POLITICS

The Appointments Committee of Parliament has approved the President’s nominee for the position of a Special Prosecutor, Martin ABK Amidu. Members from both sides on the committee voted for approval except the MP for Tamale North, Suhuyini Alhassan Sayibu who voted against the nominee. The Committee’s report recommends among other things that “given Mr. Martin Alamisi Burns Kaiser’s high standard ...

Mr Abraham Ossei Aidooh, a former Majority Leader and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, has stated that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s government has so far performed very well to the satisfaction of Ghanaians and the international community. This, he said would inform the decision of the masses to vote massively in 2020 to retain his government in power. “In fact, ...

The Second Lady, Mrs Samira Bawumia, has assured Ghanaians that the government was working towards addressing the teething challenges in the implementation of the free SHS policy. She said the government is making every effort “to make this life-changing programme sustainable.” Event Mrs Bawumia was speaking at the 68th Speech and Prize-giving Day of the T.I. Ahmadiyya Senior High School ...

A private legal practitioner has said the reaction by the Chief Justice and Supreme Court Judges to Prof Raymond Atuguba’s controversial research has not been as severe as it should have been. According to Yaw Oppong, considering that the yet-to-be-published findings could taint the image of the Judiciary, he expected harsher words from the Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, and the ...

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has attributed Africa’s underdevelopment to the massive brain drain it suffered in the post-colonial era. Citing several economic researches, he said the single most important resource that every country needs in order to develop is not its natural resources but rather, its human resource. According to him, it was, therefore, no surprise Africa is still ...

The Ranking Member of the Select Committee on Mines and Energy, Adam Mutawakilu, says he finds it very difficult to come to terms with claims by the President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, that he has fixed ‘dumsor’ when evidence on the grounds suggests otherwise. According to him, despite achieving relative power stability in 2016 under ...

President Akufo-Addo has urged the government, and the leaders of Togo’s Opposition, to be guided, always, by Togo’s interests, as well as the interests of the Togolese people, in a bid to find a lasting solution to the on-going political impasse in that country. He said, the desire of the Togolese people “for a better life, their desire to live ...

The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) has revealed that the salary arrears and allowances government owes its members amount to hundred million cedis. This revelation was made by NAGRAT’s vice president, Jacob Anaba, when he was speaking to Kofi Oppong Asamoah on the Morning Xpress on Monday morning following a warning the teachers had issued to government to pay ...

National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament [MP] for Bia East constituency in the Western Region, Richard Acheampong says verbal warnings from the government to headmasters on the free SHS policy should cease. “It will save the President much time and money if proper and appropriate sanctions are put in place for school heads who go contrary to the free ...

President of policy think tank, IMANI Africa has urged the Special Prosecutor nominee, Martin Amidu, to turn up the heat on the Office of Government Machinery and assess the expenses incurred by the agencies under the office in recent years. “…If we are looking at the office of the government machinery for instance in the last 12 years, you would ...