POLITICS

The Acting General Secretary for the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu, has come under fire for claiming that his government through the Youth Employment Agency (YEA), has recruited over 60,000 youth under various modules of the Agency, as part of the government’s efforts of solving the unemployment situation in the country. Speaking on OTEC FM’S flagship programme ‘’Nyansapo’’ ...

Member of the NDC communication team, Sammy Gyamfi has portrayed President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s approval of Martin Amidu as the first Special Prosecutor of our land as a complete agenda against the National Democratic Congress [NDC] especially members of the past government led by Ex-President John Dramani Mahama. According to him the level of bitterness in the appointed Special ...

Member of Parliament for Klottey Korley in the Greater Accra Region, Zanetor Rawlings, has advocated for the prosecution of people who shamelessly urinate in public. “It seems to have become the norm for motorists and pedestrians to just stop wherever they feel like it, in order to pee. It doesn’t matter whether they are in a residential estate, on the ...

There was drama at the Supreme Court yesterday when officials of National Investment Bank (NIB) disowned Tsatsu Tsikata as the bank’s counsel. Mr. Tsikata had earlier represented the bank in its case against Standard Bank Offshore Trust Company Limited. The bank won the case, but it says it no longer wishes to pursue the case with him. Information gathered by ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says the Office of the Special Prosecutor is to instil the fear of God into public officers and not intended to witch hunt past government officials. Addressing the press at the second edition of his encounter with the media, the President reiterated that his appointees would be made to face the law should any case ...

The Media Foundation for West Africa has accused President Akufo-Addo of devaluing the work of the ‘cash for seat’ committee with is attempts to dismiss the issue. In a statement after the president met at journalists at the Flagstaff House, the MFWA said: “The worst moment in the president’s responses was his attempt to discount or dismiss the on-going bi-partisan ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has stated that, so far, every single act of alleged corruption labelled against some members of his administration has been or is in the process of being investigated by independent bodies, and the findings so far made public. According to President Akufo-Addo, from the allegations against the Minister for Energy-designate at his parliamentary confirmation hearings; ...

The President has revealed that although the United Arab Emirates (UAE) recorded $7 billion worth of gold imports from Ghana, official records (in Ghana) reports only $2 billion in exports of the precious metal to the Gulf country. Nana Akufo-Addo made the startling revelation on Wednesday, January 17, 2018, during a media encounter to mark one year of his administration. ...

A witness at the ongoing parliamentary committee probing the cash for seat allegation Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has accused President Akufo-Addo of undermining the committee. President Akufo-Addo in his encounter with the media at the Flagstaff House Wednesday described the allegation as flimsy and irresponsible. “In fact, I think that the position that I have taken potentially…could lend me into a ...

President Akufo Addo has met the media in his first ever media encounter in the year 2018. The encounter saw the president touch on various issues bothering the economy to national security. Before the statement, YEN.com.gh had listed some key developments that the president will be touching but as unpredictable as the president remains, some of these issues were addressed ...