POLITICS

President Nana Akufo-Addo has wished candidates participating in this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) success. “The very best of luck to the 468,053 beginning today. Free SHS awaits you in September 2017. Seize this opportunity with both hands and open the door to your own and Ghana’s bright future,” Mr Akufo-Addo tweeted. #BECE2017 pic.twitter.com/x7xaxAnToE — Nana Akufo-Addo (@NAkufoAddo) June ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has said in Wa that the death of Captain Maxwell Mahama has sent shocking waves throughout the country. He expressed the hope that his death would serve as a wakeup call for all Ghanaians, the government and the law courts to act responsibly towards the task ahead of them. Former President Rawlings made the statement ...

THE PRESIDENT, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has charged newly-appointed ambassadors and high commissioners work closely with the various ministries and agencies to promote Ghana’s commercial interest and to drive private sector investments into the country. According to the President, government has made it a policy to seek more private sector equity financing for its infrastructure projects “rather than the historic ...

The issue about the health status of Former President Jerry John Rawlings which became a topical discussion in the run up to the 2016 general elections with executives of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) explaining why he had been excluded from the campaigns has resurfaced. It would be recalled that the General Secretary of the party, Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia ...

Former president JJ Rawlings’ call for a total overhaul of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), to restore the core principles on which the party was founded is nothing new, according to the party’s deputy national organiser. Addressing a durbar to celebrate the 38th anniversary of the June 4th uprising in the Upper West regional capital, Wa, Mr. Rawlings attributed the ...

The Foreign Affairs Minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has laughed off claims that Ghana’s president Akufo-Addo garnered a disappointing two votes to lose out on the ECOWAS chairmanship slot to Togo’s Faure Gnassingbè. Social media is awash with rumours that Akufo-Addo lost miserably to his Togolese counterpart, but Ghana’s foreign minister is surprised about the news since “there was no vote” ...

Government has strenuously denied claims by a former Presidential Staffer that the NDC government ordered the purchase of some 43 new vehicles a few days before leaving office at the behest of the new Akufo-Addo government. The previous administration led by former President John Mahama was accused of illegally procuring the aforementioned vehicles for the presidency at a cost of ...

The recent lynching, or gruesome mob murder of Captain Maxwell Mahama, who whilst discharging his official duties as the commander of a military group deployed in the Denkyira Obuasi area with the assignment of regulating local small scale mining aka “Galamsey” activities; was tragically set upon, beaten and stoned to death, and partially burnt by a crowd – is very ...

Former president JJ has disclosed he fired his ex-aide Victor Smith because the latter wanted to divert campaign funds from some Nigerians in the United States to the National Democratic Congress ahead of the 2008 elections. Mr Smith, who until recently was Ghana’s High Commissioner to UK and Ireland, was sacked as Rawlings’ secretary on April 9, 2008 via a ...

The founder of the National Democratic Congress Jerry John Rawlings says greed and corruption caused the party’s humiliating defeat in the 2016 December elections. According to the former President, the greed and corruption of today is nothing compared to what existed before he toppled the military regime on June 4, 1979. “Generals were executed…because of corruption, the greed, corruption and ...