The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has expressed doubt over President Mahama’s promise to create three million jobs in the country if he retains power. Member of Parliament (MP) for Bosomtwe, Simon Osei Mensah said such promise can be possible when the right economic foundation shoots up and corruption is reduced to the barest minimum which … Read more
I read with deep concern the article published on Manasseh’s folder on a very sensitive and potentially divisive subject of love for Northerners by political players. In the said article, Manasseh created an erroneous impression that the Love of Northerners by the current President and the Governing NDC party has nothing to show in terms … Read more
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) says the second term of President John Dramani Mahama would see the construction of 20 polyclinics in Ashanti, Eastern, Volta and Upper East regions. “We will between 2017 and 2021 complete the construction of 15 Polyclinics in the Greater Accra and Central Regions; continue to equip Polyclinics and District Hospitals, … Read more
Ghana is not among the most popular destination to set up business. The few entrepreneurs and investors we have had were attracted to the country due to it’s natural resources as well as the fact that English is the language of the Ghanaian business world. Governments for decades have not had great and attractive investment … Read more
Ghana is not among the most popular destination to set up business. The few entrepreneurs and investors we have had were attracted to the country due to it’s natural resources as well as the fact that English is the language of the Ghanaian business world. Governments for decades have not had great and attractive investment … Read more
“All the decisions I have made in my life were regularly plaqued with doubt. It can be challenging to sustain that feeling of hope or the belief that things will turn out for the best. Again and again, I have felt like that boy Dramani, on the bicycle going downhill fast without any brakes and … Read more
The Krobo mark the passage of girls into womanhood by performing a series of rituals known as Dipo. Dipo rites have been practiced since the eleventh century, and their popularity has not waned despite modern intrusions into traditional Ghanaian culture. At the beginning of the Dipo ceremony, each initiate enters a ritual house, sheds her … Read more
The Director of Research of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) says government is not deliberately denying the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) funds for its operations because of its watchdog role. Dr William Ahadzi says PIAC is facing the same financial challenges other state institutions go through yearly in the hands of government. … Read more
Alhaji Baba Seidu Issifu was the main political character as NDC launched its campaign on 8th October, 2016 at Gambaga. It was unprecedented in the political history of the Constituency . It was a ground-breaking event I would never forget. All activities including farming, trading and everything came to a stance still. Some of the … 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 New Patriotic Party’s ‘Truth Forum’ has called on President Mahama to work on his own incompetence and the corruption in his government to save the country from final collapse, other than engaging in vote buying. Speaking at a press conference in Accra this afternoon, a leading member of ‘Truth Forum’, Lawyer Buaben Asamoah said, … Read more
The National Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Germany, Mr Kwaku Anane-Gyinde has attributed the current economic crisis facing Ghana and the attendant hardships inflicted on the citizens to incompetence, corruption and the failed leadership of President John Dramani Mahama. Speaking at a forum organised by the local chapter of the Party in … Read more
I have read with a deep sense of dismay an ungrammatical write-up purporting to emanate from Mr Salifu Saibu D. Slanwiah in which he sought not only to impugn or sully my hard earned reputation but most significantly to throw dust into the eyes of the Public. It is instructive for readers to note that … 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
NDC 2016 manifesto is a litany of promises never to be delivered. By Sydney Casely-Hayford Please do not read the NDC 2016 manifesto. It is a litany of promises never to be delivered. Rather, I urge you to go back and find the 2012 document they issued. Got it? Now read it in detail and … Read more
Please do not read the NDC 2016 manifesto. It is a litany of promises never to be delivered. Rather, I urge you to go back and find the 2012 document they issued. Got it? Now read it in detail and look around. Anything there seem familiar? Can you reconcile the crass dumping of words at … Read more
Former Trade and Industry Minister in the erstwhile Kufuor administration, Dr. Kofi Konadu Apraku, is urging Ghanaians to vote out the National Democratic Congress (NDC) out of office for gross mismanagement of the economy. The NDC, he explained, has taken the country backwards in terms of its developmental course with key sectors such as energy … Read more
Since independence Ghana had chosen the democratic path and even though this has been rudely interrupted by the military on several occasions, the country continues to strive to achieve democracy it professes to admire as against other political systems. Democracy is defined as “a system of Government in which all the people of a country … Read more
South Africa is kicking Jacob Zuma and the ANC out of office. In Germany, Angela Merkel is losing ground because the people say so and Britain has closed itself out of the European market with the “Brexit” vote. You might not agree with all the reasons for these developments by citizens, and particularly when you … Read more
There was pandemonium during the broadcasting of the Joy News flagship programme dubbed, “The Ballot Box,” in the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis last Friday evening when supporters of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) nearly traded blows, bringing an abrupt end to the well-attended programme. That was during an open forum … Read more