POLITICS

The only lesson former President John Mahama has learnt after about three years in opposition is that he has learnt “new stealing skills” for Ghana’s public purse. This is according to outspoken Member of Parliament for Assin Central Kennedy Agyapong who is of the opinion that “NDC has a bad mind” and is coming to steal more. Readers of MyNewsGH.com ...

The local government ministry has responded to some 21 questions directed at government by the Chamber of local governance (ChLoG) over the upcoming referendum. It comes in the wake of the confusion that has heralded the December 17 referendum on whether political parties should be allowed to sponsor candidates in local level elections. Below are the questions and answers as ...

Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo-Marfo, who has been surcharged by the Auditor General over his One Million Dollar contract to the Kroll Associates to trace assets of appointees of the Mahama administration, has sparked a war between the Akufo-Addo government, the Catholic Bishops and 20 Civil Society Organizations (CSO), having deployed the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) to do his ...

The National Zongo Caucus of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has called on Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and the entire governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) to render an unqualified apology to the National Chief Imam, Shaikh Dr Osman Nuhu Sharubutu for the “embarrassment” caused him during the Maulid – the celebration of the birth of Prophet Mohammed (S.A.W). ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC), has called on the president, to with immediate effect, order the arrest of the Senior Minster, Yaw Osafo Maafo for breaching the Procurement Act. At a news conference in Accra, Monday, the General Secretary of the party, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, said the President should do this to demonstrate that no one is above the law ...

Interesting details are emerging about how Charles Kormi Kudzordzi, also known as Papavi, has applied an assortment of tricks to push his so-called Western Togoland agenda. When he was arrested alongside some members of the Home Study Group Foundation (HSGF) and airlifted to Accra, he cut the picture of a frail old man hardly able to walk and relying heavily ...

Member of Parliament for Klottey-Korley Constituency, Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings says that the implementation of the Free Senior High School policy will reduce the quality of graduates produced in second cycle institutions. Speaking in Ho at an orientation and handing over ceremony for the Tertiary Educational Institutions Network (TEIN) of the NDC in the Volta Region, she said “it’s not only about ...

The North Tongu has condemned moves by members of the Homeland Study Group Foundation (HSGF) to secede a portion of Ghana and become the ‘Western Togoland’. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa described the secession move as an insult to the history of Ghana and urged people in the demarcated area not to support the balkanisation move led by octogenarian Kwame Kudzordjie. The ...

The Central Police Command in the Ashanti regional capital Kumasi has commenced investigations into the missing sidearm of the police bodyguard of Railway minister Joe Ghartey. The minister and his bodyguard filed a complaint at Adum police station over the stolen weapon which was loaded with 10 rounds ammunition. The minister and his bodyguard were in Ashanti region for official ...

Before President John Evans Atta-Mills died, his Vice-President, John Dramani Mahama, had written his resignation letter, The Ghana Report can exclusively reveal. His decision to resign as Ghana’s Vice-President was as a result of endless frustration he suffered at the hands of some presidential staffers and ministers of state in the President Mills administration. Mahama was routinely treated with disrespect ...