The National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama’s side in the election petition case has expressed disquiet over the decision by the Supreme Court to dismiss an application to formally serve questions on the Electoral Commission. Domonic Ayine, a spokesperson for Mr. Mahama in the case, said the court’s …
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Schools with high population to run shift system
The Kumasi Metropolitan Directorate of Education, David Oppong has said a shift system will be rolled out in Basic and Junior High Schools (JHS) with high student population. This is to reduce the number of students per class in order to prevent further spread of COVID-19. According to the Metro …
Read More »TEWU suspends nationwide industrial action
The National Leadership of Teachers and Educational Workers’ Union (TEWU), in consultation with the Local Executives of the Public Universities, have resolved to suspend the nationwide strike which was in demand for some conditions of service. This was in a joint statement signed by Mr Mark D. Korankye, the General …
Read More »LIVESTREAMED: Day 2 of 2020 Election Petition hearing
Former President John Dramani Mahama is currently at the Supreme court challenging the verdict of the 2020 elections which declared Nana Akufo-Addo as President. The Electoral Commission (EC) declared President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) the winner of the 2020 polls, however, Mr Mahama disagrees with the figures put out by …
Read More »WATCH: Kennedy Agyapong And His Family To Be Murdered On Thursday, Hot Video And Details Drop
Ghanaian politician and businessman who represents Assin Central in parliament for the New Patriotic Party, Hon. Kennedy Ohene Agyapong and his family in hot waters as assailants leave a note that they will be killed on Thursday at 4:00 A.M. This information was revealed by the member of parliament himself in an interview with one of the radio stations in Ghana. According to Kennedy Agyapong, …
Read More »Lockdown Ghana for the second time – Odike to Nana Addo
The founder and leader of the United Progressive Party Mr. Akwasi Addae Odike has accused Nana Akuffo Addo for failing to show leadership over his inability to lockdown the country for the second time during his 22nd COVID–19 update address last weekend since signs are clear Ghana was neck deep in the …
Read More »Supreme Court dismisses Mahama’s motion to serve interrogatories on EC
The Supreme Court has dismissed a motion filed by the lawyers of former President John Dramani Mahama in the election petition case seeking to compel the Electoral Commission (EC) to provide answers to some questions known in the legal parlance as interrogatories. In law, interrogatories are a formal set of …
Read More »Covid-19: US places Ghana as a high risk country to travel to
The US government through the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has placed Ghana as a very high level of COVID19. It has urged its citizens to suspend travels to Ghana. The CDC has a five-level rank that categorises countries based on the level and risk of infections. On …
Read More »Consensus-building is a national duty imposed on both the NPP and the NDC per the outcome of the 2020 elections
I use this opportunity to congratulate the NPP for winning the 2020 presidential elections with a one-touch victory. The victory is a celebration of the efforts of our gallant grassroots supporters who worked day and night to ensure this important victory. Kudos, to our hardworking unsung heroes! In spite …
Read More »Public schools can close their schools whilst we continue with our work – Mr Enoch Gyetuah revealed
The Ghana national Council of private schools, GNACOPS, has fully replied the Ghana National Association of Teachers,GNAT, about the fact that they can advise the government to close down public schools but not private schools. The sole decision taken by some teacher unions to advising the government to close …
Read More »Bawumia replies ‘tribal critics’ with staffers list; shows Ashantis, other tribes dominate Vice Presidency
Vice President of the Republic of Ghana Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has opened his doors to the public and in particular to some of his critics who claim his office is “full of Northerners” for independent checks. In an appreciation post to his staffers, the Vice President listed all the 21 staffers …
Read More »Election Petition: Mahama presses EC to admit to errors made in the declaration
John Dramani Mahama, the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress has amended his petition before the Supreme Court by further coaxing the Electoral Commission to admit to the errors its Chairperson made during her 9 December 2020 declaration of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as President-elect. On Thursday, January 14, 2021, when the …
Read More »Alexei Navalny: EU and US demand release of poisoned Putin critic
The United States and several European governments have demanded the release of opposition politician Alexei Navalny from Russian detention. Mr Navalny, 44, was detained by police soon after his flight from Germany landed in Moscow on Sunday. The activist was returning to the country five months after he was almost …
Read More »I’ll never contest Mahama for NDC flagbearership – Ofosu Ampofo to Gabby
The National Chairman of the NDC Samuel Ofosu Ampofo has dismissed claims by Gabby Otchere-Darko that he is lacing his boots to contest former President John Mahama for the flagbearership of the party in 2024. Mr. Otchere-Darko, who is nephew of President Akufo-Addo, in a post on social media claimed …
Read More »Ungrateful Mahama used and dumped me like a piece of rag – Akua Donkor cries
The controversial 2020 presidential candidate for Ghana Freedom Party (GFP) Madam Akua Donkor has recounted how she was used and dumped by former President John Dramani Mahama. Madam Akua Donkor who has described the 2020 presidential candidate for the largest opposition party National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Dramani Mahama as ungrateful claimed she sacrificed her …
