POLITICS

The Auditor-General Daniel Domelevo says his desire to fight corruption has been heightened by the abject poverty he had witnessed across the country in one of his recent travels. “…Anytime I travel outside Accra my resolve to fight corruption becomes higher because I can see the poverty everywhere, it is not acceptable,” he stated Monday at the launch of the ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo, like his immediate predecessor John Mahama, albeit under different circumstances, has been presented with the heavy responsibility and privilege of appointing a new Chair of the Electoral Commission, following his removal of former Chair Mrs Charlotte Osei and her two deputies Amadu Sulley and Georgina Opoku Amankwah. Mr Akufo-Addo, a few weeks ago, hinted at the kind ...

The National Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Kofi Portuphy, has called for calm within the party and assured supporters that the NDC will deal with President Nana Akufo-Addo’s machinations at the Electoral Commission after the burial of late Vice-President Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur. “The NDC will, therefore, resist the deliberate attempt by the Akufo-Addo government to abuse ...

Long-serving Member of Parliament and Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin says he is shocked at the conduct of President Akufo-Addo in government. The Nadowli Kaleo legislator, who served alongside the President in parliament when he was MP for Akim Abuakwa South, said he thought he knew the President until he assumed power in his current capacity. Alban Bagbin ...

The Minority in Parliament has said the economy is challenged because of the government’s haste in implementing its numerous electioneering promises. “The current crisis confronting the managers of the economy, compelling them to impose a raft of taxes on already burdened populace is self-imposed,” the Minority’s spokesperson on Finance Cassiel Ato Forson said Monday during a roundtable breakfast dialogue on ...

Professor Henrietta Mensa-Bonsu is set to be named the next Electoral Commissioner (EC) following the impeachment of Charlotte Osei. Myjoyonline.com understands the President is keen on replacing the first female EC boss with another female. The law professor who failed in her bid to become a judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC) becomes the fourth Electoral Commissioner under the ...

There is no evidence that a soldier has been lynched by some irate residents of Gomoa Buduburam in the Central Region, as has been reported by the media, Col. Eric Aggrey Quarshie, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF), has said. The report said the alleged unidentified soldier was lynched Wednesday evening at a popular spot ...

Details are emerging about how the committee set up by the Chief Justice to investigate complaints against top officials of the Electoral Commission (EC) came to the conclusion that the commission’s chairperson, Charlotte Osei should be booted out of office. The five-member committee, chaired by Justice Anthony Alfred Benin of the Supreme Court, recounted how the sacked EC boss, Charlotte ...

NPP Member of Parliament (MP) for Subin constituency in the Ashanti Region, Eugene Boakye Antwi says he will resign from his position if it is really true that Ex-President John Mahama’s past administration built 16 hospitals that need to be commissioned. According to him no appointee in President Akufo-Addo’s government would never influence the stalling of the hospitals that need ...

The Akufo-Addo government’s popularity is expected to take a massive nosedive in the coming days if it attempts to increase the current 17% Value Added Tax (VAT) rate. There are strong indications that government will increase the VAT rate from 17.5% to 21% when the Finance Minister presents the mid-year budget to Parliament next week Thursday. Gabby Asare-Otchere Darko, a ...