POLITICS

Outspoken and controversial political activist and NPP member Kwame Asare Obeng, widely known as A Plus has debunked reports suggesting that the Bureau of National Investigations invaded and raided his residence. A Plus who is currently out of the country admitted that the BNI had indeed been to his house howbeit at Wednesday afternoon and Thursday dawn to invite him ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings appears to have been angered by what he termed “imaginary circumstances” being created by a section of the media to create a wedge between him and former President Mahama. Mr. Rawlings is particularly not happy with the Daily Guide newspaper, which is largely aligned to the governing party, which reported on Thursday that the former ...

Officials of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) have raided the home of musician and supporter of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Asare Obeng better known as A Plus twice, MyNewsGh.com can confirm. The three officers in the company of a policeman it has been established first visited the house which is an estate under the guise of looking ...

Education minister Mathew Opoku Prempeh has told agitating trainee teachers that they will undertake their national service whether they like it or not. The trainees embarked on a demonstration Wednesday in protest of the directive by the education ministry that they perform a mandatory national service before they are employed by the state. The teachers say they have already undertaken ...

The Minority caucus in Parliament has urged the government to publish the report of the Justice Brobbey Commission of Enquiry into the creation of new regions to ensure transparency. According to the group, the publication of the report would clarify the commission’s recommendations regarding the names for the proposed regions and those entitled to vote in the referendum. Speaking at ...

Government is wrapping up work on a Rural Development policy for Ghana. Minister for Information Kojo Oppong Nkrumah said that the new policy will provide a proper framework for addressing prevailing issues in Ghana’s rural development and appropriate institutions will effectively respond to the challenges The Minister disclosed this at a Press Briefing in Accra on Wednesday. Oppong Nkrumah said ...

Mr Samuel Koku Sitsofe Anyidoho, a general secretary hopeful of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), envisions superintending over a united party that will ensure discipline in order to win back the support of the party’s founder, ex-president Rawlings, and others who felt insulted by some actions of the current NDC executive administration. That, he believes, was the surest bet to ...

Minority Chief Whip and Asawase lawmaker Muntaka Mubarak has said majority of his colleagues are not committed to their core business of making laws for the country. According to him, most members of the House have resorted to engaging in other businesses so they can continue to meet the financial demands of their constituents. He said the action of the ...

The appointment of Ghana’s former Electoral Commission Chairperson, Charlotte Osei, as deputy head of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has exposed the Akufo-Addo led-government. This according to General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia. Mr Nketia said Charlotte Osei was one of the most competent persons he has ever met despite her ...

The Ministry of Education has said all trainee teachers will still have to do their one-year mandatory national service in spite of a demonstration against the decision by some newly-trained teachers. On Wednesday, 7 November members of the Teacher Trainees Association of Ghana (TTAG) embarked on a demonstration against the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service over their ...