Opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for North Tongu Constituency in the Volta Region, Samuel Okuzdeto Ablakwa has attributed the popularity of the founder of the NDC and former president Jerry John Rawlings in the three northern regions of the country to the fact that he was the one that extended electricity to […]
Category: Politics
Funding of political parties: state should support political parties in research, policy and capacity building-Sammi Awuku
National Organizer of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Sammi Awuku is urging state support for political parties in the areas of research, policy and capacity building. ‘’My understanding is that political party funding is something we need to discuss. If not wholesale financing of political parties or funding, the state should be able to […]
NDC youth and women organizer election: I touched base with delegates-Hannah Bissiw
National Women Organizer elect of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Hannah Louisa Bissiw has revealed that she won the mandate of the women emphatically because she touched base with them and visited them in their homes to campaign. According to her, it was a deliberate strategy to get to the interact with the women […]
UER: Prioritize and take care of widows in the Upper East Region-Kofi Addah to Paulina Abayage
The Minister for Aviation and Member of Parliament for Navrongo Constituency in the Upper East Region, Joseph Kofi Addah has advised Minister-Designate for the Upper East Region, Paulina Tangaba Abayage to prioritize issues relating to widows in the region by taking good care of them. According to him, the indifference being exhibited by citizens of […]
Time consciousness and diplomacy are my assets, I will use them if approved as UE regional minister-Paulina Abayage
The Upper East Regional Minister Designate, Paulina Tangaba Abayage has said she would capitalize on her accumulated experience in terms of time consciousness and Diplomacy to her new portfolio as regional Minister if she is approved by parliament. She said those were lessons she learnt while she was Ghana’s Ambassador to Italy and that she […]
50 billion dollar century bond: It is only after a national referendum that we will consent to it-Haruna Iddrisu
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Minority will not accept the Akufo-Addo administration’s ambitious $50 billion bond unless it is backed by a national referendum, the Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, has said. The Minority leader insists that the country’s already worrying debt stock made the issuance of the century bond an unwise decision. “Today the NPP through the Finance […]
Fighting Corruption: EOCO, Martin Amidu, CHRAJ etal are bogus, RTI is the key-NDC MP
Opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Banda Constituency in the Brong Ahafo Region, Ahmed Ibrahim Banda has indicated that the only way to ensure corruption is nabbed in the country is for the Right to Information Bill (RTI) to be passed into law. According to him, existing anti-corruption institutions including the Economic […]
NDC Youth and Women Elections: Those elected are a walk-over, we will whip them-Nana B
National Youth Organizer of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Henry Nana Boakye says the party will make mincemeat of the newly elected national youth organizer and National women organizer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), George Opare Addo and Hannah Louisa Bissiw respectively. According to him, the two are known non-performers who cannot […]
UWR: NPP deputy National Organiser Elvis Botah supports Kuo Kakalaa Community with borehole
A deputy National Organizer of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Elvis Botah has gone to the rescue of the people Kuo Kakalaa in the Charikpong area of the Nadowli/Kaleo Constituency by giving them a borehole to solve the age long problem of water scarcity in the area. Mr. Botah who was the NPP parliamentary […]
Social intervention challenge: NPP has brought nothing new, MMT was OSA, LEAP was PAMSCAD-NDC
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) says the ruling New Patriotic Party cannot take credit for social intervention programmes in the country as they only came to change names of already existing ones. The party says interventions such as the Metro Mass Transit (MMT) and the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) initiatives were the Omni […]
Election 2016: 15 reasons why John Mahama and the NDC lost power
Some members of the opposition NDC and election watchers seem to be doing some introspection with regards to why and how power slipped out of the party’s hands so easily, in the 2016 general elections. Some political players and watchers believe there are varied reasons for the party’s defeat, spanning the inability of the party’s […]
NDC youth elections: Some NDC big wigs worked against me-Opare Addo
National Youth Organizer-elect of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) George Opare Addo has alleged that some big wigs in the party worked against him in the lead up to the election which was held during the weekend at the Pentecost Convention centre in the Central Region. According to him, a lot of big wigs […]