POLITICS

Renowned press freedom champion, Charles Wereko-Brobby, has scored President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s administration as having the worse press freedom record. Dr Wereko-Brobby’s 24-hour-old Radio Eye – the first radio station – has gone into Ghana’s history of the first frontal attack against media subversion. The radio operated for 24 hours in 1994 before it was shut down by security forces ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Constituency Secretary for Navrongo Central, Dr. Selawiah Abdul-Mumin, has explained that monthly dues that have been paid by aspirants contesting the Constituency Parliamentary primaries were reduced due to the harsh economic conditions under the leadership of President Akufo-Addo. He said the reduction which was part of party internal arrangements, took into consideration the “hard times” ...

Auditor-General (A-G) Daniel Yaw Domelevo has condemned the Ministry of Finance (MoF) for concealing four major contracts signed in 2018. “Our review of the Ministry’s procurements showed that a number of awards for goods, services and consultancy were undertaken without its publication on the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) website,” the annual report on Public Accounts of Ghana (PAG) as of ...

The attempt by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to accuse the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) of making a ‘dubious’ payment to Special Prosecutor Martin A.B.K. Amidu has backfired. This is because documents available to DAILY GUIDE show that when the NDC was in office, it initiated and completed all processes leading to the payments of GH¢212,545.71 and later ...

The Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu has expressed reservations over the decision of the Police CID to probe the corruption allegations leveled against the secretary of the Inter-Ministerial Committee against Illegal Mining Charles Bissue. It comes after the CID cleared Mr. Bissue of any wrongdoing despite the video evidence submitted by Anas Aremeyaw Anas to back his claims. “Mr. Bissue was ...

Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong has observed that the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) is the best thing to have happened to Ghana. In his estimation, each time the party is in power there are a lot of development in all sectors of the economy compared to the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) that has disappointment ...

The Police CID which investigated allegations of corruption against the secretary of the Inter-ministerial Committee on illegal mining Charles Bissue has cleared him of any wrong doing. “Mr. Bissue was not found to be culpable of any offense, a parallel investigation by the office of Special Prosecutor is however still ongoing,” the Graphic quoted the police report as saying. The ...

Majority Leader in Parliament and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Hon. Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu has taken on those attacking him explaining why he chose to ignore comments and opinions about him on the proposed $200m parliamentary chamber. “People roasted me on their Facebook pages and other social media platform. I read everything but I chose not to go into the ...

A former Minister of Education, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemanghas called for a long term educationaldevelopment planthat focuses on peculiar situations to resolve challenges in the sector. She said the long term plan, which would be aimed at reforming education in the country, should be hinged on research into an evaluation of previous reforms and how it was implemented. The former ...

With the 2020 general elections just around the corner, the NDC has initiated its processes to elect its parliamentary candidates and hopefully regain the majority status it lost during the 2016 elections. The Adentan constituency, historically an NDC seat, seems to have one of the keenest contests and what many have described as a cat versus mouse affair. Having earlier ...