Politics

1,375  The Minority in Parliament has stated that President Akufo-Addo’s resignation would be more beneficial for Ghana than his recent ministerial reshuffle. According to Minority Leader Cassiel Ato Forson, Akufo-Addo’s resignation represents the most effective means of putting an end to the suffering and hardship experienced by Ghanaians. In a significant ministerial reshuffle announced on […]

1,481    President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo reshuffled his ministers and deputies with immediate effect. This was announced in a statement released on Wednesday, February 14, 2024. “The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has relieved the following Ministers and Deputy Ministers of their portfolios in Government, with immediate effect,” Eugene Arhin Director […]

1,416    It has emerged that the government spent $12 million on the suspended Agyapa royalties deal. The CEO of the Minerals Income Investment Fund, Edward Nana Yaw Koranteng, disclosed this at a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Sitting. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo ordered the suspension of the Agyapa deal following a public outcry in […]

1,425    The Executive Director of the Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA), Mensah Thompson, has strongly criticized Yaw Boadu Ayeboafo, the Chairman of the National Media Commission (NMC), for his opposition to the directive issued by the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) to blacklist Members of Parliament accused of assaulting journalists. GJA’s directive […]

1,436  Following Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia’s use of a driver’s mate analogy to describe his real status in the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government, an old video has surfaced of former President John Dramani Mahama referring to himself as a “spare driver.” In the said video, taken during a presidential debate organised by the Institute […]

1,438  The Ghana Journalist Association in collaboration with the US Embassy have schooled some selected Journalists on election 2024 reporting. The move was to equip the media with the requisite skills and knowledge to contribute its quota to ensuring peaceful general election in election 2024. As part of the program,a day’s training workshop was held […]

1,482    President of the Ghana Journalist Association (GJA),Mr Albert Dwumfour is much disappointed in recent comments made by the Chairman of the National Media Commission (NMC) Mr Yaw Boadu Ayeboafo. Chairman of the National Media Commission,Mr Yaw Boadu Ayeboafo at an election reporting workshop for journalists organized by the GJA and the US Embassy […]

1,788  It is interesting to read the viewpoints of Justice Srem Sai after the Vice President’s speech on his bold vision for the nation. Justice Sai has essentially taken the position of equating the vice presidents office to the office of the president. He cements this wrong notion by calling the vice president the second […]

1,502  The issue of staffers in the office of the vice president has resurfaced following Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s promise to reduce the number of ministerial appointments to 50. In his maiden economic address as leader of the New Patriotic Party on Wednesday, February 7, 2024, Dr Bawumia indicated that, unlike President Akufo-Addo, he will reduce […]

1,388  Just some three months after Ghana gained independence on March 6, 1957, the rivalry between Dr. J.B. Danquah’s National Liberation Movement (NLM) and Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s Convention People’s Party (CPP) simply could not go away, manifesting into a much broader situation that led the then opposition to hold a press conference regarding the identity […]