Martin Amidu says Prof Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, the NDC’s vice presidential nominee, together with Prof. Kwamena Ahwoi, who recently published a book on former President Jerry John Rawlings, lack the ethics and integrity “to be sincere leaders of Ghana”. According to him, the two elders of the opposition party which is seeking to lead the country if they win the ...

Some 120 members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have defected to join the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Kwesimintsim Constituency in the Western Region. At a press conference to announce their defection, the spokesperson of the defectors, Mr Theophilus Kwame Fiagbe, said both former President John Mahama, flagbearer of the NDC and the party’s parliamentary candidate for ...

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has said the National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration under former President Jerry John Rawlings once lied to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), leading to Ghana being fined US$36 million. He said this was part of the monumental economic challenges that the NDC administration left for him to come and deal with after the 2000 elections. ...

Former President, John Dramani Mahama, has asked electorates to vote him back to power to enable him to correct the mistakes of his previous administration. The National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer believes that although he bettered the lives of Ghanaians during his reign, there were steps he wrongly took in his first term in office. Addressing the chiefs and people of Ullo in ...

The Bureau of Public Safety (BPS) is asking for the immediate withdrawal of the $150 COVID-19 testing fee at the Kotoka International Airport. A statement issued by the Bureau indicated that the imposition of the testing charges upon arrival at the Kotoka International Airport is “a direct contravention of the World Health Organization’s International Health Regulations (IHR).” The Kotoka International ...

About 200 passengers on three separate flights have successfully undergone COVID-19 tests at the Upper Arrival section of Kotoka International Airport (KIA). This comes just days after President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo announced the opening of Ghana’s air borders effective September 1. Senior officials of the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Aviation, and Ghana Health Service were at the airport ...

The Deputy Ranking Member for the Parliamentary Select Committee on Foreign Affairs has called on the government to take a second look at the cost of the mandatory test for coronavirus at the Kotoka International Airport. Dr. Alfred Oko Vanderpuije said “the $150 per test is too high. It should be reduced”. “What test would cost $150? So many places ...

A Senior Research Fellow at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Dr Kofi Bonney, has downplayed the accuracy ofCOVID-19 test being conducted at the country’s international airport. The Kotoka International Airport(KIA) reopened for regular international passenger travel on Tuesday, September 1, 2020. As part of measures to reduce the importation of coronavirus, the government has rolled out a mandatory ...

Former Executive Director of the Danquah Institute Gabby Asare Otcthere-Darko has noted that nine years ago, the Mills-Mahama administration sought to introduce a deal in the form of the current Agyapa Royalties agreement to monetize Ghana’s gold royalties. He noted that unlike the current agreement, which went to Parliamentfor deliberations, the one that was drafted by the National Democratic Congress ...

A former lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr Richard Amoako Baah, has wondered why President Nana Akufo-Addo’s cousin, Mr Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, is the one purporting to speak for Attorney General Gloria Akuffo with regard to the controversial Agyapa deal following the leakage of the AG’s scathing legal opinion on the agreement. Mr Otchere-Darko ...