POLITICS

Africa must change its relationship with Europe if it wants to become self-reliant and exploit rich resources that could transform the continent, Ghana’s president has said. “Africa and Europe are natural partners … but [it’s] a relationship that has to be different from what we’ve had up to now,” Nana Akufo-Addo said on Thursday following talks with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron. His remarks were made in ...

A vehicle being used by the Savannah Regional Minister, Salifu Adam Braimah was snatched by armed robbers at gunpoint in Tamale, MyNewsGh.com has confirmed. The Toyota Hilux pick-up vehicle with registration number WR 3516-19 according to police sources that confirmed to MyNewsGh.com, had picked the Minister from Damongo and was dropped off at the Tamale airport to attend an official ...

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) government’s economic management team is currently locked up in a crunch at the Jubilee House over the arrival of embattled Chief Executive of Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah. Sources within the meeting tell Ghanacrusader the government has been rattled by the political ripple effects of the nature the Mezgold saga has been handled and is seeking ...

THE HIGH Court has dismissed a contempt application filed against the Electoral Commission and its commissioners for failing to comply with an earlier court order  to implement the Representation of People’s Amendment Act (ROPAA). The applicants who are Ghanaians living abroad through their lawyers were asking the court to commit the commissioners for contempt for disobeying the court orders. The ...

The Minister of Sports, has landed himself in trouble over a contract awarded to a company called, White Oak Limited to take care of Ghanaian football supporters who are currently in Egypt supporting the senior national team; Black Stars, at the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON). The budget for the contract is not known, however, the Sport Minister; Isaac ...

The Member of Parliament for the North Tongu constituency, Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has announced that he will seek re-election in the 2020 general elections. According to the lawmaker, a group of senior citizens in North Tongu on Wednesday, 10 July 2019 volunteered to pick nomination forms for him insisting that he steps forward for a third term bid as ...

A meeting with former President John Mahama by officials of the Electoral Commission (EC) did not end without drama. As officials of the EC and executives of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) made their way out of a closed doors meeting, General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, was heard telling the Chairperson of the EC, Jean Mensa that ...

The Board Chairman of the Youth Employment Agency, Sammy Awuku, has hinted that the Youth Employment Agency as part of its Regional and District Flagship programs intends to cultivate a cassava plantation. He also added that the Agency is considering plans to build a Processing Factory in the Eastern Region. He said this when he led a delegation headed by ...

There is seeming tension in the Asawase Constituency as members of the opposition National Democratic Congress are divided following the emergence of a new person who is seeking to contest, Muntaka Mubarak, the sitting Member of Parliament, in the party’s internal elections. Delegates of the party in the Constituency have formed camps to throw their support for Muntaka Mubarak and ...

The Eastern Regional Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress, NDC, Mark Oliver Kevor, has resigned. Mr. Kevor, a Lecturer and PhD Candidate has resigned to contest the Afram Plains South Constituency parliamentary primaries of the the Party. This follows picking of parliamentary nomination forms by a group of party supporters and branch executives on his behalf on July 10, ...