POLITICS

The Speaker of Parliament has ordered the Clerk Office of the House to check temperatures of MPs and visitors in Parliament in the wake of coronavirus scare. Prof. Mike Oquaye also admonished Members of Parliament to avoid handshaking and make good use of hand sanitizers installed at vantage points in Parliament. The Speaker also urged the MPs to adopt the ...

First prosecution witness in the case of the Republic versus Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo and another, Benjamin Osei Ampofo Adjei, a staff of Multimedia Group (Adom FM), says he stands by his witness statement which has been adopted by the Court because after reading same, he can confirm that it captures exactly what he told the police. The prosecution witness took this ...

Three Ghanaian citizens, Elikem Kotoko, Stephen Kwabena Attuh and Issifu Seidu Kudus Gbeadese, have petitioned UN Secretary-General António Guterres to remove President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo from the Eminent Group of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Advocates as a Co-Chair. According to the petition, the president is complicit in the resurgence of illegal small-scale mining (galamsey) in Ghana, which has proven ...

A former Deputy Minister of Communications  Felix Kwakye Ofosu says Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia appears to be excited and content over little and mundane achievements. Dr Bawumia has been touted by many as the ‘digital man’ for his initiatives to digitise Ghana’s economy. He has been credited for the introduction of paperless transactions at the various ports in the ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 addressed the country on the measures put in place to enhance Ghana’s coronavirus preparedness and response plan. Already, all of Ghana’s immediate neighbours [Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire and Togo], have recorded confirmed cases of infections, and countries like Italy, where there is a large population of Ghanaians, have escalated their ...

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has dismissed claims by the Special Initiatives Ministry that the NDC visited uncompleted dams in the Northern region during its Moment of Truth press conference. According to the NDC, all the dams visited by the party were dams that the government had declared completed and had been used by farmers during the rainy season ...

Members of the Ashanti Regional Youth Wing of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) have vowed to ensure the electoral defeat of the Member of Parliament for Adansi Asokwa, Kwabena Tahir Hammond, in the governing New Patriotic Party’s parliamentary primaries. Mr K.T Hammond, in a recent interview, lashed out at the party’s Ashanti Regional Chairman, Mr Bernard Antwi Boasiako (Chairman ...

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has taken disciplinary action against its National Secretary Murtala Mohammed for suggesting that the party supports the compilation of a new voters register. Murtala Mohammed is reported to have attacked Imani Africa’s Franklin Cudjoe for kicking against the new register adding that the PPP supports the EC in its quest to compile the new register ...

Over four hundred polling station executives of the ruling New Patriotic Party in the Akropong Constituency of the Eastern Region are to petition the National Executives of the Party over the disqualification of Philip Addison and William Agyei Twumasi from the Parliamentary primaries leaving the incumbent Member of Parliament Nana Ama Dokua Asiamah to go unopposed. The two were part ...

Former Central Regional Chairman of the largest opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) and now Social Commentator, Bernanrd Allotey Jacobs, has disclosed a hidden agenda of some kingpins within the opposition party. Contributing to a panel discussion on Peace FM’s morning show ‘Kokrokoo’ Wednesday morning, Bernard Allotey Jacobs said there are some people surrounding former President John Mahama who were against ...