POLITICS

Former Foreign Affairs Minister Hanna Tetteh has called for calm and asked party members and supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to respect the Founder of the NDC. Former President Jerry John Rawlings had condemned Ms Tetteh for allegedly maltreating his wife, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings on several occasions and threatened to respond in equal measure if Ms Tetteh repeats ...

Managing Editor of the Ghanaian Lens and a former National Propaganda Secretary aspirant of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Godson Kobla Agbeli Fiagbe has taken to social media platform Facebook to mock Dr Kwabena Dufuor Snr over the collapse of Unibank. The NDC-aligned journalist accused the NDC big man of funding Akufo-Addo’s campaign during the 2016 election for which it ...

Ghana’s longest serving Attorney General and a Founding Father of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Dr. Obed Asamoah has downplayed the influence of former President J.J Rawlings in the NDC. He said the supposed faction of the former military leader is not as strong as that of John Mahama. Some political watchers have attributed recent rants of Mr. Rawlings ...

A member of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Victor Smith, has advised founder of the party, Jerry John Rawlings, to leave the party if he so desires and stop attacking its members. “If your love for the party has declined just leave the party,” he dared. Speaking on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen on Monday, Mr. Smith accused Mr. Rawlings ...

The Minority in Parliament has criticised the government over its military agreement with the US administration, saying it amounts to an overthrow of Ghana’s sovereignty. The opposition lawmakers said the deal, which grants unrestrained access to the US military, undermines the country’s authority. Defence Minister, Dominic Nitiwul has laid before Parliament the government’s agreement with the US to allow the ...

For not making the attempt to rescue the bank early enough, the government must take responsibility for the collapse of Unibank. That’s the claim by the Minority Spokesperson on Finance Casiel Ato Forson. In an interview with Joy News Editor Evans Mensah on Top Story hours after the Bank of Ghana announced a major takeover of Unibank, Ato Forson said ...

The United States of America has dismissed reports that it is building a military base in Ghana. A statement by the US Embassy in Ghana said “the United States has not requested, nor does it plan to establish a military base or bases in Ghana.” The statement comes after a leaked document revealed that the Government of Ghana has approved ...

Former President John Mahama has criticised the clergy and civil society groups in Ghana for what he says is their silence over the “nepotism” in the Akufo-Addo government. According to him, recognisable voices in the country are now turning deaf ears to issues that were treated as front burner under his administration. Addressing some NDC supporters in the UK, Mr. ...

Daughter of Ghana’s first President, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Samia Yaaba Nkrumah, is calling on Members of Parliament to reject the supposed military base in Ghana Kwame Nkrumah tells us in Africa Must Unite (1963) that “if we do not unite and combine our military resources for common defence, our individual [African] States, out of a sense of insecurity, may be ...

A 32-year-old prophet based in the Central Region of Ghana, Cosmos Walker, is claiming that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will be overthrown from office if Ghanaians do not pray for him. The prophet who made this known in an interview with Kofi Adomah Nwanwanii on Kofi TV was quick to add that it is only Reverend Isaac Owusu Bempeh ...