President John Dramani Mahama has ordered immediate interventions to shield Ghanaians from surging fuel prices, as global tensions in the Middle East continue to disrupt oil supplies and push up costs. The directive was issued following a Cabinet meeting in … Read more →
Petitioners and Respondents in the election petition case are expected to file their written addresses to the nine justices presiding over the case today.The parties are expected to argue for and against reasons why over 4 million votes cast in … Read more →
National Women’s Organizer of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) Madam Anita De Soso has taken NPP Member of Parliament for Assin Central Constituency, Hon Kennedy Agyapong to the cleaners describing him as one noted for spewing garbage. The NDC … Read more →
Reliable information available to The Independent indicates that President John Mahama has not remunerated his ministers and their deputies for some months now. Unlike civil servants, the state officials are just counting the anomaly as a sacrifice for the nation.
David Cameron vowed last night to ‘export’ gay marriage around the world including Ghana as he held a party to celebrate the passage of legislation in Britain. The Prime Minister told a gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender reception in Downing … Read more →
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong has said, he can only remember late President John Evans Atta Mills for overseeing corruption, load shedding and hypocrisy.
The Deputy Minister for Energy and Petroleum, John Abdulai Jinapor is convinced that twice defeated presidential candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) can never beat President John Dramini Mahama in any election.
Dear Mr Rawlings, If there‘s ever one great achievement I should praise myself of after 68 years of existence on this turbulent planet called earth, then it was my ability to resist the temptation to reply you. Not only did … Read more →
The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has reiterated that its criticism of the late President John Evans Atta Mills was on his performances as a president of Ghana and not as a person. Speaking on TV3’s News 360 on Tuesday, … Read more →
First Lady Mrs Lordina Dramani Mahama has promised to support government in ensuring that all cancer patients in Ghana receive adequate treatment. No woman, she added, should die from breast and cervical cancers as a result of lack of treatment … Read more →
Sam Pyne, the Ashanti Regional Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has called on the Mahama administration to inform Ghanaians about circumstances that led to the untimely death of former President John Atta Mills, as the anniversary of the … Read more →
A national peace summit comes off at the Banquet Hall of the State House today to educate Ghanaians on issues of justice and peace and how these ingredients can strengthen democratic governance in the country.
Hearing of the election petition drew to a close at the Supreme Court yesterday after seven months of a legal marathon, with the presiding judge exclaiming, “At long last the battle of evidence has ended.” Mr Justice William Atuguba made … Read more →
An Accra Fast Track High Court will on Thursday hear a fresh suit filed by former Supreme Court Judge, Justice Francis Yao Kpegah, challenging the status of New Patriotic Party’s Presidential Candidate in the 2012 elections, Nana Akufo-Addo, as a … Read more →
Dr. Sekou Nkrumah, son of Ghana’s first President, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah has described his late father as Ghana’s finest President who achieved a lot in his tenure as President.
Member of Parliament for Ablekuma West of the New Patriotic (NPP), Ursula Owusu has stridently called on government to stop embezzling public funds and rather fix the ‘broken’ economy. An emotive Ursula Owusu, accused the government of squandering the nation’s … Read more →