POLITICS

Bright Oduro, Director-General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), according to reports, has been asked to proceed on leave. According to Starrfmonline.com, sources from the police service have revealed that, Mr. Oduro is not expected to return to his position. Sources also have it that, Mr. Oduro assumed office on January 28, 2017 but has been asked to go on ...

The London Employment Tribunal is today expected to deliver judgment on claims of wrongful dismissal by a banker in the UK who deposited 350,000 pounds belonging to the Asantehene Otumfour Osei Tutu, triggering a money laundering alert in the city. Mark Frank Arthur was suspended and sacked for his conduct after an investigation by external accountants Grant Thornton. Meanwhile, the ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has reinforced his government’s commitment towards the strict enforcement of the new measures issued by cabinet Thursday to guide the operations of the petroleum industry. To this end, a ministerial co-ordinating committee has been set up to ensure the strict adherence and implementation of the regulatory measures announced after a cabinet meeting Thursday following Atomic ...

President Akufo-Addo is a man in a hurry for success. The Ghana president has countlessly mentioned how he wishes to transform Ghana in the shortest possible time before leaving office – whether he’s given just a term or two. And in truth, the first 10 months of his reign have been good. He has already achieved some of his targets, ...

Policy analyst, Dr. Charles Wereko-Brobby, has criticized a plan by the Ghana National Fire Service to deploy personnel to fuel stations to supervise the delivery of fuel. In his view, this only amounts to “wasting a fire man’s time.” Speaking on Eyewitness News, Mr. Wereko-Brobby said,” I don’t really see that we need to go and deploy fire service people ...

The former rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Professor Stephen Adei has threatened to wage a one-man crusade against the Vice President Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia to force him to reduce the number of cars in his convoy. Prof Adei in an address at the 20th-anniversary celebrations of Morrison and Associations (an international audit firm), said ...

Deputy National Organizer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Joshua Hamidu Akamba has dared President Akufo-Addo to immediately remove from office the Energy Minister, Mr Boakye Agyarko if he has the nation at heart. Speaking on Kasapa FM’s morning show Thursday, Mr. Akamba insisted that he would have left the NPP if he was a member of the party ...

A member of the communication team of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Dr Zakaria Mawiah has said government denied about 5000 prospective nursing students admission in order to restore the scrapped trainee nurses allowances. A host of government officials, including president Akufo-Addo converged at a lavish ceremony in Sunyani Tuesday to officially announce the restoration of the allowances which ...

Deputy National Communications Officer on the ticket of the National Patriotic Party [NPP], Ekow Vincent Asefuah has described members of the largest opposition party as persons who do not learn from their mistakes. Rather they keep adding to their numerous wrong doings claiming and compelling others to take them as rights or privileges. “I get amazed when I come across ...

Ghana is a country with citizens that like to create jokes out of everything. Like or loathe it, but that is the nature of Ghanaians and it is only a matter of time before memes are created out of every weird move. Unfortunately, the mantle has fallen on President Akufo-Addo, following his visit to the hospital to check up on ...