POLITICS

MP for Bolgatanga Central Isaac Adongo has said a future National Democratic Congress will ensure that justice is done to the bank owners whose banks have been taken over or shut down by the Central Bank unjustifiably. According to him, if any of the owners goes to court and gets a decision in their favour under an NDC administration, their ...

The Speaker of Parliament Professor Mike Ocquaye, has urged politicians to develop capacity to stomach “nonsense” in the pursuit of a political career. Delivering a lecture to mark the 40th Anniversary of the legacy, life and Political achievements of Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia, Prime Minister of Ghana from 1969 to 1972, in the 2nd Republic, the Speaker, quoting Prof. Busia ...

Former Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Ejisu Juaben Municipality Afrifa Yamoah Ponkoh has served notice that the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) when it comes to power in 2021, will deliberately collapse Databank Financial Services, which is owned by Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta. The firebrand politician, has accused the NPP government of deliberately collapsing uniBank owned by former Finance ...

A member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has launched a scathing attack on the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) for criticizing government’s decision to build a national cathedral. David Prah maintained that, the Akufo-Addo led administration will not succumb to unnecessary pressure to halt its decision to build a temple for God. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo has ...

The National Democratic Congress is investigating the circumstances under which unauthorized persons picked application forms for the chairmanship of the party for Professor Kwesi Botchway. It was widely reported that Prof. Botchway would contest for the position of National Chairman in the NDC, but a statement from his office quickly debunked the reports. According to the General Secretary of the ...

Some unidentified persons have been staging frequent break-ins at the offices of the Ministry of Justice and Attorney-General in Accra, CorruptionWatch has found. One of the topmost officers affected is the Director of Public Prosecutions, Yvonne Attakorah Obuobisa, whose office was broken into in March this year. In that incident, the burglars took away a laptop computer and a printer. ...

The Central Regional Chairman of the opposition National Democratic (NDC), Bernard Allotey Jacobs, has asked current General Secretary of the party to retire from his position and make way for other equally capable persons who are endowed with new ideas to move the party forward. To him, there is a new breed of political youngsters who are more appealing to ...

The 2016 presidential candidate of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Lawyer Ivor Kobina Greenstreet, has registered his displeasure over the recent comments by the Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament and presidential hopeful of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Alban Kingsford Sumani Bagbin, about people with disabilities. Mr Greenstreet stated that he would petition the Speaker of Parliament to refer Mr ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has expressed serious misgivings about comments made by a flagbearer hopeful of the NDC Alban Bagbin against the appointment of two persons with disabilities during the John Mahama administration. The Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament reportedly attributed the poor performance of the previous National Democratic Congress government in the last Presidential and Parliamentary elections to ...

A political scientist with the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana, Legon, Alex Frimpong has shot down the chances of former President John Mahama beating President Akufo-Addo in the 2020 general elections. Mahama on Thursday officially notified the party of his intention to contest for the flagbearer position of the party. In a short video moments after his ...