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The government of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has delivered and will continue to deliver on the promises it made to Ghanaians when they sought their mandate in the 2016 elections, Vice President Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has pledged. According to Dr Bawumia, the Nana Akufo-Addo ticket hasfulfilled a large portion of the social contract it signed with the Ghanaian people after 16 months in office, and the government is working assiduously to ensure the fulfilment of the remainder to ensure improvements in the wellbeing of ordinary citizens. “We made a number of promises to Ghanaians, and we are working day and night to fulfil them. Some of them wehave already fulfilled. For instance, we promised Free Senior High School Education and true to our word, we have started. Today, finance is no longer a barrier to access to education for Junior High School graduates. That is a great burden lifted off the shoulders of parents by Nana Akufo-Addo’s government.” The Vice President, w...

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says his government is going to use oil revenues to create assets for the country, and not waste it on consumption. According to President Akufo-Addo, as a relatively new entrant in the league of oil-producing countries, Ghana is not going to treat her oil like she has done with gold, and allow it to be exported in its raw material form as crude. Ghana’s oil, President Akufo-Addo explained, presents the country with the perfect opportunity to transform the structure of Ghanaian economy through industrialization and value-added commercial activities. “Our oilfields provide us with the perfect opportunity to create a petrochemical industry in Ghana. We have begun the processes leading to the setting up of a gas feedstock industrial estate in the Western Region of the country,” he said. The President indicated further that “we intend to convert our petrochemicals into hundreds of industrial and consumer products produced in G...

The main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is coming back into power in 2020, former President John Mahama has said. Although he is yet to declare his political future, Mr Mahama told the NDC’s maiden Conference of Ex-MMDCEs on Saturday that with their help at the grassroots level, the party would surely return to the reins of government after the 2020 elections. “We count on you to help us at the lower level, the grassroots level to make sure that things go very well”, Mr Mahama charged the ex-MMDCes, adding: “We have the ability to capture more than 50 seats back from the NPP in the next elections if we handle ourselves well and if we’re to handle ourselves well and make this reorganisation effective, then you cannot exclude the role of DCEs at the grassroots level and I’m sure that with the zeal and the passion that I’ve seen in you today, nothing makes me doubt that by the grace of God, Insha Allah, we’ll win 2020 and come back into government”. If he decides to run ...

The woman who seems ‘untouchable’ in the New PatrioticParty (NPP) says she has no regret for her attack on a journalist at her party’s headquarters last Friday. Hajia Fati who has been nicknamed the ‘Iron lady’ in the NPP told NEAT FM’smorning show host, Mc-Jerry Osei Agyemang that, her action is justifiable but out of respect for the media fraternity “I am sorry”. Hajia Fati reportedly punched a journalist from Accra based Adom FM, Ohemaa Sakyiwaa Ahwenepa at the NPP headquarters on Friday, but said she only took that action because the reporter had not sought her permissionbefore taking pictures of her, neither did she introduce herself as a journalist. The victim had been assigned to the NPP headquarters last Friday to report on events as suspended Second Vice Chairman of the party; Sammy Crabbe had gone to the office to pick forms to contest the party’s chairmanship position at the upcoming National Delegates Conference. The incident occurred on Friday, 4 April 2018, as Mr Samm...

08-05-2018 Press Release NPP condemns attack on journalist The NPP has noted with concern an alleged attack on a journalist by one of its supporters, Hajia Fati. We distance ourselves from the act and condemn it unreservedly. The party wishes to assure Ghanaian journalists that, it respects and cherishes the role of the media as partners in development and does not condone any action intended to suppress press freedom. No journalist should feel intimidated and must continue to discharge his/her duties without fear. Though the New Patriotic Party has already begun an internal enquiry into the alleged incident, we will also cooperate with other agencies investigating same. …Signed… Boadu John General Secretary (Ag)

The King of Asanteman, His Royal Highness Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has extended his royal benedictions and blessings to the National Organizer and Acting General Secretary of the governing NPP, John Boadu for his outstanding contribution not only to the cause of his partyand government but to the development of Ghana at large. He recounted the leading role played by John Boadu to bring sanity to the NPP when the party was facing crisis inthe run-up to the 2016 elections and ensuring that the party won the polls. His Royal Highness also made an instructive statement tothe effect that the Assins, John Boadu’s ethnic orientation,originated from Asanteman, precisely Amakom, Kumasi from where they moved to their current settlement in the Central Region. To this extent, the Asanteman Overlord posited that the Assins are technically Asantes and therefore he sees JohnBoadu who is an Assin man, as his brother/subject deserving of his support at all times. The King made these remarks and showere...

Suspended Vice Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Sammy Crabbe, has been prevented by Hajia Fati, a known party activist, from picking nomination forms at the party’s national headquarters at Asylum Down, Accra, to enable him contest for the National Chairman position of the party. The incident occurred on Friday, 4 April 2018, as Mr Crabbe, who was suspended in the lead-up to the 2016 general elections, along with then-NPP National ChairmanPaul Afoko and then-General Secretary Kwabena Agyepong, entered the headquarters to pay for his nomination forms with a banker’s draft. Madam Fati, according to classfmonline.com sources, violently accosted Mr Crabbe with stones and threatened to pelt him if he entered the office where the forms were being sold by the Vetting Committee of the party. Sources say despite attempts to get her to stay off Mr Crabbe, a determined Hajia Fati almost poked Mr Crabbe’seyes with her fingers. Mr Crabbe was later escorted out of the offi...

APRIL 30, 2018 *PRESS CONFERENCE ADDRESSED BY JOHN BOADU, THE ACTING GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE NPP ON THE PARTY’S UPCOMING NATIONAL ANNUAL DELEGATES CONFERENCE* Good morning ladies and gentlemen of the Press We have invited you here primarily to spell out the GUIDELINES for the conduct of the party’s forthcoming National Annual Delegates Conference scheduled to come off in Koforidua, the Eastern Regional Capital from 15th to 17th June, 2018. The conference shall, among other things, elect National Officers who would steer the affairs of the party for the next four years. This National Annual Delegates Conference is being held pursuant to Article 10(2) & (3) of the Party’s Constitution, which provides that the National Annual Delegates Conference be held at least four (4) weeks after the last Regional Annual Delegates Conference. But before we let you into the details of the National Delegates Conference, the party wishes to use this opportunity to join the rest of the country to...

NPP Invisible ForcesSome National Security Operatives and alleged Invisible Forces of the NPP are believed to have forcibly taken over the UNDP flats at Cantonments after abusing and assaulting the contractor of the redevelopment project. The contractor of the project is alleged to have been physically assaulted by the two groups bringing the redevelopment project to a total halt. When the Contractor of the project approached them to inquire on whose authority they were carrying outthe activity, they claimed that they were instructed by a top government official at the Ministry of Works and Housing to carry out their work. The Contractor explained to GHONE News that he was kicked and slapped severally by two groups. He added, he received several death threats from the group. GHONE News investigations revealed that several attempts made by the Works and Housing Ministry to evict the alleged National Security forces from the site have proved futile.Already some of the alleged Securi...