The Ghanaian Times | Politics

Petitioners Heave A Sigh Of Relief

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The Legal team of the petitioners in the election result challenge case says the end of Mr. Tsatsu Tsikata?s cross-examination of key witness Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia marks the ?beginning of the end? of the matter. The spokesperson for the team, Ms. Gloria Akuffo told journalists after Tuesday?s hearing ?it?s a great relief?, it marks the beginning of the end?. Mr. Tsikata, the lead counsel for the governing National Democratic Congress, third respondent in the case, ended his ... Read More

Bunkpurugu MP Weeps For His Constituents

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Bunkpurugu in the Northern Region, Solomon N. Boar has expressed concern over the poor infrastructure in his constituency. They include bad roads, absence of a hospital, lack of potable drinking water and poor educational infrastructure. Speaking to the Ghanaian Times in an interview in Accra on Wednesday, Mr Boar said the infrastructure problems were militating against the growth of the constituency and making life unbearable for the ... Read More

Akufo-Addo Is The Bane Of NPP

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The National Women Organiser of the National Democratic Congress, Madam Anita de Soso has advised her political opponents, specifically members of the New Patriotic Party not to accuse the NDC falsely, when it has come to fore that ?Nana Akufo-Addo has single-handedly created the uncontrollable mess in their party?. ?Until Nana Addo accepts defeat and agrees the NDC won the 2012 general election, the NPP can never organize its primaries. We are preparating our primaries and analyzing the ... Read More

NPP: NDC Is Panicking

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

A Deputy Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. John Boadu, has condemned what he described as unnecessary tension being created by counsel for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Tsatsu Tsikata, in the ongoing presidential election petition before the Supreme Court. He said allegation by Mr. Tsikata that pink sheet boxes in the custody of the court registry have been tampered with was a ?figment of his (Tsatsu?s) imagination?. Counsel for the respondents ... Read More

Nation Breeding Ignorant Politicians

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

A former Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa, has said politicians in the country do not seek after knowledge and as a result, the nation is churning out ignorant politicians. In an interview with Radio Gold on Monday, Professor Badu Akosa, wondered where politicians get their information on issues basically concerning the country, explaining that, ?the fact of the matter is that our politicians, themselves, do not learn. I have never gone to any ... Read More

Alhaji Sulemani Meets Constituents

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The Member of Parliament for the Sissala West Constituency of the Upper West Region, Alhaji Amin Amidu Sulemani, has appealed to his constituents to put behind them events of last year?s election and forge ahead in unity to develop the area. He said as a people, it was important that they would not allow politics to divide them, since the ultimate goal of seeking political power was to help alleviate poverty and diseases that confronted the people. ?Irrespective of who won an election, all ... Read More

Kufuor Returns Home From Investment Tour

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor returned home from South Africa and Switzerland on Monday, after engagements to woo investors to Africa. Speaking at either forum, he said Africa was witnessing rapid transformation and that the continent would soon turn into a hotbed of global economic activity in two decades from now. A press statement copied to the Ghana News Agency and signed by Mr. Frank Agyekum, spokesperson for the former President, on Monday, quoted ex-President Kufuor as ... Read More

Government Is Committed To Ensuring Universal Access To Electricity By 2016

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Mr. John Abdulai Jinapor, Deputy Minister of Energy and Petroleum has said the government is committed to ensuring universal access to electricity by 2016. He said the government was fast-tracking that objective to provide electricity for all. Mr. Jinapor said this when he met a team of Sustainable Energy Network at the Ministry on Friday. The team has been in the country for about five days assessing Ghana?s progress on the United Nation?s ?Sustainable Energy for All Initiative ... Read More

Afriyie-Ankrah Commends Patriot Club

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The Minister of Youth and Sports, Mr. Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah, said the Patriot Club of Ghana, an offshoot of the defunct Civil Defence Organisation (CDO), has a huge role to play to support the police and other agencies in maintaining law and order in our societies. ?The Patriot Club is still an important partner of the society, to assist the police and other institutions to preserve the orderliness of the society for business and other important activities to thrive,? he stated. The ... Read More

Court Accepts Tsatsuâ€™s Document

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The Supreme Court yesterday overruled the objection raised by the counsel for the petitioners, Philip Addison, to a document Mr. Tsatsu Tsikata, counsel for the respondents, sought to tender in evidence, in court. Last Thursday, Mr. Addison argued that the document was not an exhibit submitted to the court and should not be tendered. But Mr. Tsikata insisted the document was taken from another document which the witness, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the second petitioner, had already confirmed ... Read More

Bernard Mornah Chides Government

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Bernard Mornah, General Secretary for the People?s National Convention (PNC), has disagreed with government?s decision not to protect local businesses from foreign competition. According to him, government has a responsibility in ensuring that private sector businesses do not collapse at the expense of foreign entities. The Minister of State at the Presidency in-charge of Public Private Partnership, Rashid Pelpuo, told the media last week that allowing competition between the private ... Read More

Government Is Focused On Eliminating Challenges - President Mahama

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

President John Dramani Mahama on Friday gave the assurance that government would in the next few months fix all the challenges that had confronted his administration from the beginning of the year. He said the economy had been resilient in the face of those challenges and government was tapping all necessary avenues to restore stable long-term electricity supply to the citizenry. President Mahama gave this assurance when the Asantehene, Nana Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, led a high powered ... Read More

Corruption Must Be Fought With Action

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

THE Executive Director of Ghana Integrity Initiative, Mr. Vitus Azeem, has demanded of President John Mahama to prove his commitment to fighting corruption, by backing his words with action. Mr. Azeem noted that, little had been heard or seen from Mr. John Mahama regarding his determination to combat corruption, over the last 100 days that he had been in office as President of the Republic of Ghana. Assessing the President?s first 100 days in office on Joy FM on Wednesday, the head of the ... Read More

