POLITICS

Seasoned Journalist, Kwesi Pratt Jnr., says it will be “absolutely foolish” to lay blame at the doorstep of the current administration for the downward spiral of the local currency, the cedi. Likewise will it be “senseless”, he posits, if the NDC-led Mahama administration accused of allowing the cedi to depreciate alarmingly when Mr John Dramani Mahama was in power. Contributing ...

The Speaker of Parliament Professor Mike Oquaye has vehemently refuted accusations that the House does not care about Ghanaians in the wake of its remembrance of victims of Cyclone Idai and New Zealand shooting but not the Kintampo accident victims. The Minority in Parliament on Monday demanded financial contributions from MPs to support victims of cyclone Idai which has left ...

Ghana has signed an Air Service Agreement with Malta that will see the national airline of the Mediterranean state flying directly to Ghana. The direct flight would be the first of the Maltese carrier, Air Malta, to Sub-Saharan Africa. The two nations also signed other agreements on the agreed minutes of the second meeting at the technical level on Ghana, ...

Bernard Allotey Jacobs , former Central Regional Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has revealed that he once slapped a commercial bus driver for over-speeding. According to him, the bad habit of some Ghanaians keeping quite in public transport, popularly known as ‘trotro’, when drivers are misbehaving on the road has been a major factor fueling road carnage ...

Vice president Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has urged the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to allocate a portion of the ECOWAS levy to support credible Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in the regions. That, he said, will end their heavy dependence of foreign donors which compromises their independence. Speaking at the 20th Anniversary celebration of the West Africa Network for Peace ...

The National Patriots against Injustice and Corruption (NAPAIC) has announced plans to put the Upper East Regional Supervising High Court Judge, Justice Jacob B. Boon, and some officials of the Shaanxi Mining Company Ltd on trial before Ghana’s Special Prosecutor over a bribery scandal. The officials of the Chinese mining firm were spotted four times secretly visiting the judge at ...

From all look of things, Bawumia is practically failing every living soul in Ghana just because of his irresponsible learning approach during his school days which I have named as ” the *chew and pour learning approach*” if Bawumia can not tell Ghanaians why our cedi is being described as a vincible and feeble currency across the world, then he ...

THE PALPABLY FALSE CLAIMS OF ABDUCTION OF LEBANESE NATIONAL MISCHEVOUSLY MADE BY THE MINORITY The attention of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Parliament has been drawn to a press statement released by the Minority making rather outrageous allegations of abduction of one Mahran Mustapha Baajour purported to be a Lebanese businessman of Palestinian origin at Kotoka International Airport, Accra, on ...

The Minority in Ghana’s Parliament has condemned the Akufo-Addo administration over the manner in which the abduction of a 39-year-old Lebanese businessman in Ghana, has been handled. The opposition MPs, in a statement, demanded that the government act in an accountable manner as is expected of democratic states by breaking its “unhelpful silence” over the abduction and disappearance of Mahran ...

A high ranking member of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko has described the current performance of the Ghana Cedi as remarkable. The Ghana cedi which saw a sharp depreciation against the dollar and other major foreign trading currencies in the last quarter of 2018 and the first quarter of 2019, has started recording some marginal appreciation ...