POLITICS

As Ghana continues to witness a steep rise amidst the coronavirus cases, the Information Ministry will on Tuesday, May 26, 2020, hold a press conference to provide an update to citizens on the latest mitigating measures by government. The country recorded 6,808 COVID-19 cases, 2,070 recoveries and a death toll of 32 according to the Ghana Health Service (GHS) as at May ...

Kennedy Agyapong says in Ghana farming does not bring money and it is only those who pray to be poor that venture into it. “When you wake up in the morning and you pray that God let me be poor, then you go into farming,” he told Joy News. He explained that whenever he hears people who are supposed to ...

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is yet to announce its vice-presidential candidate. Reports that five persons have been already selected emerged a few days ago but the NDC debunked it saying “the general public is therefore advised to ignore any such frivolous and fictitious letter, which is clearly a creation of some unscrupulous persons, who want to divert attention ...

Kwesi Pratt Jnr, Editor-in-Chief of the Insight newspaper, has extolled the respective contributions of Lawyer Akoto Ampaw and Dr Charles Wereko-Bobby, some of the members of the group Alliance for Change, in the run-up to the mammoth anti-government protests, “Kume Preko” in 1995. Pratt Jnr. told Paul Adom-Otchere on Good Evening Ghana (GEG) last Thursday that, the private legal practitioner, ...

Dr Sekou Nkrumah, one of the sons of Kwame Nkrumah, has explained why there is bad blood between him and his siblings – Samia Yaba Christina Nkrumah and Gamal Gorkeh Nkrumah. According to him, his siblings never communicated with him on any decision they intended to take regarding reviving their father’s political party Convention People’s Party (CPP) and the continuation ...

Thank you Mr. Speaker for your audience, and for this opportunity to address the house on the need for a TRANSFOMATIVE EDUCATION POLICY which will forever change lives of many Ghanaians. It is a good time to be a Ghanaian. Before I continue my presentation, Mr. Speaker, permit me to sing this marching song we sang in 1992 when I ...

President Akufo-Addo says consultations for easing up coronavirus restrictions in the country will be concluded this week. Addressing Muslims in a virtual message on Eid-ul-Fitr Sunday, the President said he is looking forward to announcing the roadmap towards easing the restriction which has seen churches and schools shut for over two months. “Stakeholder consultations are taking place on the way ...

The New Patriotic Party(NPP) in the North East Region has replied to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for accusing a man who is at the forefront of fighting for the development of his people of sabotaging the same. It has therefore denied claims by opposition NDC in the region that Mustapha Ussif, the Executive Director of the National Service Scheme(NSS) ...

The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Ghana, Jean Mensa, has been summoned by Parliament to brief the House next week on her plans for the 2020 elections. Majority leader, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu informed the House during the business statement for next week. The announcement follow demands by the Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu and other MPs who demanded the ...

National Organizer of the People’s National Congress and a member of the Inter-Party Resistance Against the New Voters’ Register, Desmond Twumasi Ntow, has asserted that the Electoral Commission (EC) has shown insensitivity in the heat of Coronavirus by announcing that the compilation of the new register will commence. According to him, all that the political parties sought to do was ...