POLITICS

Some officials at the Ministry of Energy are raising concerns over what they say is the  World bank’s attempts to delay the approval of a $500m loan in order to force the government into buying $5bn worth of expensive gas from the Sankofa gas field. The concern, according to Ministry sources, is due to the world bank being a major ...

President Akufo-Addo has defended the appointment of his cousin Ken Ofori Atta as Finance Minister asking why his critics were silent when the same was leading fundraising efforts during the 2016 elections. The president was responding to critics, led by the opposition National Democratic Congress who says he has appointed his family and friends into his government after he promised ...

The Vice President of the Republic, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, on Sunday, 15th December 2019, inspected ongoing works at the site for the third medical drone delivery service at Kukua near Walewale in the North East Region. When completed in January 2020, the facility will host the largest warehouse under the drone programme and immediately serve 60 health facilities, with an ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has admonished Muslim youth across the country to be wary of irresponsible politicians who may want to use them to perpetrate acts of violence in the run-up to the 2020 elections. Speaking at the inauguration of the Tijanniya Muslim Council of Ghana at Trade Fair Centre, President Akufo-Addo urged Muslim youth to take the guidance ...

IMANI, in a latest assessment of the promises made by President Nana Akufo-Addo in the run-up to the 2016 elections concluded that only 48.78 percent of the promises have been fulfilled. The report further indicated out of the 510 promises made by government, only 27 per cent of them have been fully fulfilled, with 21.75 per cent partially fulfilled. However, ...

The First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Hon Joe Osei Owusu has given the reason as to why President Akufo-Addo has settled on Justice Anin-Yeboah to become the next Chief Justice though Justice Jones Victor Mawulorm Dotse is senior at the bench. “They were classmates, they were appointed to the bench the same day, the court of appeal on the same ...

Outspoken Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, is elated at President Nana Akufo-Addo’s choice of new Chief Justice. According to him, his confidence in the judiciary has been restored with Chief Justice nominee, Justice Anin-Yeboah at the helm of affairs. “I had lost hope in the judiciary but with this new Chief Justice, I’m confident now because ...

Minister for Information and Member of Parliament for Ofoase-Ayerebi constituency, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah, wants President Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo lauded for his fight against corruption. According to him, though the fight has not been won entirely, he believes that the strides he has chalked in the corruption fight are unprecedented. Speaking on Okay FM’s ‘Ade Akye Abia’ program, he intimated that ...

Monumentally influential member of the governing New Patriotic Party( NPP), Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko has blamed his much-criticized comment that the bar for the measure of integrity, which won the Auditor General the prize as the Integrity Personality of the Year on a misleading report by Joy FM. Following the award of the Integrity Personality of the Year to Auditor General ...

John Mahama has never had a message and policies for the good people of Ghana. In 2012, the death of Prof. Mills and the sympathy associated with it in a way gave Mahama the urge over then candidate Akufo-Addo. Regardless, the 2012 was won by Mahama through electoral irregularities and rigging as exposed by Election Petition Case. The 2012 message ...