Former President John Dramani Mahama has removed the mystery surrounding the Government Official 1 (GO1) or Individual 1 tag in the explosive Airbus SE bribery scandal. He is making what looks like a tacit admission that he is indeed GO1 or Individual 1 as referred to in separate investigations in the United Kingdom and the United States, as having received ...

The massive loss of experienced legislators in the just-ended New Patriotic Party (NPP) primaries would negatively affect the quality of parliamentary discussions and laws passed, Dr Eric Oduro-Osae, a Governance Expert, has observed. He explained that the foundation of any democracy was the quality of laws passed by parliamentarians and if that was hampered it would negatively affect the governance ...

Chairman of Parliament’s Finance Committee Dr. Mark Assibey Yeboah has lost the NPP primary in his constituency. Chairman of Parliament’s Communications Committee Fredrick Opare Ansah has lost. Chairman of Parliament’s Education Committee William Quaitoo has lost. Chairman of Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee Ben Abdallah has lost. Chairman of Parliament’s Government Assurances Committee Collins Owusu Amankwaah has lost. Chairman of Parliament’s ...

Airline company KLM announces that it is restarting its network ‘gradually and carefully’. Currently, about half of intercontinental flights only carry cargo on board, but KLM hopes to be able to take passengers back on an increasing number of intercontinental flights in July.  Economy editor 20-06-20, 11:50  Many scheduled flights by KLM came to a halt in April due to the corona ...

Vliegtuigmaatschappij KLM laat weten dat zij haar netwerk ‘geleidelijk en zorgvuldig’ weer aan het opstarten is. Op dit moment wordt bij ongeveer de helft van de intercontinentale vluchten alleen vracht vervoerd aan boord, maar KLM hoopt in juli op een toenemend aantal intercontinentale vluchten weer passagiers mee te mogen nemen. Economieredactie 20-06-20, 11:50 In april kwamen veel lijnvluchten van KLM ...

Former President John Mahama has denied reports that he benefitted financially from the purchase of some aircraft for the Ghana Armed Forces when he was in office. Speaking for the first time since the Airbus scandal broke, Mr. Mahama said due diligence was followed in the purchase of the two aircraft for the Ghana Armed Forces. “Let me state without ...

Officials of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), led by its National Director for Information Technology (IT), Osei Kwame Griffiths, yesterday observed and participated in the Electoral Commission’s national piloting of its new biometric voter registration kits and the operation of the new software. The NDC has been opposing the compilation of new a voters’ register and wants the EC to ...

A seven-member panel of the Supreme Court presided over by Chief Justice, Kwesi Anin Yeboah has indefinitely adjourned the judgment of the case in which the National Democratic Congress dragged theElectoral Commission to court over its decision not include the existing voters’ register as a requirement in compiling the new voters’ register. The judgment was initially scheduled for Tuesday, 23 ...

Abdul Malik Kweku Baako, the Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, has indicated that the NDC under the presidency of John Dramani Mahama, failed to deliver on their promised 200 E-block schools. Baako stated that the NDC administration, could not even build 50 of those school blocks according to the Handing Over Notes available to the Presidential Transition Team. ...

The National Identification Authority has recorded 32,756 cases of persons trying to register more than once since the commencement of its nationwide Ghana Card registration exercise on April 29, 2020. Disclosing this at a press briefing at its headquarters in Accra this morning, the Executive Secretary of the NIA, Professor Kenneth Agyeman Attafuah said “Since the commencement of the mass ...