POLITICS

The Senior Minister, Hon. Yaw Osafo-Maafo engaged with the Council of State members on Thursday, May 30, 2019 where he briefed them on the Ghana Beyond Aid Charter and Strategy document at the conference hall of the Council of State office in Accra. Mr. Yaw Osafo-Maafo in a presentation to members of the Council of State indicated that the Ghana ...

Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party, Freddie Blay has dared anti-graft body to cause his arrest over his alleged failure to cooperate with investigations into the procurement of 275 buses for his party. The 77-year old politician maintained he has not received any subpoena which the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has claimed to have sent ...

The Electoral Commission (EC) has suspended the limited voter registration exercise which was scheduled to begin from Friday, June 7, 2019 to Thursday, June 27, 2019 in all its district offices and selected electoral areas across the country. The exercise was to offer the opportunity to Ghanaians who have attained 18 years since the last registration exercise, as well as ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has denied categorically claims that Ghana has committed $1,000,000 to the reconstruction of the French Medieval Catholic Cathedral that got burnt on the 15th of April 2019. Addressing members of the Ghanaian Community in Canada as part of his three-day State visit, President Akufo-Addo in answer to a question said: “I have not done it, not one ...

A report on alleged corruption relating to the waste management company, Zoomlion, is missing at the Attorney-General’s Department. Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) which investigated Zoomlion and the Office of the Administrator of the Common Fund said it submitted the report in June 2018. But the Attorney-General office says it is yet to receive the report. It ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has in a meeting with the Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, Shi Ting Wang, stated that the United States is wary of the growing economic power of China hence the heightened trade war with the Asian giant. “The bullish and military behaviour of the West came as no surprise because it was obvious it was going ...

National Communication Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi has described President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and his NPP government as ‘talkatives’ and ‘braggarts’. According to him, appointees of the NPP government including President Akufo-Addo are braggarts, always talking more but delivering little, hence, their inability to dredge the Odaw and the Korle lagoon to manage the heavy ...

Bawku Central MP Mahama Ayariga has turned down a June 4 court invitation by the Special prosecutor Martin Amidu over the corruption probe involving him. According to the former Sports minister, he will not be able to attend to court on the said date because parliament will be in sessions and he will therefore be working for his constituents. The ...

The ranking member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Parliament, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has praised President Akufo-Addo for his patriotic decision to lobby to host the secretariat of the Africa Continental Free Trade Area in Ghana. He said Ghana deserves to have such a secretariat because of its pioneering role in the formation of the erstwhile Organisation of African Unity ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has assured the exploitation of the country’s bauxite resources particularly in Atewa will be guided by best international practices and technology to ensure that wildlife stock in the mining environment are not endangered. Addressing the Sustainable Ocean Industries Conference, President Akufo-Addo, in answer to a question as to how the exploitation of Ghana Bauxite resources will not ...