POLITICS

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has submitted to Parliament a list of 19 Ministers who will make up his Cabinet. The President’s action is in fulfilment of Article 76(1) of the 1992 Constitution which enjoins him to select some ministers to form his Cabinet. The Article states that, “There shall be a cabinet which shall consist of the President, the ...

Former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Professor Stephen Adei has said he cannot understand why his critics want him to start criticising the Akufo-Addo government so soon when he gave the Mahama administration a two-year grace period before speaking about that government. Speaking at a Business Roundtable organised Yamson and Associates on Wednesday, 31 ...

The Majority leader and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has revealed he will actively participate in cabinet meetings in spite of his exclusion from the cabinet list by the President. The 19-member list communicated to Parliament Tuesday May 30, 2017, by President Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo excluded some portfolios which hitherto had been part of cabinet. The Cabinet ministers ...

Family of the late MP for Abuakwa North, JB Danquah has charged the Attorney General to swiftly prosecute the murder case of the legislator. Spokesperson for the late MP, Kwaku Solomon in an interview said the family were devastated after the two suspects were discharged after the Attorney General filed a nolle prosequi but later became calm after the suspects ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is to blame for the lynching of Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama, the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has said. “The NDC is laying blame for this heinous and callous lynching of Captain Mahama at the doorstep of President Akufo-Addo,” the party said in a statement. According to the party, Ghana has known no peace since ...

A former National Democratic Congress MP Sylvester Mensah has decried the spiraling rate of lawlessness in Ghana since the change of government. Vigilante groups linked to the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) have been on vandalism spree, seizing state properties and going on collision course with law enforcement agencies. There are pockets of violence in parts of the country as ...

Former Attorney General Martin Amidu has criticised parliament for imposing punishment on Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga, concerning bribery allegations he made against parliament’s Appointments Committee. The Ghartey Committee, which investigated the allegation made by Mr Ayariga against the leadership of parliament’s Appointments Committee, found him guilty of contempt of parliament. “I have also followed the proceedings ...

The National Chairman of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Mr Bernard Mornah, has said efforts to unite the Nkrumaists party are not dead. “The assertions from some members of the society that the unification talks amongst the Nkrumaists were dead are very erroneous,” he told the Daily Graphic in an interview in Accra yesterday. According to Mr Mornah, the attainment ...

The Minority in parliament will later today file a motion to compel finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta to appear before the House to answer questions over the controversial 2.2 billion dollars bond. The Minority has maintained the deal was shrouded in secrecy accusing the minister of conflict of interest. CHRAJ is currently investigating the allegation of wrongdoing in the issuance of ...

Deputy Chief Scribe for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), George Lawson has described as loose talk comments by the Minister of State in-charge of Public Procurement, Sarah Adwoa Safo on how the NDC plundered state resources through the use of sole-sourcing in procurement. The Minister of State in-charge of Public Procurement, Hon. Sarah Adwoa Safo yesterday disclosed how the previous ...