POLITICS

It has emerged that the three top officers accused of misappropriating GHC480,177.87 of the Endowment Fund of Staff of Electoral Commission (EC) have been cleared by the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO). Georgina Opoku-Amankwaah, Deputy Commissioner in-charge of Finance and Administration; Kwaku Owusu Agyei-Larbi, Chief Accountant and Joseph Kwaku Asamoah, Finance Officer, were hounded out of office by the ...

Antigraft crusader and former Member of Parliament (MP) for Esikuma-Odobin-Brakwa, Mr. P C Appiah Ofori has revealed that he is yet to be given an appointment in the current New Patriotic Party (NPP) government more than a year it took over power. According to the outspoken former lawmaker on Tamale-based Diamond FM, the President is yet to fix him in ...

Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia is recuperating well and will be flown back home soon, Minister of Information Mustapha Abdul-Hamid has said. Dr Bawumia was reported to have taken ill on Friday, 19 January and was flown to the UK on Saturday for medical attention. Addressing journalists on Monday, 22 January, Mr Abdul-Hamid said: “We wish to report that he is ...

Renowned Ghanaian diplomat, Kwaku Baprui Asante, has died at age 93. This was confirmed to Citi News by a family member on Monday morning, who said a further statement will be released. Born on March 1, 1924, K.B. Asante was the Secretary to Ghana’s First President Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and served under a number of Heads of States in Ghana. ...

Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa is wishing Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia a speedy recovery from his ill health. “Wishing our Vice President a speedy recovery. Our fervent prayers and kind thoughts continue to be with him. Looking forward to his return home soon to carry out the onerous duties of State,” the lawmaker tweeted. Dr ...

Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr has shared his experience during the media encounter with President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. The President had an encounter with the media at the Flagstaff House Wednesday. After the encounter, some journalists bemoaned the fact that they didn’t get the chance to ask their questions. Contributing to a panel discussion on ...

The Minority in Parliament has called on government to back down on efforts to assume control of the newly constructed hospital at the University of Ghana. The Minority has in a statement Friday explained that the hospital was constructed at the behest of the University and appropriate measures have been established to enable the university operate and manage the facility ...

National Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Kofi Adams says the recent pronouncement by some two leading members of the party is rather “not helping them”. Mr Adams says Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin and Sylvester Mensah are rather destroying the good they have done for the party. Mr Bagbin, who is the country’s longest serving Member of Parliament, and ...

The Minister for Information, Mustapha Abdul Hamid has accused former Minister of Communications, Dr Edward Omani Boamah of allegedly spreading falsehood about him being the owner of a custom made cross-country vehicle with a customized number plate[HAMID 1-18]. Mr Hamid while addressing journalists in Wa on Thursday, said the reason for saying that was the fact the story was first ...

Former Minister of Communications, Dr Edward Omane Boamah, has denied reports claiming he was behind the circulation of pictures of a white V8 purportedly belonging to Information Minister Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, with a customised plate “HAMID1 18” on social media. Mr Abdul-Hamid has come out to deny owning that V8 and described the plate as fake. “I do not own the ...