POLITICS

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has reiterated government’s commitment to partnering with the private sector in its development agenda for the country, describing the sector as a “partner in the development process and not a competitor of government”. Speaking at the 2019 edition of the Ishmael Yamson & Associates Business roundtable at the La Palm Beach Hotel in Accra on ...

General Secretary of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has alleged that the chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) Mrs. Jean Mensa has already prepared documents to hand over the database of the voters’ register to a Ghanaian Company. According to him, Mrs. Jean Mensa is simply giving flimsy excuses by saying that the country is ...

The Minister for Communications Ursula Owusu- Ekuful has encouraged girls in Ghana’s basic schools to be passionate and take advantage of the opportunities that the Information, Communications and technology (ICT) world offers people, globally. She argued that with the desire and determination, young girls in Ghana can hive opportunities in ICT and even create jobs for themselves, provided they remained ...

A former Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Nana Oye Lithur, has announced she will contest in the primaries to represent the National Democratic Congress in the Adentan constituency come election 2020. She disclosed her parliamentary ambition after meeting the party’s presidential candidate John Mahama. “Following consultations, I have taken a resolute decision to offer myself as a willing and ...

The Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Hajia Alima Mahama, will on Wednesday, May 29 announce the road map on the election of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) when she takes her turn at the Meet the Press Series. The election of MMDCEs was a major campaign promise by the NPP in the 2016 general elections. Hajia ...

The Government through the Attorney General has tabled an amendment to the Office of the Special Prosecutor Act barely two years after its passage. The Office of the Special Prosecutor (Amendment) bill, 2019, is seeking to remove a clause that bars dual citizens from occupying the office. The move according to the deputy Attorney General Joseph Kpemka follows a judgment ...

A gang of hoodlums stormed the premises of Krachi West district assembly this afternoon and forced the district chief executive out of his office and locked up the place, calling for his dismissal. These aggrieved hoodlums want the DCE sacked, because they accused him of being the brain behind the failure of most of the Krachi West Npp candidates including ...

General Secretary of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia has described the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) Mrs. Jean Mensa as a ‘King Kong’ who has come to change everything she met in the office. According to the NDC’s Chief Scribe, every single interview the EC boss has conducted in the media gives him a ...

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has called for the licensing of journalists to help curtail the disrespect for the profession. According to Mr Kufuor, the media has, in the past, produced fine practitioners, hence the need to protect the sanctity of the profession. He added that during his term as president, his government was not only committed to strengthening the ...

The Minority in Parliament want to drag the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Jean Mensa, the Bank of Ghana Governor, Ernest Addison, and the head Securities and Exchange Commission, Rev. Ogbamey Tetteh, before the House over the Limited registration exercise and customer agitations in the banking sector. According to the Minority chief Whip, Muntaka Mubarak the invitation will afford MPs ...