POLITICS

Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Sulemana Braimah has mocked the Akufo-Addo led government for failing to ‘pass’ the Corruption Perception Index, MyNewsGh.com reports. Ghana scored 41 points out of 100 on the 2019 Corruption Perceptions Index reported by Transparency International in its latest rankings Corruption Index in Ghana averaged 38.95 Points from 1998 until 2019, ...

Auditor-General(A-G) Daniel Yao Domelovo is pleading with the Senior Minister Yaw Osafo-Maafo for more time to access, collate and file evidence and documents he claims to have based his purported disallowance and surcharge decision on against Osafo-Maafo and four other eminent public officers. Mr. Domelovo has refused to file the said documents in the high court 14 days after service ...

Professor Kwesi Yankah, a minister of state in charge of Tertiary Education, has advocated that local languages be made to be used in all the district assemblies of Ghana. According to him, that would enable all assembly members (both formally educated and non formally educated) to express themselves at the floor of the assemblies during sittings. “What I’m saying is ...

The inauguration of the newly elected assemblymembers were to start at exactly 2:00pm but due to the delay of the Hon.Martha kwayie the DCE for Juaboso and the deputy Regional Minister Hon. Alex Tettey the programme started at exactly 4:20pm after some invited Nananom have make their way home after their long waiting at around 1:30pm. Begining the programme Hon ...

The Electoral Commission (EC) says it is ready to implement the Representation of the Peoples Amendment Act (ROPAL). The Act which seeks to provide an opportunity for Ghanaians living abroad to vote in general elections in Ghana was passed by Parliament twelve years ago. However, the EC has not been able to implement the law, citing the lack of the ...

The Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa District Assembly has appealed to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to assist it write-off a GHC27,000 loan facility it had given to farmers in the district. At an average of GHC120 per head, the debtors have been able to pay GHC274,000 of the GHC301,700 loans the Assembly gave them in 2013, leaving a balance of GHC27,000. The amount, ...

A member of the Public Accounts Committee and MP for Komenda Edina Eguafo Abrem Samuel Atta Mills says Ghana’s latest ranking on the 2019 Corruption Perception Index is an embarrassment to the Akufo-Addo government. Ghana ranked 80 out of 180 countries and territories included in the 2019 Corruption Perception Index. The Index put together by Transparency International ranks countries annually ...

Deputy Minister of Communication and Member of Parliament for the Awutu Senya West Constituency, George Andah has narrated how God sent to him an ‘aboboyaa’ rider in the middle of nowhere to save his life in an accident he suffered in the latter part of 2018. Recounting the rather harrowing experience he and others with him at the time of ...

Award-winning freelance investigative journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni has stated that the National Democratic Congress(NDC) has no moral right to criticise the handling of ambulances by the New Patriotic Party(NPP), saying that their handling of ambulances was much worse and their messages on the ambulance controversy could prolong their days in opposition. Manasseh’s comments are a reaction to NDC’s National Chairman ...

A Facebook imposter pretending to be Ghana’s Finance Minister, Honourable Ken Ofori-Atta, has been given a 12-month prison sentence with hard labour. On Wednesday, January 22, Nuetey Latif Ahinguah, also known as Oliver and Emmanuel Asare, appeared before the Kaneshie Magistrate court in Accra for defrauding by false pretences. According to an official document, Ahinguah and his accomplices began creating ...