Desperation has set in, government machinery is virtually shut down as the Chief of Staff who is supposed to be running the government systems is on the campaign trail, Kwmena Ahwoi has his team, Asiedu Nketia is on the other side. The otherwise neglected and abandoned Amissah-Arthur who is a ‘constitutional Vice-President’ with no active … Read more
A few days ago, Mahama’s Chief of Staff, Julius Debra REPEATED Candidate Mahama’s spiel at a rally in the North, that Mahama is one of them, and so they should vote for him. Nobody has raised any issue with this tribalistic statement. Not even the AKANS who have been sidelined by President Mahama and his … Read more
Some equalizations border on absurdity if not sheer stupidity. Anytime I hear Koku Anyidoho making unsavory comments and casting aspersion on serious and respectable men and women in this dear country of ours, my heart bleeds. Sometimes I ask myself whether indeed this guy comes from the Anyidoho family tree that I know very well. … Read more
A tale of two airlines: Ethiopian Airlines and Ghana Airways Anis Haffar The in-flight magazine of Ethiopian Airlines – Selamta – adorned the cover page of its Sept/Oct 2015 issue with a picture of the Group CEO Temolde Gebre Mariam and the U. S. president Barack Obama, during Obama’s three day visit to Ethiopia in … Read more
Vote for NDC if you find President Kufuor on the ballot If we don’t tell the next generation what we had to stomach and tolerate, they may mount a statue for Fifi Kwetey the way some academics have mounted a statue for Gandhi. No offence to Gandhi campaigners but if Ghana does not learn to … Read more
Selling ourselves into 21st Century slavery; the regrettable story of ECG “WE HAD TRADED IN THE MARKET COMPETITIVELY PERFECT TILL YOU CAME, …AND CUT OUR RIBS, DRIED OUR COWS.” -(“EXPELLED” by Jared Angira, Kenyan Poet) A commonly accepted thesis is that the scramble for Africa from about 1885 until the beginning of World War I … Read more
The governing NDC says there is nothing phenomenal about the New Patriotic Party (NPP) economic record because it was shielded from economic difficulties through its decision to go to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). At the “Setting the records straight” press conference broadcasted on Joy FM, Transport Minister, Fifi Kwetey said the National Democratic Congress … Read more
Agric Minister Fiifi Kwetey has fired a gun scatter attack at the New Patriotic Party whose record he said has been abysmal. Mr Kwetey who resumed his “Setting the Records Straight” project to rebuff economic claims made by the opposition party said the NPP was not only incompetent but boosted the economy with “cocaine cash” … Read more
The Millennium Development Authority (MiDA) has insisted that the concession of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) under the Power Compact II will not lead to a retrenchment exercise. According to MiDA, the agreement has a clause that bars the concessionaire from undertaking a retrenchment exercise in the next five years. The Public Utility Workers … Read more
By D. I. Laary, GNA Accra, Sept. 14, GNA – The Ghana Technology University College (GTUC) has its roots in Ghana Telecom’s flagship Training Centre. It was first used as a Royal Air Force Training School during the Second World War and subsequently handed to Cable and Wireless to train Telecommunications Technicians for British West … Read more
Campaign Coordinator and National Organizer of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Adams says it will only take a political lying economist like Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to say that government is hoodwinking Ghanaians with its infrastructural development. The running mate of the opposition NPP in his presentation on Thursday watered down the achievements of … Read more
Workers of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) have been in the news in recent times, following their protest against the intended handing over of the state owned company to a concessionaire to handle it for the next 30 years, starting from January next year. Led by the Public Utilities Workers Union (PUWU), the workers … Read more
Mahamudu Bawumia (born October 7, 1963) is an economist and banker. He was a Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana until his nomination as Vice Presidential candidate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Presidential candidate Nana Akufo-Addo in 2008. He also run as the vice-presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party in Ghana’s 2012 … Read more