POLITICS

The Government of Cuba has accepted to train 40 brilliant but needy medical students a year from Zongo, inner city and other deprived communities in Ghana. This follows a proposal by Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, to the Government of Cuba to extend the special arrangement between the two countries for the training of health personnel in deprived communities . ...

President Akufo-Addo has pledged his commitment to ensure that the Ajumako campus of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) is granted autonomy. This follows an appeal by the chiefs of the Ajumako Enyan Essiam to the President to convert the once “Ghana Institute of Languages” to a fully fledged university devoted to the study of both local and foreign languages ...

A former Director of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO), Dr KK Amoah has vehemently denied allegations levelled against him by one Kelvin Taylor on his social media platform ‘With all due respect’. According to Dr Amoah, Lawyer Ace Anan Ankomah never referred any case which includes a Dubai company Horizon Royal Diamonds to him when he was head ...

Kwasi Alfred Addo Kwarteng, a British Conservative Party politician with Ghanaian roots, was promoted Thursday by the new UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson. Mr Kwarteng has served as MP since 2010 for Spelthorne, Surrey, south-east England. On November 16, 2018, he was appointed Undersecretary of State in the Department for Exiting the European Union following the resignation of Sue-Ellen Braverman. ...

The Minority Caucus in Parliament has said President Akufo-Addo’s comments on Ghana’s cocoa sector under the erstwhile Mahama administration were made out of ignorance. “It would appear to us that in his struggles to do anything meaningful about the continuous mismanagement of our country under his watch, President Akufo-Addo has put himself on an auto-pilot reactionary mechanism, such that anytime ...

Mr Joseph Nelson, the Western Regional NDC Secretary says 24 out of the 30 aspirants who picked forms for Member of Parliament positions have submitted their forms. All the three women aspirants and one unopposed aspirant also submitted their forms plus a filing fee of 25000 Ghana cedis for male aspirants and half the amount for female aspirants. Mr Nelson ...

The Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Abena Dapaah has revealed that her outfit has not issued a letter of apology to the Multimedia Group over an interview she declined because it was going to be conducted by an intern. Speaking on Oman FM’s ‘Boiling Point’ programme Tuesday evening, Madam Dapaah indicated that, two managerial staff from Multimedia rather ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo has challenged the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to show any policy implemented during their tenure to improve agricultural productivity. Speaking at a durbar held in Daboase, the capital of the Wassa East District, as part of his two-day tour in the Western Region, President Nana Addo argued that NDC government failed to ...

Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu, has strung together some strongly-worded paragraphs in his latest epistle in a bid to put Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Yaw Boaben Asamoa, in his place. According to Mr Amidu, Mr Boaben Asamoa has on many instances created the impression in the public mind that he has authority to instruct the Special Prosecutor ...

The Presidency has rejected a petition by a group calling for the removal of the Speaker of Parliament over an alleged case of misconduct. The group known as the Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA), in a petition dated 9th July 2019 called on the President to as a matter of urgency to remove the Speaker of Parliament ...