POLITICS

The Member of Parliament for Ellembelle Constituency in the Western Region, Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah has charged sympathisers of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to re-organise the rank and file of the party re-strategise in opposition and offer Ghanaians renewed confidence and hope ahead of 20-20 general elections. The next elections in the country is three years away, but ...

In what is been described as reenactment of the dismissal of some 568 selected public servants by their forebear government of Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia, President Akufo-Addo has in the last five months sacked a staggering 13,000 public sector workers. The dismissed public servants, most of who were hired during the eight year rule of the National Democratic Congress ...

The Central Regional Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Bernard Allotey Jacobs has accused the immediate past moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Very Rev Professor Emmanuel Martey of not living as a clergy man. According to him, his utterances make him appear more of a politician than a religious leader and would therefore advise him ...

Ghana’s former president John Mahama believes there is more to earn in the farming sector, especially for the African youth. Describing farming as a “cool” livelihood, Mahama bemoaned the litany of land disputes scattered around Africa in particular which inhibit farming. According to him, investors will only pump money into the agric sector once governments provide the conducive environment. “I ...

The hope of a better life, the joy of living in a country with free flowing milk, honey and wine promised by Nana Akufo-Addo, if made President of Ghana, has become a mirage in many Ghanaian homes. Less than a year into office, the government is creating mass unemployment by sacking thousands of workers from state establishments across the country ...

The Chief of Staff, Akosua Frema Osei-Opare, has been petitioned to investigate “unwarranted harassment” by the state asset recovery taskforce. According to the petitioner Kwesi Livingstone whose Toyota Landcruiser was seized, he suffered unwarranted harassment and threats to his person by some members of the taskforce. He was stopped at Weija by members the task force and asked to report ...

A former Deputy Northern Regional Minister Alhaji A.B.A Fuseini has observed that the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) is doing the reverse of what it promised Ghanaians in the run-up to the 2016 general elections. He said the party and its leaders criticized the former administration of being incompetent and also led by incompetent leadership, but four months after taking ...

As if it was not enough what loyalists of former President John Dramani Mahama did to the founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), former President Jerry John Rawlings, when the party was in power, they are on it again as their plot to expel him (Rawlings) from the party has been uncovered. This time around, the poodles of former ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said his government intends taking the fight against corruption a notch higher by naming and shaming state officials who engage in graft. Speaking at the CEO’s Summit in Accra through Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Maafo, on Monday 22 May, Nana Akufo-Addo said he will create an office at the presidency where business people can directly report ...

A former Minister of State and the Former Editor of the Daily Graphic, Kojo Yankah, has launched a blistering outcry against the penchant of governments to dismiss public office holders and appoint persons of their own stock to fill vacant positions. He questioned what he called “merry-go-round joke in Ghana”, where one government appoints and the other lays them off, ...