POLITICS

Founder of the Azorka Boys, one of the oldest vigilante group in Ghana, Chief Sofo Awudu Azorka has revealed that he is more trained than any policeman the country can boast of, MyNewsGh.com reports. Azorka who has served notice they will not sit aloof and allow Pro-New Patriotic Party (NPP) vigilante groups recruited into the National Security to take the ...

The Election Committee of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will later today [Thursday] engage the party’s flagbearer hopefuls to outline the operational guidelines for the elections. This follows a petition forwarded to the party by six of the aspirants demanding the guidelines for the upcoming election. The six had previously raised issues with the electoral register and the choice of ...

The capitals of the six newly created regions will be known next Tuesday, February 12. On that day, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will issue a Constitutional Instrument (CI) to give effect to the creation of the regions and the capitals. The Minister of Regional Reorganisation and Development, Mr Dan Botwe, made this known when he paid a courtesy call ...

The Minority will not apologise for calling the MP for Ayawaso West Wuogon, Lydia Alhassan, a “bloody widow” the despite pressure from the public and fellow parliamentarians. The Minority Spokesperson, A.B.A. Fuseini said “nobody from the Minority will make that kind of apology. It is not going to come today. It won’t come tomorrow. It will never come.” He was ...

The Member of Parliament for Assin South Constituency Hon. Rev. John Ntim Fordjour has chides the act of Minority Members of Parliament on holding Placards calling the newly elected Member of Parliament Mrs. Lydia Alhassan ( Bloody Widow ) and it unfortunate for the legislatures to behave in such a manner. The 1st deputy Speaker of parliament, Hon. Joseph Osei ...

The opposition Member of Parliament for Tamale North, Alhassan Suhuyini, was ordered to leave the floor of parliament on Wednesday, 6 February 2019 by First Deputy Speaker, Joseph Osei-Owusu. Accra100.5FM’s parliamentary correspondent, Richard Appiah Sarpong, who was in parliament when the incident happened, reported that Alhassan Suhuyini was disrupting proceedings of the house after the Majority side had moved a ...

Ghanaians should be patient with President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, as he turns the country around for the better, movie producer and actress Yvonne Nelson has said. She said Mr Akufo-Addo has two more years to end his first term of office and, therefore, still has time to fix things. Ms Nelson told TV3 News on Tuesday, 5 February 2019 ...

Feminist and ex-wife of National Democratic Congress (NDC) lawmaker for Kumbungu constituency, Ras Mubarak has launched a suggestive attack at the minority in parliament over last Tuesday’s conduct on the floor of parliament. The ‘free-your mind’ media practitioner who appears angry over the description of the widow of Emmanuel Kyeremanteng Agyarko as a ‘bloody widow’ during her swearing-in on Tuesday, ...

Nana Akufo-Addo, the president of Ghana, is a great speaker. English audiences listen in awe to his speeches, marvelling at his mastery of their mother tongue. His fellow citizens did not stand a chance against his charm. He defeated an incumbent to the coveted position he now occupies with relative ease. His oratory was not all that won the votes ...

The Dean of the School of Communication of the University of Ghana, Legon, says the act of some Minority Members of Parliament holding signages calling a newly elected member of the House ‘Bloody Widow’ is shameful. Prof. Audrey Gadzekpo condemned unreservedly the behaviour of the MPs who were protesting against the swearing in of Member of Parliament for the Ayawaso ...