POLITICS

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has blamed the recent depreciation of the cedi on directives from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to the Bank of Ghana. The cedi recently hit an all-time low recording a rate of GH¢5.86 to a $1. The depreciation of the cedi against the dollar, according to the Minority added some GH¢15.3billion to the country’s external ...

The Vice President and Chairman of Ghana’s Economic Management Committee (EMT), Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has advised critics of government’s management of the economy not to resort to insults if they disagree with his data. “Our presentation today as always is based on analysis of the data and the facts. The data will speak for itself if you disagree you should ...

Alfred Kumi, a firebrand and dye-in-wool activist of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) based in Adenta has formally made clear, his intentions to contest in the upcoming NPP parliamentary primaries of the Adenta Constituency and further win the seat in the 2020 General Elections. According to Alfred Kumi, who was speaking in an exclusive interview with ModernGhana, after the ...

Ashanti Regional Minister Simon Osei-Mensah has insisted that the state should stop taking care of ex-President John Dramani Mahama. He argued that since Mr. Mahama is aspiring to become a president again, it is not proper for the state to foot his bills anymore. The minister has therefore called for an open debate to determine if Mr. Mahama should be ...

Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, a cousin of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and a staunch member of the governing New Patriotic Party has advised the government to ensure that the current erratic power supply is resolved permanently. According to him, the intermittent power challenges popularly known as Dumsor has electoral consequences and has the potential to negatively affect the political fortunes ...

On Saturday March 30 there was drama at Worcester, Massachusetts in the United States of America when supporters of the National Democratic Congress gathered to protest the economic hardship in Ghana. This was at a time President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was in a meeting with the Ghanaian community at the Worcester State University. The protestors carried posters with inscriptions ...

Pius Enam Hadzide, the former Deputy Minister for Youth and Sports, who is now Deputy Minister for Information, has been cleared of impropriety in the visa scandal that rocked the Commonwealth Games, Gold Coast Australia 2018. The subject that assumed an expected partisan touch fanned by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) earned the deputy minister a swift suspension from ...

The $2.4 billion energy debt inherited by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration from the previous Mahama administration is being tackled, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo told Ghanaians resident in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at a Town Hall meeting. “But for a few challenges which reared their ugly heads recently, we have been able to handle ‘dumsor,’ today; we are ...

General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia has revealed that embattled Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of troubled gold dealership firm, Nana Appiah Mensah is a card-bearing member of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP). He claims on Accra-based Power Fm monitored by MyNewsGh.com that at the peak of his Ponzi scheme, it was obvious ...

The Energy ministry has downplayed calls for a timetable in the ongoing power cuts in the country. According to the communication consultant for the ministry Nana Damoah, the demand for a schedule for Ghanaians to be able to manage the power situation is premature. “We are not yet at that phase of a load scheduling. It’s going to take 10 ...