POLITICS

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has finalised the list of metropolitan, municipal and district chief executives (MMDCEs) to be nominated to serve in the next three-and-a-half years. The list is expected to be received by the Minister of Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development, Daniel Botwe, Thursday morning for onward …

The minority in parliament has raised red flags over a directive from the education minister to forty-six colleges of education to pay GHc6.8m for wifi service. In a leaked letter, the minister Dr Yaw Adutwum asked the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission to facilitate the payment to Busy Internet following a …

      A vociferous communication team member of the ruling party, New Patriotic Party in the central region, Nana Yaw Agyenim-Boateng, PhD is appealing to the party delegates to vote massively for Mr Robert Kutin Jnr as National Chairman to break the eight year cycle rule if the delegates …

The general secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, is poised to challenge the incumbent national chairman of the NDC, Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, for the chairmanship in the NDC’s 2022 national executive elections. Asiedu Nketiah was first elected general secretary of the NDC in November 2005 and has …

Former member of parliament for the Ashiaman constituency Alfred Agbesi has denied allegations of facilitating ritual killing. His reaction comes after a taxi driver Felix Nsah who is currently standing trial, claims he buried a pregnant woman alive in Ashiaman as a sacrifice for Alfred Agbesi. But Mr Agbesi told …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appointed former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (UK), Isaac Osei, Board Chairman of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA). He takes over from Peter Mac Manu, the Campaign Manager of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2016 and 2020 general elections …

Majority leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has criticized Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin for not declaring the Assin North seat vacant. The Member of Parliament for Suame constituency who was speaking in a one-on-one interview on Kumasi-based Hello FM said the Speaker’s reason for not declaring the seat …

Former Member of Parliament for Mion Abdul Aziz Mohammed has urged the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to allow former President John Mahama to go unopposed as presidential candidate in the 2024 elections. According to the former MP, Mr. Mahama who contested the 2020 election on the ticket of the party …

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, and former President John Dramani Mahama have both consoled Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia over the demise of the latter’s mother, Hajia Mariama Bawumia.     They both sent out statements on their respective social media pages to mourn with the Vice President.   …

Former Accra Mayor and current Member of Parliament for the Ablekuma South Constituency, Alfred Oko Vanderpuije, was on Thursday night, September 9, 2021, spotted around Sakaman in Accra directing traffic.       The Sakaman Junction to Dansoman Roundabout stretch is a known traffic-prone area. Oko Vanderpuije, who said he …