President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has called on the public to be patriotic in advancing the course of development for the country. He said, “You cannot be a patriotic citizen and yet indulge in acts of indiscipline…your productive contribution is very key to the socio-economic development of the country, patriotism is the backbone of development”. The President said this at ...

Discussions on the need to regulate churches in the country will be top on the agenda of Parliament after recess. Speaking to GBC’s Radio Ghana, the Chairman of the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee, Ben Abdallah Banda, said this will be done in broader consultation with key religious bodies and other stakeholders for national consensus to trigger the passage ...

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), has embarked on a search exercise with the help of sniffer dogs at the Kotoka International Airport to screen any infractions on passengers and their luggage. The exercise is to detect if there are narcotic substances, currency and explosives on them and in their bags as well. The Second in Command, Customs K9 Unit, Edward ...

A section of Ghanaians from various professional backgrounds have raised concerns regarding the manner in which the government is handling reported cases of corruption by public officials. Whereas a number of them are casting doubt on the “will power” of the government in its quest to fight corruption, others have called for calm, saying that the issues of corruption are ...

The Chairman of the Power Distribution Services (PDS) Ghana Limited, Mr Philip Ayesu, has said President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and Mr Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, a legal practitioner and journalist, played no role in the PDS and its power distribution concession agreement. He said whatever the PDS was engaged in, or had achieved as of now, was done purely on ...

The son of the late Alhaji Yahaya Iddi, one of the stalwarts of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Northern Region has admitted he was wrong in his false accusations and criticisms of Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia. Jamal Yahaya Iddi who is a businessman in a video that went viral, accused the Vice President of neglecting his brothers ...

The eighteenth International Anti-Corruption Conference took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, in October 2018. The conference which was organized by Transparency International in collaboration with the government of Denmark was attended by several high profiled personalities and opened by the then Danish Prime Minister, His Excellency Lars Løkke Rasmussen. Ghana’s delegation to the conference included the Deputy Minister of Finance, Hon. ...

The Seventh-Day Adventist Church (SDA Church) in Ghana has announced its intentions to sanction church members holding positions in government, if corruption charges are leveled against them. The proposed sanctions are beside criminal charges the state might bring against them during prosecution. Dr. Kwabena Annor-Boafo, a former President of the South Central Ghana Conference of the SDA Church, said this ...

Exclusive documents available to Adomonline.com have revealed that the Metro Mass Transit Limited is on the heels of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and seven of its Members of Parliament (MPs) for debts they owe it. The leading opposition party and the MPs owe the MMT close to 1.5 million Ghana Cedis in debts accruing from the hiring of buses. ...

Legal practitioner Martin Kpebu says the corruption case against the Chief Executive Officer of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) seemed to have been blown beyond proportion. To him, he wants to know whether the actions of suspended Adjenim Boateng Adjei affected the public purse or not. “That was what I am looking at and I haven’t found it [yet],” he ...