A Presidential aspirant of the Convention People’s Party, CPP, Joseph Agyapong, has blamed current labor agitations on the profligate lifestyles of political leaders. According to Joseph Agyepong, Ghanaian workers expect modesty from politicians in view of the current economic challenges. There have been countless public sector agitations over salaries and conditions of service disparities. Currently, […]
The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) says there are growing cases of unidentified persons collecting voters’ ID cards of eligible Ghanaians including nurses “for all kinds of promised services”. “In many cases especially in Accra, reports indicate people are offered GHC50 in return for submitting their ID cards,” a statement issued by the party on
It is folly and irrational for anyone to try to contest President Mahama, considering the unprecedented social and infrastructural transformations that are ongoing in the country, Alhaji Mohammed Naziru, Special Assistant to Dr. Ekwow Spio-Grabrah, Trade and Industry Minister, has said. Alhaji Naziru stated this in reaction to a press statement posted on social media
Executives of the incumbent National Democratic Congress in the Mpraeso constituency of the Eastern Region, who were locked up for assault, were on Monday granted bail by an Mpraeso Circuit court. Their bail bond was set at Ghc8,000, and they are to reappear in court on Friday, August 14. The five executives including, the constituency
The 2016 presidential candidate of Ghana’s main opposition New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has called on the rank and file of the party to help build a formidable party in the run-up to the 2016 general elections.
An executive of the United Front Party (UFP), Listowell Nana Kusi-Poku, has dragged the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) to court over its members’ decision to withdraw their services as part of a roadmap to resign en bloc from public service.
By Dan Williams Culled From Yahoo News JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s security cabinet approved on Sunday the detention of citizens suspected of waging violence against Palestinians without trial in a crackdown aimed at capturing the perpetrators of a lethal West Bank arson attack blamed on Jewish militants. The extension to Israelis of so-called “administration detention”,
Source: AP LUSAKA, Zambia – Zambian President Michael Sata, once dubbed “Mr. King Cobra” for his sharp-tongued remarks, died in a London hospital after a long illness, the Zambian government said Wednesday. Vice President Guy Scott, a white Zambian of Scottish descent, was appointed acting president of the southern African nation until elections are held within
From all indications, the two time Flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo is set to lead the party into the 2016 elections in Ghana. Results trickling in shows Nana Addo clocking triple digits while the other contenders are getting single and double digits. The Electoral Commission is
The biggest opposition party in Ghana the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is going to the polls today to decide who leads the party to the national elections in December 2015. Voting is taking place nationwide in 275 constituencies with 140,000 delegates casting their ballots. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo a onetime Attorney General and Foreign
