POLITICS

Kantinka-De Beat fm The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Sefwi Juaboso, who also double as District Epidemic Response Committee Chair person, Hon Martha Kwayie Manu on Tuesday May 19 has donated a bunch of Personal Protective Equipment PPE’s to 3 Health Institutions in the area as a move to help prevent the spread of Corona virus pandemic. The beneficial health ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has assured Medium, Small and Micro Enterprises that he is determined to protect the means of livelihood of the people of Ghana that has been negatively impacted by the outbreak of the novel Coronavirus, Covid-19. Speaking at the “Presidential launch of the Coronavirus Alleviation Programme (CAP) Business Support Scheme” at the Banquet Hall of the ...

The Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Aaron Mike Oquaye, has directed that all Members of Parliament, including parliamentary staff, must go through a mandatory Coronavirus test. He made the order today, Tuesday, May 19, 2020, when the House commenced sittings for the second meeting of this session. According to the Speaker, the directive forms part of measures instituted by the Parliamentary Service Board to ...

The attention of the NDC-UK & Ireland Chapter has been drawn to a news story in the 13th May 2020 edition of THE SUN newspaper and a few other British tabloids. According to the January 31, 2020 judgment by the Crown Court at Southwark in the UK concerning the case between the Director of Serious Fraud Office and Airbus SE, ...

Joseph Yammin, a top member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, a stalwart in the New Patriotic Party (NPP), are set to engage in a legal battle in court soon. The NDC kingpin insists that Mr. Agyapong, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central Constituency in the Central Region, has defamed him in public by ...

Former CEO of the National Petroleum Authority, Alex Mould, has declared his interest in becoming the John Mahama’s running mate for the 2020 polls. According to him, he boasts the requisite knowledge and experience to become Vice Presidential candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC). Mr. Mould said his pedigree in the fields of economy, energy, trade and industry ...

The Auditor-General Daniel Domelevo has advised government against paying a supposed salary arrears to some past lawmakers calling themselves Forum for Former Members of Parliament (FFMP). The advice comes after the Chief of Staff wrote to the auditor-general requesting auditing clearance for the monies to be paid. The forum, some of whom left the House over 10 years ago, are ...

The Information Ministry will hold its regular press briefing to update the nation on the latest case count and mitigating measures in governments fight against the novel coronavirus pandemic. Ghana has recorded 183 new confirmed cases. While this new update raises the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 5,918, the number of recoveries remains unchanged from the ...

Some former Ministers, as well as Members of Parliament, who served the country under the J.A. Kufuor administration, are demanding salary arrears of GH¢29.7m from the Government of Ghana. The Forum for Former Members of Parliament (FFMP) in their letter to Frema Osei Opare, the Chief of Staff demanded that in consonance with the principle of fairness and equity, “it is only appropriate ...

The Electoral Commission (EC) has in a no holds-barred statement punctured numerous holes in the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) press conference last week which sought to throw spanners in the works of the commission. By the time the commission had exhausted the bullet point treatment of the NDC’s whining accusations, it had succeeded in describing the opposition statement as ...