POLITICS

Ghana’s Speaker of Parliament Prof Mike Oquaye has decried what he says is a lack of collaboration among African countries in the delivery of quality healthcare. Speaking at the opening ceremony at the West Africa International Health Summit on Wednesday in Accra Prof Oquaye said the African Union (AU) must champion medical collaborations to ensure quality health service to citizens ...

Koku Anyidoho, Former Director of Communications at the Presidency during the erstwhile Mills administration, has revealed that, the late President John Evans Atta Mills cheated death and defied medical science. The Former President in 2011, refuted rumours that he was sick and about to die, but he proclaimed that he will live to ensure that the Better Ghana Agenda is ...

An opposition stalwart in the Ashanti region Joseph Yamin has said he had no hand in the shooting to death of a supporter of the National Democratic Congress at the party’s office. Wasiu Iddrisu was gunned down Monday in an altercation with a fellow member of pro-NDC vigilante group – The Hawks – within the precinct of the NDC Ashanti ...

Former President John Mahama will be relentless in his efforts to win the 2020 elections on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). This is the assurance he is giving delegates of the party as prepares to hold its presidential primaries on Saturday [February 23]. In a campaign message shared via his Facebook page on Tuesday, John Mahama said ...

The Supreme Court has struck out a case brought before it by the Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga which has to do modalities of some social intervention programmes initiated by the Nana Akufo-Addo government. The Supreme Court presided over by Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo says it took the action for want of or lack of prosecution. Ayariga ...

The Ranking Member on Parliament’s Foreign Affairs committee is set for court for what he describes as the failure of the National Security Minister to furnish Parliament with yearly reports on Ghana’s intelligence agencies. In a letter to the state’s chief attorney, Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa noted: “the said minister after assumption of office has repeatedly omitted or refused to honour ...

The law must deal with the perpetrators of the shooting incident that occurred during a meeting between some national executives and regional executives of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Kumasi on Monday, 18 February 2019 which led to the death of one person, Mr Haruna Iddrisu, Minority Leader in Parliament has said. He told journalists in parliament on Tuesday, ...

Mr. Andy Appiah-Kubi, the Deputy Minister of Railways Development has expressed disappointment in DSP Samuel Azugu for his performance when he appeared before the Emile Short Commission, Monday. DSP Azugu who led the SWAT team to the La-Bawaleshie electoral area during the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election was interrogated for more than 2 hours when he took his turn at the ...

The National Democratic Congress [NDC] Ashanti Regional Secretary, Kwame Zu has been allegedly captured on tape claiming that the party knows the man who pulled the trigger leading to the death of one person and the injuring of another at the Kumasi office of the NDC on Monday afternoon. Kwame Zu was heard in an alleged audio circulating and available ...

Veteran Journalist and Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, Mr. Kwesi Pratt, says the enquiry into the violence at the Ayawaso West Wuogon is a clear indication of the lack of coordination at the level of the top people handling national security in the country. A commission of Enquiry was instituted to investigate the violence which occurred during the by-election ...