POLITICS

The government has clarified that its ‘Ghana Beyond Aid agenda is not intended to reject support from donors, but rather depend on local resources for the execution of its planned programs. A Deputy Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, who made the statement on the Eyewitness News on Thursday said the government had outlined major policy pillars to drive the ...

Leader and Founder of Glorious Word and Power Ministries International, Prophet Isaac Owusu Bempah says some detractors and saboteurs of state are scheming to assassinate the President, HE Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. Rev. Isaac Owusu Bempah who stopped short of mentioning names, warned those habouring such intentions to desist from it or he will be forced to expose them. The ...

The Afadjato South Member of Parliament (MP) has implored president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to redeem his campaign promise to have 30 percent women in his cabinet. In a statement marking the International Women’s Day Thursday, Angela Oforiwa Alorwu-Tay has asked the president to demonstrate his commitment to women empowerment by fulfilling the 2016 promise. “My mentor and our dear ...

The Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Prof. Aaron Michael Ocquaye, says he has been impartial in all his deliberations ever since he assumed the number three highest position of the land, including but not limited to the Minority National Democratic Congress (NDC) Caucus. The Minority NDC Caucus on Wednesday, March 7, 2018, embarked on a sit-down strike in what they ...

The 2nd Lady of the Republic of Ghana Samira Bawumia has stressed that there is the need for women to be empowered to speak up about sexual abuses. According to her, women must defy the odds and not keep mute when they are abused but have the courage to speak out and seek justice. The 2nd Lady made the observation ...

The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has barred its deputy General Secretary Nana Obiri Boahen from speaking on behalf of it. The decision follows the National Steering Committee meeting of the party Wednesday March 7 to consider among other issues Mr. Boahen’s leaked tape and related matters. “The steering committee, after listening to him [Nana Obiri Boahen] and taken cognizance ...

Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Charlotte Osei, has called for full protection for young girls who are abused sexually. She called on religious bodies, the security and organisations working to promote children’s welfare to collaborate efforts to build and strengthen child protection systems at different levels, in different contexts. Mrs Osei was speaking on Joy FM’s flagship programme, Super Morning ...

Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central Constituency, Kennedy Agyapong has jabbed pastors for drawing back the fortunes of the country by indoctrinating the mindset of the citizenry that the only antidote to their problems is prayer and attending church services. According to him, God gave everyone a brain to think and protect oneself as well as work to feed ...

The Minority in Parliament is calling for thorough national security checks on the over 200 Ghanaians who would be brought back from Libya by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), following reports of slave auctions. Foreign Affairs Minister, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, earlier told Parliament that a five man team from Ghana had visited six detention centres in Libya, a move ...

President Akufo-Addo has appealed to banks in the country to complement the achievement of his government by reducing lending rates to the private sector. Delivering the special guest of honour address at the official opening of the newly built Ecobank Ghana Head Office in Accra, the President said lending rates have remained  high irrespective of the fact that  fiscal deficit ...