POLITICS

One of the members of the Electoral Commission (EC) has come under intense pressure to come clean on her actual age. Hajia Sa-Adatu Maida has been accused of reducing her age by three years, implying that under the law, she is supposed to have gone on retirement in her capacity as a member of the commission as at June 2018. ...

The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers Ghana (COPEC) has charged the Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu to investigate the impasse at the Ghana Cylinder Manufacturing Company Limited (GCMCL). The CEO of the GCMCL, Frances Essiam is being accused of awarding several contracts worth millions of Ghana Cedis without recourse to the governing Board of the GCMCL—an allegation she vehemently denied. The allegations ...

The 2018 list of the world’s 100 most influential people in digital government has placed President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo among the first 20 names. The 2018 list is the first of its kind to show the international spread of the field and includes individuals from every continent. Nominations were drawn from over 100 expert contributors to make the list, including ...

Information available to Happy FM indicates that Professor Kwesi Botchwey has confirmed that he will be to contesting in the upcoming Presidential primaries of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). This has become necessary as a result of incessant calls from members of the NDC and from the Ghanaian population at large. According to the source, Prof. Botchwey had explained that ...

Impeccable information picked up by 3news.com from the presidency, points to an impending jaw-dropping reshuffle that could see high profile cabinet ministers being shown the exit by the Akufo-Addo-led government. The government was ridiculed by many after dropping a tall list of names, as many as 110, for ministerial appointments, months after taking over power from the National Democratic Congress ...

National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Freddie Blay has apologized to the National House of Chiefs for describing its President, Agbogbomefia Togbe Afede XIV as a palmwine tapper. “I write on my behalf as National Chairman of the NPP to apologize to Togbe Afede XIV Agbogbomefia of Asogli State and President of the National House of Chiefs for ...

The Northern regional chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Mohammed Baantima Samba, has called for the sack of the chairman of the national Hajj board, Sheikh IC Quaye. Mr. Samba is accusing the board chair of causing “a lot of mess and disaster in the Hajj” after some 200 party supporters billed to be sponsored to Mecca this year failed ...

General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party, John Boadu, says Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko has no role in the Akufo-Addo government hence whatever he says should be treated as his personal comments. Mr. Otchere-Darko who is the nephew of President Akufo-Addo has been viewed by many as a powerful member of the government because he appears to have a great deal ...

Former minister Dr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah has rejected reports that he endorsed former president John Dramani Mahama during the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Unity Walk in Aflao. He clarified on the ‘After Hours’ show on TV3 last Friday that he rather congratulated him for having joined the previous editions. “I congratulated him in Aflao for having led the ‘Unity Walks’, which ...

The Institute of Public Policy Research has called on Akufo-Addo to sanction all individuals who played various roles in the negotiation of the AMERI Novation Agreement. In a press statement, the Executive Director, Eugene B.G Bawelle said “IPPR believes that the former Energy Minister Mr Boakye Agyarko could not have acted alone in this whole renegotiation deal with AMERI. Hence ...