POLITICS

Dr Kobby Mensah, a Political Marketing expert of the Department of Marketing and Entrepreneurship at the University of Ghana Business School (UGBS) has asked the state investigative bodies and the Electoral Commission to probe a recent revelation by former President Jerry John Rawlings that some Nigerians intended to fund the National Democratic Congress (NDC) ahead of Ghana’s 2008 elections. According ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has left Ghana to attend the United Nation’s Advocacy Group of Eminent Personalities on the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, in his capacity as co-Chairperson of the Group, taking place in Belgium and the United States of America, and attend the G-20 Partnership for Africa Summit in Germany. In Belgium, President Akufo-Addo will meet with ...

According to him, the earlier Mr. Rawlings accepts that the party he founded is beyond his grip the better for him. Addressing party folks Sunday June 4, 2017 in the Upper West regional capital Wa to commemorate the 38th anniversary of the June 4th uprising, Rawlings attributed the NDC’s humiliating defeat to the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) to unbridled ...

A former Presidential staffer, Dr. Clement Apaak has failed to prove his claims that the John Mahama government ordered 43 new vehicles for the presidency few weeks before leaving office on the behest of the current government. Dr. Apaak, the Buila South MP, who first made the claim on Citi FM’s ‘Big Issue‘, had promised to provide further evidence to ...

The Commander-In-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces Nana Akufo-Addo has posthumously promoted the late Captain Maxwell Mahama to the rank of a major. The promotion was based on recommendation of the Chief of Defence Staff, Lt. Gen. O.B Akwa. Major Mahama was lynched by residents of Denkyira-Obuasi in the Central region on Monday May 29, 2017 having been mistaken as ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has buoyed candidates sitting for the 2017 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), to grab the opportunity to secure their future. Leaders across the country continue to send goodwill messages to the over 460,000 candidates participating in the exams nationwide and the President, is latest to send a tweet to assure them that the much touted ‘Free SHS’ ...

A member of the Disciplinary Committee of the General Legal Council has justified the three-year ban on a popular Human Rights lawyer Francis Xavier Sosu for breaching professional rules. The legal practitioner was found guilty of four charges – excessive legal fees, an over- estimation of services, failing to appear before the committee and advertising which is against the GLC ...

THE National Democratic Congress (NDC) has outlined programmes to mark its 25th Anniversary celebration. The year-long celebration is under the theme, ‘Mirroring the Past into the Future’. On 8th June, 2017, the party will hold a panel discussion at party’s national headquarters with Comrade Hudu Yahaya, Comrade Dan Abodakpi, Comrade Alban Bagbin, Second Deputy Speaker, Comrade Ama Benyiwa Doe, a ...

The specialised vehicles ordered by former President John Dramani Mahama before exiting office, and meant to be used by the incoming New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration are ready in Dubai. The new cars were to beef up the presidential fleet and were ordered a few days to the handing over of power to President Akufo-Addo. Per the contractual terms, the ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has revealed that there had been times in the past when he had felt like leaving the party he founded and moving on but the plight of good people in the party had held him at bay. At the 38th-anniversary of June 4 revolution, he spoke about how he is “greatly pained by the events ...