POLITICS

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says Africa must build value-added, industrialised economies with modernised agriculture, which takes full advantage of the digital revolution to create wealth. Describing Africa as “a rich continent, if not the richest”, President Akufo-Addo indicated that Africa has the world’s second fastest economic growth rates, the world’s fastest-growing region for foreign direct investment, and is in ...

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has rejected claims by the government that the NDC is to be blamed for Ghana’s poorest performance at the 2017 Corruption Perception Index (CPI). The recent CPI saw the country drop 11 places from 70 to 81 out of 180 countries. Some critics have argued it signifies a loss in the fight against corruption. ...

Minister of Education, Mathew Opoku-Prempeh, has accused former President John Mahama of being responsible for what he describes as a ‘childish’ comments made by the Member of Parliament for Odododiodoo, Edwin Nii Lante Vanderpuye. Mr. Nii Lante Vanderpuye has suggested in widely circulated audio that the opposition party will free jailed former GYEEDA boss, Abuga Pele, if the party won ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has charged authorities in Germany to as a matter of importance treat African migrants humanely even if they breach German laws. Delivering the keynote address at the 5th German-African Economic Forum, under the theme “African Markets, Potentials and opportunities for German Businesses”, in Dortmund, Germany, Mr. Akufo-Addo said the terrible economies of Africa are the ...

Maverick politician, Kennedy Agyapong has revealed that but for the timely intervention of an informant, he would have been killed by hired assassins just like former Member of Parliament (MP) for Abuakwa North, J.B Danquah Adu. “My informant is my saviour and I hold him in high esteem because he saved my life. The same style they used in killing ...

Emmanuel Kyeremateng Agyarko has suggested that, former President John Mahama is a hypocrite for suggesting a stakeholders’ meeting on the free Senior High School Policy. The Member of Parliament for Ayawaso West Wuogon says, Mr. Mahama implemented his own version of the progressively Free SHS policy without doing any such stakeholder consultation and therefore, is not in the position to ...

Details emerging from an audio recording which captures the voice believed to be that of that Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Obiri Boahen reveals that the Presidency gifted the party GH¢50 billion for its extraordinary National Delegates Conference in Cape Coast last year. The NPP held its National Delegates Conference at Cape Coast in August ...

Former President of Ghana and founder of the National Democratic Congress, Jerry John Rawlings has urged the party to clear people like Nii Lantey Vanderpuije to help restore the party’s image. The former President who has expressed anger over the comments by the Odododiodoo MP that the NDC will free the convicted former national coordinator of GYEEDA said “if the ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has categorically stated that the comment by the Member of Parliament (MP) for Odododiodioo, Nii Lantey Vanderpuije, that the NDC will free the convicted former national coordinator of GYEEDA is his personal opinion and not that of the party. According to the party, the idea of freeing the former Chiana Paga MP is “absurd.” Speaking ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has prayed for the safe return of the 110 girls abducted by Boko Haram militants. The girls went missing after jihadists stormed their school in the town of Dapchi in the north-eastern Yobe state on 19 February. President Muhammadu Buhari said it was a “national disaster” and apologised to the girls’ families. The attack has ...