POLITICS

Professor Joshua Alabi, a flagbearer aspirant of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), has described Special Prosecutor Mr Martin Amidu as a good and “very difficult man” who is the person to occupy his current office. According to Prof Alabi, every politician who has pocketed state funds must be made to face the law, and, so, welcomed the creation ...

The Director of Operations at the Presidency Lord Commey has sworn to stop the appointment of individuals not affiliated to the ruling government in the newly created Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs). The Akufo-Addo-led New Patriotic Party (NPP) government has created 38 new MMDAs across the country, bringing the number to 254 from the previous 216. Citing the Ablekuma ...

Ghana is on a path of major recovery in all spheres after a year of prudent policy implementation by the Nana Akufo-Addo government, and it is time for Ghanaians domiciled outside the country to turn their attention back home.The Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, who gave the advice when he met the Ghanaian community in the Bay area of San ...

The Chairman of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Bernard Mornah has said his office at Klagon was broken into and ransacked with the robbers allegedly making away with a number of items and a large sum of money. The incident is believed to have happened at 8pm on Sunday evening In an interview with Citi News after speaking to the ...

Presidential hopeful of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Professor Joshua Alabi, has charged government to ensure that politicians who pocket state funds are sanctioned. According to the former Vice Chancellor of the University of Professional Studies (UPSA), it is wrong for people to tag all politicians criminals because of a few corrupt ones, adding that anyone found culpable ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has urged the Chiefs and people of the Ngleshie Alata traditional area to work together in peace and harmony so as to give Oblempong Nii Kojo Ababio V, a peaceful and befitting burial. He said the late Chief was not only for the Ngleshie Alata Area but was also for the whole of Ghana. The ...

New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for the Tarkwa Nsuaem Constituency in the Western Region, George Mireku Duker, has sued a constituent, Kofi Nimako Danquah, over a conversation that took place on a pro-NPP WhatsApp group. The MP, who felt the conversation that ensued in the Tarkwa Nsuaem Constituency NPP Youth Wing Whatsapp group was offensive, first got Mr. ...

Nine former Ministers under the erstwhile Mahama administration and Members of Parliament who are under Police investigations for allegedly taking double salaries are expected to appear before the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service. The CID has already written to the ex-government officials and demanded that they appear for questioning. About 22 former appointees were named by ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is in London for the 25th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) on the theme “Towards a Common Future”. The 25th CHOGM, which will take place from today, April 16 to Friday, 20th April, 2018, will afford Heads of Government in the Commonwealth the opportunity to “address the shared global challenges we face, and agree ...

Deputy Local Government Minister, O.B Amoah has questioned why minority members are quick to tag every effort of government to investigate seemingly shady deals that have to do with officials from their party as witch-hunting efforts targeted at marring their reputation. He wonders how such lawmakers and high public officials will be able to fight the same cause for justice ...