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A new petition for impeachment has been filed against Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Charlotte Osei. The petition was filed on August 18 at the Presidency and is demanding that a process to remove the EC boss should be commenced over alleged breaches of public procurement practices and provisions …

Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture, William Quaitoo, did the honourable thing by resigning from his post over his ethnocentric comments, the Chairman of the National Peace Council, Rev Professor Emmanuel Asante, has said. The presidency announced Mr Quaitoo’s resignation on Tuesday night. A letter to that effect read: “The …

Turkey-based midfielder Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu has fired a disguised angry salvo at Ghana coach Kwesi Appiah for ‘retiring’ him from the Black Stars. The Bursaspor player seems to have heavily criticised Appiah’s decision to exclude him from the national team, telling the Black Stars coach: ‘you can’t retire the King’. In …

He has been one of the fiercest critics of the 8-month old government and the New Patriotic party (NPP) which he openly does in the media; a development party executives observe is subjecting the elephant family to public ridicule. In the last couple of weeks, he leveled wild allegations against …

The Accra District Council of Labour of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has asked President Nana Akufo-Addo to immediately constitute the governing Boards, Commissions and Councils of various state institutions. According to the Council a significant number of the various governing boards have still not been constituted, eight months into …

The Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyepong, has backed claims that some appointees at the Flagstaff House take money from people seeking to meet the President. “Abu Jinapor and Asenso-Boakye are not the only two alleged to be involved in corrupt activities at the presidency, they are many …

Former President John Kufuor is urging the current leadership of the party to strategise and keep the party in power for a long time. He said it is only when the party keeps on winning consistently would the roots of the party go deep and the NPP will become the …

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has charged members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to desist from engaging in any activity that will derail the gains made by government.He was of the view that any party member who engages in such an activity is not abreast of the vision of …

The Majority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, has said the trend where experienced Members of Parliament (MPs), especially on the side of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), are voted against by their delegates in the party’s internal elections thereby allowing novices to enter Parliament, is affecting the quality of …

Vice President Dr Mahamamu Bawumia has said Ghanaians replaced “incompetence with competence” in last year’s polls as far as Ghana’s economic management is concerned.According to him, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has assembled a team of competent men and women who are bringing the economy back onto the right path.Speaking …