POLITICS

Minister-designate for Fisheries, Mavis Hawa Koomson has apologized for the gun shooting incident that she was involved in during the voter registration exercise ahead of the 2020 elections. She told the Appointments Committee of Parliament during her vetting on Thursday February 18 that her life was in danger hence, needed …

Mr Mahama’s legal team were seeking to get the court to overturn an earlier ruling o get Mrs Jean Mensa to mount the witness box. The Chief Justice, Kwasi Anin-Yeboah who read the decision on behalf of the court ruled that the petitioner failed to convince the court after advancing …

The Supreme Court has instituted contempt proceedings against, Dr Dominic Ayine, a member of the legal team of the petitioner in the ongoing election 2020 petition for comments he allegedly made against the Apex Court.   Dr Ayine is reported to have accused the seven-member Supreme Court panel adjudicating the …

Mr Alfred Mahama, the elder brother of former President John Dramani Mahama has said he won’t respond to the baseless allegations of the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Bernard Antwi-Boasiako popularly called Chairman Wontumi that he (Alfred Mahama) wanted to kill him (Chairman Wontumi) prior to …

Minority in Parliament is demanding a detailed breakdown of the over 3 million jobs government claimed it has created under the Akufo-Addo administration in its first term in office. Their demands follow a disclosure made by the Minister-designate for Employment and Labour Relations, Ignatius Baffour-Awuah that government as of September …

The Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga, is advocating for the extension of the compulsory retirement age for public servants and judicial officers from 60 to 65 years. Mr. Ayariga announced that he is sponsoring a private member’s bill to amend the constitution to achieve this objective.   …

The General Secretary for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu says he intends to retire from party work after his third term as General Secretary. Grapevine information suggested that John Boadu was lacing his boots to contest in the party’s national elections for the chairmanship position. But speaking in an interview with Accra-based Asempa FM, John …

The minister-designate for Employment and Labour Relations, Ignatius Baffour-Awuah, has wondered what the term ‘protocol’ is within the employment sector of the country. He said that it comes to him as a surprise that there is any such thing in the processes involved in employments into particularly public institutions in the …

Tamale North Member of Parliament, Alhassan Sayibu Suhuyini, had cause to tell a fellow lawmaker that she (Ursula Owusu-Ekuful) had to deal with him, whether she liked him or not. He passed the remark today at Parliament’s Appointments Committee sitting during the vetting of Employment and Labour relations Minister-designate Ignatius …

Former Deputy General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Koku Anyidoho has called the bluff of the party following its decision to suspend him indefinitely. The NDC in a letter signed by the General Secretary of the party, Johnson Asiedu Nketia addressed to Mr. Anyidoho, dated 8 February …