POLITICS

President John Mahama has said some of the hard decisions he took while President, made Ghana one of the fastest growing economies in the world. He said but for those decisions, Ghana would have faced dire consequences. John Mahama made the comment when he spoke as a Special Guest of the New York Ministers Conference of the Assemblies of God ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has not proposed the renaming of the University of Ghana after anybody, Kweku Asare, a U.S.-based Ghanaian Law Professor, has said. Some Ghanaians have criticised Mr Akufo-Addo on social media after he recently said that his uncle, Joseph Boakye Danquah, who was one of the Big Six, founded the University of Ghana, Legon. The president ...

Persons accused of impugning the character of the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, have challenged the accusers to publish the alleged insults or face them in court. The Kumasi Youth Association led by its General Secretary, Kwabena Frimpong cited Gabby Asare Otchere Darko Founder of Danquah Institute, Nana Asante Bediatuo, Secretary to President Akufo-Addo, Deputy MASLOC Director, Afia Akoto, Deputy ...

A dismissed staff of the Ghana Cylinder Manufacturing Company Limited (GCMCL), Julius Opuni-Asamoah has called for a full scale investigation into the litany of allegations of malfeasance leveled against the Chief Executive Officer of the company, Frances Essiam. It comes after the board, in a letter, demanded the CEO – who has been asked to step aside – to provide ...

Deputy Vice Chairperson of the National Democratic Congress, Anita Desoso says founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Jerry John Rawlings is not an angel who is infallible, but a human being capable of making mistakes. Madam Desoso stated that she dignifies former President Rawlings as her father and has a lot of respect for him, but was quick to ...

Leading member of the National Communications team of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi, has described the 1.1 million jobs government claims to have created as a ‘product of baseless and laughable assumptions’. Speaking on Asempa FM’s late afternoon political talk show ‘Ekosi Sen’ on Friday May 4 2018, he rubbished government’s 1.1 million jobs claim and described ...

Former Presidential Staffer, Kwadwo Adu-Asare has tagged the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) as a party which takes pride in couching programs, launching them and leaving them uncompleted, for which reason the Ghanaian youth cannot be entirely confident in their newly introduced Nation Builders Corps (NaBCo) program. President Akufo-Addo recently launched the NaBCo program which is designed to meet the ...

The board of the Ghana Cylinder Manufacturing Company Limited (GCMCL) has ordered the company’s Chief Executive Frances Essiam to step aside with immediate effect. The action comes on the back of the impasse between the board and Madam Essiam over some of her decisions since assuming the post last year. In a statement Tuesday after a meeting at the Robin ...

President Akufo-Addo has stated that his uncle and member of the Big Six Joseph Kwame Kyeretwie Boakye Danquah founded the country’s premier university, the University of Ghana (UG). He said it was through the inspired vision of the pan-Africanist who rejected the colonial government’s decision to site a single university in Ibadan, Nigeria for British West Africa that Ghana got ...

Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong has alleged that some members of his party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) are conniving with some other persons close to Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II to pitch him against the President, Nana Akufo-Addo and the leadership of the party. Speaking on Adom TV’s Badwam program Tuesday, Mr. Agyapong cited similar instances ...