The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Presidential candidate for 2016, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, yesterday gave 11 surviving members of Ghana’s 1965 AFCON team an early Christmas gift when he presented GH¢25,000 cash to them. The money was meant to redeem a pledge the NPP Presidential candidate made to the team at their Golden Jubilee fund-raising […]
A former Member of Parliament for Efigya Serkyere West Albert Kan-Dapaah claims Ghana does not need more than 120 Parliamentarians.The former Interior Minister added: “My argument is that we have 275 MPs, we do not have enough money to provide them with the required capacity that they need why don’t we half the number that
The controversy surrounding the branding of branding of 116 new intra-city buses has taken a murkier twist as it has emerged that labour cost for stickers was inflated by GHC220,400 A detailed pro-forma invoice from the company contracted to brand the buses, Smartty’s Management and Productions, quoted GHC2,000 as the labour cost for the stickers
Members of the Sunyani Traditional Council are locked up in a crunch meeting to consider stopping the New Patriotic Party from holding its extraordinary congress in the Brong Ahafo capital. The decision is prompted by the party’s regional executives’ failure to apologise for remarks made against the Paramount Chief, Nana Bosoma Asor Nkrawiri, which the
Machete-wielding members of the opposition New Patriotic Party’s internal security, ‘Invincible Forces’, chased out supporters of the party’s Korle Klottey parliamentary candidate at the Asylum Down headquarters Wednesday afternoon.The commotion occurred as Nii Noi Nortey’s supporters thronged the headquarters to raise protests against a possible re-run of the primaries.Two defeated aspirants in that primary, Philip
President John Mahama’s brother, Ibrahim, has decried political polarisation in Ghana saying it is destroying the country and stunting development. “There is too much unnecessary politicking…our problem is the politics. We can do without it,” he told Okay FM on Wednesday December 16, 2015. “Our talk is what is regressing this country,” Mr Mahama, who
The Assembly Member of Fante New-Town electoral area, Kumasi in the Ashanti Region, Morison Djagana has expressed worry over the increasing spate of child prostitution in the Kumasi metropolis. A popular drinking spot at Asafo market known as BB close to the VIP bus terminal has been identified as the brothel for teenage girls between
The rejected presidential nominee for Ejisu/Juaben Municipal Assembly in the Ashanti Region, Afrifa Yamoah Ponkoh has accused the assembly members for deceiving him during the just ended endorsement elections. According to him, the assembly members of the Assembly promised to vote massively for him, saying their words were all lies that break hearts. ‘Why not
The Ashanti Regional Minister Peter Anarfi this afternoon had to run for cover when irate supporters of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) at Ejisu attempted to attack him. According to the aggrieved youth, the Regional Minister attempted to influence the endorsement elections at the Ejisu Municipal Assembly to favour Mr. Afrifa Yamoah Ponko. The Minister
President John Mahama will today host an event dubbed “Accounting to the People” at the Banquet Hall, State House at 7:30pm.The President will at the event brief Ghanaians on progress made so far, on the execution of the mandate bestowed on him by the people of Ghana in 2012.This was in a statement issued and
