POLITICS

Pollster Ben Ephson has said ex-President John Mahama will have a difficult task leading the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) into the 2020 elections if he should contest and win the party’s primaries due to the sharp division within the party. Mr. Ephson’s comments come after about 94 NDC Members of Parliament threw their weight behind the candidature of John ...

President Akufo-Addo has charged recipients of the Presidential Business Support Initiative to use their financial awards effectively in order to generate at least 30,000 direct and indirect jobs. Speaking at the award ceremony of Presidential Business Support Programme on the theme; “Empowering Ghanaian Businesses,” at the Banquet Hall of the Jubilee House, President Akufo-Addo, quoting Mark Victor Hansen, who once ...

Sacked Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Charlotte Osei, has denied media reports she is keeping a government vehicle despite exiting office. Mrs Osei in a letter dated August 7, 2018 and sighted by Myjoyonline.com Tuesday said she had “returned all vehicles and other assets belonging to the Commission”. The letter was written to the Director of Administration at the Commission ...

It is interesting to hear the general secretary of the NPP admitting that, the ministry of fisheries failed to do proper consultation and effective communication relating to the proposed ban on fishing in the country as he was informing the public on the clearance of the ban. I complimented John Boadu for conceding the fact that, the minister of fisheries ...

In a game-changing move, Ghana’s second cycle institutions will now move away from three school terms to a two-semester system similar to that run by tertiary institutions. Education Minister, Matthew Opoku Prempeh has said the new system, which ends the over 70-years old educational cycle, will kick in come September 2018 when more than 600 Senior High Schools re-open. “All ...

President Akufo-Addo has charged participants at this year’s Human Rights Moot Court Competition to use the academic exercise to trigger the necessary political will in their respective countries on the African continent to deepen respect for human rights. Delivering the keynote address at the 27th African Human Rights Moot Court Competition at the Great Hall, University of Ghana Monday, President ...

The Free Senior High School (SHS) policy introduced by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government will remain for all SHS students, Education Minister Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, has observed. According to Dr Prempeh, it is true that some parents want to pay the fees of their children, however, government will not back down on making secondary education free-for-all until every ...

It has emerged that former President John Dramani Mahama did not represent the African Development Bank as an advocate when he visited Namibia in 2017 as reportedly claimed. The former president is said to have sent some representatives from AMERI Energy to the African country because they expressed interest in a power agreement like the one he [Mahama] signed with ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo is expected to downsize his ministerial list in his maiden reshuffle likely to take place soon. Sources close to the seat of government – the Jubilee House – have hinted at least 15 ministers will be sacked from the “Elephant-size government.” The size of ministers is likely to drop to about 80 or 90 from the original ...

The aggrieved Electoral Commission (EC) Staff whose petition caused the eventual removal of Charlotte Osei as EC Chairperson, have denied accusations of unjustifiably targeting the former EC Boss after relaunching a call at the doorstep of the Special Prosecutor for Osei to be prosecuted over alleged unlawful deals. The former EC Boss thought her woes had ended when she was ...