Yammin Tells His Story

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

THE Deputy Youth and Sports Minister-designate, Mr. Joseph Yammin, on Tuesday disclosed how his long-cherished dream of becoming a soldier was shattered on account of his complexion. He recounted that on two occasions, he was denied enlistment into the Ghana Armed Forces supposedly due to his light skin. Mr. Yammin noted that a military officer that turned him away likened him to former President Jerry Rawlings, who is also light-skinned. He said, ?The military officer told me in plain ... Read More

I Can Perform Better Than Some Ministers

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Hard-talking former Lower Manya Krobo Member of Parliament (MP), Mr Michael Teye Nyaunu, has told XYZ News, that he can be a better Minister or Deputy Minister than some of the President?s new appointees and nominees. He said: ??Certainly I can do better than some of them?. Mr. Teye Nyaunu was responding to questions about the competence and quality of the President?s deputy ministerial nominees in an interview on Monday. He, however, refused to mention specific names of some of the ... Read More

WANEP-Ghana Identifies 3 Regions As Violence Prone

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The West Africa Network for Peace Building (WANEP-Ghana) has identified the Greater Accra, Ashanti and Northern regions as the most volatile areas in the country. The group made the disclosure in its quarterly report, on the nation?s security. In view of this, WANEP-Ghana has urged the security agencies to be on high alert, to preserve the peace, especially during the election petition trial. It further urged both the petitioners and respondents to view the petition process as ... Read More

Foreign Minister Replies Israeli Ambassador

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Ms Hanna Tetteh, has expressed surprise at the concerns raised by the Israeli Ambassador to Ghana concerning the visit of the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in Ghana. ?I am surprised that she [Israeli Ambassador] did not call on the Minister of Foreign Affairs to understand the context in which this meeting is taking place. It only begins to frame the question in the context of the Israeli Ambassa-dor?s concerns. Are you ... Read More

Soldiers Donâ€™t Plot Coups, Politicians Do

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

A retired military officer and now Member of Parliament (MP) for Nkoranza North Major Derek Oduro (Rtd), has cautioned Ghanaians that soldiers on their own are usually not inclined to stage violent changes in government but are spurred on to stage coups by politicians. Major Derek Oduro (Rtd), who is also the Deputy Ranking Member on Parliament?s Select Committee on Defence, has therefore called on Ghanaians to critically monitor the actions and utterances of politicians which might incite ... Read More

Blame NPP For Mediocre Ministers

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

A leading member of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe says the Minority in Parliament should be blamed for the inexperienced and mediocre Ministers and their deputies in government. He argued that if the Minority MPs had participated in the vetting process, many of the nominees would not have been passed. ?The fact that our own MPs are not taking part in certain things in Parliament is very worrying and as such, if we end up with bad ministers and deputies, ... Read More

Iranâ€™s President Arrives In Ghana Amidst Rousing Welcome

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has arrived in Ghana on a maiden visit as part of a three nation African tour. The two-day visit is the last leg of his African tour, which included Benin, Niger and Ghana. It is aimed at strengthening Ghana ?Iran relations, which dates back to 1974. President Ahmadinejad is expected to share with his Ghanaian counterpart, Iran?s experiences, especially in the oil and gas industry. He arrived at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) on the Iranian ... Read More

Gas is Ghanaâ€™s future â€“ John Jinapor

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Mr John Abdulai Jinapor, Deputy Minister-designate for the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum on Monday branded the ongoing national gas project as the panacea to the country?s economic success. He said with the rising cost of crude oil, the country?s thermal installations depended on to generate power , significant gas resource would reduce the cost of producing electricity considerably and would thus place the country in a stead to maximize the gains of the resource to further its ... Read More

Donâ€™t Destroy Nationâ€™s Image

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Aquinas Tawiah Quansah, Member of Parliament for Mfantseman, has urged Ghanaians to desist from activities that could bring the image of the country into disrepute. ?Let us do things, which can bring progress to the nation rather than things which can derail the forward march of the country.? Mr. Quansah gave the advice in an interview with the Ghana News Agency at Saltpond against the backdrop of current events concerning the spate of labour unrests and appealed to those involved to ... Read More

Regional Ministers Brainstorm On â€˜Better Ghanaâ€™ Agenda

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

A two-day capacity-building conference to sensitise regional ministers on their roles and responsibilities for the attainment of the Better Ghana agenda has been held in Kumasi. The programme, being organised under the auspices of the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (MLGRD), aimed at sharing knowledge, deepening relationship and finding effective ways to implement government policies. It was held on the theme, ?Re-energising regional level governance for the ... Read More

Agalga Chides Striking Doctors

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The Deputy Minister-designate for the Interior, James Agalga, has criticised the strike action by doctors, describing the act as one that smacks of ?illegalities? and a threat to the country?s national security. He described the current happenings as regrettable and reminded the doctors that they have overstepped the boundaries. He explained on Joy FM?s News File programme that Parliament, in its wisdom enacted acts which made services by the health practitioners an ?essential? one and ... Read More

Ghana Mourns Baroness Margaret Thatcher

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

President John Dramani Mahama has extended Ghana?s heartfelt condolences to the United Kingdom (UK) and bereaved family of the late Baroness Margaret Thatcher, the former British Prime Minister. A statement signed by Mr Mahama Ayariga, the Minister of Information and Media Relations and copied to the Ghana News Agency in Accra on Thursday said the country joins the international community to mourn the former British Prime Minister. ?Ghana considers late Thatcher as one of the greatest ... Read More