President John Dramani Mahama has challenged running mate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia to reveal the cost of the cedi redenomination exercise in 2007. Speaking at a rally in the Ablekuma North constituency, President Mahama said since Dr. Bawumia was a Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana at the … Read more
Acting National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Freddie Blay says the party’s manifesto provides viable economic alternatives to halt the downwards decline of the Ghanaian economy. Addressing party supporters on Sunday at the party’s manifesto launch in Accra, Mr Blay said the NPP is ready to take tough economic decisions, to ensure stability … Read more
Deputy Finance Minister, Ato Forson says NPP Vice-Presidential candidate Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is too fixated on statistics that he failed to see the real life impact of President Mahama’s policies. He said the success of President Mahama’s government should be measured by the real life examples of progress. “….when a political party reduces the Ghanaian … Read more
By Cassiel Ato Forson In his typical fashion, Dr Mahamadu Bawumiah, Vice Presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, has presented a 2016 edition of his annual lecture, that simply comprises a mixture of half truths, outright lies and deliberate misinterpretation of economic trends and events, in an effort to discredit the economic stewardship of … Read more
The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) in parliament has accused the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) of engaging in intellectual dishonesty following claims it has carried out significant projects in the agricultural sector. According to the Minority in Parliament, despite a solid foundation laid by the Kufuor administration in the agricultural sector, the NDC was … Read more
In his typical fashion, Dr Mahmud Bawumia, Vice Presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, has presented a 2016 edition of his annual lecture, that simply comprises a mixture of half truths, outright lies and deliberate misinterpretation of economic trends and events, in an effort to discredit the economic stewardship of the National Democratic Congress … Read more
In 2009, Kosmos Energy, a small oil exploration company in Texas, wished to cash in on its discovery of an oil field off the coast of Ghana — one of the largest found in West Africa in a decade. The company had an eager buyer in ExxonMobil. But some in Ghana believed the firm had … Read more
The Notion That All Politicians Are The Same Once They Are In Their Comfort Zones Is Somewhat Sophistic, So To Speak. “When All Parties Turn Out To Be The Same Once In Power, People Lose Faith In All Parties, And Ultimately In Democracy.” Unlike Ghanaian ‘Celebrities’ Who Are Gleefully Endorsing Their Preferred Presidential Candidates For … Read more
The paramount chief of Krachi traditional area in the Volta region, Nana Mprah Besemuna III has declared support for the National Democratic Congress’ manifesto promise of creating additional regions in Ghana. President Mahama presenting highlights of the NDC’s manifesto weeks ago, said the party intends to create five new regions from the existing 10 as … Read more
Nana Akufo-Addo’s defeat in the 2008 presidential election was due to his failure to appoint Hajia Alima Mahama, a former Women and Children’s Affairs Minister, in the erstwhile Kufuor administration, as vice presidential candidate, a man of God has revealed. Pastor Kwadwo Agyekum, Head Pastor of the Emmanuel Temple Church, said, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia a … Read more
Nana Akufo-Addo’s defeat in the 2008 presidential election was due to his failure to appoint Hajia Alima Mahama, a former Women and Children’s Affairs Minister, in the erstwhile Kufuor administration, as vice presidential candidate, a man of God has revealed. Pastor Kwabena Agyekum, Head Pastor of the Emmanuel Temple Church, said, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia a … Read more
Eastern Regional Chairman of the NDC, Bismarck Tawiah Boateng is urging party members to work assiduously to retain the party in power to save government appointees from going to jail. According to him, majority of Mahama’s appointees will be jailed if the flagbearer of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) wins the December 7 elections. … Read more
The Mahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) does not really understand the meaning of changing lives and transformation, vice-presidential aspirant of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has said. According to him, if government really understood what it meant to transform the lives of citizens positively, it would not have cancelled key social intervention … Read more
The flag bearer of the All People’s Congress (APC), Hassan Ayariga, has challenged Nana Akufo-Addo and Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom – presidential nominees of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), respectively – to a debate ahead of the December polls. Mr Ayariga has recently mounted an attack on his fellow … Read more
By Kwarteng, Francis “India gave South Africa Gandhi the barrister and Africa gave India back Mahatma Gandhi the Great Soul” (Nelson Mandela). “We believe as much in purity of race as we think they do…We believe also that the white race of South Africa should be the predominating race” (Mahatma Gandhi). “It was not a … Read more
“India gave South Africa Gandhi the barrister and Africa gave India back Mahatma Gandhi the Great Soul” (Nelson Mandela). “We believe as much in purity of race as we think they do…We believe also that the white race of South Africa should be the predominating race” (Mahatma Gandhi). “It was not a shock because I … Read more
Campaigning in the great Nkawkaw township, in the Okwawu Traditional Area of the Eastern Region, recently, Vice-President Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur was widely reported to have bitterly lamented the fact that the citizens of Okwawuman (aka Kwahuman) have perennially and consistently voted for the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) for most of the country’s Fourth-Republican … Read more
Communications Consultant at the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has revealed he advised the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) not to implement its much touted onetime premium policy. According to Eric Ametor Quarmyne, implementation of the policy cannot be sustained by the current premium payments by subscribers of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) The … Read more
Ghana’s road network was expanded from 37,321km in 2000 to 67,291km by 2008 under the Kufuor administration to facilitate increased production of commercial crops for export and food for domestic consumption, the New Patriotic Party’s Ranking Member of the Roads Committee of Parliament, Kwabena Owusu-Aduomi, has said. The governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) has prided … Read more
The infrastructural development of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government of 1993 to 2001 outstripped that of the erstwhile Kufuor administration of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Member of Parliament for Ketu South Fiifi Kwetey has said. According to Mr Kwetey, in spite of the fact that the NPP had eleven times more revenue and … Read more