POLITICS

The Volta Regional Secretariat of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is calling for the dismissal of Prof. Kwabena Frimpong Boateng and Mr. John Peter Amewu, Ministers for Lands and Natural Resources and Energy and Petroleum respectively over the missing 500 excavators’ saga. The call comes after Professor Kwabena Frimpong Boateng publicly announced that some 500 excavators that were seized from ...

The embattled Central Regional 1st Vice Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Ekow Ewusi, has dropped a staggering revelation in a petition to the Director-General of Bureau of National Investigations to as a matter of urgency institute investigations into “seized and movable logistics” by the Inter-Ministerial Committee on illegal Mining and its activities. According to Mr. Ewusi in ...

The government will organise a town hall meeting in Kumasi tomorrow to give an account of its performance in office so far. The event which is expected to be headlined by Vice President Dr Mahamadu Bawumia will showcase what the government describes as its achievements and the fulfillment of its campaign promises and commitments to Ghanaians. Dubbed Town Hall Meeting ...

The Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu has begun probing the Airbus scandal. The probe begun on February 4 2020. In a press statement, Mr. Amidu said there is a reasonable suspicion of corruption in the Airbus scandal. President Nana Akufo-Addo referred the matter to the Office of the Special Prosecutor after court documents from the UK and the US found Airbus ...

Two more people have picked nomination forms to contest the Agona West Parliamentary Primaries of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to select a candidate for December 7 general election. They are Engineer Yawson Otoo and Mr Samuel Kweku Obodai, third -time former MP for Agona West and Former Deputy Central Regional Minister under President J. A. Kufuor’s government. This brings ...

The Nabdam District Assembly has secured a piece of land for the construction of a district hospital to improve health service delivery. The Assembly, collaborated effectively with major stakeholders in the district including chiefs and opinion leaders to secure the land and it is presently making efforts to ensure that the hospital project comes to fruition. Madam Agnes Anamoo, the ...

Peace A. Aryee, the National Women’s Leader of the National Democratic Party (NDP) says the Party is ready to take up power in the 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections. She said the NDP, an anti-corruption Party was aware of all the happenings in the country and was boldly taking action to rescue the country. The National Women’s Leader who was ...

Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central constituency, Kennedy Agyapong wants the Akufo-Addo government to openly admit that its fight against illegal mining otherwise known as ‘galamsey’ has been a complete failure. According to him, the campaign never achieved the needed results as was espoused. He has also accused some greedy elements in the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM) ...

Suspended Central Regional Vice-Chairman of the NPP, Horace Ekow Ewusi who was supposedly arrested by the police over 500 missing excavators used for illegal mining popularly known as ‘galamsey’ has been spotted in a popular pub in Accra celebrating his ‘release’ from CID. Ekow Ewusi became a subject of interest after some 500 excavators got missing from the depots. He ...

Member of Parliament(MP) for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, has accused business mogul and Chairman of McDan Shipping, Daniel McKorley, of milking deals from the New Patriotic Party when he did not contribute to NPP’s fight for power, MyNewsGh.com reports. McDan last year received a license to manage and operate the executive lounge for private jets at the new Terminal 3 ...