POLITICS

Heritage Bank Ghana Limited was the only solvent bank that was deliberately targeted and collapsed by the Bank of Ghana and no amount of lies and propaganda churned out by Assin Central MP Kennedy Agyapong on his NET2 TV station can change that fact, pressure group Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA) has said. A statement signed by ...

Results of a fact-check conducted on #As3mYiDziKa on Connect FM 97.1MHz in Takoradi indicate that 31 out of the 66 urban roads completed in Sekondi-Takoradi Metro on the delivery tracker were duplicated. Only 4 of the 66 were not duplicated. Interestingly, there was one project titled unknown road. The data, however, could no longer be accessed after the Member of ...

The Alliance of Civil Society Organisation on Extractives, Anti-corruption and good governance is demanding the immediate suspension of the Agyapa Minerals Royalties Investment deal as it describes the agreement as state capture. Addressing the media former Chairman for Public Interest Accountability Committee, Dr. Steve Manteaw, charged government to engage stakeholders to explore other options of raising funds for government. In ...

The Concerned Youth of Suame Magazine have declared their support for businessman George Prempeh known in private life as ‘Baashaka’ to contest as an Independent candidate for the constituency in the upcoming parliamentary elections. According to the youth group, led by Augustine Danso, the incumbent MP for the Suame Constituency who double as minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Majority Leader, ...

The General Secretary for the Conventions People’s Party Nana Yaa Jantuah has called on pro-Nkrumahists around the country who are part of or own political parties to close down their parties and join the CPP. She admonished them to ‘come back home’. Speaking on the Morning Starr with Francis Abban Tuesday, Madam Jantuah was of the view that it was ...

The Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA) has claimed that the now defunct Heritage Bank was targeted and ultimately collapsed unfairly during the banking sector clean-up exercise. In a statement issued by the Executive Director of ASEPA, Mensah Thompson suggested that the defunct Heritage Bank was indeed profitable and financially sound to operate. “Before we delve into the ...

As Ghana gears towards the 2020 general elections with the two major parties engaging in subtle campaigns, the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has been dealt a big blow by Open Source Investigators (OSI), an international organisation that provides in-depth research behind political stories. The team of investigative journalists, researchers, fact-checkers, activists and data experts who supply non-partisan and ...

IMANI Vice President Kofi Bentil has backed calls for the legalisation of Okada in Ghana. NDC flagbearer John Mahama has ignited the Okada conversation in the country with his promise to regularise the activities of the commercial bike riders if he wins the 2020 elections. According to Mr Mahama, the operations of Okada has created more jobs for the youth ...

The National President of the Okada Riders Association of Ghana, Michael Kofi Owusu, has lauded the promise by former President John Dramani Mahama to legalise commercial motor riding popularly known as Okada if he is re-elected President in the upcoming December polls. The NDC flagbearer during his tour of the Volta region said even though the business of commercial motto ...

The Akufo-Addo government saved the Ghanaian taxpayer more than $1 billion in the award of a contract for the purpose of creating the mobile money interoperability, Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has said. According to Dr Bawumia, before the NPP came into power, the erstwhile Mahama administration had awarded the contract for $1.2 billion. The contract was, however, cancelled by ...