Politics

Your beauty exists only in your looks – Kwesi Pratt slams IMF boss over comment on Ghana’s economy Managing editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr, has chastised the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva, over recent comments she made on Ghana’s economy. Madam Georgieva stated after …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is embarking on a two-day working visit to the Volta Region today. The President is scheduled to commission projects, inspect ongoing ones and confer with traditional leaders of the area during the two-day working visit from Monday, September 12, 2022, to Tuesday, September 13, 2022. …

The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has left Accra, Ghana for Nairobi, Kenya to represent Ghana at the swearing-in of William Samoei Arap Ruto, President-elect of Kenya. Until his election on 15th August 2022, William Ruto served as Vice President of the Republic of Kenya. Vice President Bawumia returns to …

Ghana’s leadership in the rule of law on the African continent has been acknowledged by the newly appointed Attorney-General of the United Kingdom, Michael Ellis. Speaking at a meeting with Ghana’s Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame, in his office at the House of Commons in London, UK, …

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, has called on the youth to demonstrate love and patriotism at all times to propel personal and national development. He said Ghana was a great country with remarkable history to be proud of, for which reason the younger generation …

The Supreme Court Judge sitting on the Opuni-Agongo case has attained the Constitutional retirement age of 70 years for Justices of the Superior Courts of Ghana. Born on 4 September, 1952, Justice Clemence Jackson Honyenuga clocked the anniversary milestone on Sunday, September 4, setting him up for compulsory retirement after …

The minority caucus in Parliament has expressed its confidence in gaining an additional seat in the current hung Parliament if the Dome Kwabenya seat is declared vacant and a subsequent by-election is conducted.Adwoa Safo, who currently occupies the seat on the ticket of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), is ‘shaky’ in her legislative …

Participants in the second annual National Democratic Congress (NDC) Lawyers Conference have called on the government to take urgent steps to address the current hardship in the country in order to safeguard peace and security of the nation.They said the current economic hardship occasioned by increasing fuel prices and high …

The opposition National Democratic Congress(NDC) has described the call by Justice Isaac Douse, a retired Justice of the Court of Appeal on former president John Mahama not to drag the image of the Supreme Court in the mud as misplaced. Mr Mahama speaking at the NDC’s lawyers conference Sunday said …

The Auditor-General (A-G) has detected financial irregularities amounting to GH¢17,483,483,539 by public boards, corporations and other statutory institutions for the 2021 financial year ending December 31. Attributing the irregularities to non-compliance to provisions of the Public Financial Management Act, Public Procurement Authority Act, and lack of due diligence by officers, …