POLITICS

Vice President Dr Mahamadu Bawumia has ridiculed the economic management team of the erstwhile John Mahama administration, saying they do not close to the current managers of the economy. “In fact can anyone remember the NDC economic management team? I’m sure they themselves cannot remember who a single member of their economic management team was,” Dr. Bawumia told delegates attending ...

Vice President Dr Mahamamu Bawumia has said Ghanaians replaced “incompetence with competence” in last year’s polls as far as Ghana’s economic management is concerned. According to him, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has assembled a team of competent men and women who are bringing the economy back onto the right path. Speaking at the NPP’s delegate’s conference in Cape Coast ...

The Majority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, has said the trend where experienced Members of Parliament (MPs), especially on the side of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), are voted against by their delegates in the party’s internal elections thereby allowing novices to enter Parliament, is affecting the quality of debate on the floor of the House. According to him, ...

Former President John Kufuor is urging the current leadership of the party to strategise and keep the party in power for a long time. He said it is only when the party keeps on winning consistently would the roots of the party go deep and the NPP will become the party of the nation. He was speaking at the National ...

The suspended general secretary of the New Patriotic Party Kwabena Agyepong says he misses his job at the party secretariat. According to him, although he remains suspended from the fold of the elephant family, the party is still on his heart. “I do miss my role. It is service to my party. I still miss it,” Agyapong told journalists when ...

Acting National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Freddie Blay, has revealed that the party’s greatest strength lies in the talented members who use their knowledge to advance the interest of the party. Speaking during the NPP’s delegate’s conference in Cape Coast on Saturday, August 26, Mr Blay said: “In a conference of this nature, we must take stock ...

The suspended General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwabena Agyei Agyepong, has made his way to the University of Cape Coast, where delegates of the party have gathered for this year’s conference. Mr Agyepong was suspended by the National Council prior to the 2016 general elections together with National Chairman Paul Awentami Afoko. Their suspension was to be ...

Former SSNIT board chairman, Prof Joshua Alabi has revealed that the former Director-General of the trust, Mr Ernest Thompson spent $34m in additional cost on the controversial ICT contract without prior approval from the board. He said the expenditure items came to the attention of the board after the funds for the procurement of several high-tech software and hardware had ...

Suspended National Youth Organiser of the Conventions People’s Party (CPP), Ernesto Yeboah, has challenged officials of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and their parliamentarians to organise a press conference on the $72million software saga at the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT). According to him, over the past few years, the main opposition party has been vociferous on certain ...

Some top members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) seem to be robbing each other’s name in the mud in what appears to be a desperate attempt to distance themselves from the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) $66 million software scandal. The alleged stinky deal was unearthed by the current board of SSNIT, chaired by Dr. Kwame Addo ...