POLITICS

A member of the communications team of the National Democratic Congress, Benjamin Essuman, has called on President Akufo-Addo to condemn his party members including NPP’s Ashanti regional Chairman, Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, who have openly attacked members of the NDC before he calls on former President John Mahama to apologise for sharing a derogatory post. A member of the communications team of ...

Two groups in northern Ghana have issued separate statements demanding clarity from President Nana Akufo-Addo regarding his recent comment that: ‘If I was to get up to make a comment about Northerners or Gonjas, you can imagine the uproar that will be in this country’. President Nana Akufo-Addo made the statement while urging the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference, with whom ...

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has said the National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration under former President Jerry John Rawlings once lied to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), leading to Ghana being fined US$36 million. He said this was part of the monumental economic challenges that the NDC administration left for him to come and deal with after the 2000 elections. ...

John Agyekum Kufuor says he would have been a fool if he had not appointed some family members whom he can trust in his government. Speaking to Kwaku Sakyi-Addo on Asaase Radio on Sunday, the former president stated that his brother-in-law who was his Senior Minister in his government had been in Kwame Nkrumah’s government and had worked in the ...

The Vice Presidential candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang has denied media reports that her convoy has been involved in an accident. It comes after reports by some news portals that her convoy was involved in a crash at Sefwi Wiaso in the Western North region. The report added the accident was caused by ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has condemned a reference to himself and his home townsfolk as ‘Akyem Mafia’ and ‘Sakawa’ people by opposition MP Isaac Adongo, which was amplified by former President John Dramani Mahama, who shared it on his Facebook timeline a few days ago. The Bolgatanga Central MP, in a statement relating to the controversial Agyapa Roylaties deal, ...

A disgruntled member of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. Joseph Kofi Damtse who was disqualified in the parliamentary primaries says his decision to contest the Assin South Constituency seat as an independent candidate was based on how unfair he was treated. According to him, he was unfairly disqualified even after spending on GHc52,000 on filing fee and development ...

Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, Hon. Kennedy Agyapong has alleged that the former president John Dramani Mahama inflated the cost of the Kasoa interchange and used the money to buy 350 land cruisers to bribe some Chiefs in Ghana. “They used the extra money from the inflated contract sum to buy 350 land cruisers and shared it amongst ...

Vice Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang said it is high time the will of the people was brought to main stream governance. She further said that is what was at the heart of the NDC’s consultations to form the ‘People’s Manifesto’. She intimated that the times where leaders sit in Accra and draft ...

The Deputy Minister for Information, Enam Pious Hadzide has reiterated government’s respect for traditional authorities in the country, especially Chiefs in the Volta region. While commenting on the disagreements and controversies that characterized the deployment of the military into the Volta region during the recent Voter’s registration exercise, the Deputy Information Minister noted that it will be inappropriate for him ...