POLITICS

The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has asked Development Authorities not to pay contractors working on government’s one village one dam projects, if they fail to meet the specified standards. The Vice President’s comment follows reports of shoddy works on some of the dams. “The one village, one dam project will provide some respite to farmers in the dry season. ...

The Electoral Commission (EC) has announced that it will hold consultations with stakeholders as a means of enhancing transparency in its work. Those penciled for the consultations include members of the clergy, Imams, traditional rulers, civil society organizations (CSOs) and former presidents, among others. The novelty in the history of the commission is titled: “High Level Stakeholder Consultations by the ...

A former TIEN-NDC Secretary and a student of Mampong Campus of the University of Education Winneba, Oscar Komla Bedzra has taken the Trade Minister, Alan Kyeremanten to the cleaners saying he should be inaugurating factories and industries and not church headquarters. According to the youth activist of the opposition NDC in an article, “Whiles the youth are restlessly and relentlessly ...

Board Chairman of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA), Peter Mac Manu, is facing allegations of conflict of interest and outright bias in the scandalous $1.5 billion concession agreement with Meridian Port Services (MPS), according to credible reports. The former National Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has been described by the aggrieved workers as a wolf ...

Speaker of Parliament, Professor Aaron Mike Ocquaye, has called for the establishment of a pension scheme for former Members of Parliament. The call comes on the back of the death of a former majority leader Dr Kwabena Adjei. “Honourable members it is important for us to seriously consider matters relating to former members of the House,” Professor Ocquaye told MPs ...

A workshop on the roadmap for the implementation of the Right to Information (RTI) act has opened in Accra. The workshop is been organized by the Ministry of information, the implementing agency of the RTI. President Akufo–Addo on 22nd May 2019 gave assent to the Right to Information (RTI) Act that was passed by Parliament in March, this year. The ...

His voice is as booming as ever, but the body has taken a bit of a battering from 80 years of the hustle and bustle of life generally. President John Agyekum Kufuor arrived at the Kempinski Hotel in Accra to perform the inauguration ceremony to kick start various activities to mark the 70th Anniversary of the founding of the Ghana ...

Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia has said fighting corruption in Ghana could be likened to a battle against ‘demons and principalities’. “When you are fighting corruption, as I say, you are fighting ‘demons and principalities’. So you always have to be on top of it because they come in different shapes and they reinvent themselves,” he stated at the 2019 edition ...

President Akufo-Addo has assured communities agitating about the size of dams being built across the country that his administration will look into the claims and make appropriate changes if need be. The President’s submission was a direct reaction to claims by a section of the citizenry that the size of the dams being constructed can best be described as dugouts ...

“Men of God” who rely on the gullibility of their followers to amass wealth may be out of business soon. Some legislators on Wednesday asked the House to consider enacting a law to clamp down on these exploitative self-styled Men of God and their churches. MP for Mfantseman, Ekow Hayford, appealed that an independent body should be set up “backed ...