POLITICS

The son of Anita De Sosoo, a vice chairperson of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), has attacked former President Jerry John Rawlings for calling her mother a crook. Franklin Dorledzi, in a Facebook post, said that the NDC founder has no moral right to describe her mother as a crook when he (former President) has had several corruption allegations ...

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, says he is unfazed about his invitation to the Privileges Committee of Parliament. The controversial MP faces the committee in camera on Tuesday for his alleged verbal attack on Parliament. Mr Agyapong described the Minority Whip, Muntaka Mubarak, as “dumb” for referring him to Parliament’s ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has taken a swipe at some minority Members of Parliament, who have boycotted the National Identification Authority’s exercise of issuing new national ID cards popularly known as Ghana Card. In his remarks as Guest of Honour at the 14th commencement ceremony and presentation of the Presidential Charter at Ashesi University College, Akufo Addo, quoting from ...

The former president, John Dramani Mahama is sending warm wishes to members of the National Democratic Congress contesting in constituency elections across the country. The elections are being conducted today June 23, 2018, to elect constituency executives to manage the affairs of the party ahead of the 2020 elections. In a goodwill message to the party ahead of the poll, ...

The Minority Chief Whip says but for the rules of engagement in Parliament, Assin Central MP would have gotten in ten folds his threats of a showdown. Muntaka Mubarak says nobody can threaten him, a boy bred in the Zongo, a predominantly Muslim community, not even Kennedy Agyapong who walks around saying he is not scared of anyone. ‘Nobody can ...

Mr. Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, has apologised for the tasteless and offensive comments he made about the Majority Leader. He told journalists that he respected their leader, Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu. This comes as the MP for Asawase and Minority Chief Whip, Alhaji Muntaka Mubarak, pushes to get Mr. Agyapong brought before the Privileges Committee ...

The government of Ghana has been given the go-ahead by FIFA to use its national laws to fight criminal conduct and illegality in the Ghana Football Association. This was made known after a meeting between the government of Ghana and FIFA officials to resolve the current crises that has bedeviled the Ghana Football Association following the corruption expose by investigative ...

Assin Central Member of Parliament (MP), Kennedy Ohene Agyapong has called on supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to stop seeing him as a ‘mad man’ for speaking the truth all the time. Speaking on Accra-based Oman FM as monitored by GhanaNewsPage.Com the maverick politician said he is always compared to always come out to speak the truth because ...

Staff of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) have backtracked on their allegations against their board chairman Mr. Peter Mac Manu and his family. According to the staff, all the wild allegations they made against Mr. Manu and his wife, in particular, concerning contract grabbing at the Authority are false and therefore withdraw them. The staff among a litany ...

The Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has called for a change of mindset among Africans, and for that matter Ghanaians, if the continent is to be transformed. He said “The most important transformation is the transformation of our mindset because that will make us believe that we can do what other countries and continents have done. “It is not rocket science; ...