POLITICS

Former Deputy Communications Minister, Felix Kwakye Ofosu has accused President Akufo-Addo of needlessly packing the Presidency with party activists with the purpose of paying them with state resources. The presidency has released a list of 998 staff working at the Jubilee House. The tall list of Presidential staffers has sparked anger among a section of Ghanaian public with many accusing ...

President of IMANI Ghana is questioning the competence of some 256 junior political officers government has appointed in a list of 998 workers at the presidency submitted to Parliament. But for their competencies exhibited on Facebook, mostly to make noise, Franklin Cudjoe says it is difficult to understand how they ended up as junior appointees. “I don’t know whether it ...

A former Executive Director of the Danquah Institute, Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, has said that President Akufo-Addo is not as concerned about the size of his government as he is about the effective delivery of government’s development agenda. The government has come under intense criticism and pressure after it was revealed that it had 998 staff working at the presidency alone, ...

The Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has insisted that Government has paid 1billion cedis out of the 1.2billion cedis of debt owed NHIS service providers constituting 98% of the total debt paid. In his keynote address at the 2018 Health Summit organized by the Health Ministry in conjunction with the World Health Organization (WHO), under the theme: “Achieving Universal Health ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo presented the list to parliament last week in compliance with Section 11 of the Presidential Office Act, 1993 (Act 463), which requires him to submit annually to parliament, a report on the staffing position of the Office of the President. According to Dr Abdul-Hamid, although the current government’s list is taller than ex-president Mahama’s, the ...

Delegates of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ashanti Region have elected new executives who will ensure victory for the party in the 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections, Bernard Antwi Boasiako (Chairman Wuntumi), the retained Regional Chairman has said. According to him, there is so much cohesion and unity among the new executives, a situation that will propel the ...

President Akufo-Addo has asked Ghanaians to ignore news that seek to suggest that he is superintending over an over-bloated staff at the Jubilee House, the seat of government. The president said he was bequeathed with 706 public and civil servants and that he had only employed 292 personnel to help run his administration. In an annual report to parliament on ...

Outspoken academician Professor Stephen Adei has urged Ghanaians to concern themselves with the input and output of the number of staffers at the Jubilee House – seat of government- rather than the large number. The tall list of Presidential staffers has angered most Ghanaians with many accusing the President and his government of deceit after the NPP complained about the ...

Pollster Ben Ephson has advised members of the governing New Patriotic Party to retain their national executives who brought the party to power as they go to the polls to elect new officers in June. Acting national chairman of the party Freddie Blay, under whose watch the party came to power, is being contested by veteran Steven Ntim and Alhaji ...

Newly-elected Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Divine Otoo Agorhom, has revealed that he gave GHS100 to each of the delegates who took part in the party’s weekend conference as transportation. According to him, others were paid less than GH100 due to where they came from within the region. The NPP elected their regional executives who ...