Author: Kojo Nakkan

Jomoro MP and Deputy Minister of Transport Dorcas Affo-Toffey has pledged to sustain her annual educational support programme for newly admitted Senior High School students in the constituency beyond her time in public office. Madam Affo-Toffey made the commitment after providing educational materials to 1,000 Form One students admitted to Senior High Schools across the country. The support included trunks, wooden chop boxes, mattresses, exercise books and mosquito nets. She said the scholarship initiative, now in its sixth year, was driven by her conviction that financial difficulties should not prevent brilliant students from continuing their education. “Education was the backbone…

Member of Parliament for Jomoro and Deputy Minister of Transport Dorcas Affo-Toffey has supported 1,000 newly admitted Senior High School students in the constituency with educational materials as part of her annual scholarship initiative. The beneficiaries, who have gained admission to various Senior High Schools across the country, received trunks, wooden chop boxes, mattresses, exercise books and mosquito nets to help ease the financial burden on their families as they begin their secondary education. The items were presented through the Jomoro Municipal Director of Education at Bonyere in the Western Region. The initiative forms part of Madam Affo-Toffey’s sixth annual…

Growing monetization and transactional mechanics within Ghanaian political parties threaten to disenfranchise party bases and weaken democratic accountability, NDC National Chairmanship aspirant Dr. Akwasi Opong-Fosu warned. ​In a recent interview on TV3’s Hot Issues, the veteran politician described a widening disconnect between executive party structures, appointees in government, and local branch workers who perform critical field operations during election cycles. Dr. ​Opong-Fosu, who began his public service career as an activist and student leader before being appointed District Secretary at age 24, highlighted his long history of grassroots mobilization. Having initiated major municipal development programs in Obuasi—such as the Adansi…

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) must execute an internal “reset” and re-anchor itself to core social democratic principles before it can successfully transform Ghana’s national governance, according to former Local Government Minister Dr. Akwasi Opong-Fosu. Speaking on TV3’s current affairs program Hot Issues, Dr. Opong-Fosu — whose career spans over four decades of public administration as a former District Chief Executive (DCE) in Obuasi and Tepa, Member of Parliament for Amenfi East, and Minister of State — emerges as the ideal candidate to spearhead this structural overhaul for the party’s National Chairmanship.​ Drawing from his broad experience in politics, local…

The Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources and Member of Parliament for Bole-Bamboi, Yusif Sulemana, has highlighted a range of interventions he has undertaken in the constituency, including more than GH¢400,000 in support for education. Speaking at the grand durbar of the 2026 Bole Damba celebrations, Mr Sulemana said his interventions had focused on improving educational infrastructure and supporting brilliant but needy students across the constituency. He disclosed that he had spent in excess of GH¢200,000 on school fees for brilliant but needy students and provided another GH¢200,000 towards the establishment of a temporary campus of a teacher training…

The Member of Parliament for Kumawu, Ernest Yaw Anim, has supported 500 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates in the district with essential items to help ease the financial burden on their parents and guardians as they prepare to enter senior high school. The items presented to the beneficiaries included trunks, mattresses, chop boxes, cutlasses, rubber buckets, school bags, bowls and cutlery sets. The initiative, which is in its fourth year, forms part of the MP’s efforts to promote education and ensure that financial difficulties do not hinder students from making a smooth transition from basic to secondary education. Speaking…

President of Africa Policy Lens (APL) Dr. George Domfe has slammed Chief Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie over what it describes as partisan public comments on the performance of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), warning that the Chief Justice has crossed the line of judicial neutrality. In a strongly-worded statement, Dr. George Domfe said the remarks by the Chief Justice – in which he touted the current performance of SOEs and made politically sensitive comparisons with the previous administration – have no place coming from the head of Ghana’s judiciary. Dr. Domfe says the Chief Justice’s comments risk creating the impression that the judiciary…

Former Lands and Natural Resources Minister Samuel Abdulai Jinapor has highlighted Ghana’s record gold export earnings in 2024 as evidence of the impact of policies introduced under the Domestic Gold Purchase Programme. Mr Jinapor, who is now the Member of Parliament for Damongo, said the government introduced a series of measures to strengthen the programme and ensure that gold produced by licensed operators contributed directly to Ghana’s reserves and foreign exchange position. He said the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources engaged the Ghana Chamber of Mines and the Ghana National Association of Small Scale Miners before invoking the government’s…

Former Lands and Natural Resources Minister Samuel Abdulai Jinapor has described the government’s Ghana Accelerated National Reserve Accumulation Policy (GANRAP) as essentially a renaming of the Domestic Gold Purchase Programme introduced under the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia administration. Mr Jinapor, the MP for Damongo, made the claim in a Facebook post on Monday, August 31, in response to recent comments by NPP flagbearer Dr Mahamudu Bawumia on the Domestic Gold Purchase Programme. The Damongo MP said he was compelled to set the record straight because he served as the Minister responsible for Mines when the programme was introduced. According to him, the Domestic…

Former Lands and Natural Resources Minister Samuel Abdulai Jinapor has rejected claims that seek to downplay the role of former Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia in the introduction of Ghana’s Domestic Gold Purchase Programme. Mr Jinapor, who is also the Member of Parliament for Damongo, said the programme was conceived by Dr Bawumia at a time Ghana was facing severe economic difficulties arising from the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war. In a Facebook post on Monday, August 31, he said Dr Bawumia, then Head of the Economic Management Team, held strategic meetings with relevant stakeholders before directing the Ministry…