POLITICS

The post-resignation utterances of Akua Blakofe are becoming unnerving, Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has said. The Danquah Institute founder’s anger follows claims by the resigned Deputy CEO of the Ghana Tourism Ghana Tourism Development Company (GTDC), that she no longer feels safe in Ghana, since her life is under threat for wanting to do ...

The Eastern Regional Secretariat of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has suspended four executives in the Akropong Constituency for violating the party’s constitution during the 2016 electioneering campaign. The suspended executives are the Constituency Chairman, Daniel Ofori Atta; Secretary, Adomako Kwabi; Deputy Organizer, Godfred Sackey and former organizer, Umaru Philip Brima. The Regional Secretariat suspended the four executives after it ...

Special Development Initiatives Minister, Mavis Hawa Koomson, says the government has begun implementation of the disbursement of the $1million per constituency promised in the 2016 manifesto of the governing New Patriotic Party. According to the Minister, out of the amount promised, projects such as the One Village One Dam is being executed with 570 dugouts currently under construction in the ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has indicated that he has fulfilled a number of promises he made to the Ghanaian people in the run up to the 2016 elections, since he assumed power in January 2017. According to Akufo-Addo, many of the pledges he made to Ghanaians, prior to the December 2016 elections, were described by his political opponents as ...

Second year students at the senior high school will not be expected to pay for second cycle education from September this year. This is because President Akufo-Addo has said that his government will extend its flagship Free Senior High School policy to second year students beginning next academic year. The president made this revelation at a durbar in Busunya in ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said that the so-called unprecedented projects, especially roads, which former President John Dramani Mahama and his National Democratic Congress (NDC) government spoke about are nowhere to be found. During the 2016 electioneering campaign, then President Mahama accused Nana Addo, then presidential hopeful of the New Patriotic Party), of not seeing the ‘rehabilitated roads because he was ...

Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper, Alhaji Mr Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has received barrage of SMS issuing him with threats of harm over comments he allegedly passed regarding the Ashanti Kingdom. Mr Baako had said he’ll under no circumstance ever kneel before the revered Overlord of Asanteman, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II. According to him, he is not a ...

The Vice Chairman of the Public Interest Accountability Committee (PIAC) Kwame Jantuah has labelled as “disgraceful” the ongoing public spat between the Minister of Energy and CEO of Tema Oil Refinery over the plan conversion of TOR to a tank farm. PIAC is an independent statutory body mandated to promote transparency and accountability in the management of petroleum revenues in ...

The Minority is demanding an elaborate plan from the Electoral Commission (EC) and the Finance Ministry for the conduct of the referendum for the creation of new regions. According to Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, the Electoral Commission must exhibit a high level of preparedness before the conduct of such crucial polls. A planned meeting of the Commission of Inquiry for ...

The independent presidential candidate in the 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections, Jacob Osei Yeboah (JOY) has described President Nana Akufo-Addo’s ‘Ghana Beyond Aid’ agenda as a mere rhetoric. In his view, the way the current president and his team are managing the country will make the agenda difficult to achieve. The President Nana Akufo-Addo some few weeks ago announced the ...