POLITICS

Constituency Executives of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Walewale Constituency of the North East Region have confirmed the defection of its former Vice Chairperson of the Walewale Constituency and two others to the New Patriotic Party (NPP). Sumani Mutawakilu who is the former NDC executive led Majeed Mahamudu and Mubinu Halidu to defect to the NPP, accused ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama says the reason the National Democratic Congress (NDC) sent more female medical students to Cuba in 2012 was a deliberate move to cater for the needs of women who are usually comfortable with female gynecologists. John Mahama said the then Atta-Mills government in 2012, decided to select girls from deprived Muslim communities to be trained ...

Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia, General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has said the Ghana card is for development and not voting. “Registrations as citizens everywhere is the basis for development so let’s look at it from that angle and not politics and voting,” he said. Mr Asiedu Nketia said this when he joined Muslims in Ho to celebrate ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has applauded the decision by the Governing Council of the University of Energy and Natural Resources to name the outfit after Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia, Prime Minister of the Government of the 2nd Republic. The decision was taken by Governing Council of the University on 3rd August, 2018, in accordance with the Statutes of the ...

Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Kennedy Osei Nyarko is already writing off John Dramani Mahama and the opposition National Democratic Congress in the 2020 polls threatening to resign from politics if the party is able to garner 48% of the total votes. The Minister who is also the Member of Parliament (MP) for Akim Swedru Constituency in the Eastern Region wrote ...

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, on the occasion of Eid-ul-Adha celebration, announced that the Saudi King, Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, had promised to finance the construction of a medical university in the northern part of Ghana. Additionally, the Saudi King would provide funding for the construction of 42 Senior High Schools in Ghana. More also, 40 students, comprising 20 ...

The Finance Ministry has finally confirmed its indebtedness to Groupe Nduom, which was said to be in dispute for some time now. This is coming after a suit filed in a commercial court by Gold Coast, a subsidiary of Groupe Nduom, to compel the Finance Ministry, Contractors, Roads Ministry and others to pay over ¢19 million of overdue certificates plus ...

A former Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamale North Constituency, Alhassan Dahamani is among 29 aspirants vying for parliamentary slots on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in orphan constituencies in the Northern Region. Alhassan Dahamani prior to the 2012 general elections aspired as parliamentary candidate on the ticket of the then governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) but ...

The Minority leader, Haruna Iddrisu, is coming across as playing smart over the scandal that led to the suspension of the concession agreement between the government of Ghana and the Power Distribution Services (PDS) Limited. On the floor of Parliament on Wednesday, he called for a full-scale Parliamentary probe into the suspension of the concession agreement between the government and ...

Kwame Asare Obeng known in public circles as A Plus reveals that he knows the masterminds of the alleged fraudulent Power Distribution Services (PDS) deal. According to him, they are activists of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) he described as greedy worse off than similar characters in the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC). “I know all those behind PDS. ...