POLITICS

Current General Secretary for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia says his decision to seek re-election as Chief Scribe is “for the love to serve” the people of his party. He was emphatic in an interview on NEAT FM that the position he has held over the years is not ‘lucrative’ as being purported by his competitors. ...

The National Peace Council has dissociated itself from a comment attributed to its former Ashanti Region Chairman, Prof Seth Opuni Asiamah. Prof Asiamah is alleged to have said that Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu, was idling about at post and must “cough up salaries paid him” by the state. In a press release issued on Monday, the Peace Council explains as ...

Former Communications Minister Dr. Edward Omane Boamah has dismissed reports suggesting his handling of the collation of results of the opposition National Democratic Congress during the 2016 elections that saw their worst defeat ever. He rather described this as utter falsehood insisting this was the machinations of faceless people to dent his reputation with the claim. A statement by Dr. ...

The indefinite postponement of the inauguration of the newly-constructed Terminal 3 at the Kotoko International Airport and the subsequent late notice of same, will make investors and foreign partners such as Emirates Airlines, lose trust in Ghana, Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has said. As part of activities for the inauguration of Terminal 3, which was ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has described the emergence of Kojo Bonsu a former mayor of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) as one of the contenders of the party’s flagbearer as refreshing. He disclosed that Kojo Bonsu is not only a leading member of the party but the fact he is an Ashanti an area which provided a very dynamic ...

The executive director of the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) Prof. Henry Kwasi Prempeh has said he will score the Akufo-Addo government average after almost two years in office. Although there has been hue and cry over increment in fuel prices and the marginal depreciation of the Ghana cedi against major currencies, the legal practitioner noted the performance of the ...

The Mahama campaign says the observations of the former President, John Dramani Mahama regarding the Free SHS policy are consistent with the views expressed by the Finance minister, Ken Ofori-Atta. President Akufo-Addo has said he’s worried over the stance of his predecessor in relation to the policy. “I am alarmed by this concept of review. This is because, anytime our ...

Former President John Mahama’s 2020 Campaign Team has described as “disinformation”, President Nana Akufo-Addo’s comments that Mr Mahama’s publicly-declared intention to review the Free Senior High School programme should he be re-elected in the 2020 polls on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), can only amount to collapsing it. In response to Mr Mahama’s comments which he made ...

The Mahama campaign says the observations of the former President, John Dramani Mahama regarding the Free SHS policy are consistent with the views expressed by the Finance minister, Ken Ofori Atta. President Akufo-Addo has said he’s worried over the stance of his predecessor in relation to the policy. “I am alarmed by this concept of review. This is because, anytime ...

The campaign spokesperson of John Mahama has hit back at the president for suggesting a future NDC government will collapse the free Senior High School education policy. On the contrary, James Agyenim Boateng says a John Mahama government in 2021 will conduct a comprehensive stakeholders’ review of the policy, which would improve the policy and not collapse it. He was ...