POLITICS

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) says its manifesto for the 2020 elections will be centred on identifying problems that affect the Ghanaian people and find pragmatic ways of fixing them. According to the party, its policy document will also be devoid of what it termed as ‘comic slogans’. Speaking to Citi News, Deputy General Secretary of the NDC, Peter ...

The rift between former President Jerry John Rawlings and his successor, John Agyekum Kufuor seem to always have an interesting way of reigniting after several years of dormancy. The two former presidents have been at loggerheads thereby causing Ghanaians to wonder as to what really transpired between them. Well, this year, the simmering tension between the two former presidents erupted ...

The convoy of the President has been a major talking point in recent times, especially whenever he is embarking on a nation-wide tour. At his recent visit to Tsito in the Volta Region, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo had about 50 vehicles in his convoy. The vehicles comprised V8 Landcruisers and Pickup trucks. Meanwhile, there was a directive sometime in ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated that God is not wicked and an unjust person to return former President John Mahama and the National Democratic Congress to power. Speaking to Chiefs and people in the Volta Region on Monday as part of a two-day tour of the region, the President attacked the former President claiming he has no vision ...

Barely hours after Ashanti regional chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako popularly known as Wontumi said he has planted a mole in the recently outdoored opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Ashanti Regional Manifesto subcommittee, a mole has been fished out, MyNewsGh.com reports. The said mole, one Isaac Afreh who joined the NDC in the Ashanti ...

The Commercial Division of the Accra High Court presided over by Justice Samuel Asiedu has adjourned the case in which Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and Kweku Boahen, a deputy Communication officer of the party are standing trial to November 11, 2019. This was because the NDC chairman’s application at the Court of Appeal ...

Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has disclosed that the Akufo-Addo government is committed to raising funds internally to support electoral activities across the country for the Presidential and Parliamentary polls in 2020. This he says is in line with the government’s “Ghana Beyond Aid agenda” and will mean that government will not be looking for support from donor partners to ...

A Deputy Ranking Member on Parliament’s Education Committee, Dr. Clement Apaak has called on the government to come out with a specific date as to when basic schools will receive learning materials for the new curriculum which started in September 2019. According to him, the “Nana Akufo-Addo led NPP Government owes Ghanaians an explanation as to why two months on, ...

The Akufo-Addo administration acting through Cocobod is to inject a 600m USD stimulus package into the cocoa sector through a Cocoa Productivity Enhancement Program which will among other things step up Ghana’s production to 1.5m tones by 2027. The stimulus will target rehabilitation of plantations, improvement in storage and domestic processing, stimulation of local consumption as well as efforts to ...

Emmanuel Nvojo, who has been sacked as Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Jomoro Constituency of Western Region, got the shock of his life when he was chased out of the party’s executives meeting. Information indicates that he was not allowed to sit in a meeting organised by the General Secretary of the party, John Boadu to ...