POLITICS

Dr. Kwabena Duffuor, a flagbearer candidate for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), claims he was serious about paying debts to contractors and other people who had worked for the government when he was in power. He said that regular arrears payments significantly aided the economy’s expansion. “We never joked …

On Monday, November 7, at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH),Hon David Kwasi Asare Boakye, the District Chief Executive (DCE) for Offinso North in the Ashanti Region, passed away. According to Alex Frimpong, the dean of the region’s Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs), his colleague passed away after …

The world community has been reassured by the president of the republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, that Ghana is fully committed to boosting the country’s share of renewable energy in the energy mix. President Akufo-Addo said during a speech at a high-level event on sustainable energy for everyone held by …

Former president of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS), Emmanuel Yiadom Boakye, has called the three teacher unions’ current strike action illegal and dishonorable. He asserts that it is absurd for teacher unions to protest against a colleague of theirs who has been named Director-General of the Ghana Education …

In my article on government’s planned construction of a national place of worship, the National Cathedral, I alluded my reason in support of the argument to a research finding, from a credible source, that the world was heading for an inevitable Depression and Hopelessness amongst its inhabitants due, mainly, to …

A Forensic Chartered Accountant, Mr. Awuni Akyereba has called the leadership of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government as a matter of urgency, reprimand its Member of Parliament (MP) for Old Tafo, Vincent Ekow Asafuah for the latter’s scathing attacks on the Education Minister, Hon. Osei Yaw Adutwum over the …

Collins Adomako-Mensah, an Afigya Kwabre North NPP Member of Parliament (MP), has backed up Majority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah- Bonsu’s assertion that the entire Majority Caucus now supports calls for the ouster of Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta. A motion of censure was then filed against Mr. Ofori-Atta after the Minority in …

Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, vice president, has urged the preservation of Ghanaian culture and history as a gift to future generations. Dr. Bawumia underlined the importance of cultural sustainability in his speech on Saturday at the 2022 Hogbetsotso Festival, which also happened to be the festival’s 60th anniversary. He said that …

On Saturday, November 5, 2022, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the President of the Republic, departed Ghana to represent Ghana in the delegation to the World Leaders’ Summit of the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference (COP 27), which was taking place in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. The UN Framework Convention on …

Seth Terkper, a former Finance Minister, has denied claims that he was not in charge of Ghana’s negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) while former President John Dramani Mahama was in office. He claims that despite the negotiation being presided over by famous economist Prof. Kwesi Botchwey, Terkper attended …