POLITICS

It has emerged that the General Overseer of International Central Gospel Church (ICGC), Dr. Mensa Otabil in 2008 voted for the late Professor Evans Atta Mills when the country went to the polls to elect a new President. According to the Former Minister of Power, Dr Kwabena Donkor, the Man of God has been shuttling between the two main political ...

The embattled Ghanaian High Commissioner to South Africa, George Ayisi Boateng, has said he still stands by his pledge to prioritize members of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) and its tertiary education wing, Tertiary Students’ Confederacy Network (TESCON) in his dealings with Ghanaians as a High Commissioner. In justifying his comment, he gave the analogy of how a husband ...

Acting National Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Freddie Blay, has warned vigilante groups aligned to the party to desist from violent acts or face the full rigorous of the law. “Law is law, and it must be enforced in this country. So I will ask that if they [vigilante groups] are our members they should stop doing ...

Past leaders of the governing New Patriotic Party’s tertiary wing TESCON have come out through a statement to praise Ghana’s High Commissioner to South Africa George Ayisi-Boateng saying they are “proud” of him for saying NPP members are more Ghanaian than others, thus, he would make them his topmost priority before any other Ghanaians. “We wish to state emphatically that ...

Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong has predicted that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) risk losing elections 2020 if it fails to deal with the widespread lawlessness caused by pro-New Patriotic Party (NPP) vigilante groups. According to him, he supports President Akufo-Addo’s call on the police to crack the whip on political party vigilante groups affiliated to ...

Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong has directed the security agencies to arrest the First Vice Chairperson of the National Democratic Congress, Anita De Sosoo, Kennedy Agyapong could not fathom why the police fail to act when NDC is in power but suddenly find power in cases involving suspected NPP sympathizers. After recounting a series of alleged ...

George Nyakpo, Secretary of the Association of Western Togoland Youth (ASWETOY), has said a new region cannot be created out of the Volta Region because that territory is not part of Ghana’s territorial area. In a letter to Justice Brobbey, Chairman of the committee in charge of creation of new regions, Mr Nyakpo said: “Inasmuch as your task is clearly ...

The government will soon scrap the 25 per cent corporate tax imposed on private universities, the Vice-President, Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has said. The removal of the tax, he explained, was part of the government’s effort to strengthen private tertiary institutions to enable them to play their roles in national development. Dr Bawumia made this known in a speech read ...

The Minister of Communications, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has cautioned the public against sharing pornographic images, especially on social media and through electronic mediums. She stated that sharing pornographic images is against the laws of Ghana, asking anyone who receives them to delete and not share. Speaking at the Child Online Protection Conference in Accra on Wednesday, she said, “We also ...

High corruption is a flashing signal that something is wrong and that there is an injustice in society, Dr Paul Acquah, a former Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), has said. He said corruption, which was the use of public office for private benefit, and the prevalent violation of rules or norms of the society to gain private advantage ...