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AFAG welcomes pro-poor& growth focused budget

AFAG welcomes the 2018 budget statement warm-heartedly. We noted three critical pro-poor interventions which if implemented to the latter would go a long way...

Education is key to meaningful lives for refugees – Akufo-Addo

The world can only advance cohesion and solidarity amongst displaced persons and help create the right environment for a purposeful dignified life if there...

Energy experts must stop parroting and read – Energy Minister fires

Minister for Energy, Boakye Agyarko is amazed at the position of some supposed energy experts following government’s announcement of tariff reduction. According to him, the...

Hot Audio: Akufo-Addo is Guggisberg of our time – Wontumi

Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako says President Akufo-Addo’s achievements for the past months can only be likened...

‘NPP has boys and girls, not men and women’ – Spio-Garbrah jabs

Former Minister of Trade and Industry, Ekow Spio-Garbrah, has questioned the capabilities of the current government’s appointees to run their various offices. Commenting on the...

‘Runaway’ Wontumi served by substituted service

The Kumasi High Court has ordered for the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party, Bernard Antwi Bosiako aka Chairman Wontumi be...

Govt struggling to fund Free SHS – Ablakwa

Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, a former Deputy Minister of Education, has said the Akufo-Addo-led government is struggling to finance the free Senior High School programme,...

Aliu Mahama is brain behind Zongo Development Fund – Bawumia

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has disclosed that government’s idea of setting up a Zongo Development Fund to develop and support Zongo communities was...

Rawlings warns Zimbabwe Military

Former President Jerry John Rawlings says Africa’s longest-serving leader is one of the few to have served with pride as an African, more than many...

Gov’t creates 38 new Districts

The government has created 38 new Metropolitan, Municipal and Districts to bring governance closer to the doorstep of citizens. This brings the number of MMDAs...

Akufo-Addo's statue to be unveiled in Nigeria

The Governor of Imo state in Nigeria, Rochas Okorocha is set to commission a statue of President Akufo-Addo in Owerri. Okorocha, popularly called ‘Rochas”, is...

'Jealous' NDC dazed by NPP’s achievements – MP

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is clutching at straws following the sterling performance of the Akufo-Addo government in just one year. According to the...

Sam George, Afia Akoto in nasty facebook fight

NDC Ningo Prampram MP Sam Dzata George and deputy MASLOC CEO Afia Akoto have locked horns on social media in a nasty fight. What appeared...

'We will fulfill all our promises' – President Akufo-Addo reassures

 The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has reiterated the commitment of his government to fulfilling all the promises made to the...

Hot audio: Special Prosecutor can't even work in a morgue – Asiedu Nektia mocks

General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has hit back at critics suggesting that the Special Prosecutor will prosecute only former appointees...

2018 budget: Be truthful for once – Osei Kyei Mensah tells Minority

The Majority Leader in Parliament and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu says the Minority members in Parliament are not being truthful following...

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NPP will take Ghana back to Dumsor days – JJ predicts

Former Deputy Energy Minister, John Jinapor has predicted the country will soon be taken back to dark days of energy crisis, popularly known as...

'We didn't cook 2018 budget figures'

Deputy Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has refuted claims that the Ministry cooked up figures in the 2018 budget estimates. Speaking on Asempa FM’s Ekosii...

Sam George, Afia Akoto in nasty facebook fight

NDC Ningo Prampram MP Sam Dzata George and deputy MASLOC CEO Afia Akoto have locked horns on social media in a nasty fight. What appeared...

NPP inherited better financed economy – John Jinapor

Former Deputy Power Minister and Member of Parliament (MP) for or Yapei Kusawgu, John Jinapor has claimed that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government...

Minority calls 2018 Budget 'Wahala Budget'

Amid hoots and various chants of disapproval, the Minority in Parliament has named the 2018 budget the ‘Wahala Budget’. Members of the Minority who have...

‘2018 ‘Adwuma’ Budget an un-pragmatic fantasy’ – Sylvester Mensah

Former CEO of National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Sylvester Mensah has described the 2018 budget delivered by the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta in Parliament...

Reduction in electricity tariffs a ‘rip-off’- Ablakwa

The Minority Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs in Parliament, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has lambasted the NPP administration after it proposed a reduction in electricity tariffs. Delivering...

Special Prosecutor office ready to crack the whip – Finance Minister  

The Special Prosecutor's office will be catered for following the passage of the bill” Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has said. He said the Attorney General...

'Akufo-Addo turning our wives to lotto stakers'

President Akufo-Addo is being blamed for the increase women staking lotto in the country. The reason for this phenomenon, according to a communications team member...

Hot Video: 'NDC awarded school building contracts to vigilante groups'

Education Minister, Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh has blamed the erstwhile Mahama government for the congestion in Senior High School (SHS). According to him, his predecessor...

Video: NDC is a danger to free SHS – Napo

Education Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has called on Ghanaians to vote massively against the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2020 polls. According...

I declined an appointment in Akufo-Addo’s government – Maurice Ampaw

Controversial lawyer, Maurice Ampaw has said he would have been appointed into the current government long ago if he desired. He said his refusal to...

NPP, NDC should work together – Freddie Blay

Ghanaians, no matter their party affiliation, must come together to build the country to promote peace and harmony, acting Chairman of the ruling New...

Office of the Special Prosecutor Bill finally passed

Parliament has passed the Office of the Special Prosecutor Bill after its third reading. The Bill was passed amid debate over whether the Special Prosecutor...

Akufo-Addo on a 3-day visit to Qatar

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is on a three-day official visit to Qatar, a statement from the presidency announced. He left the shores of Ghana...

Weaker monitoring of School Feeding Programme affecting policy

A research and policy think tank has observed that the policy objective number three of the Ghana School Feeding Policy drafted in November 2015...

Hot Audio: 'I will expose Ato Forson'

Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong has threatened to expose NDC spokesperson on Finance and former Deputy Finance Minister, Casiel Ato...

Hot video: Ghana’s economy suffering "Cerebral Palsy" – Allotey

The Central Regional Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has described as abysmal the New Patriotic Party (NPP) management of the economy...

Hot Audio: Forget NDC debts and give us contracts – Ken tells Nana Addo

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong says President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo should desist from settling debts left behind...

Woyome again!; wants 5-panel judge

In what observers have described as legal gymnastics, embattled businessman, Alfred Agbesi Woyome, has, once again, filed a fresh suit at the Supreme Court,...

Hot Audio: Abronye invokes 'Antoa Nyama' on Regional Minister

Brong Ahafo Regional Youth Organizer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Kwame Baffoe, popularly known as ‘Abronye DC’, has invoked curses on the Brong...

NPP has regretted making numerous promises – Fiifi Kwetey

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Ketu South, Fiifi Kwetey, believes that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is already regretting the...

No more V8s; Ministers to use Camry, Corrolla – Gabby

Ministers and Deputies will from 2018 start using Camrys and Corollas instead of V8s as part of cost-cutting measures to be introduced by the...