POLITICS

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has lashed out at his predecessor Jerry John Rawlings stating that the former Military dictator must know what to say and accord him some respect. The National Democratic Congress founder has on several occasions attacked Mr. Kufuor describing him as corrupt. But speaking on Starr Chat Wednesday evening, former President Kufuor told host Bola Ray ...

Trades and Industry Minister, Alan Kyeramaten has officially responded to the query by the Office of President over the role his ministry played in the collection of $100,000 from some expatriate businessmen and women. The money was the cost the expatriates had to incur for the chance to sit on the same table as the President at an event recently. ...

Member of the Communications team for the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Charles Owusu has said that the Chairperson for the Electoral Commission [EC] Charlotte Osei will be relieved off her post should the laws of the state find her guilty in the on-going impeachment process. “We will take Charlotte Osei off her post if she fits that category after the ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s open advocacy against the concentration of power in himself, at the just- ended New Patriotic Party (NPP) extraordinary national delegates’ conference, has drawn applause from the Tema Metropolitan Chief Executive. Felix Mensah Nii Annang-La, the Tema Metropolitan Chief Executive pointed out that Nana’s open campaign against making the President leader of the NPP showed how ...

The Editor in chief of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has wondered why some Ghanaians refer to him as honouring, describing it as appalling. Having commended the Chief Justice for chastising the use of the title ‘honourable’ by members of parliaments, Mr. Baako indicated the situation was getting out of hand, and as irritating as it ...

The Minority in Parliament is putting pressure on the Ministry of Trade to refund $100,000 collected from expatriate business owners to gain access to the President during an award ceremony in Accra. The statement comes on the back of claims contained in a leak document that business owners were charged as much as $100,000 to sit close to the president ...

Pollster Ben Ephson is convinced that even if the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) lifts the suspension against its embattled suspended General Secretary, Kwabena Agyapong ahead of the party’s congress in 2018, he (Agyepong) cannot beat Acting General Secretary, John Boadu in a contest. According to him, John Boadu having played an acting role and led the party into a ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said internal wrangling in the National Democratic Congress (NDC) helped his 2016 presidential victory. According to him, there is no denying fact that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) worked tirelessly to defeat the then ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC). President Akufo-Addo, who was being frank, however, disclosed that internal wrangling and factions in the ...

A Human Rights High Court has ordered the Electoral Commission to take all necessary steps to enable Ghanaians living abroad to vote in the 2020 elections. The Representation of the People Amendment Act 2006, (Act 699) was passed into law 11 years ago, during the Kufuor Administration, but has since not been implemented. The court presided over by Justice Anthony ...

Lawyer and former High Commissioner to India Sam Pee Yalley suspects the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) wants the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission to be impeached ‘just to ensure Akufo-Addo’s victory in 2020′. According to him, he knows the President to be an upholder of the rule of law and that “he will be disappointed if the president uses ...