POLITICS

An aide to Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia Manaf Ibrahim says he is remorseful for disrespecting the hierarchy of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ashanti Region in a media exchanges. Manaf, who wants to be the NPP’s Parliamentary candidate for Asawase in the 2020 Parliamentary election, was suspended indefinitely for insulting the party’s hierarchy. He therefore not a ...

The Electoral Commission (EC) has abrogated an information technology system contract with its vendor because not only has the vendor left the security and management solely in its hands but it is also very expensive. The Chairperson of the EC, Mrs Jean Mensa, explained that although the vendor had total monopoly over the system and could shut it down at ...

president Nana Akufo-Addo has reiterated he does not need the country’s electoral body to win the 2020 elections. “I said it to you before, and I will repeat it. I don’t need the Electoral Commission to win an election; I don’t want to win an election in Ghana because of the Electoral Commission. I want to win an election in ...

Member of Parliament (MP) for the Assin Central Constituency, Kennedy Agyapong has advised President Akufo Addo and the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta to be wary of the ratings of the international community which praise their stewardship of the country, MyNewsGh.com reports. According to him, the kinds of praises that win votes and maintain governments in power are those that ...

President Akufo-Addo’s government has come under stern scrutiny in the past few weeks over its perceived failure to prosecute officials of the Mahama administration for alleged cases of corruption. The President, in the lead up to the 2016 election campaigned forcefully on corruption and pledged to prosecute government officials at the time whom he accused of being corrupt. Allaying the ...

President Akufo-Addo has called on the Electoral Commission to disprove all allegations of her critics by ensuring that it efficiently discharges its functions as stipulated in law. Addressing the Chairperson of the Commission, Mrs. Jane Mensa and other members of the Commission when they paid a courtesy call on him at the Jubilee House as the last leg of the ...

The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has served notice it remains focused to resorting to constitutionally mandated institutions in the country in the fight against corruption. Speaking at a press conference in Accra on Wednesday, the General Secretary of the party, John Boadu, noted the government of Nana Akufo-Addo is committed to the fight against corruption, adding no amount of ...

I just listened to John Boadu, the General Secretary of the ruling party in Ghana, the New Patriotic Party, doing the tales of Family & Friends, featuring Akufo-Addo vs John Mahama. He was trying to say that the tag “Family & Friends” started with the NDC and gave a long list to buttress the point. I am not sure if ...

Voting for Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives along party lines “would curb winner takes all” in Ghana’s politics, the Local Government Minister has said. Alima Mahama explained it would also help some of the smaller parties to partake in the administration of the state, albeit at the local government level. “It is good for our country’s democracy and also ...

Former Central Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Bernard Allotey Jacobs, has jumped to the defense of President Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo who has been tagged as a clearing agent for corruption by the opposition. Allotey Jacobs, who now describes himself as a social commentator, says it is wrong to tag Akufo-Addo as corrupt. “You can’t hang corruption ...