POLITICS

Former Deputy Interior Minister James Agalga has described as bizarrely shocking President Akufo-Addo’s deafening silence on increasing reports of attacks on Ghanaian journalists under his watch. “Journalists have been in the news for quite some time, I mean they have been subjected to abuse and attacks and in some cases the lives of journalists have been cut short in this ...

Deputy Communications Director for the ruling NPP Richard Nyamah has threatened to beat up Communications Officer of the NDC, Sammy Gyamfi whom he says is insolent and ignorant. Mr. Nyamah who was part of panelists on TV3’s New Day burst out Tuesday morning after Mr. Gyamfi’s submissions seemingly angered him. A behind the scene video from the studios of TV3 ...

Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has challenged the Presidency to take him on and leave the AfricaWatch magazine alone after the magazine’s latest publication on Ghana’s botched purchase of a Chancery in Norway. The Presidency has described as “manufactured lies” the latest publication in the June 2019 edition of the AfricaWatch magazine titled “The inside story ...

Multimedia Group employee Manasseh Azure Awuni has said the Akufo-Addo government, compared to the erstwhile Mahama administration, is very hostile and intolerant of journalists and critics. “The government appears very intolerant and there appears to be a coordinated attempt to crush those who speak up”, the award-winning investigative journalist said in a social media post, adding: “My candid view is ...

The Opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Eastern Region has charged its agents resist manipulations and fictitious registrations in the ongoing limited registration exercise in the New Juaben South Constituency in particular. According to the NDC, people are being bussed from their original electoral areas into other electoral areas to register, manipulating the outcomes of elections in the process. ...

The Ashanti Regional Police Command has extended an invite to Member of Parliament (MP) for Asawase Constituency, Hon. Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak over the bloody violence that rocked agents of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) compelling officials of the Electoral Commission (EC) to suspend the ongoing Limited Voter Registration exercise in the area. “We invited ...

Matilda Amissah Arthur, the wife of late Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, former Vice President, has revealed that her husband rejected the offer to be running mate to John Mahama three times. She said her late husband was not interested in the role as the family wanted to always have a private life. She said he however bowed to the pressure of delegates ...

Some of us skimmed through Ex-President Mahama’s speech during the NDC’s 27th-anniversary lecture with unbelievable horror and extreme incredulity (see: ‘We are not the same as the NPP; we stand by the truth – Mahama; yen.com.gh/ghanaweb.com, 23/06/2019). The former president is reported to have poured his heart out: “We are not the same as the NPP. We have always stood ...

President, Nana Akufo-Addo, recently declared that, the erstwhile National Democratic Congress (NDC) government, handed over a debt of $5.2 billion in the energy sector to his administration. This is not the first time the president has peddled an obvious falsehood. It has become apparent to many Ghanaians that, the president, has problem with figures. In the build up to the ...

The Convention People’s Party CPP, has welcomed state efforts at retrieving the Gh¢51 million paid to businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome during the presidency of the late President JEA Mills. The CPP particularly applauds President Akufo-Addo for living up to the promise of retrieving what the party describes as a “gargantuan loot from a heinous conspiracy visited on the State by ...