Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has indicated that efforts of the current New Patriotic Party administration led by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to put the economy back onto the right track, is attracting lots of Foreign Head of States into the country “because they see Ghana as the future.” According to him, the implementation of social interventions and other pragmatic ...

Former Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko has denied claims by the former Deputy Minister of Power under Mahama administration that he instructed Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to use “illegal back door activity” to increase electricity tariffs after PURC had gazetted the approved tariffs. According to John Jinapor, bulk generation tariff, which comprises Volta River Authority (VRA) charges and Independent Power ...

The Media Coalition on Right to Information (RTI) and the RTI Coalition have expressed concern about the “lackadaisical attitude of Members of Parliament (MPs) towards the RTI Bill.” Last week Parliament for the second time in five sitting days suspended the consideration of the Right to Information (RTI) Bill for lack of a quorum. Coincidentally, it was the same legislator, ...

A Ghanaian citizen by name Mensah Thompson has petitioned President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as the first step to have the Chief Justice, Sophia Akufo, impeached. He is citing “stated incompetence” as the grounds to have the head of the judicial arm of government removed from office. Article 146 (6) of the 1992 Constitution states that if the president is ...

call by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Ghana’s Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu, to investigate and prosecute two government officials alleged to have misused state funds in the Upper East region has provoked a controversy between the opposition party and the Ministry of Inner-City and Zongo Development. The NDC told journalists at a news conference the ministry had blown an ...

A least one person has been killed with several houses in the Nakpachie community in the Yendi Municipality of the Northern Region burnt after a clash erupted between two groups. Information gathered by TV3 shows that the clash began after a pig was shot and killed by a farmer after it strayed into his farm and destroyed produce on the ...

Dr. Kwasi Aning has praised President Akufo-Addo for ordering the reinstatement of the dismissed Eastern regional director of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) Fred Dzeny, saying the move will restore confidence in public officials to expose wrongdoing. “I am so proud of my President and this decision by the President has serious implications for the manner in which ...

Former President Jerry Rawlings has revealed that the current New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration inherited corruption at its worst from the previous Mahama administration. According to him, when President Akufo-Addo took over from the erstwhile John Mahama administration in 2017, the country was already drowning in practice of corruption with impunity. “By the time this administration came into office, the ...

The former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Reverend Professor Emmanuel Martey has said instead of Ghanaians clamouring for the prosecution of former public officials and politicians who plunder state resources while in office, as, he cited is done in South Korea, they “hail the thieves and want them to come back” into power. Expressing concerns about how fresh ...

The German Government has invested about $40 million in the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) sector in Ghana for the next five years. German Ambassador to Ghana, H.E Christoph Retzlaff made this known at the launch of the National Skills Competition in Accra aimed at generating greater awareness on the importance of TVET and the development of skills ...