POLITICS

The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has appointed former Defense Minister, Dr. Kwame Addo Kuffuor to chair a 10-member committeewhich will review the party’s participation in the 2016 general elections which it won. Nana Akufo-Addo then the opposition leader, surprising secured a resounding one-touch victory by polling 53.85% of total valid votes cast against incumbent John Dramani Mahama who managed 44.40%. The ...

The Minority National Democratic Congress (NDC) Caucus in the Parliament of Ghana says if President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo had listened to the concerns they raised and withdrawn the nomination of Madam Otiko Afisa Djaba as Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection during her vetting, his administration wouldn’t have been so dented by her actions and inactions. In the ...

General Secretary of the Opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has debunked media reports that the committee, chaired by Prof Kwesi Botchwey to investigate the cause of NDC’s 2016 election defeat has submitted their final report. The 13-member committee was put together by the leadership of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to investigate and establish the cause ...

The Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection Otiko Afisa Djaba has rendered an apology to President Akufo-Addo and Ghanaians over her outburst with the NPP Northern regional chairman Daniel Bugri Naabu. “It was totally out of order and I apologise to Ghanaians for what happened. I want to use this opportunity to apologise to all Ghanaians, but it is ...

The National Council of the incumbent New Patriotic Party (NPP), will today [Wednesday], hold a crucial meeting over the brawl between two of the party’s party bigwigs, Otiko Afisa Djaba and Bugri Naabu. The two have been bickering in the past few days, exchanging abusive words on various media platforms in what many have described as a serious blot on ...

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Kwesi Botchwey Committee’s final report on the abysmal defeat of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2016 general election is likely to create sharp divisions in the party. Already, it is riddled with accusations and counter-accusations as to who was responsible for the party’s humiliating defeat at the hands of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). The report has emphatically ...

The Upper East regional branch of the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) has invited Mr Peter Mahama, a senior brother of former President John Dramani Mahama to furnish it with all documents covering his quarry business. Credible information gathered by The aL-hAJJ indicate that the state investigative body has tasked Mr Peter Mahama to make available all documents on ...

Some youth of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Afigya Kwabre Constituency in the party’s home region, (Ashanti) on Monday heaped loads of curses on the Minister of National Security and former Legislator of the area Albert Kan Dapaah, Chief of Staff, Hon. Frema Opare, Peter Mc Manu the chairman for the area and Hon. Owuraku Aidoo, the ...

The race for the position of the fourth most powerful person in Ghana is on, as the Chief Justice, Mrs Justice Georgina Theodora Wood, retires next month. There are two frontrunners in the race, one of whom is likely to be mentioned this week to replace Mrs Justice Wood, who has been in public service for more than 40 years. ...