POLITICS

Some irate members of the NPP’s invisible forces Monday stormed the town hall meeting at Tema to threaten government of mayhem if they are not immediately given jobs. According to the group, officials of the Akufo-Addo government, who hitherto to the elections were on good terms with them, suddenly do not pick up their calls if they call them. “We ...

The President of the West African Federation of Engineering Organization, Ing Magnus Lincoln Quarshie, says recent comments by the Minister for Works and Housing against Ghanaian Engineers are in bad taste. Atta Akyea had said at a forum that priority will be given to foreign engineers on key government projects because of the inability of local engineers execute projects to ...

The embattled chairperson of the Electoral Commission Charlotte Osei is being unfairly targetted because she is cleaning the rot at the commission, IMANI President Franklin Cudjoe has said. According to him, calls for the EC boss to step aside while investigations into the impasse at the commission is underway is irrational and unconstitutional. The EC chair and two of her ...

On the back of the Minority’s walk out of Parliament over claims of bias against the Speaker of the House, the Majority Leader, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu says the Speaker did not err in his decision to forward the motion on the AMERI deal to the House’s Mines and Energy Committee without any debate. Mr. Mensah Bonsu further described the ...

The acting Director of Public Affairs of Parliament Kate Addo has rebutted claims by the Minority that the Speaker of the House Prof. Mike Oquaye is biased. The comment comes after the Minority accused the Speaker of bias and threatened to impeach him following his decision to deny their leader Haruna Iddrisu a follow-up question during an encounter with the ...

Former Ghana High Commissioner to South Africa, Mr Kwesi Ahwoi has denied knowledge of posters which has appeared on social media announcing his interest in the presidency on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). Mr Ahwoi told Accra based radio station, Class FM that he has not contracted anyone to do that on his behalf adding that such ...

Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu has accused Speaker of Parliament, Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye of threatening democracy in parliament. The Minority staged a walk-out in protest to what they described as the referral of a motion to the Energy Committee without prior debate. The motion was filed by Member of Parliament (MP) for Adansi-Askowa, K.T. Hammond to seek cancellation of the ...

One of the beleaguered deputy chairpersons of the Electoral Commission Amadu Sulley has accused his boss of sidelining him as the wrangling at the commission continues. In a new string of accusations contained in a letter addressed to Charlotte Osei, Mr. Sulley bemoans the decision of the chair to engage other officials over responsibilities that fall within his domain. “..Per ...

The Deputy Chair of Operations at the Electoral Commission, Amadu Sulley has called on the Commission’s Chairperson, Charlotte Osei to act in accordance with the structures of the Commission, following what he describes as her non-recognition of his presence. In a leaked memo, Mr. Sulley complained that Mrs. Osei had refused to recognize his presence in the office since she ...

The Minority has stormed out of parliament over the controversial Ameri deal. This follows unsuccessful attempts to stop the Member of Parliament for Adansi Asokwa K.T Hammond from moving a motion in Parliament seeking the review of the deal. According to a seventeen-member committee put together by the Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko , there are technical, financial and legal lapses ...