POLITICS

General Secretary of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, has graduated from the Armed Forces Command College with a Master of Science degree in Defence and International Politics. Popularly known as General Mosquito, Mr Nketiah was a member of parliament for the Wenchi West constituency from 1992 to 2000. He is the longest-serving General Secretary ...

Investigative Journalist, Manasseh Azure Awuni has mocked President Akufo-Addo over the recent spate of renaming of institutions. The former multimedia journalist waded in the controversy amidst the uproar by Ghanaians over the renaming of institutions by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) led government. There is a general public outcry on social media over the decision to rename some tertiary institutions ...

The Director General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare, has said no Ghanaian Muslim woman was trained in Cuba as a gynaecologist over the past six years as being claimed by former president John Mahama. Speaking at the Al Sunna Eid Prayers on the occasion of Eid ul Adha at the Efua Sutherland Park in Accra, Mr. Mahama ...

A staffer at the Presidency, Charles Nii Teiko Tagoe has lashed out at those criticizing the decision to rename University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR), Sunyani in the Bono Region after the late Prime Minister of the Second Republic, Professor Kofi Abrefa Busia. According to him, those persons are tribal bigots tribal bigots questioning the essence of their fuss ...

Muslims in the country were yesterday admonished to develop the spirit of self-sacrifice and submit to the will of Allah (God) if they are to attain nearness to him and be beneficiary of his favour. According to a Central missionary of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission Ghana, Maulvi Naeem Ahmed Cheema, it was important for Muslims to come to the realisation ...

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) is forecasting that beneficiaries of the Free Senior High Education programme being implemented by the government will pay more in taxes in the future. According to the Commissioner- General of GRA, Emmanuel Kofi Nti, the programme is an investment to build skilled labour pool which will translate to increase in payment of more taxes to ...

The former Director-General of the Ghana Maritime Authority (GMA), Mr Kwame Owusu, who used close to GHS1 million to renovate and expand a two-bedroom colonial-style property into a modern five-bedroom edifice with 13 air-conditioners, has asked the founding president of Imani Africa, Mr Franklin Cudjoe, to apologise to him for certain disparaging remarks the think-tanker made against him. Mr Owusu ...

Mohammed Awal Swallah, the Team Leader of the I Am Aware (IAA) Project of the Centre for Democratic Development-Ghana (CDD-Ghana), has appealed to the citizenry to make it their utmost concern to monitor and demand from government appointees in the implementation of socio-economic development projects and services in their communities. That, he explained, would help ensure transparency, probity, accountability and ...

The Chairman of Groupe Nduom, Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, has said the delay by the government in paying local contractors, some of whom, he said, are customers or investors, has led to the lock-up of GHS2.2 billion from the Groupe’s Gold Coast Fund Management, alone. “When we keep fighting for Ghanaian contractors to be paid, we are fighting for customers/investors ...

The old Northern Region is set to witness a flowery of political activities this week as President Nana Akufo-Addo and his predecessor, Mr John Mahama are scheduled to criss-cross the area for various political engagements. While President Nana Akufo-Addo is expected in the Northern region for a two-day tour from August 15 to 16, where he will cut sod for ...