President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has asked Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives who are nursing their Parliamentary ambitions to resign voluntarily. According to him, the era MMDCEs neglected their core mandate and campaigned for votes ahead of Parliamentary primaries should be a thing of the past. The Ghanaian leader was addressing a workshop in Tamale organized by the Ministry ...

The High Court in Accra has ordered that an action brought against the General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Johnson Asiedu Nketia, be served on him via the media and on notice boards of the court for 14 days. This follows the difficulty of the plaintiff, Prof. Edward Dua Agyeman, to locate Mr Asiedu-Nketiah in order to ...

Owusu Afriyie Akoto, Minister for Food and Agriculture, has cut the sod for the construction of a $50million food processing plant in the Jasikan District of the Volta Region under the One District One Factory (1D1F) initiative. The construction and machinery installation of the plant sited on a 50-acre plot would be executed with German engineering and expected to provide ...

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 ...