POLITICS

Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong is not pleased with government’s decision to use dronetechnology to deliver blood and other health supplies nationwide. To him, the deal is a misplaced priority because the country has inadequate ambulances and lacks enough state-of-the-art health centres. “First things first; before you take the drone to deliver the drugs, you ...

NDC Presidential hopeful Kweku Ricketts-Hagan has announced he is quitting the race because delegates of the party have chosen “another path” ahead of the January 2019 race. He becomes the third aspirant to leave the race after Kojo Bonsu and Elikplim L. Agbemava. In a statement the Member of Parliament said he will nonetheless continue to support the party to win the 2020 ...

Controversial lawyer, Maurice Ampaw is alleging that Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta in concert with the Bank of Ghana (BoG) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) deliberately closed down gold trading hub, Menzgold because it threatened the existence of his Databank, MyNewsGh.com has learnt. Maurice Ampaw, his wife and family who have about GH¢1 million locked up with Menzgold, told Kumasi-based ...

The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako, has called on ex-President Jerry John Rawlings to advise former President John Mahama not to run for president again. Mr. Boasiako, popularly called ‘Wontumi,’ has vowed not to allow Mr. Mahama to make a comeback. He stated that legally Mr. Mahama completed two terms as president and ...

The Minority in Parliament has stated that the cost components of the Sinohydro deal by the government was, “over bloated” and has, therefore, called for a reduction in the cost. It said the cost for components like the project office, photographs, client services, among others, were “outrageous” and a “rip off.” The Minority Members of Parliament (MPs), led by the ...

Some Ghanaians on social media platforms are angry about the seeming tension between the two widows of the late Emmanuel Agyarko, Member of Parliament for Ayawaso West Wuogon who passed on in November, calling the widows ‘shameless witches’ for being ‘ambitious’ MyNewsGh.com has filed. Some polling station executives and some constituents of the Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency in the Greater ...

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has said he’s not the least worried about the ”love affair’ between the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the founder of the opposition NDC and ex President, J.J Rawlings. Many political watchers have been taken aback following what some have described as ‘flirting’ between Mr Rawlings and the NPP especially President Akufo Addo since ...

A lawyer and governance expert, Dr Eric Oduro Osae, has said his reading of the law makes it clear to him that ex-Presidents John Mahama, John Kufuor and John Rawlings can all contest for the high office of the land. Dr Oduro Osae says the six months administration led by Mr Mahama prior to contesting in the 2012 general elections ...

Over the weekend social media was awash with a visuals of what could pass for a castle said to be a building belonging to Former President John Dramani Mahama located in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The mansion with an interior gold design had several social media users tongue-lashing Ghana’s Former President and making all manner of disparaging remarks about ...

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has revealed that successive governments have not paid his ex-gratia after serving as President of Ghana from 7 January 2001 to 7 January 2009. “I haven’t been paid ex-gratia,” he told Accra-based Joy FM on Monday, 10 December 2018. He said that there were committees that suggested ex-gratia for Article 71 office holders which were ...