POLITICS

The Member of Parliament for Nsawam-Adoagyiri, Mr Frank Annoh-Dompreh, has said he has absolutely nothing to do with the removal of a billboard advert of New Patriotic Party flag bearer aspirant Kennedy Agyapong contrary to the avalanche of social media accusations levelled against him as the brain behind it. He told the parliamentary press corps that he first heard of ...

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is in a pole position to sweep the votes in Saturday’s super delegates conference of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), the Centre for Sustainable African Development Initiatives, UK, has predicted. A report by the group, following a survey on the outcome of the conference and who is likely to make the Top 5, revealed that ...

Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia has said although he has not been president before, he has contributed so much to Ghana’s development through the Akufo-Addo government. Addressing stakeholders of the governing New Patriotic Party in Donkorkrom, Afram Plains North constituency last Saturday, Dr. Bawumia said: “I am always driven by public service, not the desire for personal gains”. “It is the ...

Army chiefs from West African countries have been urged to remain loyal to their heads of state and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) during discussions aimed at restoring democracy in crisis-hit Niger. Addressing an extraordinary meeting of army chiefs in Accra on Thursday and Friday, Ghana’s Minister of Defence, Dominic Nitiwul asked the military leaders to send ...

The Chair of the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC), Jean Adukwei Mensa, insists that the use of only the national identification (ID) card, popularly known as Ghana Card, for registration is the surest way to ensure the integrity of Ghana’s voter register. According to her, the Commission will not back down on its proposal to have only the Ghana Card as ...

Former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has expressed his disagreement with the decision by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to deploy a standby force for military intervention in Niger following the recent coup. Speaking to the Youth Bridge Foundation’s Communications and Advocacy Manager, Thomas Adotei Pappoe, during the 15th African Youth and Governance Convergence in Mankessim, Ghana, President ...

The Financial Crimes High Court, presided over by Justice Edward Twum, is set to deliver its ruling on Thursday, 31 August 2023 regarding the special prosecutor’s attempt to freeze the assets of former Sanitation Minister Cecilia Dapaah. The office of the special prosecutor filed the application in a bid to confirm the freezing of two accounts owned by Ms Dapaah. ...

Organised Labour has voiced its rejection of the government’s proposal to implement a Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) during next year’s salary negotiations for public sector employees. COLA, an interim measure designed to offer relief when immediate salary adjustments are unfeasible, has been met with scepticism by Organised Labour, which argues that it would not positively impact pension disbursements and ...

Founding President of Imani Africa Mr Franklin Cudjoe has said that the arguments that civil society groups made against the Agyapa deal were not before the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court of Justice. To that end, he has asked the public to ignore the ‘noise’ being made about the verdict of the court that there was nothing ...

Dr John Kumah, Deputy Minister of Finance, has urged the flagbearer hopeful of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Kennedy Agyapong, to maintain his focus and refrain from making him (John Kumah) the central theme of his campaign. Dr Kumah, representing the Ejisu Constituency in the Ashanti Region, responded to Mr Agyapong’s recent revelation that his comment about a certain ...