POLITICS

The Cape Coast South Chairperson for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has predicted that the Central Region will decide who becomes the flagbearer for the 2024 elections. Madam Caroline Ewusi said just as the Region has been the decider for who becomes the president of Ghana over the years, it will again be the decider for who becomes the flagbearer ...

Lecturer and economist at the University of Ghana Economics Department, Dr Adu Owusu Sarkodie cannot fathom how Ghana is touted as the number one gold producer in Africa, but struggles to raise funds to finance a flagship policy. Propagating the need to seek financing from elsewhere, Dr Adu-Sarkodie maintained that government ought to face the problems associated with the free ...

Adaklu Member of Parliament Kwame Governs Agbodza has written on the Tamale Airport redevelopment project as Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia opened the new Tamale International Airport on Tuesday, August 22. This infrastructure project supported by the UK Government through UK Export Finance (UKEF) in Ghana is expected to increase connectivity across the country and the West African region as ...

Former Rector of the Ghana Institue of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) Professor Stephen Adei has said that he is an avid supporter of the free senior high school (Free SHS) programme. As a beneficiary of free education during the Nkrumah era, he said, every Ghanaian should be able to access education up to the high school level and not ...

Former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) Professor Stephen Adei has dismissed assertions that the introduction of the Free Senior High School Policy is the cause of the current economic problems. He says no one should ever point to the Policy as the cause of the current crisis. “The Free SHS is not the cause ...

The Akufo-Addo government has not demonstrated seriousness to the fight against corruption, former General Secretary of the Ghana Christian Council, Rev Dr Kwabena Opuni Frimpong, has said. Similarly, he said past governments did not show any commitment to fighting graft. Speaking about a recent admonishing by Senior Presidential Advisor Yaw Osafo Maafo to the church about festering corruption and illegal ...

In a recent survey conducted by Outcomes International Ghana and the Center for Sustainable African Development Initiatives (C-SADI) UK, Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is projected to emerge victorious in the special delegates’ elections of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) with a commanding 72.6% lead. The study, which aimed to predict the qualifying candidates for the NPP presidential primaries scheduled ...

A total of 249 people are set to start working as per­manent staff of the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) effective September 2023. “The development is a signif­icant milestone as the office op­erated without permanent staff since its establishment in 2018,” a report issued by the Special Prosecutor, Mr Kissi Agyebeng and copied the Ghanaian Times has stated. The ...

Former Minister of Communications Dr Edward Omane Boamah has said any decision by the government of Ghana to support the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) with troops to tackle the coup situation in Niger will show that the sufferings of Ghanaians are because of poor priorities of the government. Ghana’s Parliament is reported to have thrown its weight ...

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Asutifi South, Mr Collins Dauda, has called for an end to discrimination against people bearing Northern names during voter registration exercises. Speaking at the 40th-anniversary celebration of the enskinment of the head of the Wangara tribe in the Ashanti Region, he said some people bearing northern names always face challenges during voter registration exercises. ...