A former Chief of Staff under the Kufuor administration, Kwadwo Mpiani, is not the least enthused about the proposal for Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and Alan Kyerematen to run together on the ticket of the NPP in the 2024 presidential election. Mr. Mpiani believes the proposal fails to take into account …
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Pair Bawumia and Alan for 2024 – Nana Akomea urges NPP
Managing Director of the State Transport Company (STC), Nana Akomea, has entreated the leadership of the party to come into a consensual agreement on who represents the party in the 2024 presidential elections. Ahead of the party’s election of a flagbearer for 2024, the current Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and Trades …
Read More »Stop using treated mosquito nets to cover refuse – GHS warns refuse collectors
The Ghana Health Service has warned refuse collectors against using treated mosquito nets distributed to fight malaria to cover refuse being carted on tricycles. It is common in many communities in Ghana’s capital city, Accra to see riders of tricycles used as refuse carting vehicles using treated mosquito nets to …
Read More »NPP 2024 flagbearer will need fresh ideas to win power – Gabby
The Founder of Danquah Institute Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko says despite the gains made under President Akufo-Addo’s administration, the Presidential Candidate for NPP for the 2024 election will have to bring on board new ideas. “And they (Ghanaian) look at who the NPP’s candidate is and what he’s saying. That will …
Read More »2024 Polls: NDC will lose again with Mahama as Candidate – Amoako Baah
Dr. Richard Amoako Baah, a senior political science lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has disclosed that it will be a mistake on the part of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to present John Mahama as its candidate in the 2024 elections. He said Ghanaians …
Read More »‘I deserted Kufuor because of Akufo-Addo’ – Dr. Nyaho-Tamakloe opens up
Dr. Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe, one of the founding members of the governing New Patriotic Party, NPP, has opened up about his relationship with President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. The now-suspended member of the party claims, he took a lot of risk for the current President at the time that the party needed a …
Read More »Wenchi SHS to face court over non-competitive procurement
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Monday directed the prosecution of the Wenchi Senior High School in the Bono Region for breaching the Public Procurement Act. The school was indicted in the 2018 Auditor-General’s Report for non-competitive procurement of goods and services. Accordingly, Mr. Twumasi Ampofo, the Headmaster, and Mr. …
Read More »We will soon have an HIV/AIDs epidemic – Dr. Adu-Gyamfi
The presidential advisor on HIV/Aids, Dr. Mokowa Blay Adu-Gyamfi, has indicated that the country will soon have to deal with an HIV/AIDS epidemic if care is not taken. According to her, an HIV/AIDS epidemic might be eminent because even though the number of cases of the disease keeps rising and …
Read More »Free SHS students being served ‘Gari Jollof’, ‘Donkey Saliva’ over food shortages in the Upper East Region
Some Senior High School students in the Upper East Region have expressed worry over the kind of food usually served them. They said more often “Gari Jollof” and “Donkey Saliva” are predominately on their menu. Gari Jollof as they called it is a mixture of gari, palm nut oil, salt …
Read More »Speak truth no matter who gets galled – Mahama tells Agyinasare
Former President John Dramani Mahama has urged the founder of Perez Chapel International, Charles Agyinasare, not to be silent but always speak truth no matter who gets galled. This was contained in a speech the former President delivered on Sunday, April 24, at the church premises during an event marking the elevation of Charles …
Read More »Signs indicating NPP is losing 2024 elections – Yammin lists
Former Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister, Joseph Yammin, has affirmed that the National Democratic Congress, NDC, will win the 2024 general elections. According to him, signs like the recent Serwaa Broni saga points to the fact that the opposition NDC will come back to power in 2024. Addressing participants at this year’s …
Read More »NDC never scrapped trainee allowance – Opoku-Agyemang
The Vice Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2020 elections, Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang has said the John Mahama administration never scrapped the teacher trainee allowance. The former Minister of Education said claims by persons that the allowances were removed hence their difficulties in school were lies and should be ignored. Addressing members of …
Read More »Some KNUST students who drive on campus don’t take their cars home; they can’t explain how they bought it – Mgt
The University Relations Officer (URO) at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr. Norris Bekoe, has revealed that some students who drive on campus are unable to take their cars home during vacation because they cannot explain to their parents how they got the money to buy the cars. …
Read More »Serwaa Broni: Akufo-Addo must clear his name – Jantuah
A social commentator and Leading Member of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Kwame Jantuah has urged President Akufo-Addo to clear his name over the allegations leveled against him by Serwaa Broni. According to him, the allegations are not good for the image of Ghana and the President should be absolved …
Read More »‘Akufo-Addo’s govt blew GH¢33bn COVID cash on election 2020 campaign’ – Mahama
Former President John Dramani Mahama is alleging that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo-led administration has misappropriated some monies meant for COVID-19 relief. According to him, the President has channelled the COVID-19 pandemic windfall of over GH¢33 billion meant to cushion the economy into its 2020 campaign activities. For this reason, he believes, the said amount supposed to …
