POLITICS

Members of the Coalition for Social Justice have been joined by many others from all walks of life to participate in the “Kum Yen Preko” demonstration to register their displeasure over what they term as severe hardship, insecurity in the country. Members of the group are unhappy with several attacks on journalists which they say is an attack on media ...

The National chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu Ampofo has filed an application for stay of proceedings in the case in which he and one Kweku Boahen have been charged for conspiracy to commit harm and two counts assault. In court today, when the state was to call its first witness, Tony Lithur counsel for the NDC ...

Former President and Flagbearer of the opposition NDC John Dramani Mahama says several Ghanaians are angered by the leadership style of his successor, Akufo-Addo; a situation he explains has visited an unprecedented hardship on the citizenry. He encouraged Ghanaians to turn up in their numbers at the party’s demonstrations dubbed ‘kum yen preko’ in order to vent it out on ...

Ghana is not ready for electronic voting, Dr Serebuor Quaicoo, Director of Elections at the country’s Electoral Commission (EC) has said. In his view, there is so much suspicion among the political parties in Ghana, therefore, when the elections management body adopts the electronic voting system, which, according to him does not make it easy to prove allegations of electoral ...

The nine members of the Homeland Study Group Foundation (HSGF), who are allegedly planning to secede the Volta region from the rest of Ghana have been discharged. This was after the state through a state attorney, Winifred Sarpong, a senior state attorney had informed the court that they have been instructed to withdraw the case. The three member panel of ...

Chairman for the Concerned Association of Ghana, Paa Willie, has slammed President Nana Akufo-Addo for disappointing drivers. He told Kwabena Agyapong on Frontline on Rainbow Radio 87.5Fm that drivers across the country are “extremely disappointed” because the current leader has failed to deliver his promises. According to him, the challenges confronting drivers are unbearable and making the majority of them ...

A former presidential aspirant of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Arthur Kobina Kennedy has slammed President Akufo-Addo’s comment on the new Public universities bill. Describing the comments as lacking tact and diplomacy, Dr. Kennedy said although the university bill is a commendable one, the president’s unfortunate comment has provoked a renewed pledge by the president of UTAG and others ...

Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has denied claims that the Finance minister made allocation for the proposed new parliamentary chamber which has sparked anger in the country. The Speaker of Parliament while extending an invitation to the President to cut sod for the project also noted in a letter to the Flagstaff House that budgetary allocation had been done for ...

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has given firm indication that government will soon build ten fish landing sites along the coastal areas of Ghana for the benefit of fishing communities. The Vice President of the Republic, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia made the announcement on Saturday, 6th July, when he joined the people of Elmina to celebrate the 2019 Edina Bakatue festival ...

Sources inside Jubilee House tell the Daily Statesman that President Akufo-Addo is set against moves by Parliament’s leadership and other senior figures in the House to embark on building a new debating chamber for MPs. The proposed chamber, which parliamentary leaders hoped to build within three years, was expected to cost US$200 million. They argued that the present chamber in ...