POLITICS

Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo-Maafo, Monday says the country was at “significant” skills mismatch crossroad and needed to shake off the colonial model of education with emphasis on grammar and clerical skills. He said the situation accounted for the “critical” challenge of unemployment with institutions producing skills not in high demand by the job market. Mr. Osafo-Maafo made the observation at ...

Members of the Alumni Association of Unity Hall also known as Continental Hall of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have vowed to end the political ambitions of Education Minister Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh (Napo). According to the group, Dr Prempeh who is an alumnus has betrayed the oath he took to defend the interest of the ...

General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has explained why the sole rival to the incumbent Member of Parliament for Asawase, Muntaka Mubarak, was disqualified. Mr Nketia said actions of Masawudu Mubarick in the Asawase Constituency was in breach of the party’s rules and regulations. He said the decision was based on recommendations by the Doe Adjaho-led Committee ...

The Women’s Wing of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has named two former appointees of the John Mahama administration and another close confidante of the ex-president as persons who are sabotaging his chances of a comeback in 2020. A press statement signed by the Ashanti Regional Women Organizer Gloria Huze, copied to MyNewsGh.com says former Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister, ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Functional Executive Committee has officially disqualified Massawudu Mubarick from contesting the Asawase constituency primaries. According to a statement issued by the General Secretary of the party, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, the development means Muntaka Mubarak, the incumbent MP, will go unopposed. “By the decision, Hon. Muntaka Mubarak goes unopposed and for that matter stands elected as ...

Former independent parliamentary candidate in Jomoro Constituency in the Western Region, Mr. Leo Kofi Armah Amenlemah, has advised losers in the opposition National Democratic Congress parliamentary primaries not to run as independent candidates as he did in 2016. Mr. Kofi Amenlemah lost the NDC parliamentary primaries in the Jomoro to one Mr. Thomas Yankey in 2015 and immediately after his ...

A member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Godwin Edudzi Tamakloe, says the Ministry of Public Procurement adds to the waste of taxpayers’ monies. Speaking on TV3’s New Day on Wednesday, the legal practitioner said the Minister of State in charge of Public Procurement, Sarah Adwoa Safo, has no locus in the procurement process. He explained that when the board ...

The National Democratic Congress Member of Parliament for the Kumbungu constituency, Ras Mubarak, is unhappy that he lost in the party’s parliamentary primary held over the weekend but will not take on the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party, Bernard Antwi Boasiako, who claimed he orchestrated the defeat. Mr. Mubarak in response to questions posed him by ...

Government has rebuffed former President John Mahama’s accusations that it has abandoned the Community Day Schools project he bequeathed it. According to the Deputy Education Minister, Dr. Yaw Adutwum, the Akufo-Addo administration was already ensuring the completion of the schools dotted across the country. Maham recently expressed worry over what he  says is government’s failure to continue the projects – ...

Share With less than 18 months to go for the 2020 general election, the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) is preparing to go for its primaries to elect strong candidates to lead them to victory. The National Parliamentary Vetting Committee (NPVC) of the party last Friday recommended two-hundred and sixty-six (266) persons in the sixteen (16) regions to the National ...