POLITICS

The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has assured government readiness to give each Ghanaian a bank account. The bank account according to the vice president would be materialized beginning from January 2018. According to him, to have a digitised economy, it had become necessary for the government to support each Ghanaian youth own a bank account. Dr Bawumia, who was ...

Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong has called on the Minister of Education, Matthew Opoku Prempeh to immediately sack the Headmaster of Ghana Senior High School (GHANASS), Reverend Abraham Donkor. The Headmaster of the school, Reverend Abraham Donkor, has been invited by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service to answer questions over an ...

Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong has expressed complete disgust at what he describes as the ‘sick’ state the country finds itself in presently. According to him, the system has been dented with such recklessness and irresponsibility such that there is but very little saneness left for which reason the country’s progress is inhibited. Speaking on Adom TV’s ...

Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, Minister of Education will be briefing Parliament on the recent deaths at the Kumasi Academy (KUMACA). Member of Parliament for Akasti North and Ranking Member on the Committee on Education, Peter Nortsu, said parliament can only step in after the sector minister has briefed the House on the issue. Two first-year students of Kumasi Academy in ...

Former Attorney General Martin Amidu has said “moles” planted in high positions by the Mahama administration, within the ministries ahead of the 2016 elections, are sabotaging efforts by the Akufo-Addo administration to fight corruption, especially regarding the GHS51.2 million judgement debt paid to businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome by the Mills/Mahama administration. In an article about “the missing link” in the ...

Hungarian Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Péter Szijjártó has said Ghana does not need aid or handouts from European countries, but rather a skilled workforce. He said once there is a skilled workforce who can make their know-how available to the Ghanaian economy it will ensure rapid development. Addressing attendees at a ceremony held at the premises of a newly ...

A Former Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister under the erstwhile National Democratic Congress (NDC) government, Mr. Joseph Yamin says every Ghanaian would go to heaven should God judge its citizens by their hospitable nature. Mr. Yamin made his assertion on Accra based, Accra Fm on Monday while commenting on slave issues in Libya that has trapped many Ghanaian citizens in the ...

Unfair Trade Practices such as the dumping of cheap and poor quality imported goods in Ghana which hurt the businesses of expats in Ghana will soon be a thing of the past, President Akufo-Addo has assured. Addressing the Ghanaian Expatriate business community at the first ever Expatriate Business Awards ceremony held at the Movenpick Hotel in Accra, Mr. Akufo-Addo said ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Bia East, Richard Acheampong, has revealed that an embassy in Ghana, is busily lobbying for the legalization of homosexuality. According to the MP, the said embassy on several occasions, held homosexual consultative meetings at it premises. Although, the MP, refused to disclose the name of the embassy, The Herald’s findings ...

Tamale Central Member of Parliament (MP), Inusah Fuseini says the Senior Minister was politically incorrect when he criticized the president in public for praising the Jospong Group of companies last month. He said Yaw Osafo Maafo shirked his obligation as an appointee to defend the action of president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo when he had the opportunity. “The chicken has ...