POLITICS

The Parliamentary Select Committee on Local Government and Rural Development has expressed worry over the continuous award of contracts from the central government for the implementation of capital projects at the local level. According to the committee, the practice has, over the years, disempowered the technocrats at the local level, …

Member of parliament for Old Tafo in the Ashanti Region incurred the wrath of Tafohene, Nana Agyen-Frimpong Ababio when he failed to honour an invitation to the commissioning of an AstroTurf. The traditional ruler said the absence of Vincent Ekow Assafuah doesn’t speak well of him and for the development …

Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has refuted claims that President Nana Akufo-Addo has underperformed when it comes to his fight against corruption. On Monday, May 3, 2021, President Akufo-Addo granted an interview to CNN, discussing Ghana’s economic development, business growth, and corruption. CNN’s Zain Asher, in an interview with the …

Social Commentator and economic writer, Coach ‘Opeele’ Boateng, has predicted that it will take the country about two thousand years to grasp the meaning of democracy and its practice. He believes that the happenings in our political space prove that we are still young in the practice of democracy. Explaining …

A  group calling itself Team Abdallah  have congratulated Hon Ben Abdallah Banda, the former Member of Parliament (MP) for Offinso South Constituency on his appointment to the office of Coordinator Designate For Development Authority. A statement signed by Lexiz Owusu, personal  assistant to Hon. Ban Aballah  & Secretary of the …

Somalia has formally written to the African Union to stall its decision to send former Ghana President John Dramani Mahama to the country as the AU High Representative for Somalia in an effort to mediate the political impasse in the country. In a letter dated Sunday, May 9, 2021, Somalia’s Foreign Minister …

      The Ningo-Prampram MP, Sam George has said he will resign from Parliament should anyone prove that he ever promised to fix roads in his constituency during the 2020 election campaign.   His comment was in reaction to a backlash by some Ghanaians in respect of promises made …

Parliament is expected to reconvene on May 25, at 10 am for the commencement of its second meeting. The announcement of the commencement of the second meeting was contained in a statement dated May 10, 2021 signed by Clerk to Parliament, Cyril Kwabena Oteng Nsiah. “Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2) …

Solving Ghana’s problem can’t come from a person who only reasons after mixing alomo bitters with cognac, Kwame Baffoe has told former President John Mahama. The Bono regional Chairman for the New Patriotic Party in an interview on Wontumi TV stated that the former President was wrong to think that …

A member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) who is based in the United States, Dr Arthur Kennedy, has said President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has failed in tackling corruption in his government and in the country in general. He told Dzifa Bampoh on the First Take on 3FM Monday …