POLITICS

Even though Parliamentarians do serious work in the august house of legislature, Fritz Baffour, a former member of the house and a journalist, has described the legislative arm of government as the biggest ‘comedy’ club he has ever come across. The former stand-up comedian said he would have loved to combine his parliamentary work with his act “because parliament is ...

Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah says, the less than three years, Akufo-Addo government has held more cabinet meetings than the Mahama administration did in the entire fours that it was in office. According to him, the President holds his cabinet meetings to ensure that he is meticulously in know of all the major developments in the respective ministries. He said ...

The Ministry of Education says it has not appointed or mandated any person or persons as Free SHS Ambassadors to go round Senior High Schools in the country to campaign for the Government of President Nana Akufo-Addo. Responding to a video circulating on social media purporting to be of a person carrying himself as Free SHS Ambassador and addressing SHS ...

The leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has revealed that the party will introduce a new system to facilitate monitoring of the 2020 elections. The system according to former President and flag bearer of the party, John Dramani Mahama, will be capable of monitoring the results of votes cast directly from polling centers in real-time. “Elections are won or ...

Former president Kufuor is dismissing claims by his predecessor Jerry John Rawlings that he supervised the building of hotels and luxury apartments in waterways in the capital, Accra. Spokesperson for the former president Dr Kwabena Osei Adubofour denied that the so-called hotels were on waterways. “Who said they were on a waterway? They must have gotten their permit form the ...

Former Finance Minister Seth Terkper has condemned the government for the taxes it has levied since taking office in 2017. Speaking to JoyNews’ UpFront show, he said Ghanaians are “paying more taxes than they did in 2016,” under John Mahama, a situation which deviates from what the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) promised, he said. Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, for instance, slammed the ...

If there is any process ongoing to reconcile former President Jerry John Rawlings and his successor-president, John Agyekum Kufuor, well, it has failed on arrival as the former is again accusing the latter of being the cause of floods and general construction indiscipline in Ghana. Mr Rawlings posits that Kufuor is the pacesetter for illegal structures that stand in waterways, ...

The Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery has dismissed claims that the recent spate of kidnappings is new to Ghana. Defending his assertion, Mr. Dery said the country has recorded some 504 kidnapping cases since 2011. The GNA reports that the Minister was addressing Regional, Divisional and District Crime Officers at the opening of a two-day annual conference when he made the ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has alleged that the government is using subterfuge means to campaign in Senior High School across the country. According to the biggest opposition party, persons who brand themselves as ambassadors for the revolutionary Free Senior High School policy go to the schools purposely to campaign for the government with the 2020 general elections looming. In ...

The Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Aaron Oquaye, has asked Ghanaians to cherish their culture and not allow the West to impose their liberal values on the country. He alleged that the West were facing many challenges today due to some liberal policies they espoused over the years, for which reason Ghanaians, and for that matter Africa, must consciously re-examine ...