POLITICS

New Patriotic Party (NPP) firebrand, Kennedy Agyapong says he feels threatened following attempts by some senior police officers in collusion with land guards in the country to take his life. The Assin Central lawmaker who has been a veritable pain on the neck of land guards since the Director General of Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service, COP ...

Ashanti Regional Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako says over his dead body will he render the unqualified apology demanded by the suspended General Secretary of the party, Kwabena Agyepong over alleged slanderous comments he (Wontumi) reportedly made. According to him, he spoke in the capacity of the NPP and therefore any demand for retraction ...

Dr Valerie Sawyerr, a Deputy Chief of Staff under former President John Mahama, has jabbed President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Vice president Dr Bawumia and the New Patriotic Party government as a whole, in a write up about events that have happened under the 10-month-old government. In the article, Dr Sawyer mocked Dr Bawumia and the government for spending $2.5million ...

Retired diplomat and once secretary to Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, K.B. Asante, has said the pledge by Ghana’s High Commissioner to South Africa, George Ayisi Boateng, to prioritize the welfare of New Patriotic Party members in his dealings “doesn’t make sense”. Comments like that put the country on the verge of “rot”, he asserted on the Citi Breakfast Show. Mr. Asante ...

Minority MPs want President Nana Akufo-Addo to relieve Mr. George Ayisi-Boateng of his duties as Ghana’s High Commissioner to South Africa, following comments condemned widely as divisive. Mr. Ayisi-Boateng had told a gathering of governing NPP youth that he will put their interests ahead of other Ghanaians in the discharge of his duties. “For a country that is famed for ...

Suspended General Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwabena Agyei Agyepong is demanding an unqualified apology from the NPP’s Ashanti NPP Regional Chairman, Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi. In a notice served by his lawyers, Sarfo Gyamfi and Associates, Mr. Agyepong is also asking Chairman Wontumi to retract a slanderous statement made against his person. ...

Chris Ackumey, a private legal Practitioner and a member of the legal team of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), has sued the National Communications Authority (NCA) over the recent sanctions meted out to radio stations for various offences. He wants the court to declare the sanctions illegal, and also compel the NCA to compensate the affected stations which he ...

The most lawless political party under the fourth republican constitution of Ghana is the New Patriotic Party (NPP), a member of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) has claimed. “Officially and currently NPP has become a lawless party”, the communication team member in the Ashanti Region, Mr. Frank Aboagye Danyansah stated. “It has become far a lawless party than NDC [National ...

Former Trades Minister and National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) presidential hopeful, Dr. Ekow Spio-Garbrah has said, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo deserves one term. According to the communication specialist, the demise of former President John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills while in office was the beginning of one-term presidency in the country breaking the two-term convention. “We are now in the era ...

Former Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Nana Oye Lithur has emphasized the need for a satisfactory involvement of women in politics. The minister who described politics as “dirty” in her quest to advocate for more women in politics pressed that women must remain steadfast in snatching political positions from men. She noted that, “we run a political system ...