POLITICS

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has assured captains of industry and the whole of corporate Ghana that his administration will stay focused on maintaining fiscal discipline and correct fundamentals for the economy in order to safeguard their interests in the country. Addressing members of the 17th edition of the Ghana Club 100 awards at a dinner held at the Banquet ...

Member of Parliament for Ablekuma West Ursula Owusu Ekuful has launched a work, pay and own taxi scheme in her constituency. The move is aimed at empowering the unemployed in the constituency economically and it kick-started with 10 taxis on 3-year payment terms. This comes barely a month after Mrs Owusu Ekuful who is also the Communications Minister enrolled about ...

The late Dr. Kwabena Adjei, the former national chairman of the main opposition NDC is to be laid to rest June, 01, 2019 at his hometown in Nkonya in the newly-created Oti region. The family of Dr. Adjei was at the seat of government, the Jubilee House to announce the burial date and invite President Akufo-Addo to the funeral. Dr ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings will on Saturday lead the cadres and sympathisers of the June 4 revolution for a tree planting exercise in Accra to commence activities marking the 40th anniversary of the event. He will plant the first tree in the exercise that will start from the Tetteh Quarshie interchange to the Legon ECG Park. It seeks to ...

The Defence Minister and his entourage, made up of opinion leaders of Chokosi and Konkomba ethnic groups drawn from the Greater Accra and Ashanti Regions, are in Chereponi on a peace mission. Dominic Nitiwul is hoping that his mediation team will broker peace between the Konkombas and Anufors who have been maiming and killing each other over the ownership of ...

The Eastern Regional Minister, Eric Kwakye Darfuor has incurred the wrath of aggrieved power consumers at Lower Manya Krobo following his comment that electricity cannot be consumed for free and that residents who cannot afford should go off the national grid. The residents including the Member of Parliament for Lower Manya Krobo, Ebenezer Okletey Terlabi have urged the Eastern Regional ...

A Deputy Director of the Electoral Commission (EC) in charge of operations has denied former President John Mahama’s allegation of hacking in the last elections. Mr. Samuel Tettey, who was the Director of Elections during the 2016 elections, said the former President got it all wrong regarding the electronic transmission of results, which he said was not what was agreed ...

The Editor-In-Chief of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako Junior suspects Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu, is pursuing a personal vendetta against the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bawku central constituency, Mahama Ayariga thereby dragging him before court on various charges. He wondered why of all the cases lined up by the Office of Special Prosecutor to ensure ...

Professor Stephen Adei, Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) has announced that his outfit will kick start series of a monthly forum to engage the public on development policy and promote ownership and accountability for the implementation of national priorities. The fora will focus on topical national issues about the economy; social development; spatial planning; infrastructure development; environment; ...

Artiste of the Decade nominee, Samini has opined that the Shatta Wale (well, Samini still calls him Bandana) is blamable for the unfortunate incident that was recorded at the Vodafone Music Awards that took place at a makeshift Dome in Accra, May 18. Samini’s prodigy- Stonebwoy angrily puled out a gun during a nasty confrontation with Shatta Wale soon after ...