POLITICS

The President will not sack Ghana’s High Commissioner to South Africa, George Ayisi-Boateng, despite calls by a section of the public for him to do so. Mr Ayisi-Boateng earned the wrath of some Ghanaians when declared at an event for the youth of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) that he will put their interests above other Ghanaians in the ...

New Patriotic Party MP for Assin Central Constituency, Kennedy Agyapong has requested that the suspended District Chief Executive (DCE) for Upper Denkyira West in the Central Region be reinstated. “I am appealing to the President to reinstate the DCE for Denkyira-Obuasi because whatever he said was true”, he disclosed on Adom TV. It would be recalled that District Chief Executive ...

Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia did nothing wrong with his response to former President John Mahama in connection with the latter’s description of the national digital addressing system as “419” – to wit, fraudulent, Minister of Information Mustapha Hamid has said. Dr Bawumia described Mr Mahama as “ignorant” and “clueless” about the GhanaPostGPS application developed by local IT firm Vokacom as ...

The hierarchy of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), is yet to receive any official petition demanding the reinstatement of its suspended General Secretary, Kwabena Agyapong. This is regardless of a number of groups making appeals in the media for the NPP hierarchy to forgive him. The NPP suspended its 2nd Vice Chairman, Sammy Crabbe, alongside Mr. Agyapong in 2015, after ...

President Akufo-Addo will today Tuesday, November 7 launch the Accelerated Oil and Gas Capacity Programme in Accra. The project is in fulfilment of the Government’s campaign promise of aggressively investing in education and skills to manage the oil and gas sector. A statement issued by the Energy Ministry said this program has four thematic areas namely; technical, vocational, apprenticeship development ...

A former deputy minister of communication, Felix Kwakye Ofosu has asked the Akufo-Addo government to begin prosecuting corrupt officials by starting with one of his own – the current Managing Director of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation (BOST) Alfred Obeng, before extending same to former officials of the Mahama administration. According to him, Mr Obeng has been accused of ...

Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia’s response to former President John Mahama in connection with the $2.5 million national digital addressing system which the latter described as “419”, was excessive. In his response, Dr Bawumia described Mr Mahama as “clueless” and “ignorant”, adding that the former president would have done himself a great favour if he had read more about the project ...

A former Deputy Minister for Communication, Felix Ofosu Kwakye, has likened Vice President Bawumia’s recent utterances on Ghana’s Digital Property Addressing System to political serial callers who call into FM stations to rant over issues. He made the comment on Eyewitness News on Monday. According to Mr. Ofosu Kwakye, Dr. Bawumia must desist from purporting to be educating former President ...

Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has charged ex-president John Mahama to accept reproach from him as he is now the second-in-command. “I hope that in all humility former President Mahama can now accept criticism from me since by the Grace of God I have now occupied the office of Vice-President of the Republic,” Dr Bawumia said in a statement on Monday, ...

President Akufo Addo has said his administration will ensure the free SHS policy is sustained despite the difficulties that confront it currently. Citi News has reported about the infrastructure challenges facing some Senior High Schools across the country since the introduction of the policy. In an interaction with the Bawku Chief who paid a courtesy call on him, the President ...