POLITICS

A former constituency chairman of the New Patriotic Party in the Klottey Korle Constituency, Valentino Nii Noi Nortey has called on Ghanaians to be patient with the government of Nana Akufo-Addo over its indebtedness. He was reacting to the incessant pressure brought on government by School Feeding Cooks and some graduate teachers over non-payment of arrears and salaries. The Caterers ...

The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) Bernard Antwi Boasiako says he has had a change of mind about his earlier decision to contest the national chairmanship position of the great ‘Elephant’ party. According to him, his desire to occupy the highest office of his party was far above the ground but had to revise his ...

At least 30 per cent of placement in the elite Senior High Schools (SHSs) will be reserved solely for students from the public schools and deprived communities under the government’s Free Senior High School Policy, the Minister of Education, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has announced. He explained that the move was to ensure that children from those schools and communities ...

NPP’s Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as ‘Chairman Wontumi’ says he has first-hand information about Former President John Dramani Mahama’s secret meeting in the Ashanti Region. He was emphatic that, the immediate past president and some allies are planning to form a new National Democratic Congress [NDC] party which will sideline its original founder, Former President John Jerry Rawlings. “I ...

Ghanaian public officials are fond of quoting Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist to literally beg for more aid, anytime donor agencies give money or items to help facilitate their operations. This was the case when the European Union donated vehicles, IT equipment and other items worth about GHc 2.3 million to help manage the country’s borders more effectively, under the EU-funded ...

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has emphasised the need for government policies to encourage the private sector to develop and translate into the economy to enable the citizenry to live in dignity. He cautioned that government cannot do it all encouraging the private sector to do its share because “if government should try to spoon feed the community, then people ...

The Government of Ghana is reviewing the debts incurred by the John Mahama administration to find out whether the loans were used for the purposes of which they were contracted, Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Marfo, has revealed. After the review of the debt situation, the findings will be made public to enable the Ghanaian people realise how their moneys were ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has called on the clergy, the Ghana Bar Association (GBA), as well as Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), to make their voices heard on important matters affecting the nation. According to the party, their loud silence does not augur well for the democratic dispensation of the country. Commenting on the fracas between the Minister for Gender, ...

The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Mrs, Charlotte Osei is walking in quicksand as pressure mounts on her to justify why portioning and furnishing of the new EC office must cost the taxpayer a colossal amount of GH3.9 million. What is making it worse is the decision of the EC Boss to unilaterally sign the contract without the express approval ...

NDC’s Kumasi-based popular serial caller, Frank Appiah popularly known as ‘Appiah Stadium’ has denied media reports suggesting that former President, John Dramani Mahama secretly met top guns of the NDC in Kumasi to shove his 2020 agenda down the throat of party members in the region. Appiah Stadium said, the report churned out by the Daily Guide newspaper is false ...