POLITICS

Ghana’s President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has alleged that the government of neighbouring Burkina Faso has given Russian mercenaries a mine as payment to help fight an insurgency in their country. President Akufo-Addo, who is in Washington for the US-Africa Leaders Summit, raised the claims at a meeting on Wednesday …

A 61-year-old retired computer programmer, who slapped the Greater Accra Regional Minister, Henry Quartey, in traffic, after threatening to kill him, has been granted bail by an Accra Circuit Court.   Nii Odoi Kwao II a.k.a. Robert Koomson was granted bail in the sum of GH₵50,000 with three sureties who …

US President Joe Biden has announced billions of dollars in new funding for Africa at a summit of dozens of the continent’s heads of state. “The United States is all in on Africa’s future,” President Biden told the 49 African leaders attending the Washington DC summit. It is the first …

The General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has revealed that the party’s longstanding lawyer, Tsatsu Tsikata, had initial qualms about the NDC’s 2020 election petition. According to him, the respected legal practitioner first doubted the substance of the case, even though he eventually represented …

A former deputy general secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Koku Anyidoho has said the current general secretary of the largest opposition party in Ghana, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, has outlived his usefulness. Nketiah is hoping to unseat the incumbent national chairman Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo in the upcoming delegates’ congress of …

The Deputy Minister of Finance, John Ampontuah Kumah, has stated that political opponents who were sceptical about the International Monetary Fund (IMF) deal have been put to shame over the success achieved. Ghana is set to receive the first tranche of about $3 billion bailout from the IMF by the …

The National Youth Organizer of the Opposition National Democratic Congress, NDC, George Opare Addo has repelled the attacks mounted on him, by the Party’s Communication officer Sammy Gyamfi over his reelection as the party Youth leader.   Sammy Gyamfi as gathered has declared war on the Party Youth Organiser on …

A leaked audio recording of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) General Secretary, Johnson Aseidu Nketia, has revealed that the party went to court without figures during the 2020 election petition. In a 14-minute audio that has gone viral, the alleged Aseidu Nketia voice was heard telling some party faithful that …

Ghana’s Former President , John Dramani Mahama has asked aspirants of National Democratic Congress (NDC)’s national executive aspirants to stop associating themselves with his name. Mr Mahama said he has no preference in the polls and has thus not endorsed anyone’s candidature. In a press release signed by his Special …

  Police are on a manhunt for some sixteen persons following violent disturbances at the just-ended National Democratic Congress (NDC) Women’s Organiser and National Youth Organiser congress held in Cape Coast on Saturday, December 10, 2022. A statement issued by the Police, said “while proceedings were ongoing at the Congress …