POLITICS

The runningmate of the opposition National Democratic Congress Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang says her decision to sign the Montie 3 petition was not an endorsement of the utterances of the convicts. According to her, the move was to extend an appeal to the judges to temper justice with mercy. In 2016, the former Education Minister joined hundreds of senior NDC ...

It was a rousing welcome for the running mate of the National Democratic Congress, Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang who visited her hometown, Komenda to seek blessings ahead of a busy campaign period. A day after her inauguration in Accra, Professor Naana Opoku-Agyemang returned to her hometown to officially announce herself as the NDC’s running mate to the chief and people ...

Parliament is demanding a minimum academic qualification by political parties for parliamentary candidates as it laments low quality of MPs. The House wants political parties to set a minimum academic qualification requirements for members who want to enter parliament on their tickets. The proposal follows concerns of lack of quality lawmakers in the country’s parliament. Speaking at a Ministry of ...

Thank you, Ghana, Thank you NDC, Thank you JM and Prof. It’s been more than 24 hours, but all of Ghana is still on cloud nine following the stellar moment we had with Prof. Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang at her official outdooring by HE John Dramani Mahama. History is replete with many firsts and the epoch-marking nature of Prof. OpokuAgyemang’s nomination ...

The main opposition National Democratic Congress says they are ready for the comparison of achievements challenge being advanced by Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia. The Vice President in a Facebook post Tuesday published what he says are 50 achievements of President Akufo-Addo which put him ahead of former President John Mahama in the upcoming polls. The NDC in a counter ...

The Chairman of the Audit Service Board Dr Edward Duah Agyemang says the board is fed up with the decision of the Auditor General to rush to the media with developments at his office. It comes in the wake of reports that the Audit Service Board ordered the locks to his office to be changed. Speaking to Francis Abban on ...

A former Local Government Minister during President Jerry John Rawlings regime, Professor Kwamena Ahwoi, has revealed that but for late President Mills’ intervention, many of President Kufuor’s appointees will have gone to jail. This according to him, this infuriated President Rawlings whom today always criticizes President Mills’ administration for failing to deliver. He said he and late PV Obeng supported ...

The Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong has disclosed that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) will not attack the personality of the NDC’s running mate for the 2020 elections. The utterances of some NPP members in the aftermath of Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang’s announcement raised concerns that her personality and gender could be the punching bags for the NPP. ...

Professor Kwesi Botchwey, Ghana’s longest-serving Finance Minister has disclosed that he decided to step back in the running mate nomination of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). The reason, he said was to allow for fresh faces to take up that position and that anybody who is articulate and understands the fundamentals of governance fits that position. He, however, disagreed with ...

I wept as Prof. Naana Jane Opoku Agyemang screamed loudly at GENDERCIDE, in her horror at “the most despicable act of lynching of a 90-year-old-woman at Kafaba in the East Gonja Municipality of the Savanna Region.” “I condemn in the strongest terms this barbaric act which has left me, like many I can imagine, deeply sad, indeed,” Naana Jane screamed! ...