POLITICS

The Eastern regional branch of the NDC has dismissed reports that former President John Mahama traveled to the Afram Plains by helicopter. It comes after the Kwahu Tafo Chief, Nana Kwasi Minta, commended President Akufo-Addo over the weekend for traveling to the area by road and not by air as it was by other presidents. In a statement, the NDC ...

President  Akufo-Addo has stated emphatically that the controversial National Cathedral will be “built to the Glory of God”. The President addressing Catholic faithful at a ceremony to climax the 125th anniversary of the Catholic Archdiocese of Accra at the Black Star Square, in a joyful mood and quoting from Philippians 4:13 (KJV), which states “I can do all things through ...

Some Heads of Senior High Schools in the Eastern Region are rejecting newly trained graduate teachers posted to their schools to teach students under the Gold Track system of the Free Senior High School Policy. According to some of the Headmasters, teachers posted to teach certain-subjects do not have knowledge in the subjects they were posted to teach. The headmaster ...

Nana Kwasi Opoku Mintah, the Chief of Kwahu Tafo in the Afram Plains, has commended President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for travelling by road to visit the Afram Plains North Constituency on his three-day tour of the Eastern Region. He said the trip had given the President a better appreciation of the plight of the people in Donkorkrom unlike other ...

Two men have died after they were knocked down by a driver of the campaign team for 2020 NDC flagbearer aspirant Alban Bagbin. The police say, the accident occurred Sunday morning while the driver of the Nissan Pickup, Charles Owusu, was heading to Accra from Cape Coast in the Central region. The deceased were riding a motorbike when they were ...

Newly-elected National Organiser of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) wants people comparing him to his opponent from the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Sammy Awuku to put a stop to it. According to Joshua Hamidu Akamba, his NPP opponent will make his work easier for him in 2020 to catapult an NDC electoral victory. He likening the fight between ...

The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi says General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia has reached menopause so far as politics in Ghana is concerned. Speaking on Okay Fm’s “Ade Akye Abia” with host Kwame Tikese, Wontumi said, his plans and strategies ...

Accra Mayor Mohammed Adjei Sowah was the butt of a joke during the launch of a sanitation campaign after he declared the city is now cleaner. “We came to meet in Accra over 40 heaps of refuse…we have cleared more than 35 of them…” “…and we cannot see the mountains of refuse that used to be before his Excellency was ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has eulogized the late Member of Parliament for Ayawaso West Wuogon, Mr Emmanuel Kyerematen Agyarko, describing him as a “gentleman”. “Politics may divide us on ideological lines, during debates and arguments, but Emmanuel Agyarko’s personality and conduct in the political space, always exemplified the gentleman that he was. Lordina and I join in expressing our ...

There is growing anxiety among Heads of Senior High Schools across the country over financial challenges due to delays in releasing funds for students under the Free Senior High School policy. The situation has afflicted hardship on management of most public SHSs who are improvising with monies for the second year students to run the schools and take care of ...