POLITICS

A security analyst with the JatiKay Center for Human Security and Peace Building, Adib Saani has stated that the seat of government, Flagstaff House, is not any better a place that guarantees the safety of the President of the Republic of Ghana than his Nima residence is. The Analyst is recommending the use of Peduase Lodge to keep the President ...

Nene Ofoe Teye, incumbent Constituency Chairman of the Tema East branch of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), has declared that former President John Dramani Mahama is finished politically. “The things that we have discovered from his administration are ready to be put before Ghanaians and I promise you that by the time Ghanaians will see the full extent to ...

Ghana’s population is now estimated at 29.6 million up from the 24.5 million recorded during the 2010 population and Housing Census, a Chief Statistician with the Ghana Statistical Service, David Kombat has disclosed to the Ghanaian Times. He said the country’s population growth rate is at an estimated 2.5 annually, adding that an estimated 38.8 percent of the population is ...

Controversial politician and New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Mr. Kennedy Agyapong has expressed his readiness to spend time in jail for murder. He said he will go all out to take the life of the contracted assassin who was paid to kill him but for the timely intervention of a good Samaritan who divulged the ...

Some organisers of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) are making a special request to the echelon of the party to allow Mr Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin to go unopposed in the party’s approaching flagbearership race. “So many people in the party feel Hon. Bagbin is the best person to lead us into 2020 and the reasons are pretty clear: ...

A Senior lecturer at the University of Ghana Professor Ransford Gyampo has described as needless the ongoing eviction of traders around the Nima residence of President Akufo-Addo. The national security has given the traders around the area until Thursday March 15 to vacate the premises or be forcibly moved. However, the affected traders say the compensation package being given to ...

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo departed Ghana yesterday (March 8) to attend the International Solar Alliance (ISA) Summit, being held in New Dehli, India, at the invitation of the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, and the President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron. The Summit, which is being attended by 25 Heads of State and ...

A three-member panel of the Court of Appeal has set aside the adverse findings captured in the Commission of Enquiries’ report on businessman, Mr Alfred Agbesi Woyome. The panel, chaired by Justice Victor Ofoi, also ordered that the findings, as captured in the government White Paper, should be expunged from the report with immediate effect. According to the panel, the ...

Multiple award-winning investigative Journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas has revealed he has met and spoken to Ghana’s first Special Prosecutor, Martin A.B.K. Amidu, and they intend to collaborate in the fight against the canker of corruption in Ghana. In the over 20 minutes aired the interview on Aljazeera monitored closely by MyNewsGh.com, Anas Aremeyaw Anas expressed high optimism about the appointment ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has launched a Professionals Forum to discuss issues of importance to the party and help to implement the recommendations of the 2016 Election Report to ensure victory for the party in 2020. The Professionals Forum is an association of doctors, nurses, lawyers, lecturers, engineers and communicators among others within the NDC whose experiences the party ...