POLITICS

This story was first published in April 2017 The Vice President, Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has given an account of the first 100 days in office of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government indicating that they have been able to “arrest” the fall of the cedi as well as made some 103 achievements. In a humorous manner whilst delivering a ...

In a rare protest against the leadership of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), members of a group calling itself Volunteer Media Communicators for NPP their mobile phones ablaze in Kumasi. The move, according to the serial pro-NPP callers, is to get party leadership to reward them for their loyalty. The communicators, drawn from various constituencies in the Ashanti Region, converged ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo will from today embark on a 4-day tour of the Central Region. The tour scheduled to end on Monday, September 17, 2018 forms part of the President’s ongoing nationwide tour, which has seen him visit the Brong Ahafo, Western, Ashanti, Volta and the 3 Northern Regions. The President is expected to interact with Chiefs and people of ...

President of policy think tank IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe, has called on President Akufo-Addo to immediately resolve the impasse between the Auditor-General and his board. Daniel Domelevo is accusing his board chairman Prof. Edward Dua-Agyeman and the board of the Audit Service of “unlawful interferences and violations” of his constitutional mandate. He has since petitioned President Akufo-Addo to intervene over ...

Maverick Brong Ahafo Regional First Vice Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Baffoe popularly known as Abronye DC has alleged that the wife of the former President, Mrs. Lordina Mahama was receiving 82,000 US dollars as her per diem when NDC was in power. Mr. Mahama had purportedly said the current development where family members of President Akufo-Addo ...

Mr Annan made his first speech after his election as the Secretary-General of the United Nations, at the 51st Session, 88th plenary meeting of the General Assembly on December 17, 1996, at 3 p.m. in New York. His speech is reproduced below. “Mr President, respected Secretary-General — or rather, respected Secretaries-General, as I see my old boss, Secretary-General Pérez de ...

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has stepped up its supply of United States (US) dollars to meet daily demands for foreign exchange as global pressures and the exit of investors from emerging markets cause the cedi to depreciate. According to a source at the BoG, the central bank had sold $157 million to banks this month, while in August this ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo says the late former United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Busumuru Annan, gave him sensitive advice when he took over as President of Ghana. Nana Akufo-Addo said he appreciated the advice from the late diplomat. “He gave me sensitive, deeply appreciated advice when I became President of the Republic,” Akufo-Addo said when he read his tribute at Kofi Annan’s ...

The First lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, has called on the Ghana Health Service and the Ministry of Health to take urgent steps to prioritize breastfeeding as one of the major public health interventions in the country. She said the early beginning of breastfeeding in infants and sustained exclusive breastfeeding among babies, especially in the first six months in life, would ...

As the nation pays her last respects to the memory of one of the greatest Ghanaian and African of all time, His Excellency Kofi Atta Annan – an iconic global statesman and international diplomat par excellence, the Minority Caucus in Parliament joins his family, Ghanaians home and abroad, the African people, the United Nations and the international community in bidding ...