POLITICS

Former President John Dramani Mahama is in India to attend the 52nd Annual Meeting of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group. The meetings under the theme: Transforming Agriculture for Wealth Creation in Africa, which begins today Monday, May 22, will end on May 26, 2017. A statement from the office of the former president and signed by his aide, Joyce ...

Officers of the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) have been interdicted for allegedly causing a huge financial loss to the state. The interdiction of the officers, comprising four females and eleven males followed their purported connivance with certain companies to evade duties and taxes. President Akufo-Addo’s government has been waging war against pilfering at the port carried ...

Member of Parliament for the Ningo-Prampram Constituency, Hon. Sam Nartey George, has stated that former Attorney General (AG) and Minister of Justice, Mr. Martin Amidu has lost his moral high ground since he’s been silent during recent scandals. According to the Ningo-Prampram legislator, Mr. Martin Amidu can no longer claim to be “seeking what is just, right and honest” since ...

Respected lawyer Ace Anan Ankomah has waded into the controversy surrounding the discharge of the eight Delta Force members, saying there is nothing the attorney general can do in the matter under the circumstances. According to him, until the Police is able to find evidence of guilt against any of the suspects, the AG cannot win a case against them ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated that there can be no future prosperity for the countries of West Africa and its peoples, in the short, medium or long term, if they continue to maintain economic structures that are dependent on the production and export of raw materials. According to him “we must add value to these resources, we must ...

Ace Investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas has hinted that he is going to release his most challenging undercover investigative piece in his entire career, which involves 60 people who have done great evil to the state. Anas dropped the hint while speaking at the Third Lecture Series of the 60th Anniversary of the Commonwealth Hall of the University of Ghana ...

Ashanti Regional Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party is accusing minority leader in parliament of employing secret strategy to over shine former president John Mahama ahead of the party’s internal contest. According to Bernard Antwi Boasiako, Haruna Iddrisu as a lawyer must have fair appreciation of circumstance that led to the discharge of the NPP’s vigilante group, delta force. ...

Nine of the 20 government appointees at the Kassena-Nankana West District Assembly in the Upper East region have been dismissed and replaced to pave way for the confirmation of the District Chief Executive nominee, Clement Dandori. Their dismissal, coming a week after the nominee was denied the required two-thirds of the votes cast in the first confirmation meeting, was announced ...

The General Secretary of the Peoples National Convention (PNC) Atik Mohammed, has said the Nana Akufo Addo governing will sink itself soon, if it continues commiting avoidable mistakes and courting problems for itself. According to him, the government has set itself for destruction and it appears the NPP will want to take it’s 5 months in office to repeat the ...

A former Attorney General, Martin Amidu is of the view the Ashanti Regional State Attorney did not err in her decision to drop charges against members of the pro-New Patriotic Party (NPP) group, Delta Force, without consulting the Attorney General. Mr. Amidu, per his assesment of the case, described the State Attorney’s handling of the matter as unassailably professional. The ...