POLITICS

Former President John Dramani Mahama was in church Sunday, November 24, at Adutor EP in South Tongu Constituency, Volta region. In a facebook post, the National Democratic Congress flagbearer said he was happy to be part of the church’s 75th anniversary and to have met Rev. Dr Seth Senyo Agidi, moderator of the EP Church, one he described as a friend. Sounding religious, Mr Mahama urged ...

The founder and leader of Glorious Word Power Ministry International, Rev Isaac Owusu Bempah is likely to vote ‘Yes’ in the impending December referendum. The controversial man of God in an interview with NEAT FM’s morning show ‘Ghana Montie’ noted that government’s stance on the referendum is what must be preached to the public . He was unhappy with the ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has appealed to the government of Nigeria to open its Seme-Krake, Igolo and Idiroko borders it unilaterally closed since August to some West African Countries. According to Mr Mahama “the total closure of, especially, the Benin border is having a significant toll on many small and medium businesses especially in Togo, Ghana and Cote D’Ivoire that ...

Former Deputy Minister of Transport, Mrs Joyce Bawa Mogtari has said she is more than qualified to have been a substantial minister in the erstwhile administration of Mr John Mahama, to whom she has familial ties. In the lawyer’s view, her appointment by President John Mahama at the time cannot be described as nepotism contrary to what the governing New ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC), has disclosed that the party will not announce a running mate for the party’s flagbearer until 2020. National Chairman for the party, Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, speaking on Asempa FM on Wednesday, disclosed that the party would only announce a running mate for the flagbearer during the election year. ‘We don’t elect running mates outside election years; ...

MP for Ketu South Constituency, Fifi Kwetey, has accused Railways Minister, Joe Ghartey, for merely claiming credit for things he only got the opportunity to build on because of his predecessors; the NDC government. He is only ‘building railways in his mouth’, he said, during a public forum on the 2020 Budget Wednesday, November 20. According to him, it was ...

Veteran journalist, Kwesi Pratt, has expressed fear that the 2020 general election is likely to be characterized by violence, if stringent steps are not taken to ‘sanitize the Electoral Commission”. He says the conduct of the 2020 elections could have significant consequences for the democratic trajectory of the country if characters like Dr Eric Bossman Asare remain in office. The ...

The Minister for Regional Reorganisation and Development Dan Kwaku Botwe has called for the cancellation of the December 17 referendum which is to decide whether political parties should sponsor candidates in district level elections. “Why should we spend money on referendum when there is rains and roads and we cannot make roads. Why should we waste so much money on ...

The trial of the National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, and a Communications officer of the NDC, Anthony Kwaku Boahen, has been set for the 18th of December 2019. The two NDC officials have been charged in respect of the infamous leaked tape and are being tried at a Commercial Court in Accra presided over by ...

Some 170 suspects have been arrested in a joint security operation code-named Koudanlgou III near the Ghana-Togo borders to stop planned terrorist activities and other criminal moves. “The exercise is aimed at preventing terrorist activities, illegal resource extraction, drug trafficking, dealing in illicit arms, smuggling, among other transnational crimes,” Ghana’s National Security Minister Albert Kan-Dapaah said in a statement. According ...