POLITICS

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has warned all heads of senior high schools (SHS) in the country not to charge unapproved fees under the Free SHS policy. According to the president, there are a handful of reactionary elements who are determined to undermine the Free SHS policy, but gave the assurance that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government would make ...

Majority Leader in Parliament and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Hon. Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu has said suspended NPP National Executives, Messrs Paul Afoko, Kwabena Agyepong and Sammy Crabbe; Chairman, Secretary, Vice Chair respectively, didn’t like the candidature of President Nana Akufo Addo, then as NPP flagbearer. Mr. Kyei Mensah Bonsu singled out Mr Paul Afoko, particularly, out of the “trio”, as ...

Majority Leader and Member of Parliament for Suame Constituency Hon. Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu has expressed concern about the spate of power struggle, fights and disagreements between elected party executives and elected Presidential candidates and parliamentary candidates in the body polity. To stem the tide, the seasoned lawmaker has prescribed that the various political parties give the power to appoint ...

The Constitution of Ghana permits the Government of Ghana to look for foreign investment. To this end, the Framers of the Constitution provided that anytime Government intends to enter any agreement with any foreign entity that has economic or business interest, the agreement must be subject to prior parliamentary approval or ratification before it can have any legal effect. So ...

Ghana is hosting the 5th ECOWAS Presidential Task Force Meeting on the Single Currency Programme from the 17th – 21st February, 2018 at the Accra International Conference Centre. The four-day meeting is being chaired by Ghana’s President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, H. E. Muhammadu Buhari; President of the Republic of Cote d’ ...

President Akufo-Addo will today host and facilitate a dialogue between the Togolese government and all opposition parties in Togo to find a lasting solution to the political unrest in the French speaking West African country. Today’s meeting is a follow up to several private meetings the President has had with all the parties since assuming office. The Director of Communications ...

Following the appointment of former Attorney General, Martin Amidu as Special Prosecutor, former President Jerry John Rawlings has called on Japan and other developed countries to refrain from holding back in offering support to Ghana. Speaking in a meeting with the new Japanese Ambassador to Ghana, Tsutomu Himeno, Mr. Rawlings said: “the appointment of Amidu as Special Prosecutor from outside ...

Majority Leader and Member of Parliament for Suame, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu says it is not the role of parliamentarians to fix roads, build health clinics, construct schools and expand other infrastructural development in their constituencies. He said the President, Metropolitan Municipal and District Assemblies and sector ministers are the only mandated bodies to provide development across the country. Mr. ...

The former Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has toured some of NDC branches in the Eastern Region to monitor the ongoing reorganization and re-registration and reorganization process as well as whip up enthusiasm among party members. He said the victory of the NDC in the 2020 elections was largely dependent on the success of the exercise, urging all to eschew division ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has described as very depressing news of the continuing and deepening crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is leading to the massive displacement of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. According to the President, it brings into sharp relief the urgent necessity for the continental body, the African Union, to rise to the ...