POLITICS

The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Jean Mensa has shot down requests for her outfit to push for the introduction of special taxes to fund elections in the country. According to her, such a move would not be prudent since Ghanaians are already saddled with numerous taxes. Ghana depends on support from donor partners and central government to fund its ...

Late President John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills has been lauded by Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo for his punctuality and urged Ghanaians to emulate the punctuality attributes of the professor. The CJ while endorsing a punctuality campaign when the leadership of the Punctuality Ghana Foundation called on her, expressed admiration for how President Mills managed his time. “The late President Mills, ...

A chief stalwart of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Afrifa Yamoah Ponkoh has described as shameful and worrying in his view, the neglect and infrastructure deficit in the Ashanti Region (A/R) by the Akufo-Addo led administration, Mypurefmonline.com reports. Speaking on Pure FM’s ‘Pure Morning Drive’ with Kwame Adinkra on the aftermath of the President’s tour of the A/R, the ...

A Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolgatanga Central Constituency, Mr Isaac Adongo, has condemned President Nana Akufo-Addo and the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) for its poor handling of the financial sector crisis and damaging of the reputation of the General Overseer of the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC), Pastor Mensa Otabil, who was Board Chair for the now-defunct Capital ...

Deputy Minister of Finance, Mr. Kwaku Agyemang Kwarteng and Mr. Carlos Kingsley Ahenkorah, Deputy Trade and Industry, have been sacked from their position as board members of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) with immediate effect, DAYBREAK can authoritatively report. This was communicated to them by the new board chairman, Professor Stephen Adei. According to sources, Professor Adei said he was ...

After two months of well-deserved vacation, judges, lawyers and auxiliary staff involved in the justice delivery system are back to play their individual roles in ensuring that justice is served to the public. The 62nd legal year commenced on Monday, October 7, 2019. A legal year (October – July) denotes the period in which the Judiciary and other stakeholders involved ...

Lawyers of Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress, have filed an application at the Court of Appeal for stay of proceedings in the High Court. In court on Thursday, lead counsel for the NDC chairman, Tony Lithur informed the court that they have filed an application for stay of proceedings at the Court of Appeal. He ...

The newly appointed Chief Executive Officer of the National Youth Authority (NYA), Sylvester Tetteh, says the management of the youth body is committed to ensuring the rapid development of the youth of Ghana. He gave this assurance when he addressed the media at the office complex of the Authority to launch the celebration of the National Youth Week which commenced ...

A 2019 Ministerial Performance Tracking report launched by Alliance Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA) has indicted Ghana’s sanitation ministry as worse-performing. The report, which assesses the performance of the various Ministries and Ministers on five key performance indicators has also found some key ministries to be underperforming while giving others very high marks. For instance, the survey scored the ...

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has indicated the government’s intention to construct more airports to serve as feeders to the Kotoka International Airport (KIA). According to the President, it is also a way to open up the country to the rest of the continent in the interest of the nation, as far as developing the aviation sector of the ...