Dr. George Sipa-Adjah Yankey, who has resigned in the wake of the Mabey and Johnson bribery scandal, said on Saturday that he was innocent of the allegations, but had to resign to end attacks on President John Evans Atta Mills and his government and allow them room to concentrate on

Our educational institutions have for years been infiltrated by power hungry students who will do anything to be student leaders. These students’ supremacists joggle for leadership positions through fair or foul means. Paradoxically they do that for their own personal gains. Many of these warped mind student leaders use the bare backs of innocent students [...]

The simmering unease within the New Patriotic Party (NPP) surged to the fore yesterday when two outspoken founder members of the party, Mr Akenten Appiah-Menka and Dr Nyaho Nyaho Tamakloe, articulated sharp and contrasting views on the developments that threaten to split the party along a Nana Akufo-Addo/Alan Kyeremanten divide.
The split deepened this week when [...]

It was an innocuous remark or statement which was not meant to generate any controversy. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was on a familiar terrain doing what he knows best.  It was a friendly advice to   the publishers of a friendly newspaper called ‘The Thunder’ which had just made its debut in Kumasi. “Name and shame [...]

The ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) has reacted to the recent spat between two kingpins of the party Dr Ekow Spio-Garbrah and Mr Ato Ahwoi.
In a press statement issued by the Executive Committee of the party and signed by National Chairman Dr. Kwabena Agyei, the NDC expressed disquiet about what it said has been a [...]

The business environment in Ghana reveals a worrying trend which requires urgent attention to boost investor confidence in corporate Ghana.  The issue is a greater percentage of key projects and businesses deals are controlled by the state. Consequently investors as well as local businessmen strive to win the favour of the political party in power [...]

Information reaching the statesman indicates that the NPP will hold its presidential primaries to choose its flagbearer in March 2010.
According to our sources, this decision was taken at the NEC meeting held in Accra on Tuesday. At the meeting, party National chairman peter Mac Manu and the NEC members drew up the programme for the [...]

New Patriotic Party stalwart, Professor Mike Ocquaye has denied drawing double salary at the expense of the state and for which he must refund $69,767,04.
A publication of The Enquirer of Monday, June 15, 2009 quoted an audit report that faulted the 2008 NPP presidential candidate contestant, noting in part that “…in addition to collecting his [...]

Accra, June 13, GNA – The Parliamentary Service Board (PSB) has been criticized for the way it has handled the case in which the former Speaker of Parliament Mr. Begyina Sekyi-Hughes removed certain soft furnishings from his official residence on his retirement from the Service.
The NDC Chairman of the Odododiodioo Constituency, Mr Daniel Nii Okai, [...]

In what is sure to come as a shock to many, information available to The Statesman shows that the Agbogbomefia of the Asogli Traditional Council, Togbe Afede XVI, was once a parliamentary candidate of the New Patriotic Party. The renowned chief, who recently accused the NPP government of making him and others in the Volta [...]