POLITICS

A total of 34 persons were able to successfully file their nomination forms at the headquarters of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) at the close of nominations on Tuesday, May 15, 2018. The two-day exercise for prospective national executives of the party started on Monday May 14, 2018, where 19 aspirants submitted their forms. Fifteen more filed on Tuesday, ...

The Atebubu Magistrate Court in the Brong Ahafo region presided by His Worship, Joseph Nasigri has remanded Augustin Boadu, an NPP Polling station chairman for Akyeremade into police custody for allegedly leading a mob attack on the Sene West District Police Headquarters at Kwame Danso and freeing four inmates from custody. Mr. Boadu was arrested from his hideout after the ...

The deputy Special Prosecutor-nominee Cynthia Naa Koshie Lamptey has said she is prepared to undertake all roles assigned to her by her boss Martin Amidu in order to ensure the success of the office if she is approved by Parliament. According to her, her knowledge of Mr. Amidu’s work ethics makes it easy for her to be able to work ...

The former second deputy governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Johnson Asiama has denied claims by government that the Central bank did not engage the Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems Limited (GhIPSS) in the award of the interoperability contract. According to him, although GhiPPS was deeply involved in the process it did not have the financial muscle to independently executive ...

The deputy Special Prosecutor-nominee, Cynthia Lamptey, will appear before the Appointments Committee of Parliament, who will assess her suitability for the position, at a public hearing today [Wednesday] May 16, 2018. If approved, Cynthia Lamptey will assist Martin Amidu, who was sworn in as the Special Prosecutor in February. Ahead of the vetting, the Minority Chief Whip and Deputy Ranking ...

Maverick Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, has admitted that President Akufo-Addo is running a family and friend’s government. According to Mr. Agyapong, in spite of such family and friends’ ties with the president, they were men who are more qualified and competent than those in the Mahama-administration. “I don’t dispute he has family and friends in ...

Deputy Communications Minister, George Andah is claiming that the previous National Democratic Congress (NDC) wanted to use the mobile money interoperability project as an avenue for create, loot and share. The ‘’non-negotiable’’ project he sated was going to cost tax payers an amount of $1.2 billion which would have gone to the supplier. In an interview with Kwame Tutu on ...

The Campaign Team of Mr. Freddie Blay has said the National Chairman aspirant of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) acquired the now-much-talked-about 275 buses, with which he intends to “empower” the party, “through a facility”. In a statement signed by Mr Blay’s spokesperson Richard Nyamah, the campaign team of the Acting National Chairman, said the buses were not a ...

The Eastern Regional Secretariat of the National Democratic Congress has summoned the leadership of the alleged “vigilante group” formed at the Lower West Akyem constituency of the Party. The Eastern Regional Chairman, Tawiah Boateng, speaking to the media on Monday in Koforidua condemned the formation of the group without approval from the Regional executives. According to him, the party will ...

The Ministry of Education has dismissed claims by former President John Dramani Mahama that only 30 percent of the funds meant for the first-year implementation of the Free Senior High School programme has been paid by the government. Mr. Mahama during the first National Conference of Ex-MMDCEs of the National Democratic Congress said: “It’s like the government is just, as ...