POLITICS

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, will from Monday, 3rd February to Tuesday, 4th February 2020, embark on a two-day working visit of the Savannah and Upper West Regions. Beginning from the Savannah Region, the President will pay a courtesy call on the Kpembewura, Banbange Ndafoso IV, and inspect rehabilitated works at the Salaga Water System at Salaga, in the Salaga ...

The bribery scandal involving Airbus, Europe’s largest aerospace multinational, has opened a whole conversation on the corruption subject involving the former president and current flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama. According to The Guardian of the UK, Airbus was found guilty by a High Court in London for paying huge bribes to secure contracts during ...

A leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Sheila Bartels successfully picked up her nomination forms on January 29 at the Ablekuma North NPP office. This will not come as a surprise to many of her patriots as Mrs Bartels has on many other platforms expressed her willingness and ability to use this opportunity to unify the party and ...

Former President John Mahama has described the fanfare that has accompanied the distribution of ambulances by President Akufo-Addo as a misplaced priority. According to him, the government should have focused on completing the various hospitals started under him instead of putting a hold on them upon winning power. Addressing Ghanaians in his second Facebook Live video, Mr. Mahama urged the ...

Flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress, John Mahama, has reminded Vice President Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia of the series of lectures he gave on how to appropriately manage the economy in a run-up to the 2016 elections. At most of the lectures, Dr. Bawumia accused John Mahama of failing to understand the basics of running an economy. “I would ...

Some members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) last Tuesday picketted at the Central Regional offices of the Electoral Commission (EC) to protest the compilation of a new voters register. Clad mostly in red, the protesters held placards some of which read “The new register is a waste”, ” we are for peace” “let’s all protect the public purse” ...

The Eminent Advisory Committee (EAC) of the Electoral Commission (EC) has urged political parties to support the EC in the compilation of the new voters’ register to ensure smooth and transparent elections in December. In a statement signed by Sylvia Annor, acting Director of Public Affairs of the EC, the group urged all political parties to, as a matter of ...

The meeting organised by the eminent advisory committee with political parties and the electoral commission to find solutions to the voters’ register impasse has ended in a stalemate. The parties and the commission once again failed to settle on an amicable solution on whether the nation requires new voters register for the December polls. As tension engulfed the meeting, Starr ...

At a time he has compelled Ghanaians to pay more taxes to his government, President Akufo-Addo has offered a tax exemption of $23,983,033.43 to a company called Platinum Properties Limited (PPL) to put up a hotel facility in Accra. PPL is a Special Purpose Vehicle owned and controlled by Inter-Afrique Holding Limited(IAHL) set up to put up the hotel facility ...

Earlier today, January 30, 2020, over Six hundred delegates of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai Constituency converged at the Party’s Office to pick a nomination form for Mr. Alfred Obeng-Boateng, popularly called APPROACHERS to contest for the Party’s Parliamentary slot. The triumphant entry to the party’s office saw Electoral Area Coordinators, Polling Station Executives, Former Constituency and ...