POLITICS

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 …

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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 …

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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. …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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‘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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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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