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88 district hospitals: Oppong Nkrumah has a message for naysayers [audio]

Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has a message for pessimists doubting government’s ability to build 88 district hospitals in a year. ALSO READ: Why the Minority...

Social media unimpressed by Akufo-Addo’s promise to build more hospitals

Unlike previous addresses from President Nana Akufo-Addo that received massive applauds from the general public, the  8th national address on Sunday has been greeted with...

Akufo-Addo will find money to fund construction of ’88 hospitals’ – Gabby tells NDC

A leading member of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) says President Nana Akufo-Addo will find money to fund the construction of 88 hospitals...

Agona East NDC activist in court for destroying NPP posters

A 24-year-old activist of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Agona East of the Central region, Mohammed Hadi, who destroyed the posters belonging to...

88 hospitals: Check out Gabby’s response to NDC

A leading member of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) says President Nana Akufo-Addo will find money to fund the construction of 88 hospitals...

Oppong Nkrumah slams Mahama over comment on COVID-19

The Akufo-Addo government has said it will not be sidetracked by what it deems as former President John Mahama’s continuous invitation to dabble in...

Why the Minority thinks govt’s construction of 88 hospitals is a campaign strategy

The Minority in Parliament is doubtful promises by President Nana Akufo-Addo to build 88 district hospitals will materialise anytime soon. They say there are no...

Covid-19: Zambia’s decision to reopen churches condemned

The latest COVID-19 speech by Zambia’s President, Edgar Lungu, has been a subject of intense criticism after he eased some of the partial lockdown measures. The part...

NDC supporters besiege City Escape Hotel over alleged EC workshop despite court injunction

Some members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), led by some of its Members of Parliament and national Executives, have gathered at the City...

Heavy security as NDC reports suspicious EC training to police after injunction on workshop (photos)

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) suspects the Electoral Commission (EC) has blatantly ignored a court injunction secured by Ningo-Prampram Member of Parliament (MP),...

2020 Polls: Mahama wallops Akufo-Addo in Becca’s ‘Twitter Election’

The flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, beat incumbent President Nana Akufo-Addo by scoring 54.7% in an online poll...

Listen: Ursula Owusu’s advice to NDC on campaign cash will shock you

Members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), who will play key roles in the party’s electioneering campaign, have been asked to be wise. ALSO...

Listen: Ursula Owusu-Ekuful’s savage reply to Mahama

The Communications Minister is certain former President John Mahama is not abreast with global trends in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. ALSO READ: Coronavirus: Ablekuma...

Sam George stops EC’s voter registration workshop

Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram, Sam Nartey George, has secured an injunction against the Electoral Commission's (EC) decision to hold a workshop at the...

COVID-19 Virtual Concert Saga: Minister reveals company which funded concert (Video)

Minister for Communications, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has revealed the company which bore the full cost of the virtual COVID-19 concert organised to launch the...

Confusion rocks Effutu NDC as machetes, stones, canes greet press conference

Sound reasoning has given way to confusion and pandemonium in the National Democratic Congress (NDC)’s Efuttu Constituency branch. A press conference organized by the party’s...

Chad repays $100m Angola debt with 75,000 cows

Angola has received a herd of more than 1,000 cattle from Chad, a government official said Monday, the latest shipment of an unusual debt...

Explain coronavirus data discrepancies – Mahama to govt

Former President John Dramani Mahama has asked the government to ensure that the process of acquiring data on the COVID-19 outbreak is transparent in...

FULL TEXT: Mahama’s digital conversation on coronavirus

Hello and thank you for joining this live digital conversation from wherever you are. Technology has proven to be more than a good friend, actually...

Listen: Ghana’s economy is on ventilators – Mahama

Former President John Mahama is shocked Ghana’s ‘vibrant’ economy is in comatose just one month of the coronavirus pandemic. ALSO READ: Poverty leads mother to dump...

