TESCON Presidents in the country have suspended all activities of TESCON on their various campuses which includes, general meeting, programs, elections, handing overs, etc until further notice. TESCON is unhappy, the NPP, did not include them in their just ended national delegates conference. Minutes to the start of the national executive elections on Saturday, 17 July 2022, the NPP announced that an injunction had been placed on TESCON representatives and, therefore, were barred from voting in at the conference. The 291 TESCON presidents in a joint statement said expressing their anger at the leadership of the party said they want...
I’m not ‘vindictive’, new NPP Gen Sec Kodua on how he has forgiven 15 Regional chairmen who opposed him
With the exception of one regional chairman, 15 regional chairpersons of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) openly campaigned against the candidacy of Justin Frimpong Kodua as General Secretary of the NPP. But in his first public reaction to that position by the 15 regional chairmen after he defeated incumbent John Boadu, Justin Kodua has said he is not “vindictive:’ I have therefore forgiven all those who openly campaigned against me since it is not possible to get all people to support you in an election. He said all those declarations were part of the politics and therefore he cannot single...
Mahama Fights EC Over Ghana Card
Former President John Dramani Mahama has tasked members of the Minority in Parliament to keep a keen eye on the activities of the Executive arm of government. According to Mr. Mahama, the style of this government has been to subjugate and dominate institutions for parochial and partisan gains, and as such, there is a need for it to be monitored. Spealing at a closing ceremony of a retreat for Minority MPs at the Volta Serene hotel in Ho on Sunday, July 17, 2022, he said “These institutions have thus become pliant tools for the furtherance of the political ends of...
I supported John Boadu against you but God knows best; let’s work hard to break the 8 – Chairman Wontumi to JFK
The Ashanti Region Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Bernard Antwi Boasiako (Chairman Wontumi) has said he and the newly-elected national executives will work hard to break the 8-year electoral cycle for the NPP. In a letter he wrote to the new-elected General Secretary, Justin Kodua Frimpong, JFK as he is affectionately known, he said although he supported John Boadu against him, God knows best therefore, he accepts the outcome. “God knows what is good for our dear party, I supported JB but the delegates in their own wisdom chose you. We look forward to working hard so that...
NPP Polls: What happened to TESCON was unfortunate; we’ll correct the error – Kofi Ameyaw
A member of the communications team of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Kofi Ameyaw has said what happened to the Tertiary Students Confederacy (TESCON) in the just-ended national delegates conference was not the best. He assured that the party is working to correct the mistake that occurred. The NPP received injunctions stopping its student wing, TESCON and local proxy voters from casting their ballots in the delegates conference on Saturday July 16. This affected over 300 students from voting. TESCON executives expressed their disappointment over the situation. But speaking on the New Day show on TV3 with Johnnie Hughes, Monday...
Bawumia should take responsibility for state of economy – Kwakye Ofosu
A spokesperson for former President John Mahama, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, has challenged Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to take responsibility for the country’s economic crisis. Mr. Kwakye Ofosu said the former President was not to be blamed for the country’s current attempts to source support from the International Monetary Fund. Speaking on Eyewitness News on Citi Fm he said: “It is the terrible mismanagement and the terrible election-related expenditure in 2020 that has plunged us into this crisis,” Dr. Bawumia, while speaking at the launch of Accra Business School’s IT programmes on Thursday, said the decision to return to the...
Payments at government agencies to go up as Parliament passes Fees and Charges Bill
Parliament has passed the Fees and Charges (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill, 2022, to provide for an annual adjustment of fees being charged by public institutions. The Bill forms part of revenue measures outlined in the 2022 budget and will give a legal backing to the request for a 15% upward adjustment of government fees and charges. When assented to by the President, the new Act will review existing fees and impose new ones in line with prevailing economic conditions in the country. It replaces the Fees and Charges (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2018 (Act 983), which gave the Finance Minister the authority...
Over 50 shops, houses demolished by unknown men at Sakaman
Over 50 shops and houses have been destroyed at Sakaman Blue Lagoon, a suburb of Dansoman in the Greater Accra Region. Residents say the land owners gave them an evacuation notice which ends in September, 2022. According to Adom News’ Kwame Anum, the victims have been left stranded. Many of them could not collect their belongings as they watched helplessly while the bulldozers broke into the structures. Property worth thousands of cedis are said to have been lost in the rubble. The affected residents say there were working towards the two-month deadline by which time they would have relocated. But...
Nollywood actor sentenced for child sexual assault
A Nigerian actor has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a minor between 2013 and 2014.The trial of Olanrewaju Omiyinka at a special offences court in Lagos lasted a year. The 49-year-old is popularly known as Baba Ijesha in Nollywood – as Nigeria’s film industry is called. The judge ruled that Omiyinka should be sentenced to 16 years in total for the four charges of which he was found guilty. However, as he is to serve the sentences at the same time, he will spend a maximum of five years in prison. Two counts of sexual assault were dropped because...
$1bn loan: You gave advise, we can take or reject it; we don’t take orders from you – Minority tells IMF
The Minority in Parliament has raised fundamental issues with the $1billion loan agreement that is currently before the House, an agreement which the International Monetary Fund (IMF) asked Parliament to approve. Ajumako-Enyan-Esiam lawmaker, Casiel Ato Forson said there are disparities with the currencies in the document that was presented by the government. At one point, he said, the document quotes the loan in dollars, in another instance, it states Euros in the same document. Parliament, he said, will have to correct this disparity. Mr Ato Forson further indicated that no decision has been taken to approve the loan yet despite the call...