POLITICS

The chairman of the African Union Advisory Board on Corruption Daniel Batidam has called for an investigation into the motive behind the Gh¢50, 000 donation from the Chinese government to Ghana’s Attorney General’s Office. The Chinese Ambassador to Ghana Sun Baohong Tuesday June 6 donated some items to the AG’s office including desktop computers, printers, UPS and a cheque for ...

The Minority in Parliament has vowed to continue its crusade for full disclosure of circumstances leading to the issuance of the $2.25 billion bond by government, noting they will not be cowed by constant description of being ignorant. Following the issuance of the bond in April, the Minority called a press conference to express its disgust with what it says ...

A one-time flagbearer hopeful of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, has said the party suffered an identity crisis during the last election because it abandoned the tenets that defined its foundation. He said the principles of probity, accountability, and integrity which occasioned the June 4 Revolution were hardly touted by the party as it battled the New ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) will mark its Silver Jubilee with a series of activities within the year. In a statement issued by Deputy General Secretary Koku Anyidoho on Wednesday June 7, it said “the party is rolling out a year-long plan to mark its Silver Jubilee countrywide under the theme: Mirroring the Past into the Future”. A four-day itinerary ...

A Deputy General Secretary of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Koku Anyidoho, has urged the rank and file of the NDC to be humble as the party looks forward to regaining power in the 2020 presidential and parliamentary polls. According to him, some executives of the NDC believe elders of the party should be ignored. This situation, he ...

Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Obiri Boahen has stated not every appointee in the erstwhile National Democratic Congress (NDC) under former President John Mahama engaged in corrupt practices. “There is a new group in NDC which is now calling for the prosecution of past officials by the current NPP government. So you cannot conclude that ...

The perception held by General Secretary of Christian Council Ghana, Rev. Dr. Opuni Frimpong that all politicians in the country are the same is wrong, New Patriotic Party (NPP) Deputy General Secretary, Nana Obiri Boahen has replied. “If an individual member of either National Democratic Congress (NDC) or NPP engages insulting behavior, you cannot conclude that every member of that ...

Alfred Okoe Vanderpuije, the former Mayor of the Accra Metropolitan area has declared that he is ready to supposed former president John Dramani Mahama if the latter decides to run in 2020. According to Okoe Vanderpuije, who is now the Member of Parliament for Ablekuma South Constituency, John Mahama is a valuable candidate for the New Democratic Congress political party. ...

Minister for Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh says the President of the nation is not against tertiary education as Ghanaians have been made to believe. Speaking at the 10th anniversary of the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement, the minister explained the present administration “seriously believes that there is no distinction or choice between primary education and tertiary education, all ...

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has said the $2.25 billion bond issued by the government two months ago was done transparently without breaching any rules, adding that attempts by the Minority to attack the process was borne of its lack of understanding of the issuance process. Responding on the floor of parliament to a half-motion filed by the Minority, Mr Ofori-Atta ...