POLITICS

The newly wedded former minister of information under late President Atta Mills and former diplomat, Sabah Zita Benson formally know as Zita Okaikoi has fired back at a journalist who reported that she is now operating a chop bar. According to her, the video on which the report was made was put on her own WhatsApp profile yet the reporter ...

The Minority in Parliament is demanding a bi-partisan probe into the circumstances surrounding the collapse of two indigenous banks in Ghana. Cassiel Ato Forson who is the Minority spokesperson on Finance suspects something untoward may have happened and demanded investigations into it. For Immediate Release MINORITY STATEMENT ON THE RECEIVERSHIP OF CAPITAL BANK AND UT BANK Good afternoon Ladies and ...

The Council of State has backed the creation of new regions by the Akufo-Addo government. The creation of three new regions out of existing ones featured prominently in the campaign of the then presidential candidate of the NPP in the run-up to the 2016 general election. Last week, the President told Chiefs in the Western region that all is set ...

India’s Minister of State for External Affairs, M.J. Akbar, has applauded the policies and programmes being implemented by the Akufo-Addo government. Describing Akufo-Addo as “a father of democracy in Africa”, Mr. Akhbar indicated that the government and people of India celebrate the ongoing contributions made by President Akufo-Addo to Ghana’s development. “We celebrate also the fact that your programmes and ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday, August 15, 2017, cut the sod for the construction of a new cement grinding factory, at the Tema Freezones enclave. Congratulating the Board, Management and Staff of CBI Ghana, and their partner, Lafarge-Holcim, for taking the decision to invest in Ghana, President Akufo-Addo noted that laying the foundation stone for the cement grinding ...

The Minority in Parliament is demanding a bi-partisan probe into the circumstances surrounding the collapse of two indigenous banks in Ghana. Cassiel Ato Forson who is the Minority spokesperson on Finance suspects something ontoward may have happened and demanded investigations into it. Addressing a press conference, Tuesday, Mr Forson said the managers of the two banks- UT and Capital- must ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has called on the citizenry not to lose the chance to rectify what is wrong in the fabric of the Ghanaian society. “Our country Ghana has great and patriotic citizens, but the country is fast falling under the control and ownership of three groups of people, the second and third of which were spawned by ...

Deputy General Secretary for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Koku Anyidoho has pooh-poohed Ghana’s former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Victor Smith for asking party executives to summon former President Rawlings. Ghana’s former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Victor Smith has said the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) must be even in trying to maintain discipline in ...

The 2015 Auditor General’s Report has indicted the National Youth Authority (NYA) over the misapplication of GHS215, 100.00. According to the report, after the 2014 World Cup an amount of GHS450, 000.00 was released to the NYA secretariat as feeding grant for the Authority’s 11 Youth Leadership Skills Training Institutes across the country for the 1st term of 2014 academic ...

The Ashanti Regional Minister Simon Osei-Mensah has descended on critics of the NPP government’s Free Senior High School Education programme describing them as ”selfish and greedy” people who want to deliberately kill the programme so as to advance their political carriers. According to the Regional Minister, all those who are doing advocacy against the Free SHS programme know very well ...