according to the NCCE will help avoid chaos on Election Day. The chairperson for the commission, Josephine Nkrumah, made the call when she addressed Parliament ...

Five hundred and thirty-Eight (538) aggrieved contractors of Ghana First Company have presented a petition to the Flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress John Dramani Mahama over government’s failure to facilitate their payments. The contractors presented the petition to Mr Mahama at a whistle-stop at Nkyenoa in the Okere Constituency of the Eastern Region as part of his four-day ...

Claim: Tarkwa-Nsuaem NPP leadership claim the MP’s ‘Psalm 500’ video has been doctored. Verdict: Mostly false Explanation The Tarkwa-Nsuaem NPP leadership is claiming that George Mireku Duker’s “Psalm 500” video which has gone viral was doctored. GhanaWeb checks of the full video of the “Peace Concert” organised by Tarkwa Crusaders Chorale on Sunday, November 1, indicates that the MP for Tarkwa Nsuaem actually quoted ...

National Security Minister Albert Kan Dapaah has blamed political opponents for the heightened sense of insecurity in the country. Some security analysts and members of the public have questioned the security preparedness of the country for the December polls given recent armed robbery cases and other violent crimes. But addressing Parliament today, the National Security Minister accused political opponents of ...

Paul Adom-Otchere, the host of Good Evening Ghana (GEG) on Metro Television, has agreed with former President John Dramani Mahama that Martin Amidu, the Special Prosecutor is “a coward”. On his GEG show on Thursday, Adom-Otchere stated: “Honourable Martin Amidu, your mandate is to proceed with further investigation, invite whoever it is. You can’t come and say in an official ...