POLITICS

Deputy National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress [NDC], Kwaku Boahen, has cautioned Chairperson of the Electoral Commission [EC], Jean Mensa, that she can be removed from office same way as her predecessor, Charlotte Osei when the NDC regains power in 2020. He said the EC’s boss, Jean Mensa should see herself as exhibiting the same reasons that led ...

The Founder and Chief Executive of the Atta Mills Foundation, Mr Koku Anyidoho, yesterday filed a complaint at the Cyber Crime Unit of the Ghana Police Criminal Investigation Department (CID) about the existence of a fake Facebook account in his name. Speaking to journalists after submitting a written statement to the police, Mr Anyidoho denied the account and said, “these ...

The Agona West constituency chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kojo Addo, who the Police say has been invited over the missing excavators’ saga has denied receiving an invitation from the state security agency. According to him, the statement from the police was part of a grand scheme to frame the suspended deputy Central regional chair of the NPP ...

The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, on Thursday visited The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Accra. The visit and interaction with the Africa West Area Presidency of the Latter-Day Saints Church is part of the ongoing consultative meetings Mr. Mahama and the NDC are holding with various groupings and stakeholders ahead of ...

The leadership of the Western North NDC woke up to a bizarre and stupid release emanating from faceless and coward elements purporting to be Concern Youth Of Sefwi Wiawso NDC demanding for an extra ordinary congress to change our flag bearer. Though very unfortunate, we are not so astonished bearing in mind the kind of people we are dealing with ...

Executive Director of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) Dr Prince Hamid Armah has picked nomination forms to contest the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary primaries in his native Kwesimintsim. He arrived at the party office on Thursday in the company of hundreds of supporters, including delegates who had contributed to enable him to purchase the forms, priced ...

The Speaker of Ghana’s Parliament, Professor Mike Oquaye, has urged the World Bank and the developed world to accept the fact that most African nations abhor homosexuality. According to Prof. Oquaye who doubles as a pastor, the practice of tying aids to the recognition of gay rights and marriages in Africa is unhealthy. Speaking during a courtesy call by the ...

The incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) for Adansi Asokwa Constituency in the Ashanti region Kwabena Tahiru Hammond known in Politics as K.T Hammond is seeking support from traditional leaders of Adansi to stop Mr Sammy Binfo Dakwa from contesting him in the upcoming parliamentary primaries of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP). The Adansihemaa Nana Amanimaa Dade II reportedly invited ...

The governing New Patriotic Party has defended the minister of Environment, Science and Innovation Prof Frimpong Boateng in the raging missing excavators scandal. The minister in a viral video is head discussion ways to allocate concessions to members of the NPP ostensibly to raise funds for the party. The party’s General Secretary John Boadu and Ashanti regional minister Wontumi are ...

The Minority in Parliament is questioning the cost of a 60MW facility at ‘a whopping US$366 million.’ The facility forms part of the construction of the Pwalugu Multi-purpose dam project. The facility, together with an irrigation component of the dam is estimated to cost the Ghanaian taxpayer close to a billion dollars. According to the minority, the outrageous cost of ...