IT has emerged that the performance of the Ghana Petroleum Funds’ portfolios declined in the second of 2016. In an era where Ghana paid between eight and 10.75% interest on Eurobonds, it is worrying to know that return on investment of Ghana Heritage Fund (GHF) in instruments abroad for the second half of 2016 was … Read more
Tourism, Creative Arts and Culture Minister-designate Catherine Afeku, has denied being a fraudster and a criminal. “No, I have never been charged with fraud, neither have I ever had any criminal background,” she told parliament’s Appointments Committee on Monday, 6 February during her vetting. She, however, explained that a business relationship between her and some … Read more
For the benefit of my cherished readers and those who have not followed my previous articles in the past 10 years, I have decided to crown the year 2016 with this particular edition to whet the appetite of the vulnerable and the silent majority in society. Fellow Ghanaians and compatriots, what a joy it was … Read more
This year’s Christmas came a little early for a lot of Ghanaians, especially the president elect, Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo. He couldn’t have had a much better Xmas present. For those who genuinely cheered Nana on to victory with their active support, time, money and moral backing, I say Merry Christmas. For those that fortune … Read more
This year’s Christmas came a little early for a lot of Ghanaians, especially the president elect, Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo. He couldn’t have had a much better Xmas present. For those who genuinely cheered Nana on to victory with their active support, time, money and moral backing, I say Merry Christmas. For those that fortune … Read more
“…To repeat, in nearly 6 years of oil production at the Jubilee Oil Fields under Mahama and his NDC party, Ghana received just $3.3 billion out of nearly $17 billion dollars in oil revenues…representing just 19.76% of total oil revenue…Mr. Mahama called their predatory and plundering scheme the “Ghana Hybrid System”, now…consolidated into a law … Read more
The killing of Gaddafi on 20 October 2011 by NATO came as a shock to most Africans. While it is regrettable that he died such a terrible death, he was partly responsible for his own misfortune. He failed to build the defence capabilities that could defend Libya against the country’s many European and North American … Read more
It was prophesied, predicted, forecast, fought for, awaited and long sought. Finally, it has arrived. Change has been pronounced that the next pilot for the motherland plane, captain of the motherland ship of state and driver of the motherland automobile, shall be Osono. Congress is thereby directed (ordered) to pack baggage, umbrella and the ‘create, … Read more
Former General Secretary of the largest opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) Dan Botwe has said President John Mahama will lack the competence to govern any developed country if he were to be given such an opportunity. According to him, since the president has reduced and restricted govenance to only the provision of infrastructure, he’ll will … Read more
It was delivered on Thursday September 8, 2016 (roughly two months ago) but its ghost is still haunting the establishment. Government called it a ‘dishonest lecture’ and perhaps unsubstantiated. Following that I urged the ruling NDC to come out and challenge the man who’d ruffled the feathers of the rulers but nobody up to date … Read more
Progressive People’s Party (PPP) presidential hopeful for the December 7 polls, Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, has asked the people of Western Region to propagate the party’s message of hope to eligible Ghanaian voters. While calling on the people of Western Region to voted for the PPP, Dr. Nduom entreated them to reject the ruling National … Read more
Managers of the country are siphoning significant amounts of resources from the Western Region to develop other parts of the country, yet the region is very poor, the flag bearer of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, has lamented. However, the negative consequences of mining these resources are borne by the people … Read more
It was like yesterday, when a certain unknown ‘white’ airman decided to join the list of successful coup makers. On that first attempt of Tuesday, May 15, 1979, he failed to get the “nod” from that goddess called Fate. He was quarantined, and his case was heard. On Monday June 4, 1979, when his fate … Read more
Wealthy officials from Qatar and Saudi Arabia who donated money to Hillary Clinton’s charitable foundation also provided financial support to Isis, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has claimed. In an extended interview at the Ecuadorian embassy in London with documentary maker John Pilger for RT, Assange said the same Saudi and Qatari officials could be seen … Read more
A member of the Communications Team of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Henry Nana Boakye has described as blasphemous claims by National Democratic Congress (NDC) communicators that President John Mahama is the ‘Kwame Nkrumah of our time’. NDC Communicators have on different platforms compared the sitting President to the first President of independent Ghana, arguing … Read more
Please listen, all you my compatriots suffering in the motherland. You are teacher trainees with your allowances cancelled. Or you are teachers without pay and possibly, unemployed trained teachers. Yes, you are student nurses whose allowances have been slashed to a fraction; or nurses working without pay. I see teachers and nurses who have worked … Read more
Do I hear President John Dramani Mahama whining over media sabotage? If the President is feeling the heat over the failure of a section of the media to play ball in an election year, when others are getting compromised, then that is a very good piece of news. I may be one of Mahama’s saboteurs, … Read more
A leading member of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) Yoofi Grant has warned Ghana cannot be under the watch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the next four years. According to him, “change is inevitable” come December 7 – when Ghana goes to the polls to elect a new president and parliamentarians in … 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
A Sudanese-British mobile communications entrepreneur and billionaire, Dr Mo Ibrahim, has urged Ghana to reduce the level of political temperature as the country gears up for the polls in December. Describing Ghana as a wonderful country and one of his favourites, he said there was the tendency to take politics to some extreme as if … Read more