POLITICS

The Deputy Majority Chief Whip Moses Anim has sternly criticized the Gender, Children and Social Protection Minister and the Northern Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for denigrating President Akufo-Addo following their scuffle Friday. The two have been spewing wild accusations since Bugri Naabu scuttled a meeting convened by Otiko Djaba in Tamale for not giving him prior ...

NPP Northern regional chairman Bugri Naabu and Gender, Children and Social Protection minister Otiko Djaba have been ‘severely reprimanded’ at an NPP National Council meeting held Wednesday night. The President’s two darlings were directed to submit a written apology after they engaged in a public spat and political muscle- flexing. A public relations nightmare had engulfed the party after a ...

The Ashanti regional Minister, Simon Osei-Mensah has flatly denied ever knowing the alleged notorious Chinese illegal miner, Asia Huang. The Minister’s remarks was in reaction to a publication in The Republic Newspaper that claimed that he had been “hobnobbing” with the dreaded galamseyer and as a result granted her diplomatic courtesies in the region. Ms. Huang, according to Abdul Malik ...

The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has ordered all party executives who double as government appointees to relinquish their party positions. The directive, which was taken at the National Council meeting Wednesday affects mainly Gender Minister Ms. Otiko Djaba, who serves as the national women organiser of the NPP, and has been in the news lately over her public utterances. ...

The governing New Patriotic Party has released details of decisions taken at the party’s Council meeting held at Alisa Hotel last Wednesday night. The statement announced four party decisions and five government plans after the more than four hour discussion that ended after 11:00pm. The highlight of the meeting was the action taken over a public spat between Gender, Children ...

The Northern regional chairman of the NPP Daniel Bugri Naabu has apologised to the party and the President over his public feud with Gender minister Otiko Djaba. It comes hours after the New Patriotic Party ordered him and the minister to issue separate written apologies for their public spat. In the letter written on Thursday May 11, Naabu said he ...

The Northern Region Chairman of the New Patriotic Party has unreservedly retracted and apologised to the Upper East Regional Minister Rockson Bukari whom he accused of masterminding the murder of Adams Mahama. Daniel Bugri Naabu in a letter written to Samson Lardy Anyenini, lawyer for the minister said his comments made on Accra-based Radio XYZ and which have since gained ...

The Northern regional chairman of the New Patriotic Party Daniel Bugri Naabu has retracted his unsavoury comment against the Upper East Regional Minister Rockson Bukari and has since apologised. “I write to sincerely and unreservedly retract wholly my comment about your client in an interview I granted Accra-based Radio XYZ. I note, most regrettably that those rather, unfortunate comments have ...

A former defense minister Dr. Addo Kufuor has been appointed to head a 10-member committee of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) to undertake an independent review of the 2016 elections. The Addo Kufuor Committee has been given six weeks to submit its report to the leadership of the party through the General Secretary. The Committee is also to: To ...

Former Ashanti Regional Minister John Alexander Ackon has been cited for ordering police in the region to release 4 seized excavators and a Toyota Hilux Pick up to “Galamsey Queen” Aisha Haung A letter from the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council dated August 16, 2016 and signed by one Kofi Dwomoh Asubonteng, Regional Coordinating Director and Secretary to the Regional Security ...