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Senior Minister of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Yaw Osafo-Maafo has justified the appointment of his sons to top government positions. According to Mr Osafo-Maafo who was speaking on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Thursday, his sons’ occupations of those positions were on the merit of their competencies and qualifications. The Senior Minister claimed his children were poached into those positions and ...

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta’s decision to take a u-turn on the personal income tax has rather earned him the fury of some Minority members in parliament. Mr. Ofori-Atta announced during the reading of the 2018 Mid-year Budget review, the introduction of an additional personal income tax where persons who earn GHC 10,000 and above will have to pay taxes of ...

Internal wrangling one can say has been accepted by politicians to be normal especially during internal elections of a party. Through to some extent, this affects the party, especially when wrestling power with other parties, party faithfuls are not deterred from attacking each other. Former Central Regional Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Allotey Jacobs seems to be ...

A row has erupted in the Subin Constituency of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) as some 90 polling station executives and electoral area coordinators said they had been removed from their posts against their will by constituency executives acting on the instructions of the Member of Parliament (MP), Eugene Boakye. Some electoral area coordinators and polling station executives have been ...

This governments is full of super incompetence and corrupt appointees just because the finished factories will not bring them any kickbacks they have all decided to put on wooden goggles to the existing factories that are completed and those which are almost completed all in the name of ex-president John Dramani Mahama and former head of states. Examples are comanda ...

The NDC is entirely and exclusively interested or concerned with the developments of potential infrastructure that we have as a nation. Even though we have not developed enough as a nation the NDC as a party, since 1992 Ghana started the practice democracy have made this country proud, From  the era of Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings, prof. Evans Atta ...

National women’s organiser elect of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr Hanna Bissiw, has debunked vote-buying allegations against her party its Women and Youth Congress at Gomoa Feteh in the Central Region. “Since when did giving out of food at congress become a crime? Some delegates got to the grounds as early as 4:30 am and you expect us to ...

A member of the Communications Committee in Parliament, Sam Nartey George, says the government should be blamed for the imminent increase in the tariffs of the telcos. He stated that government deliberately set in motion the processes that have culminated in the decision by the telcos to increase the charges on their data and call services from November 1 with the ...

Joy News’ investigations have revealed the Ministry of Health under the Mahama administration diverted part of a government loan facility on research into the chances of the then governing National Democratic Congress (NDC). The research was a subcontract under a 175 million dollar project awarded to British infrastructure company NMS for the construction of seven district hospitals and an integrated ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings is demanding for a polygraph test otherwise known as a lie detector (test) before he can answer to all questions about his 19-year rule as head of state cum president [Military and Civilian]. He also asking journalists and other professionals who report on him must subject themselves to same test, reiterating his timeless declaration that ...