Ghana politics and election news

Minority members on the cash-for-seat committee task by Parliament to probe allegations against the Trade Ministry for charging between $25,000 and $100,000, to enable expatriates to sit close to President Akufo-Addo at the Ghana Expatriates Business Awards said the Trade Ministry has engaged in serious ethical violations.

Deputy Chief of Staff Abu Jinapor says legal issues raised by the Minority in Parliament against the acting Upper West Regional minister Amidu Ishaq have no basis.

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has expressed his profound gratitude to Ghanaians for their prayers during his short illness which made him travel to the UK for further treatment.

The National Organiser of the NDC Kofi Adams has asked members of the party aiming at vying for the position of flagbearership to stop being petty.

Suspension of Regional Minister -The leader of the Minority in Parliament Haruna Iddrisu has described the order by President Nana Akufo-Addo for the Deputy Upper West Regional Minister, Amidu Ishaq to act in the stead of the suspended Regional Minister, Sulemana Alhassan as unconstitutional.

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has arrived from the United Kingdom where he had been for a 12-day medical leave.

President Nana Akufo-Addo has suspended his Upper West regional minister, Sulemana Alhassan, following reports of political vigilantism in the region.

In the midst of the controversy surrounding the ailment of Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, maverick Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong has stated that he was not privy to the Vice President’s situation until Yofi Grant, Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) told him that the second gentleman of the land collapsed.

The NPP, has dismissed claims by the Minority in Parliament that they have recruited members of the Invincible Force to guard Parliament.

The Minority in Parliament is accusing the NPP government of recruiting members of political vigilante group Invincible Force to guard Parliament.

Ghanaian President, Nana Akufo Addo has paid glowing tribute to world renowned South African trumpeter Hugh Masakela. 

Opposition leader Raila Odinga was on Tuesday, January 30, 2018 'sworn-in' as the 'people's president' of Kenya

Government is providing the framework to improve the efficiency of Ghana's financial sector to enable it play an effective role in promoting economic growth, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said.

The John Mahama regime changed the names of two former Guantanamo Bay detainees being hosted in Ghana to secure passports for them, Editor-In-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper has revealed.

MP for Tamale Central Inusah Fuseini has revealed that the Gitmo 2 arrived in Ghana with their families.