POLITICS

A former President of Ghana, Jerry John Rawlings turns 70-year-old today, Thursday June 22, 2017. Popularly known as JJ, the former military dictator was born in Accra on this day to Victoria Agbotui and James Ramsey John, a chemist from the United Kingdom. Mr. Rawlings, who attended Achimota School is married to Nana Konadu Agyeman and has three daughters – ...

Former Sports Minister and Member of Parliament for Odododiodio Constituency, Edwin Nii Lante Vanderpuye has revealed that Former First Lady, Lordina Mahama has been cited several times in the report for contributing in various ways towards the defeat of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). The lawmaker said, several recommendations have been made to that effect when asked the role of ...

The Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin has extolled the contribution of Majority Leader Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu in deepening parliamentary democracy. Speaking on Starr Chat Wednesday, Mr. Bagbin who is also the Member of Parliament for Nadowli-Kaleo in the Upper West region could not hide his awe for the Suame legislator, describing him as a gem and that he ...

The National Women Organiser of the National Democratic Congress, Hajia Joyce Zainab Mahama, has said former President John Dramani Mahama is the present day Jesus. The NDC women leader also noted that if Ghanaians knew that Mahama was the modern day Jesus, they wouldn’t have voted against him in the 2016 presidential election. Hajia Mahama, who spoke on Okay FM, ...

The Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Mr Alban S.K. Bagbin has admitted he was corrupt. In a radio interview on Starr FM Wednesday night, Mr Bagbin who is also a Member of Parliament for Nadowli Kaleo in the Upper West Region said the political system in the way it is in Ghana, makes public officer holders corrupt. He said for ...

The Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin has stated that he tried unsuccessfully to intervene in the infamous bribery scandal that hit the Appointments Committee of Parliament. The Member of Parliament (MP) for Bawku Central and a member of the Committee Mahama Ayariga in January ‘wildly’ alleged that Energy minister, Boakye Agyarko, attempted to bribe the minority members of ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said the New Patriotic Party (NPP) won the 7 December, 2016 elections because Ghanaians were unhappy with the direction to which former President John Mahama was taking the country. Addressing the 2017 International Democrat Union (IDU) Executive meeting launch in Accra on Wednesday, 21 June, Nana Akufo-Addo said the Ghanaian people, “dissatisfied with their living conditions, ...

The 2016 National Campaign Coordinator of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Kofi Adams has stated that the appointment of Mr Afrifa Yamoah Ponkoh as the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for the Ejisu Juaben Municipality in the Ashanti Region contributed to the defeat of the party in the 2016 general elections. According to him, appointing Mr Ponkoh as MCE for ...

It is with considerable pleasure that I welcome you formally to Accra, and to the seat the Ghanaian Presidency. I recall fondly my participation in the 2011 London and 2014 Seoul Party Leaders’ meetings of the International Democratic Union. On both occasions, I attended in my capacity as leader of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), the then main opposition party ...

It was fireworks on Adom FM’s Morning Show, ‘Dwaso Nsem’ on Wednesday Morning when panelists on the show decided to each other up. Their debates which later turned into an argument was about deciding which of the two main political parties – the NPP and the NDC – has shown tendencies of being more corrupt whiles in power. While Agbesi ...