POLITICS

Businessman Alfred Woyome, has suggested that there is a political agenda against him following claims by a deputy Attorney General, Godfred Dame that he tried to hide some of his assets in an attempt to avoid paying back his GHc 51 million judgement debt. According to Mr Woyome, known to be a financier of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), there ...

Former Deputy Chief of Staff John Osei Kofi has asked the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) to accept full responsibility of the country’s current economic hardships. He said the NPP should seize blaming the current economic situation on the erstwhile Mahama administration. According him, the state of the economy vindicates the performance of the Mahama-led administration. The KNUST lecturer is ...

Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu has requested for further evidence after JoyNews investigations revealed loans were diverted to fund political research. His office is likely to open preliminary investigations into the issue after studying the evidence to be supplied by JoyNews in the next 24 hours. JoyNews investigations uncovered how part of a 175 million dollar loan contracted to build seven ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said his administration has so far used GHC455.9 million of oil revenue for the Free Senior High School policy as part of his government’s efforts to create assets, and not waste oil money on consumption and the accumulation of debt. According to President Akufo-Addo, “We are investing revenues from oil in one of the ...

An opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential hopeful has taken on the Mahama administration over corruption scandals that hit it. Augustus Goosie Tanoh said the scandals including the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) corruption case caused Ghanaians to lose confidence in the party. Addressing party faithful in the Volta region, he charged them to stand up against corrupt politicians in ...

A former Member of Parliament (MP) for Ablekuma South, Fritz Baffour, has said there is no wrong with his decision to choose to work for the Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Hon. Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin who has declared his intention to contest for the flagbearer position of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). According to Mr. Baffour, he had the ...

President Nana Addo Akufo-Addo has charged the Ministry of Energy, the Petroleum Commission, Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) and the Licensing Rounds Committee to co-operate and ensure that activities under the maiden oil and gas licensing round are carried out in a transparent and efficient manner. Speaking at the launch of the “Ghana Oil and Gas Licensing Round 2018”, which ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has described the 2020 general elections as a final match between him and familiar political rival, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. Referring to the 2012 polls as “a title fight” and the 2016 elections as “a rematch”, Mahama called the 2020 polls “a decider” and predicted the tiebreaker would return him to the helm of ...

There is currently growing disquiet in the military by some soldiers purported to be loyal to governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) who feel they have been used and dumped by the party whilst their colleagues who did nothing towards the 2016 election victory are enjoying, MyNewsGh.com has filed. Politician and businessman, Kennedy Agyapong who is mad at the development alleges ...

The State has identified five substantial properties supposedly owned by Mr Afred Agbesi Woyome estimated at $1.5million each that could prove vital in retrieving the GH¢51.2 million judgement debt he received from the state. Deputy Attorney General Godfred Yeboah Dame made this disclosure moments after the Supreme Court had adjourned hearing of a case in which defunct UT Bank claimed ...