POLITICS

Vice President Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia has cut sod for the inner roads construction project in the Cape Coast metropolis. The project which forms part of the Syno-Hydro partnership agreement between the Chinese Government and the Government of Ghana will see 30,000 km of roads being constructed in Cape Coast. Beneficiary communities are Basakrom, Kwapraw, Apewosika,Dankwakrom, Ayifua ,Abura and Academy of ...

Following the successful discovery of a new oil field, the two major political parties, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and New Patriotic Party (NPP), have started engaging in who did what for the discovery. A Ghanaian oil company, Springfield Exploration and Production Limited (SEP), has worked to find some 1.2 billion barrels of oil in the West Cape Three Points ...

A former deputy Finance Minister Fiifi Kwetey says the constant blame directed at the erstwhile Mahama administration by the Akufo-Addo government is a sign of incompetence. According to him, the Mahama administration left Ghana in a good financial state especially the ability to resolve the energy crisis which affected many Ghanaian businesses. “It is only an irresponsible, incompetent, lazy group ...

The Regional Reorganisation and Development Minister has proposed a total withdrawal of the December 17 referendum over what he said are attacks on President Akufo-Addo’s person. Dan Kwaku Botwe is convinced some persons are unjustifiably hurling invectives at the President over government-backed ‘YES’ campaign for an upcoming referendum. The December 17 referendum seeks to amend the law to enable Metropolitan, ...

Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt, has urged political parties in the country to agitate for what he described as the “sanitization of the Electoral Commission”. Sharing his thoughts on Dr Bossman Asare’s call for a ‘Yes’ vote in the impending referendum, Mr Pratt said it is about time political parties took steps to get rid of characters ...

A former Deputy Finance Minister, Fifi Fiavi Kwetey, has said the Akufo-Addo administration inherited a strong economy with two additional oil fields yet the government claims it inherited a weak economy. The MP for Ketu South Constituency also said that the opposition National Democratic Congress’ administration bequeathed an economy free from energy crisis to the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) ...

Former Governor of the Bank of Ghana and Finance Minister Dr. Kwabena Duffuor has rejected claims suggesting he was part of financiers of the 2016 election campaign of the incumbent NPP. A news story published by mynewsgh.com alleged that the founder of defunct Unibank had been dropped from the candidates for running mates for NDC flagbearer John Mahama because he ...

The presidential candidate of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) in the December 2012 polls, Dr Abu Sakara Foster, has urged the Electoral Commission (EC) and the Ghanaian authorities to halt the upcoming 17 December 2019 referendum entirely. Dr Foster is against political parties taking part in the election of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs). The amendment of Article ...

The Minority in Parliament has raised red flags over the government’s allocation of GH¢6 million in the 2020 budget on government communication. The GH¢6 million allocations for government communication is under the budgetary allocation of GH¢7, 763, 668, 451.00 for the Agric Ministry. Taking his turn for the 2020 budget debate, minority spokesperson on Food, Agriculture and Cocoa Affairs, Eric ...

The People’s National Convention (PNC) has declared it is backing the ‘NO’ campaign in the upcoming December 17, Referendum. The party is one of the country’s smaller opposition parties. The National Chairman of the party, Bernard Mornah says among other things, introducing partisan politics at the district assemblies and lower government units would make Ghana’s democracy more expensive than it ...