POLITICS

Information Minister Mustapha Abdul-Hamid has denied ever saying in an interview that President Nana Akufo-Addo cannot build all the 216 factories that the New Patriotic Party promised in the lead-up to the 2016 general elections. Mr Abdul-Hamid was quoted as saying on Wednesday, 4 April in an interview with Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen political talk show that: “…President Akufo-Addo was ...

When Martin Amidu was being sworn in as Ghana’s first ever Special Prosecutor back in February 2018, ushering in what many hope will be the new dawn that turns the tide in our failing fight against corruption, he dropped a nugget during his acceptance speech that further expanded the portrait of the man who is an aberration of integrity in ...

The government is putting in place measures to drive domestic revenue mobilisation to push the Ghana Beyond Aid agenda, the Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has stated. He named some of the measures as the issuance of the national identification card, the national digital property addressing system and the use of tax identification numbers (TINs) to access key services. Those measures, ...

President Akufo-Addo is set to speak on the controversial military agreement between Ghana and the United States today Thursday April 5, 2018. The address which will be broadcast live on various local media platforms at 8pm, will be the president’s first commentary on the matter since it became public. It comes as the Minority continues to question the President’s silence ...

Information Minister Mustapha Abdul-Hamid has scoffed at warnings by groups and individuals opposed to a recent military cooperation pact between the governments of Ghana and the US, saying no amount of demonstrations will change anything. Mustapha Abdul-Hamid says to start with, those demonstrating against the deal are wrong to insist that the agreement is to allow the US set up ...

A deputy minister of Information Kojo Oppong Nkrumah says the Ghana Education Service is surprised at the posture of NAGRAT following their strike action over unpaid salary arrears. The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) declared an indefinite strike Wednesday, April 4, 2018. The action is in protest of government’s continuous refusal to pay six years salaries in arrears owed ...

President Akufo-Addo has for the first time since assuming office sworn into office five Justices to the Superior Court Of Judicature specifically, the Court of Appeal, charging the new Judges to respect and defend the liberties of every Ghanaian. Addressing attendees of the ceremony held at the banquet hall of the Jubilee House, President Akufo-Addo said the Judiciary remains the ...

The Mayor of Tema, Felix Nii Annang Mensah-La, has denied claims that he requested a bribe from a waste management company of 10 percent of the proceeds from a contract it had bid for from the TMA. The Mayor was heavily criticized last week when a waste management firm accused him of requesting a 10 percent cut, before signing the ...

The acting General Secretary of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu, has descended on the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) for protesting the controversial Defence Cooperation Agreement between Ghana and the United States. A one-sided parliament on Friday, March 23, 2018, ratified a controversial Defence Cooperation agreement between Ghana and the US. The NDC and the Minority in ...

Some indigenous universal banks have made a passionate appeal to the President to intervene to ensure that the Bank of Ghana (BoG) extends its December 2018 deadline for local banks to recapitalise from GH¢120 million to GH¢400 million to next four years. According to the banks which have come together to form an association christened: The Association of Indigenous Universal ...