POLITICS

Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, has alleged that former MP for Abuakwa North, J.B. Danquah Adu was killed by some members close to former President Mahama because he had naked pictures of the then-president. According to him, the late J.B. Danquah Adu was dating a girl who also dated the former President. He claims J.B. Danquah Adu ...

The government is challenging a recent claim by the Auditor-General in its 2018 report that the Ministry of Finance (MoF) paid US$1m to a private organisation, Kroll Associates, for no work done. The ministry acquired the services of Kroll Associates in 2017 to recover assets from identified wrongdoers, investigate allegations of wrongdoing, provide evidence for assets recoveries, build capacity for ...

Workers of the Ghana Airports Company have petitioned President Akufo-Addo over plans by the Aviation minister to privatise management of airports in the country. According to the workers, despite verbal assurances by the minister and government, there are still signs and overtures that suggest the privatization effort with the Turkish company TAV Airport Holding is still on the table. In ...

The main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has said President Nana Akufo-Addo, if he is serious about Ghana’s governance, must, without hesitation, dismiss his Minister of Education, Dr Mathew Prempeh (Napo) for alleging that former President John Mahama bussed agent provocateurs to the Independence Square to court disaffection for the government in the ongoing school placement exercise which saw hundreds ...

Some parents whose children have been affected by the computerised Placement system have berated the education minister for scoffing at the plight of people who converged at the Black Star square to have their issues addressed. Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh noted in an interview that the collapses and fainting of some of the parents and students at the Black Star ...

The General Secretary of the Christian Council, Rev. Dr. Cyril Fayose believes the Akufo-Addo-led government has been a failure in the fight against corruption. He is particularly not enthused about government’s inability to largely punish people involved in corrupt activities. “We must punish people for wrongdoing,” Rev. Dr. Fayose told Winston Amoah on TV3’s news analysis programme, The Key Points, ...

Majority Leader and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Hon. Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu has advised the New Patriotic Party (NPP) not to allow any incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) to stand unopposed in the party’s upcoming primaries if other qualified members express the interest to contest them, MyNewsGh.com reports. Though the Suame legislator believes that the interests of the government can be ...

President Akufo-Addo has personally phoned the four families whose relatives were kidnapped and now confirmed dead to console them following a report from the police administration. Father of Priscilla Mantsebeah Koranchie the last girl to be kidnapped on December 21 2018 Alexander Kojo Koranchie told to Empire News’ Emmanuel Ohene-Gyan that the President personally called him to console him and ...

The Asante Youth Association has condemned the National Democratic Congress for what they described as attempts to use their ‘political gains’ to destroy the Asante Kingdom. Their comments come on the back of a press statement released by the office of former President John Mahama denying the involvement of the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu in his decision to concede defeat ...

Member of Parliament for the Assin Central Constituency, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong has confessed and faulted the Minister for Works and Housing, Samuel Atta Akyea for taking his bragging game too far, MyNewsGh.com reports. He says the Abuakwa South MP’s exaggeration of Ghana’s housing deficit has caused persons who believe in the government to sweat in defense of allegations of a ...