Read More »COVID-19 kills Nurse in Bolgatanga
A Nurse at the War Memorial Hospital in the Kassena-Nankana Municipality of the Upper East Region has died of COVID-19 at the Regional treatment centre in Bolgatanga. The Kassena-Nankana Municipal Chairman of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA), Mr Habib Mahama who confirmed the death of the nurse …
Read More »NPP youth vow to resist reappointment of Bin Salih as Reg. Minister
A youth group associated with the NPP in the Daffiama/Bussie/Issa DBI Constituency of the Upper West Region says it will oppose the re-appointment of the immediate past Regional Minister Dr Hafiz Bin Salih as the Upper West Regional Minister by President Akufo-Addo. According to the group, the re-appointment of Dr …
Read More »Parents queue for school fabrics as school reopen
Some parents have queued to purchase school fabrics for their wards days to school reopening at shops in Makola. President Akufo-Addo in his 21st update on measures taken to combat COVID-19 directed both public and private schools to start a new academic year amid the COVID-19. The Ghana News Agency …
Read More »Akufo-Addo scraps ministries; reduces ministerial appointments by a third
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has done away with eight of the new ministries he created in his first term. It is trite knowledge that the President has no space to create a large number of ministries and appoint 123 ministers because of Ghana’s hung parliament status. In the end, there were …
Read More »Akufo-Addo ‘bounces’ Abronye after he went to Jubilee house to beg for appointment
The President of Ghana Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has denied Kwame Boffoe known popularly as Abronye DC an appointment in his next governmnent. This was disclosed by the Bono Chairman of the New Patriotic Party in an interview with Accra-based Asempa FM which was monitored by MyNewsGh.com. According to him, …
Read More »COVID-19: Run shift system for basic schools – UDS lecturer
The Dean of the Faculty of Education, at the University for Development Studies (UDS), Dr. Ibrahim Mohammed Gunu has asked the Ghana Education Service (GES) to run a shift system for some public basic schools as they return from their COVID-19 induced closure. This, according to the academic is the …
Read More »Coronavirus: Nurse dies in Bolgatanga
A Nurse at the War Memorial Hospital in the Kassena-Nankana Municipality of the Upper East Region has died of COVID-19 at the Regional treatment centre in Bolgatanga. The Kassena-Nankana Municipal Chairman of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA), Mr Habib Mahama who confirmed the death of the nurse to the …
Read More »VIDEO: How Sam George, Muntaka tricked NPP MPs into going to Parliament at 4am
Samuel Nartey George, the Member of Parliament, Ningo-Prampram, has shared a hilarious story of how he and Minority Chief Whip Muntaka Mubarak, tricked the New Patriotic Party’s caucus into reporting to Parliament at 4:am on Friday, January 15, 2021. Sam George recounts that on the night of Thursday, January 14, …
Read More »Alban Bagbin exposes Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, Afenyo-Markin
A common defence put up by the leadership of the New Patriotic Party’s caucus for their inability to retain Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye as Speaker of Parliament is that they had to reach a compromise with the NDC caucus just for peace to prevail and for the smooth swearing-in of …
Read More »There Are No “Majority” And “Minority” Sides In The 1992 Constitution – Alhassan Mbalba
There is no mention of”Majority Leader” and “Minority Leader” or majority or minority something in the 1992 Constitution. The “majority this” and minority that are the creations of Parliamentary Standing Orders. When Parliamentary Standing Orders or Bye-laws are creating problems or failing to solve problems, we ought to seek …
Read More »NPP Enjoys Majority Support- Says President Akufo-Addo
President Akufo-Addo says after the late Former President Jerry John Rawlings left the presidential scene of Ghanaian politics, no National Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential candidate has own elections in Ghana with more than 51% of valid votes cast. President Akufo-Addo made the observation when he addressed the regional executives and …
Read More »The spirit of Rawlings will see NDC through Supreme Court petition – Ofosu-Ampofo
National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Dr. Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo has said that the forefathers of the party and the spirit of their founder Jerry John Rawlings will see them through the election petition. Speaking in an interview on Ahotor FM monitored by MyNewsGh.com, Dr. Ofosu Ampofo said that the God who supported them to …
Read More »It’s only a sick mind who will say Ghana is a Banana Republic – Koku jabs John Mahama
Former Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Koku Anyidoho has said that it’s only a sick mind that believes that Ghana is a Banana Republic. Former President of Ghana John Dramani Mahama addressing NDC Members of Parliament on winning the election of the Speaker of Parliament said …
Read More »I haven’t said NPP is Majority in Parliament – Bagbin clarifies
Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin today left both NPP and NDC caucuses confused with his ruling on which party constitutes Majority in the House. The speaker after reading out a letter from independent Fomena MP stating his decision to side with the NPP ruled they thus constitute the majority group. …
Read More »Nana Addo’s lawyers to file response to Mahama’s amended election petition
Lawyers of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo have prepared a response to the amended election petition of the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama. A spokesperson for President Nana Akufo-Addo’s legal team, Henry Nana Boakye told Citi News their response is in line with a directive by the …
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