Accompanied by outgoing President Mahama, Nana Addo was taken on a guided tour of the Flagstaff House on Wednesday morning. The two took a walk through the various offices of the buoyant edifice, which was constructed during the tenure of former President John Kufuor. This is the second time an outgoing Ghanaian President is embarking on such … Read more
President John Mahama earlier today, Wednesday took President-elect, Nana Akufo-Addo on a tour of the Flagstaff House at Kanda in Accra. The tour was to introduce the incoming President to the facilities and spaces at the seat of government. John Mahama, while welcoming Akufo-Addo said the facility was ready to accommodate the incoming President. He … Read more
Policy think tank IMANI Ghana has welcomed the last minute swearing in of a new Auditor General despite condemnation from the transition team of the incoming administration. The new Auditor General, Daniel Domelovo was appointed in consultation with the Council of State in accordance with Article 70 of the 1992 Constitution. The transition team of … Read more
“We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong—this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it” (W. E.B. Du Bois). AN IMPERATIVE NEED FOR TEACHABLE CLOSURES IN INSTITUTIONAL CORRUPTION CASES “The wise create proverbs for fools to learn, not to repeat” (An African proverb). … Read more
Veteran Journalist and Editor-in-Chief of the New Crsading Guide Newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has advised President-Elect Nana Akufo Addo, to keep the Flagstaff House name of the seat of government when he assumes power after January 7, 2017. Former President John Kufour with support from the Indian government put up the over-$70-million edifice and … Read more
Vice President, Kwesi Amissah Arthur says he has looked through the so-called 170 questions vice presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, wants him to answer, yet he finds nothing relevant to respond to. According to the Vice President, he was compelled to call for the so-called 170 questions since Dr Mahamadu Bawumia insisted that … Read more
Reports indicate that Nana Addo’s security as well as Alhassan Abubarkar were taken to the BNI cells. At the moment, no charges have been leveled against the two A strange incident happened at the premises of the FlagStaff House on Sunday. The BNI picked up a member of NPP Flagbearer Nana Addo’s security detail and one other, while … Read more
The Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) has picked up a member of NPP Presidential candidate Akufo-Addo’s security detail and one other supporter while they are jogging by the Flagstaff House in Accra. The incident happened last Sunday morning at about 8am, New Patriotic Party member John Kumah told myjoyonline.com, after he was granted access to … Read more
Veteran journalist, Alhaji Abdul Rahman Haruna Atta has endorsed the candidacy of the presidential candidate of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), President John Mahama stating that he will vote for him in the forthcoming presidential race. According to him, he believed President Mahama is the right man for the Flagstaff House job thus his … Read more
The Electoral Commission’s head of Communication, Eric Dzakpasu, has hinted the list of qualified candidates running for the Flagstaff House will be out latest by Wednesday, November 9, 2016. “We should come out with the list of cleared candidates on November 9,” he told The Ghana Report on Viasat 1. The Supreme Court on Monday, … Read more
The Electoral Commission’s head of Communication, Eric Dzakpasu, has hinted the list of qualified candidates running for the Flagstaff House will be out latest by Wednesday, November 9, 2016. “We should come out with the list of cleared candidates on November 9,” he told The Ghana Report on Viasat 1. The Supreme Court on Monday, … Read more
The Convention People’s Party (CPP) will reconstruct the Flagstaff House to make it disability friendly, the Director of Elections of the party, James Kwabena Bonfer, has hinted. According to him, it was unfortunate that the seat of government was not built with the needs of physically challenged people in mind. At the launch of the … Read more
I am not on Ground Zero, so I cannot quite fathom why the redenomination of the nation’s legal tender, The Cedi, during the tenure of the Kufuor-led government of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has become such a big deal with President John Dramani Mahama and the rest of the Flagstaff House’s Abongo Boys, when … Read more
Johnson Asiedu Nketia, General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), is on record to have called on supporters of the party to desist from the act of insulting the vice presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia. The NDC Chief Scribe called on the party supporters to rather pray for … Read more
A lawyer with the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) says a Commission of Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) report clearing President Mahama of taking a bribe should end any controversy surrounding the Ford gift saga. Abraham Amaliba has rejected claims by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) that the report is nothing more than an … Read more
The National Democratic Congress says it is battle ready and set to shrug off competition from the New Patriotic Party and others to retain power. Moment after he joined the Vice President to submit the nomination forms for President Mahama on Thursday, party’s General Secretary John Asiedu Nketia told the media the NDC is adequately prepared … Read more
Members of the Graduate Students’ Association of Ghana (GRASAG) will embark on a demonstration in Accra on Wednesday, September 28, a press release has announced. The demonstration is to protest delay in bursaries and thesis grants. The street protest follows a recent backtracking regarding a planned picketing at the Flagstaff House last week. “The main … Read more
Information available to the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) Fact-checking team reveals that claims by Transport Minister on the New Patriotic Party (NPP) housing record are not true. Fiifi Fiavi Kwetey claims the NPP did not build “even a chamber and hall” and that “not even a single room was completed in eight years … Read more
Building a nation is a task that transcends individual interests or selfish desires of a group of indivisuals. A nation of nearly 30million people will surely be populated by people with divergent views/opinions, based on personal interests which are often driven, not by spirit of patriotism, but pure self-seeking agendas.to such people, even when the … Read more
Commissioned in 1960 to host football matches in the Greater Accra region, the famous Accra Sports Stadium, which is located between the former seat of the Government of Ghana and house of the legislature, the Christiansburg Castle, and Parliament House respectively, has gone through a lot in its five decades of existence. It has been … Read more