Read More »CLOGSAG continues strike as it increases pressure for neutrality allowance
The strike by members of the Civil and Local Government Staff Association, Ghana (CLOGSAG), in demand for the payment of their neutrality allowances continues this week. CLOGSAG laid down their tools on Thursday April 21, 2022, following the inability of government to pay the allowance as agreed upon in January …
Read More »Retract insensitive comments – KNUST PRO ‘fired’
Joshua Opey, General Secretary of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS), has called on the University Relations Officer of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr. Daniel Norris Bekoe, to withdraw his comments about students deferred by the institution. According to Joshua Opey, the comments of …
Read More »‘See the pot calling the kettle black’ – Adomako Baafi slams Mahama over corruption
Former National Communication Director of the New Patriotic Party, Mr. Yaw Adomako Baafi has taken a swipe at former President John Dramani Mahama for reporting President Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo to the Hungarian representative to Ghana over corruption allegations. He says the former president should not have the temerity to …
Read More »New party emerges, set to shake Ghana, retrieve and prosecute public fund embezzlers
A new political party that has emerged to shake Ghana has vowed to deal with people who embezzle public funds. According to the leadership of the People’s Liberation Front (PLF), public fund embezzlers such as those within the government, those who served during the NPP or NDC’s era will all …
Read More »Stop using aphrodisiacs, they don’t lead to orgasm – Gynecologists
The General Secretary for the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Ghana (SOGOG) has urged the general public to refrain from the use of aphrodisiacs. Dr. Promise Sefogah said that contrary to misconceptions, aphrodisiacs do not help in any way to stimulate sex and they have a lot of high …
Read More »Confusion rocks Ekumfi NPP as aspiring Chairman is disqualified
Confusion has rocked the New Patriotic Party in the Ekumfi Constituency in the Central Region as over 500 party members besieged the party office over the disqualification of an aspiring Party Chairman, Stephen Adu Donkor. The aspirant had gone to the party office on Friday, April 22, 2022, which is the deadline …
Read More »Gov’t begins disbursement of ¢67M to Colleges of Education for feeding trainees
The Chairman of the Conference of Principals of Colleges of Education (PRINCOF), Dr. Emmanuel Nyamekye has confirmed that some colleges have begun receiving their cheques for their feeding grants as announced by the government. Government through the Education Ministry on Wednesday, April 20, announced that some GH¢ 67 million have …
Read More »NPP Communications Officer dead
The Central Regional Communications Officer for the governing New Patriotic Party(NPP) Mr. Robert Ammisah popularly known as “Staga” has died. Mr Amissah, an asthmatic patient was said to have been driving from Kasoa to Cape Coast on Friday, April 22, 2022 alone and upon reaching Biriwa Junction in the Mfantseman …
Read More »Ekow Ewusi bows out as Central Regional NPP Vice Chairman
First Vice-Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Central, Horace Ekow Ewusi has announced that he will not be seeking reelection when the party opens for nominations at the regional level. “I will not contest again when the party opens nominations for the Regional contest”, he revealed on Cape Coast-based …
Read More »KNUST reinstates over 3,550 of the 6,000 deferred students
The management of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has disclosed that it has reinstated over 3,550 of the 6,000 students whose programmes were deferred due to their inability to pay 70 percent of their fees. According to the authorities, the students who have been reinstated made …
Read More »Ayikoi Otoo vows to mobilize NPP grassroots for victory in 2024
Former Ghana’s High Commissioner to Canada, Ayikoi Otoo, has assured the New Patriotic Party that, he will mobilize the grassroots for a resounding victory in the 2024 general elections. Ayikoi Otoo has joined the list of persons who have expressed interest in contesting the national chairmanship position of the party. The NPP’s …
Read More »Tears as teacher, 36, perishes in ghastly accident
Sylvia Etornam Gbormita, a teacher at the Border Basic School at Aflao in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta Region, has died in what many has described as a freak road accident. Etornam, as she was popularly called, died on Friday, April 8, 2022, in an accident that left …
Read More »Serwaa Broni saga: Resign as a gentleman – Otukornor tells Akufo-Addo
Deputy General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Peter Boamah Otokunor wants President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to resign. He claims he is not ‘fit’ to hold the highest position of the land after several allegations were levelled against him by one Evelyn Aidoo, alias Serwaa Broni. The Canadian-based Ghanaian …
Read More »CPP asks its Chairperson to step aside
The Central Committee of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) has directed the Chairperson of the party, Akosua Frimpomaa Sarpong Kumankumah to step aside. According to the Committee, the current chairperson gained 43% of the total votes cast in their chairmanship elections of August, 2020, which does not make her qualified …
Read More »CPP nullifies Chairmanship position; calls for run-off
The Central Committee of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) has said its National Chairman Akosua Frimpomaa Sarpong-Kumankumah does not qualify to hold herself as such since she was not validly elected. The Central Akosua Frimpomaa Sarpong-Kumankumah, who is also the leader of the party per its constitution, did not obtain …
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