POLITICS

The runningmate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang has called on the judiciary to be fair in the application of the contempt of court rule. The call comes in the wake of the summoning of Assin Central MP Kennedy Agyapong by a High court judge after the lawmaker insulted him on his television station over a ...

Chief Executive Officer of the Atta Mills Institute, Samuel Koku Anyidoho has described as delusional the belief by many Ghanaians that he stopped then Vice President John Dramani Mahama from going to the office of the late President John Evans Atta Mills. According to the former Deputy General Secretary of the NDC, he could not have stopped the Vice President from seeing President Atta ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has reiterated his commitment to ensure that the Ghanaian electorate are able to cast their vote in peace and as securely as possible on 7th December. Addressing the Bono Region House of Chiefs on Thursday 10th September 2020, President Akufo-Addo assured the House of the “wholehearted efforts that are going to be made by my ...

Samson Lardy Anyenini, a Private Legal Practitioner and journalist, has stated that the new security and intelligence law which was passed by Parliament and awaiting the signature of the President, should seek to correct mistakes in the old security and intelligence law which it is seeking to repeal. The new law has changed the name of the Bureau of National ...

Claim: The John Mahama administration managed the 2016 budget with zero borrowing from the Central Bank. VERDICT: FALSE Background The flagbearer of the NDC John Mahama at the launch of the party’s 2020 manifesto delivered a speech justifying his reelection bid with his track record of economic performance. The former president then claimed that his administration managed the 2016 budget with ...

Claim: In 2016, the NPP promised one child, one chocolate. Verdict: MOSTLY FALSE (3 STARS) FULL TEXT: Campaign Manager for the opposition NDC Professer Joshua Alabi on Tuesday September 8, granted an interview on Starr 103.5 Fm in response to the Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah’s reaction to the NDC’s People’s Manifesto launched on Monday September 7. In that interview, ...

The Minister for Youth and Sports, Isaac Kwame Asiamah, has lashed out at the National Democratic Congress’s manifesto stating that the NPP has already done everything the NDC promised in their 2020 manifesto. According to the Sports Minister, the NPP under the Akufo-Addo-led government has achieved many promises listed in the NDC’s 2020 Manifesto launched on Monday. Enumerating some of the achievements ...

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has promised the chiefs and people of Boli in the Wa municipality that government will construct one of the proposed Model Senior High School in the Upper West region at Boli as captured in the manifesto of the ruling NPP. Addressing a durbar of Chiefs and people at Boli as part of his two-day working ...

The Volta River Authority Re-settlement Trust Fund has handed over an Ultra-modern e-library facility to the Tsorxor basic school in the North Dayi District of the Volta region. The facility which has been furnished with 30 computer installations is the first ever to have been built by the trust fund in any of the 52 resettlement communities along the Volta ...

As part of measures to curb the incidence of crime and armed robbery in the Amansie South district, the District Chief Executive has cut sod for the construction of a Police station in the mining district in Ashanti Region. In a short ceremony at the proposed site Manso-Nkran witnessed by the traditional leaders and people in the district, Clement Opoku ...