The contents of handing over notes from some government ministries will be at the centre of scrutiny at the Presidential Transition meeting today, Monday. Allegations of the sale of some government property, award of new contracts and recruitment of military personnel are expected to dominate discussions today. Already, these issues have been a source of … Read more
Former deputy Minority Leader, Ambrose Derry has won the Nandom constituency seat. Derry, a big stalwart of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), according to unconfirmed results in the area put up a spirited performance to win the seat for the first time for the elephant family. Nandom is one of the newly created constituencies … Read more
The Deputy Minority Leader of Parliament and Chairman of the Sector on Interior and Defence Committee of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Dominic Nitiwul, has announced plans to increase the per diem of security service officials on peacekeeping missions from $31 a day currently to $35 a day when Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo becomes … Read more
The opposition New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) vice Presidential candidate, Dr. Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia, has revealed the party’s agenda to replace the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) with the Northern Development Authority (NDA). According to him, the mismanagement and negative image associated with SADA, warrants its replacement to make it serve the purpose for its establishment. … Read more
A Tamale based spiritualist Chief Gariba Bukari has predicted this year’s elections would be marred with violence in five (5) regions after the count of ballot. The spiritualist who did not name the regions said it was because he did not want to scare the people in those regions. The spiritualist called for intense prayers … Read more
Deputy Minority leader, Dominic Nitiwul is predicting a decline of the electoral figures of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the December 7 general elections. According to him, given the abysmal performance of the Mahama-led government, the ruling party will be very lucky to get 48 percent of the total votes cast. Dominic Nitiwul … Read more
The Deputy Minority Leader of Parliament Dominic Nitiwul has revealed that he personally does not doubt the love of Mr, Paul Awentami Afoko and Kwabena Agyei Agyepong for the elephant family. He believes that the suspended National Chairman his General Secretary’s love for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is unquestionable but wants them to join … Read more
The Deputy Minority Leader of Parliament Dominic Nitiwul has advised suspended National Chairman of the NPP Paul Afoko and General Secretary Kwabena Agyepong to come out and campaign for the party’s flagbearer Nana Akufo-Addo, despite their suspension. According to him, such a gesture will show their true love and believe in the Danquah-Busia-Dombo tradition. The … Read more
The Mahama-led National Democratic Congress government appears to be taking its insatiable appetite for loans that are expended on wild expenditures, which sometimes defy prudential reasoning, to unimaginable extent, with just about one month to elections. Just last Friday, October 28, 2016, Parliament approved a €45.5 million loan facility for the construction of the proposed … Read more
The deputy minority leader Dominic Nitiwul has stated claims that a Peki Chief did not endorse the flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and was misquoted by the media are untrue. The Adontenhene of the Peki State and acting President of the Peki Traditional Area Torgbe Ayim Mordey VI on Wednesday … Read more
Members of Parliament (MPs) have proposed the establishment of a scheme to cater for former MPs. This, they suggested would help ease the suffering that many former MPs go through. The MPs made the call Wednesday when they paid a tribute to the former MP for Hohoe North, Prince Jacob Ahikpor, who passed on July … Read more
At least 25 per cent of Ghana’s former members of parliament have died, the Speaker of Parliament, Edward Doe Adjaho, has revealed. The demise of these former MPs has left some of the bereaved families in hard times, something that has prompted the current legislators to put in place measures to support those families and … Read more
The Senate, yesterday, unanimously, threw out President Muhammadu Buhari’s request for external loan of $29.96 billion to execute key infrastructural projects across the country between 2016 and 2018 because the letter conveying it was not accompanied by a borrowing plan. The Senate did not even discuss the request as it died immediately it was mentioned … Read more
Hon. Dominic Nitiwul, NPP Campaign Sector Committee Chairperson on Security, has stated that an NPP government upon assuming office, will review, the defense strategy of the nation. “We believe that the men and women of the Ghana Armed forces will not be focused more on combat any longer. There are other things they will be … Read more
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) government will review the defence strategy of the nation by adding five years to the retiring age of servicemen and women in the Ghana Armed Forces. Instead of the compulsory retirement from the service after 25 years, the NPP will raise it to 30 years, Deputy Minority Leader Dominic Nitiwul … Read more
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) government will put up a military hospital in Tamale for the Northern Command of the Ghana Armed Forces, Deputy Minority Leader Dominic Nitiwul has said. Currently, the 37 Military Hospital is the only military hospital in the country. Speaking at a press briefing in Accra on Sunday October 30 on … Read more
The Speaker of Parliament, Edward Doe Adjaho was Thursday compelled to ignore Standing Order 48 (1) because of what he describes as time constraint. Parliamentary Standing Order 48 (1) states: “The presence of at least one third of all the Members Parliament beside the person presiding shall be necessary to constitute a quorum of the house. … Read more
The Deputy Minority Leader, Dominic Nitiwul has said he is not convinced that President John Mahama paid taxes on the Ford vehicle he received as a gift from the Burkinabe Contractor, Djibril Kanazoe According to him, claims by the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) that the president satisfied all laws were not … Read more
Deputy Minority leader of Parliament Dominic Nitiwul has described President John Dramani Mahama as an ex-president even though Ghanaians are yet to go to the polls on December 7 to determine who rules the country for another four-year term. Addressing supporters of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) at the Tumu Community center in the … Read more
The flagbearer of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the 2016 general election, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo- Addo has assured the electorate that he is committed to fulfilling all his campaign promises if elected as president. Nana Akufo-Addo who is staging his term bid for the presidency says he has a competent team … Read more