POLITICS

President Nana Akufo-Addo has formerly spoken publicly about the conduct of reckless journalists in the country, stressing he has been one the greatest victims of irresponsible journalism in a section of the Ghanaian media.The 73-year-old President indicated he had been the target of many irresponsible media publications in most part of his political career.Notwithstanding the unwarranted and relentless media attacks ...

Some aggrieved workers of the Electoral commission are demanding the removal of the chairperson of the commission Charlotte Osei . According to the staff, who have petitioned the President over their demand, Mrs. Osei lacks the managerial skills needed to lead the commission. The petition claimed the EC chair “single-handedly renegotiated the contract with the vendor without the involvement of ...

Joseph Dindiok Kpemka, a Deputy Minister of Justice and a Deputy Attorney-General, has said that government is considering a seven-year tenure of office for the Special Prosecutor. He revealed this in an interview with Class FM on Tuesday, July 18. According to him, President Nana Akufo-Addo’s New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration is looking at “a fixed tenure of seven years, ...

The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has moved to clarify what he says is a misrepresentation of President Nana Akufo-Addo’s comments Tuesday on Ghana’s Extended Credit Facility with the IMF. During presser held at the Flagstaff House, the President was asked if the three-year IMF deal entered into by the previous National Democratic Congress (NDC) government would be extended beyond the ...

Some concerned workers of the Electoral Commission (EC) have petitioned the President and Her Ladyship, the Chief Justice to begin impeachment processes against the Chairperson of the Commission, Madam Charlotte Osei. In a six-page petition, the group under the umbrella of concerned staff , they accused her of misconduct citing breaches of some provisions of the 1992 Constitution by the ...

A planned meeting between former President John Dramani Mahama and the Greater Regional Executives of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is causing uneasy calm in the party. The move has incurred the wrath of a group calling itself Action Movement of NDC, which wants the former President sanctioned for calling the meeting which they claimed was against the party’s ...

President Akufo-Addo has said elite schools in the country will be required by government to preserve 30% of their admission space for pupils from deprived schools under the Free SHS policy, which begins in September this year. He said the move is to ensure balance in the admission of students in the well equipped schools. “Elite schools’ will be required ...

President Akufo-Addo Tuesday reiterated that he is not perturbed about the size of his government, despite scathing opposition. According to critics, the president is simply dolling out jobs to loyalties when he should be protecting the public purse. The founding president of IMANI Ghana Franklin Cudjoe for instance speaking on Morning Starr in March described the development as “senseless” and ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said his fellow party member Kennedy Agyapong does not “irritate” him, despite the Assin Central lawmaker’s incessant attacks on his own party. “Regarding Kennedy Agyapong’s comments, I am not surprised at where he is going. I have been in the same party with Ken for many years and so I understand him and we know ourselves ...

Outspoken New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Assin Central Constituency in the Central Region has denied media reports that he is disappointed in President Akufo-Addo for sidelining the Central Region in his appointments. Ken Agyapong while addressing the Central Regional Delegates Conference of the NPP on Sunday called on the people of the region to rise up and ...