Whose Council-of-State?
We have seen the Council-of-State perform at its worst under lame-duck President John Dramani Mahama, and so I fail to understand what all this fuss about President-Elect Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s...
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Whose Council-of-State?
We have seen the Council-of-State perform at its worst under lame-duck President John Dramani Mahama, and so I fail to understand what all this fuss about President-Elect Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s...
Ocquaye Must Adopt ‘open Door’ Approach – Minority
The Minority in the seventh parliament under the Fourth Republic has called on the incoming Speaker, Prof. Mike Ocquaye to eschew partisanship in steering the affairs of the House. Prof Ocquaye who...
I’ve Utmost Respect For Akufo-Addo
Outgoing President John Dramani Mahama has said he has respect for incoming president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo dating back to their days as Members of Parliament. Mr Mahama, delivering his last...
There Is Nothing Jokey About Akufo-Addo’s Acceptance Speech
May I take this delightful opportunity to congratulate the outgoing Parliamentary Minority Spokesman on Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie-Akoto, for having been reportedly chalked down for the cardinal...
NPP Education Policy Must Focus On Dropouts, Too
One of the issues that convinced me that the Mahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) government stood to have achieved next to nothing by the end of its 4-year tenure, had to do with the...
What Are Irrelevant Promises, Justice Crabbe?
While addressing members of the Parliamentary Training Institute, recently, the venerable Justice VCRAC Crabbe was reported to have suggested that elected presidents must abandon electioneering...
NPP Has A Performance Track Record
By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph. D. When the Deputy General-Secretary of the soon-to-be the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) says that his party is going to hold the feet of the...
It Is Not Merely A Question of Common Sense
If there is, indeed, a Presidential Transition Act 845 on the governance books, as Prof. Ransford Gyampo is claiming, then there is absolutely no need for the latter’s fellow political scientist,...
We Are Not Fools, Mahama Ayariga!
The first news report had the Environment, Science And Technology Minister defending allegations that he had signed a contract forcing the incoming Akufo-Addo Administration to allow a privately...
Nana Akufo-Addo Gearing Up For 21st Century Public Policies?
An Akan proverb is loosely translated into English that one can fairly predict how successful or otherwise a village market activities will be, just by looking at the influx of the participants in...
CHRAJ Commish Appointment Must Be Revoked, Pronto!
I am not a lawyer, much less a constitutional lawyer, to presume to take up the technicalities of the subject at hand. But it clearly appears to me that having decisively lost the mandate of the...
A Scorched Earth Policy? Asks NPP-Canada
Media reports suggest that an increasing number of Ghanaians are expressing disquiet over the spate of actions of the out-going Administration of President John Mahama since their electoral defeat....
Koku Anyidoho, NPP Has A Performance Track-Record
When the Deputy General-Secretary of the soon-to-be the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) says that his party is going to hold the feet of the key operatives of the incoming ruling...
Volta Region Will Experience Real Development Under Akufo-Addo
He has said that the Akufo-Addo-led New Patriotic Party (NPP) government will “woo the Volta Region until he/it marries her.” Now, these are strong and serious “romantic” words of a leader...
We Will Support ‘1 Village, 1 Dam’
The Private Enterprise Federation (PEF), a non-profit, non-political and autonomous institution, has declared its support for the implementation of the ‘One Village, One Dam Project’, contained...
Here Is Your Answer, Trokosi Nationalist Critic
The other day, one of those Kpegah Boys who have sworn to move Heaven and Hell to ensure that Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo never got elected President of Ghana in their lifetime, wrote to enquire why...
Speaker of Parliament Doesn’t Determine What Parliament Will Do
With only a day left for the sixth Parliament of the fourth republic to rise, the relationship between the Minority and the Speaker of Parliament appears to be getting sour. Minority Leader Osei Kyei...
Batidam Has Punched Holes In Absolutely Nothing!
He is passionately partisan ad-nauseam and has staunchly and unconscionably defended the right of his outgoing paymaster to grossly abuse his publicly underwritten office, in the form of the...
Are the Mahama Operatives Trying To Force Akufo-Addo To Jail Them?
He may be right, on the surface of things, that the Transitional Act of Parliament cannot supersede the dictates or powers of the Constitution. But this is insofar as the sacred principles of the...