POLITICS

The Minister of Education, Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, has indicated that government will soon launch an insurance package for all teachers in the country. According to him, the package jointly put together by the Ghana Education Service (GES), SIC Life and the Ministry of Education has been signed by all the parties, waiting for the launch. Dr Opoku Prempeh indicated ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has prayed for the 110 school children believed to have been abducted by Boko Haram. The Nigerian Islamist militant group stormed the school in the town of Dapchi in the north-eastern Yobe state on 19 February 2018. The attack has revived memories of the Chibok schoolgirl abduction in 2014. President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, said ...

The Very Rev Randolph Marshall Hollerith, Dean of the Washington National Cathedral showing President Akufo-Addo round the facility President Akufo-Addo yesterday worshipped at the US National Cathedral in Washington D.C. after touring the facility. The president, who is attending the US National Governors’ Association meeting in Washington D.C. as special guest, joined the early morning mass at the St Mary’s ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has revealed that Special Prosecutor Martin Alamisi Amidu is very tenacious in holding on to his views. He said he has known him for this for several years to the extent that they were opponents on many landmark constitutional cases in the early 1990s. The president expressed fond memories of him and Mr Amidu on ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has disassociated itself from comments by the Member of Parliament (MP) for Odododiodoo that the party will release the former national Coordinator of GYEEDA, Abuga Pele, if it recaptures power in the 2020 general elections. Abuga Pele and Philip Assibit are serving 6 and 12 years jailed terms respectively for causing financial loss to the ...

Education Minister, Mathew Opoku-Prempeh has described former President John Mahama as the ‘worst’ head of state in the annals of the country’s political history. He said “the country is suffering” because of the bad governance of the Mahama administration. His comment comes on the heels of various comments made by the former President over the weekend. Mahama after a unity ...

Former President Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings has stated that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) which he founded ostracized him and his wife former, First Lady Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings. He said the party he bequeathed to the late Prof John Evans Atta Mills and former President John Dramani Mahama did the same thing to the new Special Prosecutor Martin ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama leaves Accra today for Freetown, Sierra Leone, where he will be leading a number of meetings aimed at ensuring a peaceful election and its aftermath in the West African Country. Sierra Leone will go to the polls on March 7, with sixteen political parties contesting the Presidential Election. Recognised as a leading voice for the ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has said Ghanaians have already started judging the ruling government, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), and know where the country is moving towards in terms of governance. He has, therefore, advised citizens of the country to tighten their belts as more gloomy days were ahead. He said before the National Democratic Congress (NDC) left office, ...

Former President, John Dramani Mahama has called for a stakeholders conference to address challenges associated with the implementation of the free Senior High School(SHS) policy. He said the current implementation if not properly handled could derail the entire purpose of the free SHS programme. “It will do the government good, if we have a stakeholders conference and agree on the ...