POLITICS

A political Science Lecturer at the KNUST, Dr. Kwesi Amakye Boateng says there is nothing wrong with Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia’s response to former President John Mahama’s recent comments because the former President has been doing politics with the COVID-19 pandemic. After setting a team of NDC members christened NDC COVID-19 Team parallel to the government’s response team, former President ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted leave of extension of time to enable the Attorney General (AG) respond to a motion filed by Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, the Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). The five-member panel, chaired by the Chief Justice, Mr Kwasi Anin Yeboah, gave the AG two weeks to study the motion filed by the applicant and ...

A seven-member panel of the Supreme Court presided over by Chief Justice Anin Yeboah will today deliver judgement in the suit against the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta, on the issuance of a $2.25 billion bond. This was after the apex court had earlier refused an application from the Commission of Human Rights and Administrative Justice seeking leave to amend ...

Former deputy Finance Minister Cassiel Ato Forson has urged Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia to desist from comparing data on the performance of the Mahama administration and the current one since the Akufo-Addo government has been abysmal. According to him, the plethora of unfulfilled promises by the Akufo-Addo administration and the ballooning national debt makes them lose credibility before Ghanaians. “Now, ...

Prof Kwamena Ahwoi has chastised Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia for politicizing the novel Coronavirus pandemic and comparing it to the dumsor crisis. According to him, the vice president in his recent comments made a terrible political judgement in comparing the two crises which had befallen the country. Prof Ahwoi said, “We are in the middle of a crisis. We don’t know ...

There appears to be a bloody fight between incumbent Member of Parliament for Dome-Kwabenya, Sarah Adwoa-Safo and her contender for the NPP parliamentary ticket, Mike Oquaye Jnr. Adwoa Safo in a media report had purportedly issued a public plea to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) national executive to step into an ongoing fracas that has engulfed the Constituency ahead of ...

Plans by the Electoral Commission (EC) to compile a new voters’ register for this year’s general election have left members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) anxious, with relentless ‘negativity’ and ‘a skewed view’ about the exercise. The Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, has confirmed that the biggest opposition party is living in ‘uncertainty’ about the register the EC will ...

Member of Parliament for Dome Kwabenya has issued a public plea to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) national executive to step into an ongoing fracas that has engulfed the Constituency ahead of the parliamentary primary. The national party, the MP warned, need to call for an order before the chaos that has erupted in the constituency lead to fatalities. Hon. ...

Incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) for New Juaben South, Dr. Mark Assibey-Yeboah has reportedly sent a series of emissaries to the Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Free Zones Authority, Michael Okyere Baafi to step down from contesting him in the upcoming NPP’s primaries. Various groups and persons outside New Juaben South have made appeals on behalf of Dr. Assibey-Yeboah ...

Former Deputy General Secretary for the National Democratic Congress (NDCs), Koku Anyidoho, is bent on exposing top some NDC officials for a wicked plot against him. According to him, some top persons in the NDC hierarchy are plotting to create fake Facebook accounts to destroy him. Koku Anyidoho disclosed that he will be doing a press conference very soon to ...