POLITICS

A Deputy Minister for Food and Agriculture in Charge of Crops, Yaw Frimpong Addo has called Ghanaians to disregard the propaganda peddled by the main opposition National Democratic Congress’ Member of Parliament for Asunafo South Constituency in the Ahafo Region, Eric Opoku that Ghana imports a large number of cassava from China to augment its food stock. The Deputy Minister ...

The Member of Parliament for Builsa South and Deputy Ranking Member On Education Committee of Parliament, Dr Clement Apaak, has admonished the government to immediately drop the unfortunate proposal to wean off public tertiary institutions of the public payroll. According to Dr. Apaak, the move is likely to make the cost of education expensive and inaccessible to poorer families. The ...

A group calling itself Concerned Youth of Suhum in Eastern Region have accused a presidential staffer Frank Asiedu Bekoe popularly known as Protozoa of influencing the polling station executives and electoral area coordinators elections with money in his quest to unseat the Member of Parliamentary Oboafo Kwadwo Asante. The aggrieved youth group alleged that, the Presidential staffer who is also ...

The wearing of face masks is no more mandatory across the country. “From tomorrow, Monday, 28 March, the wearing of facemasks is no longer mandatory. I encourage all of you, though, to continue to maintain enhanced hand hygiene practices, and avoid overcrowded gatherings,” President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo announced while addressing the nation on Sunday, 27 March 2022. According to ...

Former President John Mahama says the National Democratic Congress has problems with the judiciary and called on the Chief Justice to institute reforms within the courts. “We do have problems with the Judiciary, I must say. I think that it is necessary for some internal reforms to take place there. It is necessary for the Chief Justice or whoever is ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said he and his wife, Rebecca, are still healthy a year after taking the COVID-19 vaccine, and has, thus, urged Ghanaians who have not yet been vaccinated to do so. Demystifying the conspiracy surrounding the COVID-19 vaccine by some groups of persons that taking the jab will cause one to be ill, impotent among ...

The first-ever model of unintended pregnancies and abortion rates for 150 countries has estimated that 266,000 abortions were done in Ghana between 2015 and 2019. The Guttmacher Institute, the World Health Organisation and the UN’s Human Reproduction Programme (HRP) released the model-based estimates of unintended pregnancy and abortion rates highlighting major disparities in access to sexual and reproductive health care. ...

A United States District Court has dismissed a defamation suit brought against a US-based Ghanaian journalist, Kevin Taylor, and his Media Company, Loud silence, by Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong. According to the court, “it is undisputed that Agyapong is a public figure and Taylor’s statements were made regarding matters of public concern. The Amended Complaint does ...

President Akufo-Addo yesterday gave his surest of bets to complete the 111 hospitals started by the government before his term of office ends. The project will provide 111 standard 100-bed district hospitals with accommodation for doctors and nurses in districts without district hospitals. It will also see to the construction of six new regional hospitals for each of the six ...

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has, in response to a question about how confident he was in getting the e-levy passed, said: “If you pray with me, I’m sure by the end of March, we’ll pass e-levy, so, let’s be very hopeful about that”. He made the comment at a press conference on Thursday, 24 March 2022 during the Q&A session ...