What Koku Anyidoho thinks about Akufo-Addo’s decision to lift lockdown

Koku Anyidoho, a former Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has stated that the decision to lift the lockdown was an...

A Plus’ letter to Akufo-Addo [Read]

Anti-graft campaigner, Kwame A Plus, has called on the Akufo-Addo-led government to cut down the size of his ministers to save the public purse. In...

Dumelo offers GH¢200k interest free loan to ‘hand to mouth’ businesses at Ayawaso West Wuogon

Ghanaian actor-turned-politician, John Dumelo, has voted GH¢200,000 cedis to assist struggling small-scale businesses within the Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency in Accra where he is...

Coronavirus: Omane Boamah writes on ‘discrepancies’ in figures

Former Communications Minister, Dr Edward Omane Boamah, is appealing to the government to ensure it puts out the right figures of the people it...

Listen: Omane Boamah hints of more coronavirus cases

Former Minister of Communications in the erstwhile Mahama administration is hinting Ghana may record more coronavirus cases. ALSO READ: Lifting of restrictions on movement makes economic...

Listen: COVID-19 test figures; Omane Boamah smell’s a rat

Former Communications Minister, Edward Omane Boamah, is questioning the integrity of the figures of the number of COVID-19 cases tested in the country. ALSO READ: Balotelli...

Ignore fake memo on NPP parliamentary primaries – John Boadu

The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has said an alleged leaked memo stipulating that it has set a new date for parliamentary primaries is...

Lifting of lockdown dangerous – NDC warns

The Covid-19 Response Team of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has said the decision by the government to lift the lockdown imposed on some...

Check out Kojo Oppong Nkrumah’s lockdown barber

Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has revealed who his barber was during the lockdown period. According to him, his wife was doing justice to his hair...

Lifting lockdown – NDC MP backs Akufo-Addo

The decision to lift the partial lockdown on parts of the country has been received with mixed reactions. ALSO READ: Okada rider bites forehead of taskforce...

Lifting lockdown: Sammy Gyamfi ‘exposes’ Akufo-Addo

The National Communications Officer for the National Democratic Congress is claiming President Nana Akufo-Addo's decision to lift restrictions on movement in Accra and...

Kojo Oppong Nkrumah clears air over partisan food distribution

Allegations that the government is distributing food to the vulnerable along party lines amid the coronavirus lockdown, is “odd and weird,” Kojo Oppong...

MPS donates towards covid-19 fight in Ghana

Meridian Port Services Limited (MPS) has responded to the national call on all organisations to rally resources towards the mitigation of the devastating effects...

What John Mahama said hours before lifting of partial lockdown

Former President John Mahama suggested that the government extends the partial lockdown it has imposed on some parts of the country as part of...

COVID-19: Recorded cases would have skyrocketed if NDC was in power – John Boadu

General Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu, believes that Ghana would have recorded a higher rate of confirmed cases of...

Picture: The John Dumelo covid-19 donation that is causing heat on twitter

National Democratic Congress’ aspiring parliamentary candidate for Ayawaso West-Wuogon Constituency, John Dumelo, is in the news again for one of his donations amid the coronavirus lockdown. This...

Check out throwback photo of NDC’s Sam George

Member of Parliament for the Ningo Prampram Constituency on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has taken to his Facebook page to...

Coronavirus: Govt to use IMF loan to pay electricity subsidy

Chairman of Parliament’s Finance Committee, Dr Mark Assibey-Yeboah, has disclosed part of a US$ 1 billion loan government has secured from the Internal Monetary...

Coronavirus may force govt to disobey 5% GDP fiscal deficit law

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its revised forecast on Ghana’s economic growth has projected a 9.5 per cent fiscal deficit of Gross Domestic...

Lockdown: MPs complain of police harassment

Members of Parliament (MPs) are lamenting that the Covid-19 Safety taskforce responsible for enforcing the restriction of movement in some parts of the country,...