POLITICS

The US government’s stripping of protocol visa allocation to top Ghanaian government officials including former presidents and MPs on non-official visits is degrading, the lawmaker for Sekondi, Andrew Egyapa Mercer has stated. The directive of the US government means that all former presidents including John Dramani Mahama, and John Agyekum Kufuor will have to book an appointment or join a ...

Former President and founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Jerry John Rawlings who turned 70 yesterday June 22, 2017 is not thinking straight about issues within the party because of old age and must therefore be pardoned, a communicator has said. “I prefer that sometimes we treat a lot of his statements with kid gloves. The founder will always ...

From now onwards former Presidents and Members of Parliament (MP) are expected to join the queue like ordinary Ghanaians when applying for US visas for their private visits. The United States Ambassador to Ghana, Robert Jackson, said apart from the official travel for ex-Presidents and MPs, which goes through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in all other applications the applicants ...

According to Shirley Ayorkor Botwchway, the Ghanaian deportees were chained with their movements on the flight to Ghana restricted. “What was shocking was that they were brought back in a manner that was unacceptable, it is unacceptable that you put people in chains for an 11 hour flight,” Ayorkor Botchway told Starr FM’s Parliamentary correspondent Ibrahim Alhassan. She added “if ...

Alhaji Sanni, a former First Vice Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Ashanti Region, who wields a lot of respect in the party, has stated categorically that former President Jerry John Rawlings is not the founder of the party. According to him, the NDC has founding fathers across the 275 constituencies in the country, adding that the ...

President and Chairman of Groupe Nduom (GN), Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, says instead of the Electoral Commission (EC) ensuring that the Political Parties’ Laws are implemented as enshrined in the 1992 Constitution, it [the EC] was just doing ‘pick and choose’ when it suits them. According to him, the EC, led by Mrs. Charlotte Osei, has proved to be incapable ...

All is not well with Ghana’s Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, as his posture, speech and general demeanor, appears to be a man very troubled within. Indeed, he appears to be a man in search of pity, love and praise. This became evident in Germany recently at an investors forum in the presence of Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde, the Managing Director ...

“Wishing President Rawlings a happy 70th Anniversary —John & Lordina Mahama,” Mr Mahama tweeted. Wishing President Rawlings a happy 70th Anniversary. —John & Lordina Mahama. pic.twitter.com/n0e2or5tvD — John Dramani Mahama (@JDMahama) June 22, 2017 Mr Rawlings, who was Ghana’s constitutionally elected president from 1992 to 2000, celebrates the day with a lunch in honour of living Ghanaian World War II ...

The Convention People’s Party (CPP) has rejected comments by former president John Agyekum Kufuor that Ghana’s first leader Kwame Nkrumah “virtually killed” democracy during his reign. Kufuor who governed Ghana from 2001-2009 told the leadership of the International Democratic Union (IDU) which paid a courtesy call on him at his office in Accra recently that Nkrumah almost plunged the country ...

The Central Regional Organiser of the 31st December Women’s Movement, Aba Edusah, has kicked against the decision to rename the group by its founder, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings. According to her, the organisation’s constitution has spelt out the rules and regulations to follow in changing the name, however, those rules were not followed. She accused Mrs Rawlings of unilaterally changing the ...