POLITICS

A former Minister of Trade Dr. Ekow Spio-Garbrah has subtly declared his intention to run for the flagbearer race of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) come election 2020. However, he said he will do so on condition that former president John Mahama refuses to contest the next general election. Mahama is coy over his decision but has been on ...

A former Minister of Trade Dr. Ekow Spio-Garbrah believes former president John Mahama performed creditably and would be on the good side of history. Although Mahama lost miserably in the 2016 elections as the first sitting president under the Fourth Republic to have been defeated in an election, Dr. Spio-Garbrah believes Mahama can still walk with his head held high. ...

The Assin Central Member of Parliament, Kennedy Agyapong, has promised to sponsor Assembly members in the Assin North municipality to study abroad to improve the local governance system in the municipality regardless of members political affiliation. According to him, the assemblymen would be selected at random with respect to their qualities but not faces or by partisan favors. He made ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has summoned two of his party stalwarts to the Flagstaff House, the seat of government, to come and explain themselves over their conduct on Friday, May 5, 2017, which has subjected the governing party to public ridicule. Northern Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bugri Naabu, and the Minister for Gender, Children and ...

Mr Daniel Bugri Naabu, the New Patriotic Party’s Northern regional Chairman, has accused Mr Rockson Bukari, the Upper East Regional Minister, as well as Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Ms Otiko Afisa Djaba, of having a hand in the murder of the party’s late Upper East Regional chairman Adams Mahama. Mr Mahama was murdered in an acid attack ...

After 47 years of public service, the Chief Justice, Georgina Theodora Wood, will retire on June 8, 2017, and two names remain in the race to replace her as Ghana’s next Chief Justice. The top contenders are: Justice Victor Jones Mawulom Dotse and Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah. The top two contenders lead from 14 Supreme Court potentials. The Chief Justice is ...

The maverick Northern regional chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party Daniel Bugri Naabu has accused two ministers in the Akufo-Addo government of being involved in the plot that led to the murder of Adams Mahama, the NPP’s Upper East regional chairman. “…Otiko has been a controversial woman in the party. As I’m telling you, this Adams issue, she was ...

Sources within the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Upper East Region have hinted at plans to hand dismissal letters to appointed assembly members, and have them replaced, should the municipal and district chief executive nominees miss the required two-third mark as their confirmation tests begin today in the region. The Upper East Regional Coordinating Council has released a ...

Gender and Social Protection Minister Madam Afisa Otiko Djaba has indicated that she will file an official complaint with the party about the conduct Gender and Social Protection Minister Madam Afisa Otiko Djaba has indicated that she will file an official complaint with the party about the conduct of Northern Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Daniel Bugri ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has reiterated the commitment of his government to establishing the Infrastructure for Poverty Eradication Programme (IPEP) – the vehicle which will ensure that each of the 275 constituencies receives the equivalent of $1 million per year for infrastructural development. According to Akufo-Addo, this Fund will be administered by three (3) development authorities, namely, the Coastal ...