The Ashanti Regional Branch of the New Patriotic Party,(NPP) is basking in renewed energy as the recent feud between the Regional Chairman and the Member of Parliament for Manhyia-North Constituency has been maturely dealt with by party elders. In separate interviews with the Ghanaian Observer Newspaper in Kumasi, the regional chairman, Mr Bernard Antwi-Boasiako and […]
The 2016 presidential aspirant of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has charged Ghanaians to vote for President John Dramani Mahama if they are satisfied with the “current hardships” in the country but vote for him (Nana) for a positive change to alleviate their plight. Nana Addo, who is making a
The 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Friday, May 13, 2016, campaigned in the Ablekuma Central constituency, as part of a four-day tour of the Greater Accra Region. Accompanied by the NPP’s parliamentary candidate for the constituency, Ebenezer Nartey; Policy Advisor, Boakye Agyarko; Laud Commey of the Office
The African Development Bank Group will unveil its new agenda for the continent’s economic transformation at this year’s Annual Meetings scheduled to take place from May 23-27 in Lusaka, Zambia. In an Annual Meetings preview video message, Akinwumi Adesina-who will be presiding over his first Annual Meetings since assuming office as the Bank’s 8th President
Just recently Transparency International published their annual Corruption Perception Index which showed Ghana topping all African countries except six. This comes on the back of a sustained effort by President John Mahama at exposing and prosecuting corruption, which ends some of his own appointees in the dock. Paradoxically the sustained exposure of corruption means that
The ‘seeming stability’ in the macro economic environment, the improvement in power supply and relative stability of the cedi are “commendable”, the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) has said, asking government to nonetheless do something about the high cost of utilities and multiplicity of taxes. For the first time in eight quarters, the AGI business
President John Dramani Mahama Wednesday left Accra for London to join other world leaders at a landmark international anti-corruption summit being hosted by UK Prime Minister David Cameron. A statement issued by the Flagstaff House said the Summit, “which is taking place at a time President Mahama has been traveling across the country in furtherance
Former President John Rawlings has stated that the various anti-corruption institutions in developing countries have lost their integrity.According to him, the situation has been occasioned by the global economic impact. Mr. Rawlings is therefore urging politicians on the continent to exhibit some sense of integrity since that is the only way to save their economies
The Ashanti Region recorded probably the highest number of challenge cases in the just ended Limited Registration Exercise with a provisional figure of 2,551, Ashanti Regional Chairman of the Electoral Commission, Mr Serebour Quaicoo has disclosed. According to him, he expects the figure to increase in the coming days as collation of figure continues. “I
World football superpowers could bring in penalty goals to stop a repeat of Luis Suarez’s infamous on-the-line handball against Ghana. England’s warm-up matches ahead of the Euros will be the first big-time games to take place under new laws. Other alterations brought in by the International FA Board include red cards before kick-off, no automatic
