POLITICS

The Council of Chiefs and Queenmothers of Ahafo, in the Brong Ahafo region, have expressed their gratitude to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, for the implementation of policies aimed at improving the living standards of Ghanaians. The Omanhene of Yamfo Traditional Area, Nana Ansah Adu Baah, who is also Chairman of the Ahafo Council of Chiefs, told President Akufo-Addo that ...

In a move that confirmed a long-held suspicion, Mr Alban Bagbin last Saturday declared his intention to contest for the flag-bearership of the National Democratic Congress(NDC) towards the 2020 general elections. The six-time Member of Parliament for the Nadowli Constituency in the Upper West Region and Second Deputy Speaker of the current Parliament admitted his ambition was not a secret ...

Ace Ghanaian lawyer has called on the government to set up a free SHS fund for stakeholders and philanthropies to make a donation to support the Free SHS policy. According to Maurice Ampaw, the establishment of the Free SHS fund will allow Ghanaians to voluntarily support the free SHS policy to ensure its sustainability. Speaking in an interview he said, ...

Controversial hip life musician, Kwame Asare Obeng popularly known as A Plus seems to have vindicated following his corruption allegation he leveled against two deputy Chiefs of staff. In a leaked audio recording, a senior female police officer was heard telling the musician his allegation is not far from right. The yet-to be named police officer said investigations into the ...

Musician Kwame A-Plus has said the voices on an audiotape purported to have captured a cover-up phone conversation between a man whose voice sounds like his, and an alleged female police interlocutor, in connection with investigations by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) into allegations of graft against Deputy Chiefs of Staff Francis Asenso-Boakye and Samuel Abu Jinapor, sound like ghosts ...

A year ago, I succinctly opined that erstwhile President John Dramani Mahama’s (JDM) meddling of US-Cuban relationduring his 71st UN General Assembly speech was a needless diplomatic aggrandizement, albeit his terrific delivery. President Akufo-Addo is equally a man of impressive erudition when it comes to public oratory. Nonetheless, Mr. Akufo-Addo’s bloggable statement on uranium cannot escape public commentary and scrutiny. ...

Lawyer Edudzi Tamakloe who’s counsel for NDC activist and Serial caller, ‘Appiah Stadium’, says the latter did not apologize to President Akufo-Addo out of his own volition. The ascerbic tongued ex President John Mahama loyalist had described the President Akufo-Addo as a ‘monkey’ and a ‘wee'(marijuana) addict, which subsequently led to his arrest by the police. But in a radio ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo should have been arrested by the police for allegedly engaging in drug use which the laws of the country frown on, a private legal practitioner and member of the NDC has suggested. According to Lawyer Abraham Amaliba, Appiah Stadium only acted as a whistleblower when he alleged the President is a drug addict and must ...

NDC serial caller, Frank Kwaku Appiah popularly known as Appiah Stadium has been granted bail after he was arrested by police in the Ashanti Region. Appiah was arrested after he claimed in an audio that the President smokes marijuana. Speaking to GhanaWeb, one of the lawyers representing the NDC serial caller said he[Baba Jamal] and a team of lawyers had ...

President  Akufo-Addo has called on stakeholders in the oil industry to put in place urgent steps to make Ghana reap all the benefits from oil deposits in the now settled disputed region in the country’s territorial waters. Addressing a group of officials from the energy ministry who were part of Ghana’s delegation that secured the ITLOS judgment in Ghana’s favour, the ...