POLITICS

The Consumer Protection Agency (CPA) has issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) to publish the names of companies importing substandard goods into the country or face a court action. The ultimatum follows the Authority’s disclosure last week that it had identified some sub-standard goods on the Ghanaian market. Speaking at a press conference Wednesday, the Chief ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has said it is dangerous to experiment with a political leader who lacks the needed leadership skills to put the country on the right track. “Somebody came to you and said try me, now look at the results”, Mr Mahama told delegates of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Nadowli constituency in the Upper ...

New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong has hit back at the government over increasing port charges. Mr. Agyapong who has been a victim of high port duties himself has advised his government to put in stringent measures to arrest skyrocketing import duties, most of which he believes are illegal. “I have someone working on ...

Former President John Mahama has accused the Akufo Addo government of constructing dugouts instead of the promised dams in villages in the Northern Region. The New Patriotic Party (NPP) made a major campaign promise ahead of 2016 to construct one dam per a village in the three regions up North to improve on irrigation in the area. But the Ex-President ...

Former President John Mahama has said he would not tolerate the formation of fan clubs in his name, in his bid to recapture power from the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in 2020. Mahama who’s battling 12 others including the Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, former Trades and Industry Minister, Ekow Spio Garbra and former Board Chairman of ...

Saturday, October 6, 2018 was a great day for the people of Sombo in the Nadowli/Kaleo constituency in the Upper West Region when the Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Hon. Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin hosted the former President of the land, H. E. John Dramani Mahama. It was a day when two great personalities the country has ever produced and ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has said history has been “re-hashed” and “re-cooked” to make him and other innocent people look guilty as far as the murder of three high court judges and an army major in 1982 is concerned. In his view, the perpetrators of that crime some 36 years ago, were justly punished unlike the murderers of Ya ...

Dear Nana Boakye, I just read a very malicious & evil-intentioned Press statement from your outfit alleging that you saw President John Mahama in a video inciting students against President Akufo Addo. In a synopsis, the said statement has only added to the many reasons why the Multimedia group was justified in referring to you as ‘SUBSTANDARD’. Ignorance they say ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is still undecided on leading his governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2020 polls. According to Nana Addo, there have been moves by the NPP to get him to contest as the party’s presidential candidate in the 2020 polls. He however said he was yet to give a firm answer to the calls from ...

The Ministry of Education has urged former President John Mahama to learn to live above partisanship and desist from turning a blind eye to illegalities in his bid to score political points. The admonition follows Mr Mahama defending his party’s Deputy National Organizer Joshua Akamba whose visit to the Tempane SHS caused firestorm leading to the suspension of the School’s ...