POLITICS

Independent parliamentary candidate for Tarkwa-Nsuaem constituency in the Western region Joy Joycelyn Andoh has condemned the vandalizing of her billboards and posters mounted within Nsuaem by persons believed to be supporters of the ruling NPP. She describes the act as a disturbing, criminal, cowardly, intimidatory, and a failed attempt to stoke violence and disrupt the peaceful atmosphere the constituency has ...

A lecturer with the Cape Coast University says the head of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) in Ghana must take the ultimate responsibility for the massive leakage of West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) questions by leaving his post. According to Dr. Kenneth Aikins, such an action will indicate that WAEC does not tolerate unethical breaches and is ...

Togbe Afede XIV, the Agbogbomefia of Asogli State, has indicated that it is refreshing for the former President to give the people of the Volta Region some hope, as he campaigns to get voted for his second term. Togbe Afede XIV indicated that the country for almost four years under the leadership of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has seen joblessness ...

Members of the Ghana First Contractors Association are angry with government for laying claim to some toilet projects in the country. It follows Tuesday’s presentation by Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia on government’s infrastructure record. The over two-hour event saw the vice-president list a number of completed and ongoing projects that the administration has delivered. According to government, the purpose of ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has cut the sod for the construction of a 100-bed District Hospital at Shama. According to Akufo-Addo, “today’s event is yet another important milestone of Government’s commitment to guarantee access to healthcare facilities for all Ghanaians, no matter where they live, and to improve their health and well-being.” The President stated that “Once completed, the ...

Veteran journalist, Kweku Baako has tasked the government to make public the findings from investigations it conducted into the cocoa roads projects. The government upon assumption of office carried out a value for money audit on some contracts signed by the previous government for the construction of roads. The report from the audit is unknown to the public but Kweku ...

If Ghanaians needed a reminder that the country is making no headway in its quest for ‘politics without insults’ then this clash between MP for Ningo Prampram, Sam George and Deputy Information Minister Pius Enam Hadzide is the perfect example. The only thing that stood between their conducts in the studio of GHOne and a full-blown chaos is the trading ...

Former President John Mahama has raised concerns over the gold royalties deal between the government of Ghana and Agyapa royalties. “Why will you be mortgaging this country’s gold royalties, three months to an election to go and collect money to come and spend and so the Minority said we won’t agree so they walked out of Parliament. But they went ...

Former President John Mahama says government should have applied “common sense” in handling the financial sector cleanup. According to him, the corresponding unemployed occasioned by the exercise is unprecedented in the 4th republic. “They’ve closed financial institutions. It’s not that the financial institutions didn’t have problems when we were in government, we knew there was a problem but we realised ...

Ex-President Jerry John Rawlings might be playing smart and leaving everyone in a state of confusion with his utterances and body language as to where his political love is; the National Democratic Congress (NDC) he founded or the New Patriotic Party (NPP) whose presidential candidate; President Nana Akufo-Addo, he has become a Siamese twin to. Mr. Rawlings, has remained noncommittal ...