Mahama Had No Choice
The suspense triggered by President John Mahama's hesitance to concede defeat at a time when it was glaring he had lost the polls inched towards boiling point. It is standard practice to concede...
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Akufo-Addo May Review CHRAJ, NCCE Appointments
President-elect, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo might review the appointments of the new heads for the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) and the National Commission for...
Nothing Wrong With My ‘last Minute’ Appointment
The newly appointed Commissioner for the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Joseph Whittal, has downplayed assertions that his appointment by President John Mahama...
Constitution Drafters To Blame For Last Minute Appointments
A Local Governance Expert Dr Eric Oduro Osae has blamed drafters of the country’s constitution for giving the President so much power to appoint people even at the last minute of leaving office....
We May Review CHRAJ Boss Appointment – NPP
The incoming New Patriotic Party (NPP) government has indicated it may review the recent appointments of the new heads for the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) and the...
Mon & Tue Declared Public Holidays
President John Dramani Mahama has by Executive Instrument declared Tuesday, December 27 and Monday, January 2 as public holidays. The two days replace Christmas Day and New Year’s Day, which fall...
Laws Needed To Curb Last-Minute Contracts, Appointments
Professor Stephen Kwaku Asare, a Ghanaian lawyer based in the United States of America (USA), has called for an anti-Midnight Appointment Act that limits the power of the President to make...
We May Review CHRAJ Boss Appointment
The incoming New Patriotic Party (NPP) government has indicated it may review the recent appointments of the new heads for the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) and the...
Last Minute Appointments: Mahama Has Done A Great Job
A member of the legal and communications team of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Abraham Amaliba, says President John Mahama should rather be lauded for his last minute decisions...
We Will Close All Contracts Before We Leave Power – Baba Jamal
Deputy Employment and Labour Relations Minister, Baba Jamal, says the outgoing government led by President John Dramani Mahama will not be distracted by the outcome of the December 7 general...
CHRAJ, NCCE Appointments ‘exhibit Bad Faith’ – NPP Transition Team Condemns
The transition team of the incoming government has condemned the appointment Tuesday of Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) and Chairperson of National...
Western NDC Blames Unfriendly Policies For Mahama Defeat
The NDC in the western region has said that unfriendly policies coupled with general demand for change led to the party’s defeat in the December 7th elections. At a press conference at the...
Mahama To Deliver Final State of the Nation On January 5
President John Mahama will deliver his final state of the Nation Address to Parliament on January 5, 2017 at 10 am. According to a statement signed by the Deputy Director of Public Relations of...
SSNIT Shoots Down Imminent Collapse Claims
The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has dismissed reports that the fund faces imminent collapse over concerns of operational challenges. According to the pensions’ scheme, it...
New Contracts Might Lead To Judgement Debt
The Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) has criticized the out-going Mahama government’s decision to sign an e-waste contract, days after it lost the general elections. According to the GII, it would...
Why the NDC’s Bible Verses Did Not Work
By Tse, Frederick K. Kofi To say literature and punditry on the quaky defeat of the John Mahama-led NDC is stale is to say my pastor should stop preaching the word of God. “But faith comes by...
Mahama, Akufo Addo Praised For Sense of Nationalism
The Patron of the Hope Welfare Club, Mr Charles Kwabena Okyere, has praised President John Dramani Mahama for his cooperation, understanding and high sense of nationalism when he was defeated in the...
Mahama Sued Over CHRAJ Appointment
Legal Practitioner, Philip Addison has filed a suit challenging President Mahama’s appointment of a Chairperson for the Commission of Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ). The suit is...
Online Passport Service Will Curb Delays – Gov’t
Government has unveiled a new technology that will enable citizens to acquire a passport through an online application process, which will solve undue delays and problems caused by middlemen, Foreign...
NPP To Review Mahama’s Last Minute Appointments, Contracts
The incoming Akufo-Addo government has condemned the last minute appointments of people to key state institutions as well as the signing of contracts by the outgoing John Mahama-led government, and...