POLITICS

The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) held the first phase of its regional elections over the weekend to elect executives to steer affairs of the party for the next four years. Although some regions successfully elected their executives, the process was marred by allegations of vote-buying and court injunction. Brong Ahafo Region The Brong Ahafo Regional Election Committee defied a ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has underscored the need for Africa to design education curricula that are relevant to the skills and needs of the job market. In his opinion, if this is done, “the greatest challenge for the entire continent,” which remains “the creation of sustainable jobs,” will be resolved. Delivering the keynote speech at the London School of ...

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has ignited a strong reminder campaign in the north-targeted at Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to come out clear as to when the dams promised all villages in the Upper East, Upper West and Northern regions will be due for construction. Dr. Bawumia, a major face of the 2016 election campaign for the New ...

President John Dramani Mahama has sent goodwill messages to National Chief Imam Sheikh Dr Osumanu Nuhu Sharabutu as he marks his 99th birthday.Mr Mahama took to his Facebook page on Monday 23 April 2018 and stated: Dr Sharubutu, who is a member of the National Peace Council, was born in Old Fadama in April 23, 1923.His ancestors are of Hausa ethnicity ...

Some members of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) are being hypocritical with their justification of the 998 presidential staffers list released by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Private Legal Practitioner, Samson Lardy Anyenini, has said. According to him, the NPP expressed misgivings about the 678 staffers employed by Former President John Dramani Mahama and so one would have thought ...

President of policy think tank, IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe, has criticized the record appointment and the huge staff at the Presidency by President Akufo-Addo saying its only “making former President Mahama a saint.” The situation, according to Cudjoe is the hallmark of unplanned policy programmes and a clear case of ‘official waste’ in the system. In a post on his ...

Lawyer of former Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) boss, Mr. Abednego Tetteh Mensah, has described as senseless, the charge of causing financial loss to the state as leveled against his client, Ernest Thompson in the award of a $72 million Operating Business Suite (OBS) contract. Mr. Ernest Thompson and three others have been indicted for alleged financial misdeeds ...

The Supreme Court has granted the state’s application for extension of time in a suit in which government is being challenged over the construction of a National Cathedral. Ms Grace Oppong, a Principal State Attorney, who represented the Attorney General, had sought for extension of time to enable her office to file their statement of case in response to the ...

Former President John Kufuor has denied family ties to one Felicia Kufour who together with ten others were recently sentenced a to combined prison term of 139 years. Since the news about the drug-related arrests and sentencing broke, several social media posts have linked the lady to the former President with some describing her as a niece to former President Kufuor. Felicia ...

Majority Leader and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has rebuffed claims from the Minority that the recent investigation launched into the alleged payment of double salaries to some officials of the Mahama administration is an act of political witch hunt. The Criminal Investigations Department (CID), over the past week, has lined up some members of the minority to assist ...