POLITICS

Minority Leader and Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamale South Constituency, Haruna Iddrisu has urged the rank and file of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to put the painful 2016 defeat of the party behind them and focus on 2020. Addressing the Tertiary Educational Institutions Network (TEIN), a student’s wing of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) at the Bagabaga College ...

The Minority in Parliament will today, November 13, hold a roundtable discussion on the 2018 budget and the economic outlook of the country. The Minority spokesperson on finance, Cassiel Ato Forson says the program is aimed at offering alternative solutions to the country’s economic challenges. It comes ahead of the 2018 budget which will be presented in Parliament by the ...

Former President of the Republic of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama has said that his successor, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is having sleepless nights due to the numerous challenges facing the country. He made this statement at the 50th-anniversary celebration of the Madina Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Trinity Parish. Addressing the congregation, the former president said the challenges facing the leadership ...

The National Organiser of the opposition National Democratic Congress has said the party is ready to rally behind ex-president John Mahama if he decides to contest the 2020 elections. At a time when prospective flagbearer aspirants are complaining about favouritism, Kofi Adams told Joy News’ Emefa Apawu the party will offer an unflinching support to Mr Mahama when he decides ...

Madam Anita De Sosoo has expressed disappointment in the NDC regional chairmen for endorsing John Mahama. She stated that this will have the tendency of causing disunity in the party. De Sosoo revealed that the regional that, the primaries is ahead and those regional chairmen will have to go and fight to retain their position so she does not see ...

Founder and Leader of the All People’s Congress (APC), Hassan Ayariga, has called on the Vice-President, Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, to “stop acting as an all-knowing person” and focus on improving the economy of the country. According to him, the Vice-President has moved from a specialist in economics to an IT expert after his response to former President John Mahama’s ...

The National Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Kofi Portuphy has admonished party members to desist from open vilification since that could weaken the leadership front of the party. He said the current development where party faithful have pitched camp with presidential hopefuls and engaging in insults against other factions is destroying the unity of the party. “We ...

The Member of Parliament for Ablekuma Central, Theophilus Tetteh Chaie, has questioned the basis for the 10 regional chairmen of the National Democratic Congress to endorse former President John Mahama for the 2020 general elections. Apart from Alban Bagbin who has officially declared to contest the flagbearship of the party, a number of leading personalities, including former President Mahama, Ekow ...

The Greater Accra Region chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress has mounted a robust defence of the decision of NDC Chairmen to back former President John Mahama’s second-term bid. In defending the decision by the ten regional chairmen to ask ex-president John Mahama to consider leading the party to the 2020 general elections, Ade Coker who leads the party ...

Former Obuasi Metropolitan Chief Executive under the erstwhile Mahama administration Richard Ofori Boakye Agyemang widely known as ‘Zuba’ has said his Deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA is full of John Mahama and that he would want to see him contesting for President in 2020. Zuba claims he would be more than happy to see the former President lead the National Democratic ...