The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has set April 25, 2020 to hold presidential primaries for the general elections that year. The party will also hold primaries for constituencies with NPP MPs that year, a statement from the party announced Monday. The party has already elected candidates for constituencies where …

Former President John Mahama says the NDC will initiate plans to review and strengthen the National Health Insurance Scheme should the party return to power in 2021. The NDC flagbearer said that the introduction of the capping and realignment act has reduced funding sources and thus affecting quality health care …

Former Second Lady, Matilda Amissah Arthur has exposed what could pass for lies allegedly peddled by Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin II about how the late former Vice President, Paa Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur was transported from the Airforce gym to the hospital. The Okyenhene Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin in his account …

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) says the PDS scandal is Ghana’s biggest corruption scandal ever. Addressing a press conference in Accra Monday morning on the PDS issue, the General Secretary of the NDC, Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketiah said the NDC was demanding that the government “completely abandon the idea …

Members of the Graduate Unemployed Nurses and Midwives Association will today, Monday, 21 October 2019 picket the Ministry of Health (MoH) to demand their immediate employment. The association is made up of public-trained nurses and midwives who graduated in 2017 and 2018 and have been home unemployed. “We are going …

Of his impressive record as the member of parliament for Ejisu Constituency , the President of the Republic of Ghana Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo did not mince words in his acknowledgement and joyous recognition of the forceful and sacrificing efforts extraordinaire of Honorable Kwabena Owusu Aduomi in constructing human centered …

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has revealed what he describes as several attempts on his life after he handed over power to former President Hilla Limann in 1979. According to the former president, the attempts became so intense that he was persuaded to leave Ghana but he refused to do …

The Minority in Parliament has rejected government’s proposal to resort to restrictive tendering in selecting a private partner for the management of the power sector in the country . “Whilst recognising the prerogative of the MCC in the determination of a particular procurement method in the selection of a PSP, …

Action Patriots for Justice, a pleasure group in the ruling NPP is calling on the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffu Addo to trigger article 89 0f the constitution and let us have representatives in the council of state. According to the group, in order to be fair to the constitution …

Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) Health Service Workers Union(HSWU) elections which was scheduled to come of Friday October19, 2019 has been called off. The suspension is due to a court injunction placed on the elections by two aggrieved members of HSWU- Awuni Akyireba and Emmanuel Kusi Sarpong, who are also …

The Retired referee has expressed his disappointment at delegates after failing to win in the Ashanti Regional Football Association elections. The Former referee, Osei Nsiah, says his opponent Osei Tutu Agyemang ‘Kotoro’ won the regional elections after feeding delegates with packs of ‘Waakye’ in the early morning. According to Mr. …

Fathia Nkrumah enjoys a near-mythical place in postcolonial Ghanaian history. Her skin colour mattered; she was not a black African. Her native country mattered; Egypt is ancient, biblical and mystical. Yet, the wife of Ghana’s first president is known exactly for that: being the wife of Ghana’s first president. As …

The Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection has told teachers to stop complaining about the food they receive from caterers implementing the School Feeding Programme. Cynthia Morrison said the caterers are only doing the teachers a favour because the programme covers only school children. “There are a lot of …

A bus conveying students from the University of Energy and Natural Resources in Sunyani to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi has caught fire. Photos circulating on multiple online platforms show huge flames breaking out through the windows of the white bus. The cause of the fire is yet …

Administrators of Technical Universities have declared an indefinite strike. The administrators, who are members of the Technical Universities Administrators Association of Ghana (TUAAG) say their decision is premised on the failure of the government to address their concerns. Key among these is their base pay in line with their new …

The Electoral Commission (EC) has started building a media monitoring team to help identify the originators and facilitators of fake news in the lead up to next year’s elections. The aim is to prevent misinformation from obstructing the electoral process, the Chairman of the Commission, Mrs Jean Mensa, has said. …

A school bus conveying students of the University of Energy and Natural Resources from Sunyani to the campus of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi has been engulfed by fire. According to Ghpage.com sources, the bus was carrying level 300 Electrical Engineering students of the university to …

Kwesi Pratt has accused Oppong Nkrumah, Amewu and others of being members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) stating that their move to welcome the PDS deal and engage shareholders, shows their inconsistency and incompetence as government appointees. He said following the charade of suspending PDS and their hypocritical comments, …

President Akufo-Addo has challenged Public Sector Workers to step up their game in the delivery of quality service to the public. According to the President, there is widespread dissatisfaction among Ghanaians about the poor quality of Service delivery and bad attitude of public servants towards their work which must be …

The Ghana News Agency has reported that 80) per cent of inmates at the Nsawam Medium Security Prison have been registered with the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). This is to enable them get access to quality healthcare. That is not all, an additional 40 medical practitioners have been seconded …

A group calling itself the Concerned Navrongo Citizens for Development in the Kassena-Nankana Municipal is demanding the suspension of plans to rename the now autonomous University for Development Studies, Navrongo campus after C.K. Tedam. The group on Friday marched on the streets of Navrongo in protest to the change. President Nana Akufo-Addo …

The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Jean Mensa has shot down requests for her outfit to push for the introduction of special taxes to fund elections in the country. According to her, such a move would not be prudent since Ghanaians are already saddled with numerous taxes. Ghana depends on …

An Accra High Court has slapped a GH¢300,000 fine on Ernest Owusu Bempah, Communications Director of Ghana Gas Company Limited and Despite Group of Companies in a defamation suit. The Court presided over by Justice Georgina Mensah Datsa ruled that the comments of the outspoken politician were defamatory used on …

The Independent Presidential Candidate in 2012 and 2016, Jacob Osei Yeboah has observed that the agitations by the recent law students give hope that the new crop of students is tired of the corrupt, weak and outmoded fantasies of the Judiciary System. “This is not an option but the cancer …

  The National Democratic Party (NDP) is calling on Ghanaians to repose confidence in them in order to deliver Ghana from its current woes. Eastern Regional Secretary of the NDP Mr. Gideon Amoasi Ampah promised in an interview on Radio 1 to break the hold the New Patriotic Party (NPP) …

Some traders have called on the Government to stop farmers from applying chemicals to the food they grow because the chemicals pose health threat and shorten the life span of most of the perishable food items like vegetables and fruits. In an interview on the World Food Day today, the …

The Member of Parliament for Mampong in the Ashanti Region Hon. Kwaku Ampratwum-Sarpong has declared that he does not support any plans to let him go unopposed since he believes he has the brightest chance re-training the seat. According to Hon. Ampratwum-Sarpong  who is also the  Vice Chairman of the …

The Electoral Commission (EC) and the Police Administration have reactivated the Elections Security Task Force to effectively address election security issues in the upcoming District Level Elections, the Referendum and the 2020 general election. Made up of heads of security agencies, the task force would plan and provide a conducive …

The Bono Regional Coordinating Council in collaboration with the Sunyani Municipal Education Directorate have declared Friday, October 18, 2019, a holiday for schools in the Sunyani township. This was due to the one-week funeral observation rite of the late Nana Yaa Nyamaa Puduo II, the Paramount Queen of the Sunyani …

A video has emerged of some University of Ghana students making a mockery of a colleague lady who was recently in the news for slapping her boyfriend with slippers commonly known in Ghana as ‘chalewote’. The young lady identified as Karen became an internet sensation last week for slapping her …