The Constitutional Review Committee has proposed a five-year presidential term in Ghana. The committee noted that the current four-year term is too short. It also said it did not find a place for a third term for a sitting president … Read more →
President John Mahama says it is unacceptable for the nation to keep spending billions of dollars importing food to feed its people despite the vast availability of arable lands. According to president Mahama, his administration is determined to reverse the … Read more →
Contrary to the view held by many that the recently announced introduction of free education at the senior high school level was duplicated from the NPP’s campaign mantra, the party says it does not lay claim to its ownership. National … Read more →
Twice defeated Presidential Candidate of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says God has told him all that he wanted to know concerning the next step to take in his political career. Nana Akufo-Addo told newsmen at the Kotoka International Airport … Read more →
After you are forgiven for deviance, the last thing you should think about is going public and bragging about it. The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Ahafo Ano South in the Ashanti Region, Gabriel Barima has been shown the … Read more →
A buoyant 2012 flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo has assured his anxious supporters, an impending announcement of his political future will be “good” news. “In a short while, you will hear a full announcement. But it … Read more →
A leading member of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Professor Agyemang Badu Akosa, has blamed the overthrow of Ghana’s first President, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, for the country’s socio-economic woes. According to him, the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah marked the … Read more →
Former President of Nigeria , Olusegun Obasanjo who was 77 year-old on Wednesday, has confessed that he had no real record of his birthday, attributing it to his parent’s inability to have it documented. The ex-president spoke at his 77th … Read more →
The Kumasi Methodist Diocesan Bishop, Right Professor Osei Safo Kantanka, has called on Ghanaians not to trust President John Dramani Mahama, regarding his proposal to implement free Senior High School education policy. He emphasized that Ghanaians will live to regret … Read more →
At a symposium organised by the Royal African Society and the Centre of African Studies in London, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Monday advised government to pursue efficient management of its resources and projects in order to restore confidence in … Read more →
Deputy Education Minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has stated that the President’s announcement of free Senior High School (SHS) education in 2015 will start with students in public schools first. “Free means that from 2015 all day students in public senior high … Read more →
After President John Dramani Mahama announced that secondary education will be progressively free from the 2015/2016 academic year, the debate on the subject has turned to where funding for the policy will come from. President Mahama announced an initial subvention … Read more →
The Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt has said while he believes President John Mahama’s State of the Nation address had its positive sides, the address was laden with many conflicting interests. President John Dramani Mahama last Tuesday … Read more →
,After a six-month sojourn in the United Kingdom to cool off – following a heated legal tussle over who really won the 2012 presidential election – the 2012 presidential candidate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo- … Read more →
Donors have withheld direct budgetary support worth US$700million in the past two years in response to the government’s large spending overruns and the inability of some ministries to meet conditions for disbursement. The situation has increased pressure on the government’s … Read more →
The Founder and leader of Ghana Freedom Party (GFP), Akua Donkor has labeled the 2012 Presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) a “thief”. According to her, the ‘Free SHS Education’ policy which some NPP members including their 2012 … Read more →