POLITICS

The Economic and Organized Crime Organization (EOCO) has reportedly mounted a manhunt for Kingsley Kwame Awuah-Darko, a former Managing Director of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company (BOST) Limited following a warrant secured for his arrest. Mr. Awuah-Darko, according to sources at EOCO, was declared ‘wanted’ after he allegedly turned down several invitations to explain some alleged payments and ...

The most unfortunate vice president in the history of this precious republic His excellency Dr. Mahamoud Bawumia who has lost his intellectual credibility should sincerely apologize to the good people of Ghana and call for help to be able to manage the economy for the few days left for him to be a vice president of Ghana. The economic cacophonies ...

Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom has advised the government and the Bank of Ghana to eschew partisan politics in its bid to cleanse the financial sector. According to him, politicizing the exercise will defeat its purpose hence the need to purge the sector of politics to boost depositor and investor confidence. “It is also important to put partisan politics when it ...

Renowned lawyer Professor Raymond Atuguba has accused the management and Council of the University of Education-Winneba of tribalism in the removal of the former Vice Chancellor and some top officials of the school. According to him, some individuals who do not like the ethnicity of the VC and people of his kind trumped up charges to get them out of ...

The global and international credit ratings agency, Standards and Poor’s (S&P) has upgraded Ghana’s credit score from ‘B’ minus to ‘B’ with a stable outlook. At the same time, they have revised Ghana’s transfer and convertibility (T&C) assessment to ‘B+’ from ‘B’. In its latest release on the credit ratings of Ghana, S&P Global indicated that “the upgrade reflects our ...

President Akufo-Addo says the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) has secured a 500 million dollar facility boost infrastructure at the various schools in the country. According to him, the amount will be used to build new facilities, expand and renovate existing ones. “The Ghana Education Trust Fund has secured a $500 million facility for the construction of new schools and ...

The President of the National House of Chiefs, Togbe Afede XVI, has urged key players in the ongoing process to create new regions to uphold the rule of law every step of the way. The Paramount Chief of Asogli wants government agencies and the Electoral Commission to work towards upholding the peace and unity of Ghanaians in the creation of ...

Prof. Raymond Atuguba has said the removal of Prof. Mawutor Avoke and Dr. Theopholus Senyo Ackorlie from office as Vice Chancellor and Finance Officer respectively of the University of Education, Winneba was planned by a cabal, stressing that the “only real reason for their removal was ethnocentric”. In a statement copied to Ghanaweb.com, Atuguba who was counsel for Prof Avoke ...

The Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei-Mensah, has stated emphatically that he will not succumb to pressure from New Patriotic Party (NPP) serial callers to engage in corrupt practices in violation of his cherished principles. According to him, he continually chastised the previous National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration for upholding corruption and therefore has no justification to do same. “I will ...

Former President John Rawlings has paid a glowing tribute to the late renowned Ghanaian poet, Professor Atukwei Okai, saying he was “synonymous with everything literary in our part of the world.” “His ubiquitous and effervescent presence over several decades at myriad national, local and even smaller events left a memorable mark on many, especially the youth, most of whom have ...