POLITICS

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) as a strong political force in Ghana can go ahead to endorse Mr Freddie Blay as the substantive chairman of the party at its delegate elections happening this weekend, Dr Aidoo has said. Dr. Daniel Ato Aidoo, Policy Analyst for Kra Consult, comments on his Facebook page was a response to Kwadwo Mpiani, former Chief ...

Rawlings’ killing of people for taking state loans of 50 cedis (now some 50,000 cedis equivalent) and not paying, but turning around to himself collect $2 million dollars (then valued around 200Billion cedis) from Sani Abacha as a gift to Ghana without accounting for it is a mockery of ‘Probity and Accountability”. This, MyNewsGh.com can report, is the express opinion ...

Former Chief of Staff under the Kufuor administration has kicked against the Acting New Patriotic Party (NPP) Chairman’s quest to be affirmed. Kwadwo Mpiani insists it was a mistake for Freddie Blay to have been elected First Vice Chair in the first place since he has no roots in the Danquah-Busia tradition. “The chairman of a party is the number ...

The Member of Parliament for Assin Central Constituency in the Central Region has revealed that the National Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are on the heels of Anas Aremeyaw Anas and his Tiger Eye PI over their alleged dubious dealings in the country and other parts of the world. Kennedy Ohene Agyapong said, he has sent the ...

The United Nations (UN) Resident Coordinator for Ghana, Ms Christine Evans-Klock, has commended President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for committing himself to an all-inclusive approach towards the timely appointment of new electoral commissioners. She said her outfit also welcomed President Akufo-Addo’s statement that “we are not looking for persons who are coming to do a job for the National Democratic ...

Former First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, has dared some residents of Adoagyir, Akwamu, Owuraku and Ntoaso in the Eastern Region, to go to court if they strongly believe that she has unlawfully taken over their lands. Residents in these communities on Wednesday, 5 July 2018 took to the street to demonstrate against Mrs Rawlings claiming she had illegally given out ...

A former Chief of Staff has scoffed at former President Jerry Rawlings’ mantra of probity and accountability saying the founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) did not live the virtues. Kwadwo Mpiani who served in the Kufuor regime said the former president when he was accused of taking a $5 million gift from former Nigerian president, Sani Abacha, was ...

Profesor of Political Science, Ransford Gyampo, has criticised the timing of a controversial donation by one of the key contenders in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Chairmanship race. Prof Gyampo says although Freddie Blay’s ongoing process to procure 275 buses for the party is “not a big deal,” the gesture could well be construed as vote-buying because the delivery of ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of Ghana has arrived in South Africa and will be hosted by President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday. A statement from the South African Presidency said Akufo-Addo’s state visit aims to strengthen the already good political, economic and social relations that South Africa and Ghana enjoy, which were formalised at the advent of democracy in South ...

President Akufo-Addo has ordered the Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko to dissolve the governing board of the Ghana Cylinder Manufacturing Company Limited. The directive comes on the back of a frosty relationship between the Chief Executive of GCMCL Frances Essiam and the Board after the latter ordered her to step aside. Madam Essiam was ordered by the board to step aside ...