POLITICS

The National Coordinator of the Spio Fan Club has served notice that it will file a complaint against the former President John Dramani Mahama for secretly using the party’s unity walk platform to project himself and to campaign for his second presidential slot on the ticket of the main opposition National Democratic Congress(NDC). According to Kofi Ahema, the group will ...

A former MASLOC boss, Sedina Tamakloe Attionu, under the NDC government has denied allegation of misappropriation against her by the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO). An audit report making rounds in the media claims Mrs Tamakloe withdrew ¢500,000 of MASLOC cash invested with Obaatampa Microfinance but failed to pay the amount back into the accounts of MASLOC among other ...

The Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, has described the host of Adom TV’s Badwam, Omanhene Kwabena Asante as a dishonest person. The MP who appeared not to be happy with the host’s demeanor when he tried presenting proof of the Mahama-led administration’s involvement in the collapse of Merchant Bank, resorted to attacking his character. Honourable Agyepong presented ...

The Mayor of Accra, Mohammed Adjei Sowah has revealed that decongestion of the capital costs about GH₵100,000 a week. According to him, it is extremely expensive to decongest the city but added that the Accra Metropolitan Assembly is doing its best to ensure people are able to move freely in the capital. “Decongestion costs about GHC 100,000 a week and ...

Businessman and politician Robert Asare-Bediako, who was contesting in the Ashanti Regional Chairmanship race of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), has thrown in the towel. He told Chief Jerry Forson on Ghana Yensom on Accra100.5FM on Thursday, 12 April that his decision was meant to unite the NPP ahead of the 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections. “This will unite ...

Former Deputy Minister of Power, John Abdulai Jinapor, has refuted claims by the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) that 50 per cent of oil-funded projects are non-existent. “The report is not just misleading, but a clear attempt to twist facts and to serve political parochial interest,” the Member of Parliament (MP) for Yapei/Kusawgu Constituency stated on Wednesday, 11 April ...

The Managing News Editor of the Insight Newspaper Kwesi Pratt Jnr has accused minority MPs of betraying the country by failing to challenge the Defense Minister at the committee meeting that approved the controversial US-Ghana military deal. “When this agreement was finally ratified, I was in Parliament House and to my embarrassment, Dominic Nitiwul, the Defense Minister wrote the list ...

The Ranking Member on the Foreign Affairs Committee in Parliament, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has advised President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to channel his energy into addressing concerns raised by Ghanaians in relation to the Ghana-US defence cooperation agreement and not the defenceless minority. Mr Akufo-Addo in his address to the nation about the Ghana-US defence deal which has been mired ...

Lawyers of former Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Dr Stephen Opuni, have said it is only fair that the Attorney General furnishes them with documents the state is relying on in prosecuting Dr Opuni and businessman Seidu Agongo. According to the spokesperson of the legal team, Edudzi Tamakloe, the Attorney General cannot blindfold the accused persons ...

The Israeli ambassador to Ghana Ami Mehl has denied refusing Visa to Ghanaian MP Ras Mubarak who was scheduled to speak at a conference at Palestine. The National Democratic Congress MP for Kumbungu was traveling under the aegis of the Palestinian Authority to present a paper in Ramallah. “It is true and very unfortunate,” Mr. Mubarak told Starr News from ...