POLITICS

A report of the Special Budget Committee of Parliament has revealed how the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) Charlotte Osei, requested for more money for the commission, although the general elections have been concluded. She was demanding approval for the balance of GH¢223,000,751 from GH¢1,093,000,751 which was required for the 2016 general elections. However, an audit report indicated that ...

The acting National Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Freddie Blay has said Paul Afoko remains suspended from the party indefinitely. Speaking Thursday on Accra based Citi FM, the chairman of the National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) said, “I am not sure that is going to happen.” “The one who I replaced was suspended and will remain suspended so ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Thursday inaugurated the Ghana Astronomy Radio Observatory at Kuntunse in the Greater Accra Region, describing the development as the beginning of a new era in the country’s quest to harness the potential of space science and technology for accelerated national development. The new era, he said, would not only witness the deepening of knowledge ...

In a statement, Betty Mould Issrisu revealed that the NDC party continues to remain a strong political party and that such internal wranglings are “characteristics of politics”. “All these bodies and persons meet and run the NDC on a day by day basis. I know because I am at the party office almost daily. Surely, there are disagreements sometimes publicly ...

New Patriotic Party (NPP) firebrand, Kennedy Agyapong continues to descend on some appointees of the current government observing that their actions and inactions are disgracing the party he labored for. On Oman Fm’s Boiling Point on Thursday, he alleged that a number of appointees at the seat of government are making filthy money indicating that some persons are demanding bribes ...

The 2016 Flag Bearer of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, has said most Ghanaian politicians lament about national problems without having the solutions. “Ghanaian leaders are so quick at identifying problems but only lament about them and present no solutions,” he told students of the Zenith University College on Tuesday. Speaking on entrepreneurship in Accra, Dr ...

President Akufo-Addo will today cut sod for the construction of the first factory under his government’s one -district one-factory project. It will be a fulfillment of his pledge to promote industrialization and enable each local government area to own factories relative to its resources and capacity to provide jobs. About 5000 persons are expected to be employed by the Ekumfi ...

National Democratic Congress presidential hopeful Professor Joshua Alabi appears to have opened himself up for further probe, as it is emerging he may have known something about the $72 million software purchased by the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) Investigations are at the moment being conducted into an alleged fraud which initial figure was $66 million before jumping ...

Kennedy Ohene Agyepong, New Patriotic Party (NPP) firebrand has emphatically stated three heads of public institutions will soon be hauled before courts and thrown into jail for engaging in alleged underhand dealings while in office. He singled out the former Director of Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) Mr Ernest Thompson as the first considering what is alleged to ...

Former Trade and Industry Minister, Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, appears to have made a u-turn about the issue of flagbearership of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC). He stated categorically last May that if former President John Mahama contests as NDC flag bearer for the 2020 presidential election, he (Spio-Garbrah) was not going to join the race. Now that it is becoming ...