POLITICS

The National Democratic Congress has described as insincere President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s comments on the controversial Compressive Sexuality Education (CSE) programme. The NDC in a statement signed by Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia, said the President’s comments are belated and insincere. The statement comes after the President addressing fears that basic school pupils are now going to be taught LGBTQ ...

A cousin to President Nana Akufo-Addo, Mr Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, has condemned the police brutality of law students who demonstrated at the seat of government on Monday, 7 October 2019. The police sprayed the students with water cannons and rubber bullets in the heat of the peaceful demonstration which turned violent. In a Facebook post following the incident, the founder ...

A member of the Women Caucus in Parliament has threatened to kill any male teacher who makes sexual advances at her daughter in any educational institution in the country. The Member of Parliament for Bosome-Freho Constituency in the Ashanti Region, Joyce Adwoa Akoh Dei, said such acts “should not be tolerated in schools” because they have tendencies of ruining the ...

Former Member of Parliament (MP) for Ablekuma Central, Theophilus Tetteh-Chai, has recounted how some young ladies he has mentored have been victims of ‘Sex for Grades.’ The ladies, whom he claimed were coerced by lecturers in some notable tertiary institutions in the country, almost failed the papers for not giving in to their sexual advances. Mr Tetteh-Chai’s comment follows a ...

The Acting President of the Sampa Traditional Area, Nana Kwadwo Magsah II, says the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, deserves a second term in office, following the good work his government has undertaken since assuming office in January 2017. Speaking on Tuesday, 8th October, 2019, when a durbar of Chiefs was held in honour of President Akufo-Addo, ...

Hundreds of nurse trainees from the Sunyani Nursing and Midwifery Training College have hailed President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for restoring their trainee allowance, which was cancelled by the erstwhile Mahama-led NDC government. Wielding placards with inscriptions such as: “We don’t need JM back to cancel our allawa”, “We are happy for the allawa”, “Nana nie, allawa nie”, and “Our ...

The government has said the confusion sparked by police action at the law students’ protest was unacceptable. Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show, the Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah said, the confusion was “an embarrassing spectacle and it is unacceptable.” “Generally, it is totally unacceptable that an otherwise peaceful demonstration by people who want access to legal education will end ...

A young Ghanaian, with the hope of going into large-scale farming, is currently in tears seeking the whereabouts of a Deputy Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party, Kamal-Deen Abdulai, who he had accused of swindling him. Mr Kamal-Deen Abdulai, collected a fresh Toyota Camry SE, 2014 model from the innocent young man under the pretext of giving him a ...

Professor Emmanuel Osei Acheampong, a Political Science Lecturer at Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) has described President Nana Akufo-Addo as a liar. Last Sunday, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo categorically stated that his government has no intention introducing a policy in the country’s educational system that will be inimical to the development of basic and Senior High ...

Majority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, has revealed that his position as Majority Leader in Parliament has left him with no social life. According to the Majority Leader, who doubles as the Member of Parliament for Suame constituency and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, he has a daily tight schedule which permits him little or no time with the family. ...