Following his election as the presidential candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in 2019, former president John Mahama, is facing perhaps his biggest test in politics, as time appears not to be on his side in naming his running mate for the 2020 general elections. President Akufo-Addo, who by filing his nomination as the only presidential aspirant for ...

The Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) Scholarship scheme audited for the period 2012 to 2018 has revealed appointees in the NPP administration taking state cash to go to school. The disgraced appointees – Dr Matthew Opoku-Prempeh, Education Minister, Sarah Adwoa Safo, Procurement Minister and Deputy Majority Leader in Parliament, Ignatius Baffour-Awuah, Employment and Labour Relations Minister, as well as other ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo delivered his fourth State of the Nation Address before parliament in accordance with Ghana’s 1992 Constitution on February 20. The about 1-hour 30-minute address, which is his last State of the Nation’s address of his four-year term in office touched on the Ghanaian economy, foreign relations, tourism, peace and security, agriculture, corruption and other sectors. In this ...

For her controversial statement made on Asempa FM, last Thursday, Mrs Ursula Owusu has come under attacks from various quarters, the latest being from a foundation for the promotion of women interest in governance, Gratia Women of Substance Network. The women group has also launched a blistering attack on the Minister, describing her radio comments as reckless, backward, undemocratic and ...

The Opuni case, has been cited among the cases the Akufo-Addo government is prosecuting against appointees of John Dramani Mahama, as a testimony of the corruption which existed under the erstwhile National Democratic Congress (NDC) government. The Court of Appeal judge, who is presiding over the case as additional High Court Judge, had declared support for President Akufo-Addo and the ...

The incidence of Minority members staging a boycott right before President Akufo-Addo could deliver this year’s State of the Nation address received a mixed reaction from politicians and Ghanaians alike, with their action exploding on social media. An interesting scene captured by GhanaWeb’s cameras involved the amiable wife of former President Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings, Nana Konadu Agyeman. The ...

The Chairman of The Church of Pentecost, Apostle Eric Nyamekye has bemoaned the level of corruption in the country despite the many churches scattered around every nook and cranny of Ghana. “Our dear nation is full of many churches, yet, corruption has filled the land. This means the Church in this generation is not salty enough to cure the corruption ...

I thought I was dreaming when perusing through the unfortunate news about the misappropriation of $175 million loan facility secured in 2012 which was meant to provide seven district hospitals, but I was not. I was wide awake. The NDC hierarchy indeed misapplied the loan facility on the blind side of Ghanaians. Shockingly, however, the Joy News’s fact-finding mission has ...

A seven member panel of the Supreme Court presided over by Chief Justice Anin Yeboah has fixed April 22, 2020 to deliver judgement in the suit against the Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta on the issuance of a 2.25 billion bond. This was after the apex court had refused an applocation from the Commissiin of Human Rights and Administrative Justice ...