POLITICS

Ghana’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has added her voice to commitments by the Group of 77 (G-77) and China to work toward the improvement of lives for young people. The group also highlighted efforts to assist them to realize their full potential and to make valuable and positive contributions to the development of their ...

The Executive Director for the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) Professor Henry Kwasi Prempeh believes it will be out of place for the Special Prosecutor to resign over inadequate resources to function. Mr. Martin Amidu last week went public to complain about lack of cooperation on the part of government appointees, especially ministers in releasing documents and dockets for ...

Former president and a leading candidate for the NDC’s upcoming flag bearer contest, John Dramani Mahama has insisted on the need to review the implementation of the Free SHS policy introduced in September 2017 by the Akufo-Addo led administration. According to former president Mahama the existing form of the Free SHS policy is fraught with several challenges hence the need ...

It appears the Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu decided to go public with his plights after internal structures he used to have his problems resolved failed. citinewsroom.com has sighted a letter dated September 10, 2018, written by Martin Amidu and addressed to the Chief of Staff, copied to the Attorney General, Finance Minister and the Chairpersons of the Special Prosecutor’s Governing ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo last Friday officially proclaimed 2019 as the Year of Return for all Diasporan descendants of Africans who were captured and transported into the Americas as slaves in the 17th and 18th centuries. Titled, ‘Year of Return, Ghana 2019’, the proclamation was read at a ceremony at the United States National Press Club in Washington DC ...

Former communications minister Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, Agricultural Economist Goosie Tanoh, former National Health Insurance boss Sylvester Mensah and 2nd Deputy Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin, and former Deputy Minister of Finance Kweku Ricketts-Hagan are among individuals who have began moves to work in concert to ensure that former president John Mahama is not elected flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress ...

The Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Prof. Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, has announced that government has pledged a minimum of one percent of Gross Domestic product (GDP) towards the promotion of research and development expenditure of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education in the country. He said in many advanced countries, conservative estimates have it that the direct and ...

Ghana’s Second Lady and Global Ambassador for the Global Alliance for Cleancookstoves, Mrs Samira Bawumia, has been honoured as the African Woman of Excellence for her contribution to the cause of humanity. This follows the passionate drive she is undertaking through the Samira Empowerment and Humanitarian Projects (SEHP). The Samira Empowerment & Humanitarian Projects (SEHP) is a not-for-profit organisation established ...

A huge durbar was held by chiefs and people of Gbambaya in Tamale to mark the commissioning of a furnished CHPs facility fully funded by their Member of Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu. A legion of residents of other beneficiary communities also left their homes overjoyed and raced to the ceremony ground near the Business Senior High School to witness the handing ...

Host of Kokrokoo on Peace FM, Kwame Sefa-Kayi has said the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has so far been lousy at communicating their ideas and achievements. In a tell it as it is interview with Lexis Bill on Personality Profile on Joy FM Thursday, he said there is more room for improvement for government to articulate its policies and ...