POLITICS

Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central Kennedy Agyapong is full of praise for colleague lawmakers, Samuel Okuzeto Ablakwa and Sam Nartey George for the show of maturity in their recent political discourse. The controversial New Patriotic Party (NPP) firebrand observed that the duo have exhibited themselves in a manner that is worthy of praise and should be an example ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary Candidate for the Essikadu-Ketan Constituency in the Western Region, Dr. Grace Ayensu-Danquah, has observed that the constituency is currently in what she describes as Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and will need sheer tactfulness, alas it dies. She claims Essikadu-Ketan has for the past 16 years been stifled of much-needed development and as a result ...

The National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo has taken a jab at Vice President Dr Bawumia over his exclusion from the committee to look into the causes of the depreciation of the cedi and propose solutions to the problem. “You will recall that Dr Bawumia once said that they have the best economic team. Now the ...

“I had been admiring and respecting this young guy for all that while until his pronouncement yesterday…… in fact I had thought that guy was a presidential material not knowing he is not,” these were words of John Sterlin, the Progressive People’s Party’s (PPP) 2016 parliamentary candidate for the Komenda Edina Eguafo Abrem (KEEA) constituency, directed to Mr Jacob Osei ...

Economist Kwame Pianim has said the banking and financial crises that have caused customers to either lose some or all of their deposits and investments as a result of the Bank of Ghana’s revocation of the licences of nine local banks, 347 microfinance firms, 23 savings & loans and some finance houses, as well as the Securities and Exchange Commission’s ...

The General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party, John Boadu, has dared NDC members to boycott the new voter registration if they are against the compilation. According to him, elections and registration are not compulsory so the NDC can stay on the old register if they believe the new one is unnecessary and needless. Speaking on ‘Face to Face’ show ...

As the Member of Parliament (MP) for Navrongo Central Constituency in the Upper East Region, Joseph Kofi Adda, prepares earnestly to retain his seat, he has accused his constituency executivesof greed and ungratefulness. The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) on Monday January 20, 2020 opened nominations for both presidential and parliamentary aspirants ahead of the 2020 general elections. For the ...

President Akufo Addo has told investors in the United Kingdom that Ghana wants to participate in the Global Market place fully with Ghanaian products in order to build a nation that will be able to provide jobs for her people. Addressing attendees of the Ghana Investment and Opportunity Summitt 2020 in London, the capital of the United Kingdom, under the ...

Former Legislator for La-Dade Kotopon Constituency, Nii Amasah Namoale, has described as ”useless and needless”, an FX Development Committee, set up by the government to investigate the fall of the local currency. Namoale said the institution of the Committee is a waste of time since they are not likely to proffer any better solution to the cedi’s depreciation against the ...

The Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo Maafo and four officials from the Ministry of Finance – Michael Ayesu, Abraham Kofi Tawia, Eva Mends, Patrick Nomo – have filed contempt proceedings at an Accra High Court against the Auditor-General, Daniel Yao Domelevo, for failing to file in court the documents based on which they were surcharged. The Applicants last year filed an ...