POLITICS

Ghana’s former president John Dramani Mahama has been sympathizing with Robert Mugabe, the outgoing leader of Zimbabwe. Mugabe was forced to resign on Tuesday following a house arrest and internal wrangling within the ZANU-PF ruling party. Mr. Mahama described how Mugabe’s 37-year era is petering out as “a sad ending for a liberation hero.” However, in a tweet on the ...

The debate on the 2018 Budget Statement and Economic Policy of government by Members of Parliament (MPs) started yesterday, with the Minority National Democratic Congress (NDC) accusing the present New Patriotic Party (NPP) government of lacking credibility when it comes to the implementation of economic policies nicely packaged in the budget. The Majority NPP also lambasted the minority for raising ...

The Gender Minister, Otiko Afisa Djaba, has called for “public and open discussion of sexuality in our homes where parents engage their wards and advise them of their sexual life”. “It’s about time we stopped seeing issues about sex as a taboo in Ghana and Africa,” she advised. Madam Djaba gave the advice during the launch of “Ghanaian Against Child ...

The Managing editor of the Al Hajj Newspaper Alhaji Bature has described the ruling government as the most deceptive and fraudulent political party in Ghana. Alhaji Bature accused President Nana Addo Dankwa and his administration of misleading and deceiving Ghanaians with their propaganda schemes. “The NPP and the president are liars. This is the kind of government that is very ...

Only 56 out of the 674 public senior high schools (SHSs) in the country have so far submitted their returns on the funds released to them under the implementation of the Free Senior High School (SHS) policy. None of the well-endowed schools have submitted their returns. No school in the Volta, Upper East and Upper West regions has submitted any ...

Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia believes Ghana has what it takes to overtake the United States of America (USA) and the United Kingdom (UK) in development. He argues that the mindset of some persons that it is not possible is partly to blame for where the country finds itself insisting that when the mentality of the citizenry is reoriented, this ...

President Akufo-Addo has taken his campaign to create a Ghana beyond aid to Europe declaring he is determined to discard what he terms a mindset of dependency and living on handouts. Speaking at an event hosted by the Royal African Society at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, he questioned how the UK and other donor countries spend their ...

The Minority in Parliament has called on government to withdraw the 2018 budget statement presented to Parliament by the Finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta last week. According to the Minority spokesperson on Finance,  Cassiel Ato Forson, government revised the 2017 budget without Parliamentary approval hence the need for the withdrawal of the 2018 document which contains portions of the previous one. Ato ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says the democracy Ghanaians intend to build and entrench will only succeed if it results in the building of a prosperous nation, and in people who are at peace with themselves and with the world. According to President Akufo-Addo, “the democracy that we seek to build does not end in casting votes, and electing a ...

There was a near physical attack on Deputy Minister of Communications, George Andah, by members of the pro-National Democratic Congress (NDC) Coalition for Democratic Governance (CDG). The coalition organized a press conference yesterday at the Ghana International Press Centre, seeking to discredit Ghana Post’s recently launched Global Positioning System (GPS) – a $2.5 digital property addressing system for Ghana. A ...