POLITICS

Mr John Dramani Mahama will file his nomination to contest the flagbearer position of the main National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Tuesday, 21 March 2023. Mr Mahama was expected to file his nomination today, Monday, 20 March but had to postpone it because of the party’s True State of the Nation Address scheduled for today at the University of Professional ...

President Akufo-Addo has tasked the Police to investigate allegations by the former Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESTI) regarding the seat of government’s involvement in illegal mining. Prof Kwabena Frimpong Boateng accused some top government officials of being engaged in the canker, popularly known as ‘galamsey’. The renowned professor who served under President Akufo-Addo during his first term ...

The First Deputy Speaker of Parliament Joseph Osei Owusu (Joewise) has said Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has enormous support within the rank and file of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to lead the party as leader into the 2024 general elections. He said the number of NPP Members of Parliament and Ministers of States who followed Dr Baswumia to ...

United States Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Accra in Ghana; Dar es Salaam in Tanzania and Lusaka in Zambia from March 25 to April 2. She will be accompanied by her husband Douglas Emhoff. The visit will build on the recent U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit that President Biden hosted in Washington in December 2022. The trip will strengthen the United ...

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has refuted allegations of harassment levelled by Assin Central Member of Parliament (MP) Kennedy Ohene Agyapong. The New Patriotic Party (NPP) MP had claimed in an interview with Kumasi-based Sompa FM that his businesses are facing unprecedented “harassment” and “intimidation” under the Akufo-Addo-led government. He said since he started doing business in the Fourth Republic, ...

“There will be no haircuts, so I urge all of you to ignore the false rumours”. President Akufo on 30th October 2022 in a national televised address, emphatically assured investors not to panic. He added, “I want to assure all Ghanaians, no individual or institutional investor, including pension funds, in Government treasury bills or instruments will lose their money, as a ...

Founder and leader of the Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG) Percival Kofi Akpaloo has insisted former president John Dramani Mahama has no chance to be re-elected as President of Ghana. He has described the former president as a non-starter who has no capacity to lead the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to win the 2024 polls. He has accordingly implored the ...

Assin Central MP, Kennedy Agyapong has described his wife, Stella Wilson Agyapong, as corrupt. According to the lawmaker who is contesting to become flagbearer of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), his wife was not corrupt when she returned from America but now compromised. Explaining why he says he wife, who could be Ghana’s First Lady should he become president, ...

The Education Minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum has challenged the Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) and Principals of Technical and Vocational Education and Training TVET Institutions to improve their educational outcomes or stand the risk of having their institutions closed down. Dr Adutwum announced this when he addressed members of the Conference of Assisted Senior High Schools ...

Flagbearer aspirant of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Dr Kwabena Duffuor has said he will prioritize the restoration of the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) to full operating capacity, if elected as flagbearer and subsequently President of Ghana. The former finance minister who is one of four contenders for the leadership of the main opposition party going into the 2024 general ...