POLITICS

The bribery claim made against the Appointment Committee of Parliament by the MP for Bawku Central is “Bizzare”, president Akufo-Addo has noted. Mahama Ayariga in January this year alleged that Energy minister, Boakye Agyarko, attempted to bribe the minority members of the committee, to clear him following his edgy vetting – but they rejected it. According to him, the alleged ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said he prefers having a “noisy, boisterous sometimes scandalous media of today to the monotonous praise-singing sycophantic one of yesteryear.” Addressing journalists at the Flagstaff House on Tuesday, 18 July vis-à-vis his first six months in office, the president said although the media has been criticised for overstepping its freedom of expression limit following the repeal ...

President Akufo-Addo has stated that he did not regret one bit his role in repealing what he described as “the old discredited” criminal libel law which had been used to incarcerate a number of journalists in the past. Parliament in 2001 unanimously repealed the Criminal Libel and Seditious Laws. It followed the passage of the Criminal Code (Repeal of the ...

President Akufo-Addo has stated that he did not regret one bit his role in repealing what he described as “the old discredited” criminal libel law which had been used to incarcerate a number of journalists in the past. Parliament in 2001 unanimously repealed the Criminal Libel and Seditious Laws. It followed the passage of the Criminal Code (Repeal of the ...

President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says having assumed office on January 7, 2017, the least he expected from his own political party members were acts that will impugn the integrity of the government and the New Patriotic Party (NPP). But to his utmost surprise, he was hard-hit with bad publicity by the media following some ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is set to meet journalists today to render an account of his stewardship within the past six months. However, reports rife indicate that Radio Gold, a media house affiliated to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) was not invited. Responding to these reports, Perry Okudzeto, Deputy Information Minister said it was not only Radio Gold that ...

President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo is meeting journalists for the first time since his swearing in, to render an account of his stewardship within the past six months and answer questions from them. He is expected to touch on security, illegal mining, the economy, the National Health Insurance (NHIS), infrastructure, education, good governance among others. Minister of Information, Mustapha ...

Even as supporters of the National Democratic Congress are yet to recover from the defeat in last year’s polls, former President John Dramani Mahama says he remains indebted to the Almighty God despite his inability to clinch a second term. Explaining, nobody can question decisions of God, the former President noted that if God had wanted him to continue as ...

President Akufo-Addo will today hold an encounter with the media six months after being in power. The President is expected to address the journalists, from selected media houses, briefly at today’s encounter, and then proceed to take questions from them. Ahead of the meeting, the acting chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Freddy Blay, has scored the six-month old ...

H.E Afred Agbesi Woyome writes; Please enough of The Insults On President Mahama. Tell me Who can Match His Legacy In The NDC! Prof would have if he had lived. I am the one who should vilify him when he issued ( or caused to be issued) a bogus white paper on a sole commissioner’s report when I never even ...