POLITICS

A founding member of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe has viciously slammed President Akufo-Addo over the spate of corruption allegations in his government. Describing the President’s posture towards allegations of corruption levelled against his appointees as worrying, Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe said President Akufo-Ado has the worst record in the history of Ghana. The former Chairman of the ...

The Office of the Special Prosecutor has invited the Registrar of the Scholarship Secretariat and the Administrator of the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) Secretariat to help with investigations to ascertain whether or not either of them or both have used their positions for private benefit. The two officials — Mr Kingsley Agyemang, the Registrar, and Mr Richard Boadu, the ...

Minority leader Haruna Iddrisu has urged government to put measures in place to curb the rising insecurity in the Northern region. According to him, the people of the Northern region can no longer tolerate the gross insecurity which they are currently bedeviled with. Speaking after his confirmation in the just ended NDC primaries, Mr. Haruna implored the police and other ...

“Buying a contract from a contractor who cannot execute it isn’t a crime,” the General Secretary of the ruling NPP, John Boadu has said. According to him, it may happen that the contractor might have other things doing, therefore, selling to other equally competent persons is in the right direction just as it happens to outright sale of contracts. John ...

A daughter of Dr Kofi Abrefa Busia, Nana Frema Busia, has described President Akufo-Addo as being ungrateful to her father who as a prime minister bifurcated his power and ceded a ceremonial presidency to Edward Akufo-Addo, the President’s father on a “silver platter” just to ensure there is peace in the country. According to her, Nana Akufo-Addo, the President of ...

Pollster Ben Ephson has fumed at Ghanaians casting doubt over his credibility following some failed predictions at the last Saturday NDC parliamentary primaries. The Daily Dispatch newspaper managing editor had predicted that actor John Dumelo will struggle to win the Ayawaso West Wuogon primaries, instead, Dumelo won by a landslide. He also observed Sam George was likely to loose the ...

The political season is here with us once more and the two major parties; the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) are already preparing to meet each other boot-for-boot in the 2020 general elections. While the governing NPP is set with its presidential candidate and running mate in the persons of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and ...

Former Finance Minister, Prof Kwesi Botchwey, is clearly an unhappy man, Peacefmonline.com can confirm. He is said to be extremely riled over reports of his selection as running mate to the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, reliable sources disclosed to Peacefmonline. Last week, social media and some mainstream media outlets claimed that the former President ...

Superintendent Peter Lanchene Tuubo, the ex-Executive Secretary to former Inspector-General of Police, David Asante-Apeatu  says the incumbent MP for Wa West, whom he defeated at the Saturday primaries of the NDC, is yet to congratulate him. He told Starr News after his victory on Saturday that Mr. Joseph Yieleh Chireh had not given him a call after the polls. “I ...

The General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu has disclosed that the alleged acts of corruption being recorded in the Akufo-Addo led government pales in comparison to what occurred under the erstwhile former President Mahama’s administration. He says President Nana Akufo-Addo has taken bold steps to deal with corruption, a feat former President Mahama cannot boast of ...