POLITICS

Flagbearer hopeful of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Goozie Tanoh has said breaking away from the party ahead of the 2000 general election was necessary because the NDC had lost its way. Addressing some delegates in Hohoe as part of his three day tour of the Volta Region, Goozie Tanoh explained that the Reform Party was a sacrificial lamb ...

Pictures of a mammoth crowd of NDC faithfuls meeting and cheering Prof Joshua Alabi, a Presidential Hopeful in the National Democratic Congress (NDC) hit social media on Saturday. The pictures of the event captured a multitude of NDC branch executives drawn from the La Dadekotopon constituency, under the supervision of the constituency chairman who was seen in the pictures seated ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has stated that he did nothing wrong in the circumstances leading to the murder of the three High Court Judges and a retired Army Major Officer in 1982. The ex-President who was the head of a Junta reacting to questions raised in a recent documentary by Joy FM on the killing of the Judges at ...

About 50 staunch members of the ruling New Patriotic Party in Akyem Asamama in the Atewa West Constituency of the Eastern region have defected to the largest opposition party National Democratic Congress (NDC) over what they say is economic hardship and bad governance. Many of the defectors claim they played various roles including polling station agents while others were instrumental ...

Second Lady Samira Bawumia’s revised delegation size from 20 to 6 is simply victory to the vigilant masses. Another moment of hope for citizen power. It is rather sad though that she couldn’t eat humble pie and muster courage to do the honourable thing by accepting in all sincerity that her initial large sized delegation was upon reflection unacceptable and ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama risks losing all his hard work to a miscarriage if he fails to stay on a focused path and continues to dwell on national issues as a campaign tactic. Commenting on the NDC’s flagbearership race ahead of the 2020 polls, he noted that Mr. Mahama, though is the most probable candidate to lead the party ...

Ex-president John Rawlings claims the recent documentary by Joy News on the chilling account of the murder of three High Court Judges and a retired army officer is an attack on him. Preaching his innocence at a forum in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region, the ex-president said if he was blood thirsty, the best opportunity to have silenced his critics ...

In May of this year (2018), IMANI began issuing a series of alerts and reports on the decision by the Ministry of Communications (MOC), acting in concert with its technical agency, the National Communications Authority (NCA), to award a 10-year contract worth nearly $180 million to an entity known as Kelni GVG. In June of the same year, a Principal ...

The University Teachers Association (UTAG) is calling on government to rescind its decision of taking off academic staff above the age of 65years from the government pay roll. The said academic staff engaged on contracts by the public institutions after the expiration of their mandatory age in the service must be paid through Internally Generated Funds, according to the government. ...

Ex-Corporal Mathew Adabuga, a former corporal in the Ghana Armed Forces and a bodyguard of former President Jerry John Rawlings has said Rawlings cannot absolve himself of culpability in the murder of the murder of three judges and a military officer in 1982. According to him, Jerry Rawlings gave the order for numerous murders for both soldiers and civilians who ...