POLITICS

Maverick Politician and Member of Parliament for Assin South, Ken Agyapong has said he would have shot to death the Security Coordinator of Metro Mass Transit (MMT) Company if he were to be the Managing Director, Bennet Aboagye. According to the financier of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), he would have made the Security Coordinator pay dearly with his ...

It has emerged that former President John Dramani Mahama had more people working under him during his tenure than Ghanaians are being made to believe. The NDC has gone into political frenzy after the list of appointees serving under President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and his New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration was revealed in a letter from the president to ...

Chiefs and people of Bia District of the Western Region are threatening to ‘beat’ politicians who will storm the district to campaign for votes in the 2020 elections. They explained that the district lack developmental projects yet successive governments keep promising them whenever there is going to be an election. The chiefs said if their development needs are not addressed, ...

Pollster Ben Ephson has predicted that, the current dispute between Stephen Ntim and Alhaji Short, both National Chairman aspirants of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), will benefit their colleague aspirant Freddie Blay. Supporters of Mr Ntim and Alhaji Short have been at each other’s throat as part of their struggle for power within the governing party. The NPP is gearing ...

Security analyst Dr. Kwasi Aning has revealed that some powerful figures in the country have sent him threatening audio recordings seeking to silence him. According to the Director, Faculty of Academic Affairs and Research, Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre, the senders of the audios appear to have issues with his security analysis in the media and want to intimidate ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has given an assurance that the full force of the state security apparatus is being marshalled to deal with threats of piracy in the country. “The country’s coastlines are deemed to be very safe and we will not allow pirates or criminals to rob us of this hard-won reputation and create a sense of insecurity ...

The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has revealed that the government will recruit up to 10,000 unemployed nurses and health assistants through the Nation Builders’ Corps which will be launched on May 1, 2018. He said government is working with the Ministry of Health to recruit the many health professionals who have completed their professional training but have been idle ...

Newly-elected Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Mr Divine Otoo Agorhom has said Flagstaff house (now Jubilee House) played an instrumental role monetarily in his victory over the weekend as party regional chairman, MyNewsGh.com can report. Mr Divine Otoo Agorhom over the weekend beat Mr Alfred Boye and Archibold Cobbina to become the ruling party’s Greater ...

The Presidency’s staff strength of 998 already criticised as “absurd” could hit 1,697. “That is the plan of the Akufo-Addo government for the year 2018”, National Democratic Congress MP for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, told Joy News Monday. “If Ghanaians are worried about 998, that is not going to be the end of the matter”, he continued. Referring to ...

The Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Aaron Oquaye, has recalled Members of Parliament from recess to enable the House consider some urgent parliamentary business. The lawmakers are expected to appear on the floor on Thursday, 26 April 2018. A statement signed by the Speaker of Parliament, stated that “In Exercise of the Power conferred on the Speaker by order 42(3) ...