POLITICS

The Founder and leader of Ghana Freedom Party(GFP), Madam Akua Donkor who is under police investigation for defrauding one trader, Ama Yeboah of GH¢10,500 has accused journalists of being behind her arrest. “Journalists from Otec FM in Kumasi and Dormaa Ahenkro in Brong Ahafo Region and I suspect some will come from Nhyira Fm are behind my arrest”, she alleged ...

Political analyst, Dr. Kobby Mensah, has proffered an explanation for the National Democratic Congress (NDC)’s poor image in the media in the run-up to the 2016 general election, citing poor media relations. According to him, the party failed to cultivate a good relationship with the media, choosing instead to focus on pro-party media outlets to propagate its campaign messages or ...

Former Director of Communication at the Presidency under the Mahama administration, Stan Dogbe has been fingered for pocketing monies meant for Journalists who were involved in an accident in 2015. Journalists with the presidential press corps were returning to Accra when the accident occurred around Dawhwenya in the Greater Accra Region. According to the Kwesi Botchwey’s report leaked to JoyFm, ...

The Communications Ministry is in discussions with the Education Ministry to fashion out strategies about how senior high school students could have access to all school curricula on mobile phones in a regulated manner. Minister of Communication, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful said at the National Dialogue on Digital Transformation that: “We are currently having discussions with the Ministry of Education on the ...

The 2016 flag bearer of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, has decided to bow out of the 2020 presidential contest. His decision aims at giving the ‘younger generation’ of the party frontline roles, which he believes will give the political grouping a better chance of securing a parliamentary seat and eventually occupying the Flagstaff Staff House ...

Government has offered to pay the medical bills of all persons injured in Monday’s train derailment at Tesano in Accra that left some passengers injured, the Ministry of Railways Development has announced. A three-member committee has meanwhile been set up to look into what caused the Accra-bound train from Tema to derail as well as make recommendations on how to ...

The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi-Boasiako popularly known as Chairman Wontumi is certain that the suspended General Secretary of the ruling NPP Kwabena Agyei Agyepong will not be given back his post. According to him, NPP will gladly accept the General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia instead of ...

The Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) is urging the Minority in Parliament to revise its current posture towards attempts to review Ghana’s power agreement with AMERI. ACEP is of the view that the contract was overpriced, and must be investigated without partisan considerations. The National Democratic Congress (NDC) minority in parliament, last week went ahead with a planned boycott ...

The Ashanti regional police has arrested the leader of the Ghana Freedom Party (GFP) Akua Donkor over a Gh¢10,500 fraud case against her. The complainant in the case Ama Yeboah told the police the politician sold a parcel of land to her back in 2009 but has never known peace from Donkor’s relatives. Share on: WhatsApp

A Ghanaian researcher based in the United States of America, Kingsley Komla Elikem, has said that he feels sad for the situation in which Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia finds himself because he should not have approved the $2.5million GhanaPost GPS app deal with Vokacom. Vokacom developed the app to be used for Ghana’s digital addressing system but Mr Elikem argues ...