POLITICS

Former Minister for Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation Mahama Ayariga has said he feels sorry his friendship with Minority Chief Whip, Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka has been ruined following his allegation of bribery against the latter. Mr Ayariga, on Friday 27 January, told Radio Gold in an interview that the Chairman of the Appointment Committee Joe Osei Owusu had given ?3,000 ...

A former Environment, Science and Technology Minister, Mahama Ayariga, has debunked assertion that the newly launched digital property addressing system is the first of its kind in Ghana in four decades. President Akufo-Addo speaking at the launch of the system Wednesday, said the last time Ghana attempted developing a comprehensive address and postcode system was in 1974. The location-based system, ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo and his New Patriotic Party (NPP) will continue to do what is right even if that will cost them the 2020 elections, Mr. John Boadu, acting general secretary of the ruling party has declared. Speaking on Peacefm’s “Kokroko” Morning Show on the recent gas explosion in Accra, Mr. Boadu said the fear of losing elections has made ...

President Akufo-Addo exchanging pleasantries with Jerry John Rawlings at the launch of the National Digital Property Addressing System in Accra while his wife Nana Konadu looks on excitedly (Picture By Gifty Ama Lawson) Ghana has finally joined the list of nations that are hooked on to a digital property addressing system, following the launch of ‘ghanapostGPS.’ The digital addressing system ...

General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Kwadwo Asiedu Nketia popularly known as ‘General Mosquito’, has made known his intentions of becoming the next president of Ghana. Citing his achievements as measure of proving his qualification for the position, the NDC General-Secretary mentioned how he rose through the ranks from the grassroots through to his current standing in ...

The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) prior to the 2016 elections made a litany of campaign promises to the Ghanaian populace with a promise to transform the economy from independent from foreign aid. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has on countless occasions trumpeted the resolve of his government to use resources of the country to facilitate development indicating among other ...

The much publicized national digital property address system will be launched today. The location-based system will provide an effective means of addressing every location to facilitate the implementation of key government policies. Vokacom, a Ghanaian Information Technology firm, designed the system at the cost of 2.5 million dollars. The digital address system will be a precursor to the National Identification ...

The Mines and Energy Committee of Parliament will today hold a crucial meeting over the $510 million AMERI Power deal. The meeting will discuss the motion of rescission filed by Adansi Asokwa Member of Parliament, K.T Hammond in August. He’d argued that the House rescinds its decision taken in March 2015 to pass the agreement between government and AMERI, citing ...

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) says it will conduct fresh registration exercise of its members after a frustrating experience with the biometric method caused disaffection. At a press conference Tuesday, the party’s National Chairman, Kofi Portuphy, said the biometric roll “did not meet the standards required to make it qualified to be a biometric register”. A June 2015 exercise ...

The outgoing Director General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Commissioner of Police (COP), Mr. Bright Oduro says he has been treated unfairly by the Police Service. According to him, after 29 years of diligent service to the state security, he expected to be treated with dignity and not to be pushed out of the service unfairly. Mr. Oduro who ...