POLITICS

The Chair of Ghana’s Electoral Commission, Mrs. Charlotte Osei, has requested President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to furnish her with a copy of the petition seeking her removal from office for alleged breaches of the law. Some unnamed staff of the Commission in July 2017 petitioned Nana Akufo-Addo to remove Mrs. Osei over alleged abuse of office, causing financial loss ...

The Auditor General has surcharged some 62 organisations for receiving payments from the state with no available documentation covering them. The surcharge certificates totalling GHȻ8,886,791.9101742 cover the period between December 31, 2013 and December 31, 2015. The organisations, which are mostly private entities, also include some state institutions as well as staff of some government entities. According to a release ...

The Information Minister has pleaded with Ghanaians to bear with the government on the challenges that have come up since the implementation of the Free Senior High School (SHS) policy. Mustapha Hamid said the problems are largely due to over admission of first-year students across the country. Speaking with members of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) at a town hall ...

The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Mrs Charlotte Osei and her two deputies, Sulley Amadu and Mrs Georgina Opoku-Amankwaa have been cited in the Supreme Court building that houses the offices of the Chief Justice, Madam Sophia Akuffo. Mrs Osei, accompanied by her lawyer, Thaddeus Sory, entered the building at about 12:52pm, with Alhaji Amadu Sulley closely in tow. They ...

The NPP administration on December 7, 2017 celebrated its one year anniversary of winning the 2016 elections. They held a thanksgiving ceremony at the Accra International Conference Center to mark the day. However, the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) feels there was no need for the celebration because so far the ruling government has not fulfilled any of their campaign ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama arrived at the Manhyia Palace in Kumasi on Saturday with a crowd of National Democratic Congress (NDC) members who are supposedly supportive of his ambition to become president again. The day was the ninth of the two-week period set aside by Asanteman for the final funeral rites of the late Asantehemaa, Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa ...

Member of Parliament for Kumbungu, Ras Mubarak, has described as ‘disgraceful’ if reports suggesting Ghana’s Speaker of Parliament Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye has taken a stance on the Israeli-Palestinian crisis are true. The international media have reported that parliamentary leaders from Ghana and Tanzania visiting Israel to celebrate their collaboration as part of the “Power Africa” initiative expressed support for ...

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has observed that one may need some special grace and mercy to be able to do the kind of work that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo does. According to him, the president hardly sleeps at night when everybody, including some of his own appointees, may be snoring in beds. Dr Bawumia claims that sometimes people, ...

This week President Akufo Addo trended on social media for a while, both in Ghana and in many parts of the world, for boldly declaring his ambition to create a Ghana Beyond Aid. As he stood beside the French President, Emmanuel Macron, he did not mince words. He spoke about Ghana being economically independent and dependent on others to support her. ...

Former Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah, is expected to appear before Financial Forensic Unit of the Criminal Investigations Department Friday to answer questions on the $74 million waste bins contract. Joy News investigations established that Julius Debrah was the one who initiated the contract, which was found to have been inflated by at least 31 million dollars or 130 million ...