POLITICS

The former Secretary to the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), Charles Cromwell Nanabanyin Bissue says the Akufo-Addo administration has efficiently dealt with corruption in the country. He says the evidence is hinged on the fact that all appointees of the President mentioned in corruption scandals have been made to step aside or investigated thoroughly. “Under this government, we have actually dealt ...

Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu has penned down his second critique of the Professor Ahwoi book – Working with Rawlings – describing it as full of errors. According to him, key details of the book are contestable while some are inaccurate “I have not read any of Kwamena Ahwoi’s previous works. Kwamena Ahwoi’s Working with Rawlings, however, contains several inexcusable witting ...

The Former Youth organizer for the ruling Party (Npp) in the Assin South Constituency, Hon. Jonathan Osei Owusu popularly known as Nana Yaw has invoked curses on Assin Atonsu polling station youth Organizer in Assin central Constituency over false allegations that, Nana Yaw and Hon. Asonaba from the independent Candidate in Assin South Mr. Joseph Kofi Damtse’s camp, are busing ...

The Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Obiri Boahen has revealed that the promise to construct an airport in Cape Coast was made by the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, on the spur of the moment. The promise to build an airport and a harbour in the Central regional capital, has been met with mixed reactions ...

Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah, the Minister for Information, says Kofi Bosompem Osafo-Maafo, the son of Yaw Osafo-Maafo, the Senior Minister, has experience in mineral royalties’ transaction and his track record in some of the countries he has worked for very much qualifies him to engage in the Agyapa Royalties deal. Speaking on PM Express on Joy News, the Information Minister said, nothing ...

The Kumasi Youth Association (KuYA) has called on the government to show them the exact location of the new ultramodern theatre that it is constructing in Kumasi. According to the association, it is unaware of any such theatre under construction in the region. It has, thus, called on Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia to come clean with them and show them ...

Former Vice-chairperson of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Anita Desoso has described former Central Regional Chairman and suspended member of the NDC, Bernard Allotey Jacobs as a “Judas” in the party. Heaping curses on him, she raged that “Allotey and his family members will suffer greatly” for his betraying character, but added that the opposition party is glad he has ...

A former Aerospace Engineer, Matt Afful has revealed that the decision to construct an airport in the Central Regional Capital, Cape Coast was hatched during the erstwhile John Agyekum Kufuor administration. Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia announced during the launch of the NPP’s manifesto for the 2020 elections that the government is considering constructing an airport at Cape Coast during ...

The All Peoples Congress (APC) has acclaimed Dr Hassan Ayariga as its flagbearer for the December polls. It marks the second time the former PNC flagbearer is leading the party he founded after the party failed to meet the requirements in order to contest the 2016 elections. Speaking at his acclamation, Mr Ayariga said his appointees will have their bank ...

The former Central Regional Chairman of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Allotey Jacobs, has said, “Initially, we took the one district one factory for a joke but we’ve realised that it can employ a whole lot of communities”. Mr Jacobs, who joined President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to officially open the Ekumfi Fruit and Juices factory as ...